Have no Valentine on Valentine’s Day? Feeling lost on what to do with all your free time? Tired of reading sentences that end with a question mark? Look no further than this list! Sometimes, all we need is a pick-me-up, an escape from the unpredictability of life. We love to know there’s a happy ending (except for all you masochists out there). It’s a comforting thought that, at the end of the day, two people can truly see one another — quirks and all. Below are five wonderfully banter-filled books that embody the whimsy and heartwarming stories from rom-coms. If you’ve never watched one of these rom-coms, enjoy a new rec! These are the feel-good best of the best!

If You Liked When Harry Met Sally…
Read You, Again by Kate Goldbeck

When Ari and Josh first meet, the wrong kind of sparks fly. They hate each other. Instantly.

A free-spirited, struggling comedian who likes to keep things casual, Ari sublets, takes gigs, and never sleeps over after hooking up. Born-and-bred Manhattanite Josh has ambitious plans: take the culinary world by storm, find The One, and make her breakfast in his spotless kitchen. They have absolutely nothing in common…except that they happen to be sleeping with the same woman.

Ari and Josh never expect their paths to cross again. But years later, as they’re both reeling from ego-bruising breakups, a chance encounter leads to a surprising connection: friendship. Turns out, spending time with your former nemesis is fun when you’re too sad to hate each other

As friends-without-benefits, they find comfort in late-night Netflix binges, swiping through each other’s online dating profiles, and bickering across boroughs. It’s better than romance. Until one night, the unspoken boundaries of their platonic relationship begin to blur…

While I haven’t read this book, it is directly based off of When Harry Met Sally! An Autumn book has never resonated so much in Spring.

If You Liked Bridget Jones’ Diary…
Read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Though her sisters are keen on finding men to marry, Elizabeth Bennet would rather wait for someone she loves — certainly not someone like Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, whom she finds to be smug and judgmental, in contrast to the charming George Wickham. But soon Elizabeth learns that her first impressions may not have been correct, and the quiet, genteel Mr. Darcy might be her true love after all.

Rather than my reasoning, here is my Goodreads review: ​​

“darcy!! the man that you are!! if i were around mr darcy in the regency era i would most ardently be detained and locked in the stocks. but it is in fact the 21st century so i am free to giggle and thrash in my blankets as much as i want over his actions!
watching lizzy and darcy fall in love will never get old😭 i love how they just talk about their feelings at the end like yes!! communication! Finally! only slightly disappointed that there was no darcy fist clenching favorite part of the book was when they said “now we have no more pride OR prejudice””

If You Liked About Time…
Read The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston

Sometimes, the worst day of your life happens, and you have to figure out how to live after it.

So Clementine forms a plan to keep her heart safe: work hard, find someone decent to love, and try to remember to chase the moon. The last one is silly and obviously metaphorical, but her aunt always told her that you needed at least one big dream to keep going. And for the last year, that plan has gone off without a hitch. 

Then she finds a strange man standing in the kitchen of her late aunt’s apartment. A man with kind eyes and a Southern drawl and a taste for lemon pies. The kind of man that, before it all, she would’ve fallen head-over-heels for. And she might again.

Except, he exists in the past. Seven years ago, to be exact. And she, quite literally, lives seven years in his future. Her aunt always said the apartment was a pinch in time, a place where moments blended together like watercolors. And Clementine knows that if she lets her heart fall, she’ll be doomed.

After all, love is never a matter of time—but a matter of timing.

The time travel aspects of this book combined with the endearing awkwardness of the couple reminded me of About Time. Though it has less of a familial theme, it has a satisfying ending that wraps everything up perfectly. It’s about time (ba-dum-tiss) that you read it.

If You Liked You’ve Got Mail…
Read Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

All eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow wants to do is hold her family together. With a brother on the frontline forced to fight on behalf of the Gods now missing from the frontline and a mother drowning her sorrows, Iris’s best bet is winning the columnist promotion at the Oath Gazette.

But when Iris’s letters to her brother fall into the wrong hands – that of the handsome but cold Roman Kitt, her rival at the paper – an unlikely magical connection forms.

Expelled into the middle of a mystical war, magical typewriters in tow, can their bond withstand the fight for the fate of mankind and, most importantly, love?

Anonymous pen-pals who are rivals outside their exchanges aches in the best way possible. Made me think of  You’ve Got Mail if Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan were forced to be on the frontlines and also magic existed.

If You Liked Notting Hill…
Read Book Lovers by Emily Henry

Nora Stephens’ life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby.

Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away—with visions of a small-town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute.

If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.

One of my favorite rom-coms meets one of my favorite books! Both Notting Hill and Book Lovers embody the love of reading — and hot booksellers.