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Rom-Com Books: Nancy Meyers & Nora Ephron Vibes
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items Rom-com books and cozy romance novels that capture the charm of a Nancy Meyers or Nora Ephron film—think The Holiday, Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry Met Sally, or You’ve Got Mail. Filled with sharp banter, warm aesthetic settings, and career-driven...
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🗽 Big City Romances
Coastal Estates & European Getaways 🌊
Cozy Cottages & English Countryside Escapes 🪻
Classic Rom-Coms & Second Chances 🎬
🗽 Big City Romances
Fast-talking urban professionals, sharp intellectual banter, autumn in Manhattan, and publishing/media world rivalries. For fans of When Harry Met Sally, You’ve Got Mail
Written by one of the quintessential queens of 90s-00s romcoms herself, this is a must-add if you love Nora Ephron films. I mean. It's written by Nora herself! If anyone can make adultery, revenge and group therapy heart-warming, it's her.
Heartburn | Paperback
I mean… to me this totally gives off Joe Fox versus Kathleen Kelly energy. Just me? A cutthroat New York literary agent gets dragged to a picturesque small town and keeps bumping into a brooding, brilliant rival book editor from the city. The rapid-f...
Book Lovers
A comedy writer for a fictional late-night TV show has completely given up on love, until a ridiculously handsome pop star guest-host comes on the show and turns her world upside down. It is whip-smart, deeply observant, hilarious, and utterly charmi...
Romantic Comedy: Reese's Book Club
Two high-profile authors who had a intense week-long romance in high school cross paths 15 years later at a literary panel in New York. The intellectual chemistry, sharp-tongued banter, and glamour of the publishing world hit that high-end Nora Ephro...
Seven Days in June
A pragmatic, sharp-tongued rom-com screenwriter and a hopeless-romantic divorce lawyer meet again at their 15-year high school reunion. It is purely driven by intellectual debate about whether love actually lasts, fast-talking quips, and instant spar...
Just Some Stupid Love Story
Coastal Estates & European Getaways 🌊
Big historic beach houses, Maine/Nantucket/Michigan summers, coastal grandmother kitchens, and forced proximity. For fans of The Holiday, Something’s Gotta Give, It’s Complicated
An exploration of family and love set in the idyllic backdrop of a cherry orchard in Northern Michigan during the 2020 pandemic. Lara's three daughters come home. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a f...
Tom Lake
A broke-up couple forced to pretend they’re still together for one last week at their friend group's dream cottage in Maine. It is loaded with crisp, funny banter, gorgeous coastal-cottage aesthetic, and deep, yearning romantic tension. I mean… that ...
Happy Place
A newly appointed hotel manager tries to bring a historical 1920s Nantucket hotel back to absolute peak luxury while juggling an eccentric staff, a harsh London hotel reviewer, and personal romance drama. It screams multi-generational ensemble cast w...
The Hotel Nantucket
A young widow living in a big, beautiful historic house in Maine rents out her back apartment to a former Major League Baseball pitcher dealing with a career block. It’s quiet, deeply warm, full of witty dialogue, and focuses heavily on two adults na...
Evvie Drake Starts Over: A Read with Jenna Pick
After their respective exes leave them for each other, a quiet children’s librarian and a chaotic, charming handyman end up living together in a gorgeous Michigan lake town. The fake-dating scheme and cozy coastal town energy feel right out of a Nanc...
Funny Story
An engaged, career-driven woman returning to her family’s stunning seaside beach house in Long Island runs straight into her first love, who happens to be staying next door. It’s light, breezy, visually rich, and full of nostalgic romantic tension.
Same Time Next Summer
From the editor of Gourmet Magazine comes this delicious (he he) novel about Billie who takes a job in New York's most iconic food magazine. She discovers some letters from a plucky 12 year old to infamous chef James Beard from WWII… it's superb.
Delicious!: A Novel | Paperback
A Tour de France filled with travel, a passion for France and decadent food. While this is certainly a mixture of travelogue and recipe book, the storytelling matches the vibe of a good Nancy Meyers movie.
One More Croissant for the Road
I don't think you can go wrong with anything written by Emily Henry. Witty banter, slow-burn romance, lovely setting. Whether it's a holiday read or a beach book, or you just want that vibe… you can't go wrong here.
People We Meet on Vacation
Cozy Cottages & English Countryside Escapes 🪻
Cozy English villages, life-swaps, family farms, baking, and fresh starts in idyllic countryside settings. For fans of The Holiday or The Parent Trap
A network romance screenwriter finds a movie star camped out on her property after he refuses to leave the set of his film adaptation. It has that breezy, high-comfort, witty dialogue style where everyone talks just a little bit faster and smarter th...
Nora Goes Off Script
A granddaughter in London and her grandmother in a sleepy Yorkshire village decide to swap lives (and apartments) for two months. It features London corporate hustle clashing with rural community charm, lovely family dynamics, and a very sweet romanc...
The Switch
Nancy Meyers loves a romance featuring characters over 40 or 50 (Something's Gotta Give, It's Complicated). This follows a woman in her 50s who tags along on her daughter’s work trip to England for Christmas and gets swept up in a secret romance with...
Royal Holiday
A single mother competes on a national baking show while trying to keep her life together, getting caught between a slick, polished contestant and a shy, pragmatic baker. It’s hilarious, food-centric (very Julie & Julia), and incredibly witty.
Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake
Twin sisters—one a celebrity chef in the city losing her sense of taste, the other a baker in a cozy small town—secretly swap places before the holidays to salvage their careers. Pure twin-shenanigans, delicious food descriptions, and double the roma...
The Holiday Swap
Classic Rom-Coms & Second Chances 🎬
Sharp-tongued leads over 30/40, family rivalries, workplace chemistry, and love in the middle/later stages of life. For fans of Father of the Bride, It’s Complicated, What Women Want
Witty banter, romance, writing, and a beachy vibe. What more could you want?
Beach Read: Deluxe Edition
Two rival florists in their 60s, whose families have hated each other for decades, accidentally end up in a secret, passionate romance. It has snappy dialogue, chaotic family gatherings, cozy flower shop aesthetics, and mature leads who are sharp and...
Julie and Romeo
A struggling screenwriter gets hired to rewrite a romantic comedy script alongside her idol; a cynical, high-profile male screenwriter who doesn't believe in love anymore. The entire premise is a love letter to the classic 90s rom-com genre, packed w...
The Rom-Commers
An executive protection agent who looks like a kindergarten teacher gets hired to guard a swoon-worthy Hollywood heartthrob while he lays low at his family's idyllic Texas ranch. With crisp banter, forced proximity, high-stakes comfort, and an effort...
The Bodyguard
Literally the book that inspired the movie. You've just gotta have this one.
Must Love Dogs
This one's a stunner. A protagonist who thinks the movie is better than the book? What? Simply unheard of! And yet, this is an opportunity for booklovers to witness the process of one woman falling in love with the written word; and of course with th...
Better than Fiction | Paperback