15 Books Like ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ to Binge Before Season 2 Comes Out
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We’re mere weeks away from the second season of the hit series The Summer I Turned Pretty, and people (read: me) are starting to freak out with excitement. Adapted from the bestselling novel from author Jenny Han, the show follows a love triangle between childhood friends—one girl and two brothers. The original novel was published in 2009, with sequels in 2010 and 2011. And 13 years after it was published, the novel received a second wind of sales thanks to BookTok, sending readers of all ages down the rabbit hole of teen summer romance. If you’ve already read your way through The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy, here are 15 books that match the vibe.
To All The Boys I Loved Before
Want more Summer I Turned Pretty? Go straight to the source. The author, Jenny Han, is also the mind behind the hit YA book series turned film series, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. This novel follows 16-year-old Lara Jean Song Covey through the trials and tribulations of first love. As the story goes, Lara Jean writes love letters to all the boys she has had crushes on throughout her life, but when the letters go from her bedroom to the U.S. Postal Service, teen melodrama ensues.
Every Summer After
This bestselling novel follows Persephone Fraser, a young woman who has avoided her hometown for a decade following a mistake from her past. When she is forced to return home for a funeral, she reunites with her first love, Sam. The novel takes place over six summers and one fateful weekend.
The Summer of Broken Rules
A fan favorite among Summer I Turned Pretty people, The Summer of Broken Rules is a romance novel inspired by Taylor Swift’s discography. The novel follows Meredith Fox, a young woman returning to her family’s annual Martha’s Vineyard vacation following the death of her sister.
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Love and Other Words
Childhood sweethearts turned young lovers, that's the Summer I Turned Pretty equation and it lives in this bestselling novel. Love and Other Words follows two childhood friends who reconnect after 10 years apart, with the story unfolding between two alternating timelines of then and now.
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Beach Read
A hugely popular title on BookTok, Beach Read follows a jaded romance writer and a dark fiction writer who live in neighboring beach houses for the summer. Both plagued by a bad case of writer’s block, the pair decide to swap genres, pushing them out of their comfort zones and into each other's arms.
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Holding Up The Universe
This bestseller from author Jennifer Niven, the pen behind All the Bright Places, follows Libby Strout, formerly known as “America’s Fattest Teen,” and Jack Masselin, a charming kid secretly struggling with his memory. The pair meet over mandatory community service and, well, you can guess where it goes from there.
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We Were Liars
Far more suspenseful than The Summer I Turned Pretty, We Were Liars follows a seemingly perfect family summering on a private island off the coast of Massachusetts. Of course, everything is not as it seems. One daughter of the wealthy but unhappy family, Cadence, suffers a head injury during her 15th summer, losing most of her memories and becoming addicted to prescription medication. When she is later reunited with four family members, dubbed “The Liars,” she is pushed to remember what happened to her years earlier.
The Layover
The Layover follows a flight attendant, Ava Greene, who is leaving her job after 10 years and deciding to settle down in one place. She vows to make her final trip a great one. Enter Jack Stone, a cocky but stunning pilot. When mechanical issues leave the pair stuck in a weekend layover, they find themselves on the sands of the Caribbean at a luxury resort.
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After
Originally a One Direction fanfiction, After follows the turbulent relationship between two teenagers, unfolding over five novels.
Getting Over Max Cooper
Summer vacation vibes ahead. Getting Over Max Cooper follows a teenage girl who has spent 14 summers on Fire Island, away from the hustle and bustle of her home in Manhattan. With her best friend in tow, she meets a new boy and navigates the dual heartbreaks of first love and female friendship.
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Eleanor and Park
More vintage than any of the titles on this list, Eleanor and Park takes place over one school year in 1986, during which two misfits experience first love.
Along For The Ride
This novel is soon to be a Netflix film, so get ahead of the buzz and start reading. Along For The Ride follows two insomniacs who spend their summer nights exploring and, naturally, falling in love.
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Breathless
A teenage love story from author Jennifer Niven, Breathless follows a girl graduating from high school whose post-grad life plans are interrupted by the split of her parents. While her world is falling apart, her mother drags her to a remote island off the coast of Georgia with no WiFi. There, she meets Jeremiah, a mysterious young guy, and the two strike up a sex-only arrangement. We know those rarely work out in the literary world. Strap in.
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Love & Gelato
What’s better than summer love in Italy? Love & Gelato follows a girl summering in Tuscany after the death of her mother. While there, she learns everything she didn’t know about romance, art, and culture, meeting a charming boy who teaches her even more about life.
Some Other Now
Extremely Summer I Turned Pretty coded, this novel follows Jessi Rumfield, a 17-year-old who finds herself entangled with the brothers next door whom she grew up with. Same story, different font.
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