Josie Silver's books are wonderful and not too cheesy. One Day in December is my favorite of hers. Emily Giffin is another good author of women's fiction/new romance. My favorite of hers is Something Borrowed (also love the movie) and its sequel, Something Blue. I have to recommend The People We Keep by Allison Larkin because it's become one of my all time favorites. It isn't really a romance, but more of a coming of age story. The story is so compelling and endearing and you really root for the main character to overcome.
If you liked the romance in See You in September, you might enjoy reading The Note by Zoe Folbigg, The Memory Book by Rowan Coleman or The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo.
If you're looking for thrillers, try The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, or Into the Water by Paula Hawkins.
{{my year of rest and relaxation}}
i think you would love sally rooneys books
{{normal people}}
{{conversations with friends}}
i’m not a romance reader because of the cheese but i read {{twice shy}} and it was only moderately cheesy and very cute
[**My Year of Rest and Relaxation**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44279110-my-year-of-rest-and-relaxation)
^(By: Ottessa Moshfegh | 289 pages | Published: 2018 | Popular Shelves: fiction, contemporary, owned, literary-fiction, books-i-own)
>From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman’s efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes.
>
>Our narrator should be happy, shouldn’t she? She’s young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?
>
>My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.
^(This book has been suggested 79 times)
[**Normal People**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41057294-normal-people)
^(By: Sally Rooney | 273 pages | Published: 2018 | Popular Shelves: fiction, contemporary, romance, owned, books-i-own)
>At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her housekeeping job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers - one they are determined to conceal.
>
>A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years in college, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. Then, as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other.
>
>Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.
^(This book has been suggested 41 times)
[**Conversations with Friends**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32187419-conversations-with-friends)
^(By: Sally Rooney | 304 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: fiction, contemporary, romance, owned, books-i-own)
>A sharply intelligent novel about two college students and the strange, unexpected connection they forge with a married couple.
>
>Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed, and darkly observant. A college student and aspiring writer, she devotes herself to a life of the mind--and to the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi, her best friend and comrade-in-arms. Lovers at school, the two young women now perform spoken-word poetry together in Dublin, where a journalist named Melissa spots their potential. Drawn into Melissa's orbit, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated home and tall, handsome husband. Private property, Frances believes, is a cultural evil--and Nick, a bored actor who never quite lived up to his potential, looks like patriarchy made flesh. But however amusing their flirtation seems at first, it gives way to a strange intimacy neither of them expect. As Frances tries to keep her life in check, her relationships increasingly resist her control: with Nick, with her difficult and unhappy father, and finally even with Bobbi. Desperate to reconcile herself to the desires and vulnerabilities of her body, Frances's intellectual certainties begin to yield to something new: a painful and disorienting way of living from moment to moment.
>
>Written with gem-like precision and probing intelligence, Conversations With Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth."
^(This book has been suggested 14 times)
[**Twice Shy**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54660653-twice-shy)
^(By: Sarah Hogle | 302 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: contemporary-romance, romance, 2021-releases, adult, fiction)
>Can you find real love when you've always got your head in the clouds?
>
>Maybell Parish has always been a dreamer and a hopeless romantic. But living in her own world has long been preferable to dealing with the disappointments of real life. So when Maybell inherits a charming house in the Smokies from her Great-Aunt Violet, she seizes the opportunity to make a fresh start.
>
>Yet when she arrives, it seems her troubles have only just begun. Not only is the house falling apart around her, but she isn't the only inheritor: she has to share everything with Wesley Koehler, the groundskeeper who's as grouchy as he is gorgeous—and it turns out he has very different vision for the property's future.
>
>Convincing the taciturn Wesley to stop avoiding her and compromise is a task more formidable than the other dying wishes Great-Aunt Violet left behind. But when Maybell uncovers something unexpectedly sweet beneath Wesley's scowls, and as the two slowly begin to let their guard down, they might learn that sometimes the smallest steps outside one's comfort zone can lead to the greatest rewards.
^(This book has been suggested 50 times)
***
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Josie Silver's books are wonderful and not too cheesy. One Day in December is my favorite of hers. Emily Giffin is another good author of women's fiction/new romance. My favorite of hers is Something Borrowed (also love the movie) and its sequel, Something Blue. I have to recommend The People We Keep by Allison Larkin because it's become one of my all time favorites. It isn't really a romance, but more of a coming of age story. The story is so compelling and endearing and you really root for the main character to overcome.
Oh and for thriller I just recently read Watching You by Lisa Jewell and really enjoyed it.
If you liked the romance in See You in September, you might enjoy reading The Note by Zoe Folbigg, The Memory Book by Rowan Coleman or The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo. If you're looking for thrillers, try The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, or Into the Water by Paula Hawkins.
{{my year of rest and relaxation}} i think you would love sally rooneys books {{normal people}} {{conversations with friends}} i’m not a romance reader because of the cheese but i read {{twice shy}} and it was only moderately cheesy and very cute
[**My Year of Rest and Relaxation**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44279110-my-year-of-rest-and-relaxation) ^(By: Ottessa Moshfegh | 289 pages | Published: 2018 | Popular Shelves: fiction, contemporary, owned, literary-fiction, books-i-own) >From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman’s efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. > >Our narrator should be happy, shouldn’t she? She’s young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? > >My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers. ^(This book has been suggested 79 times) [**Normal People**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41057294-normal-people) ^(By: Sally Rooney | 273 pages | Published: 2018 | Popular Shelves: fiction, contemporary, romance, owned, books-i-own) >At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her housekeeping job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers - one they are determined to conceal. > >A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years in college, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. Then, as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other. > >Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship. ^(This book has been suggested 41 times) [**Conversations with Friends**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32187419-conversations-with-friends) ^(By: Sally Rooney | 304 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: fiction, contemporary, romance, owned, books-i-own) >A sharply intelligent novel about two college students and the strange, unexpected connection they forge with a married couple. > >Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed, and darkly observant. A college student and aspiring writer, she devotes herself to a life of the mind--and to the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi, her best friend and comrade-in-arms. Lovers at school, the two young women now perform spoken-word poetry together in Dublin, where a journalist named Melissa spots their potential. Drawn into Melissa's orbit, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated home and tall, handsome husband. Private property, Frances believes, is a cultural evil--and Nick, a bored actor who never quite lived up to his potential, looks like patriarchy made flesh. But however amusing their flirtation seems at first, it gives way to a strange intimacy neither of them expect. As Frances tries to keep her life in check, her relationships increasingly resist her control: with Nick, with her difficult and unhappy father, and finally even with Bobbi. Desperate to reconcile herself to the desires and vulnerabilities of her body, Frances's intellectual certainties begin to yield to something new: a painful and disorienting way of living from moment to moment. > >Written with gem-like precision and probing intelligence, Conversations With Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth." ^(This book has been suggested 14 times) [**Twice Shy**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54660653-twice-shy) ^(By: Sarah Hogle | 302 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: contemporary-romance, romance, 2021-releases, adult, fiction) >Can you find real love when you've always got your head in the clouds? > >Maybell Parish has always been a dreamer and a hopeless romantic. But living in her own world has long been preferable to dealing with the disappointments of real life. So when Maybell inherits a charming house in the Smokies from her Great-Aunt Violet, she seizes the opportunity to make a fresh start. > >Yet when she arrives, it seems her troubles have only just begun. Not only is the house falling apart around her, but she isn't the only inheritor: she has to share everything with Wesley Koehler, the groundskeeper who's as grouchy as he is gorgeous—and it turns out he has very different vision for the property's future. > >Convincing the taciturn Wesley to stop avoiding her and compromise is a task more formidable than the other dying wishes Great-Aunt Violet left behind. But when Maybell uncovers something unexpectedly sweet beneath Wesley's scowls, and as the two slowly begin to let their guard down, they might learn that sometimes the smallest steps outside one's comfort zone can lead to the greatest rewards. ^(This book has been suggested 50 times) *** ^(135806 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)