Hannah, a small but capable bodyguard, is sent to protect movie star Jack Stapleton at his family ranch after a stalker threat. To keep the assignment secret she poses as his girlfriend, sharing his home and his family's grief while trying to stay professional.
Maybell inherits her great-aunt's crumbling house in the Smoky Mountains, only to learn the grouchy groundskeeper Wesley is a co-inheritor with very different plans. Forced to renovate together, the dreamer and the shy, scowling loner slowly find in each other the safety they have always wanted.
Poppy and Alex have been best friends for years, spending one week of every summer travelling together, until one trip ends in a falling-out. Two years later Poppy suggests one more holiday to repair things, and a week of shared rooms and old memories forces them to face what they never say.
After food poisoning strikes at her twin sister's wedding, unlucky Olive takes her sister's place on a free Hawaiian honeymoon, but her sworn enemy Ethan has to come too. Stranded together and posing as newlyweds to keep the perks, the two bicker their way toward something neither expected.
Romance writer January and literary novelist Gus become summer neighbours in a lakeside town, both blocked and both skeptical of each other's genre. They make a bet to write in the other's style and slowly trade barbs for late-night talks, discovering the grief and hope behind their different worldviews.
Clara leaves her buttoned-up East Coast life to move across the country to the man of her dreams, only to find he has sublet her room to someone else. Sharing the apartment with easygoing Josh, whose job would scandalise her family, forces an uneasy friendship that slowly becomes more.
Tiffy needs somewhere cheap to live, and Leon, a night-shift nurse, needs money, so they share one bed in shifts and never meet. Through the notes they leave around the flat they slowly get to know each other, and a practical arrangement turns into something else.
Exes Addie and Dylan are forced to share a car to a friend's wedding in Scotland when their journey goes wrong. Crammed together with strangers and old wounds, they retrace how they met, why they broke up, and whether anything is left to salvage.
Catalina needs a date for her sister's wedding in Spain and claims she is bringing her American boyfriend. Her infuriating coworker Aaron volunteers to play the part, and the two must keep up the act through a week of family dinners, sightseeing and shared hotel rooms.
Jules Ambrose is focused on passing the bar exam, while doctor Josh Chen is her best friend's brother and her oldest rival. A single night together turns into an enemies-with-benefits arrangement, and when a ski trip with friends leaves them sharing one bed, their hostility and their attraction become impossible to separate.
Danika Brown wants a casual arrangement and picks Zafir Ansari, the kind building security guard she flirted with once. After he carries her out of a stuck lift and the clip goes viral, they pretend to date for the sake of his youth charity, and Dani finds her careful heart hard to keep out of it.
Anxious tech genius Charlie is the reluctant star of a reality dating show, and producer Dev is tasked with helping him connect with the contestants. Behind the cameras their unlikely friendship turns into a romance that neither can script.
Lucy and Joshua are assistants at the same publishing house, forced to share an office while competing for one promotion. Their open hostility and elaborate office games hide an attraction neither will admit, until a single reckless moment changes the rules between them.
Minerva overhears her ex-boyfriend bet the charming Cal that he can get her into bed within a month, so she accepts his dinner invitation to turn the tables. The sceptical actuary and the commitment-shy businessman keep colliding through meddling friends and sheer bad luck, resisting an attraction neither of them wants.
Single mother April Parker plans to sell her house now that her daughter is leaving for college. Her friend Mitch Malone agrees to help with repairs if she will pretend to be his girlfriend at a family dinner. The favour turns into a weekend away, where one hotel bed forces both to admit what they have been avoiding.
Wedding photographer Mackensie has built her life and the Vows wedding business with three childhood friends, but her parents' failures have left her wary of commitment. When she meets shy English teacher Carter, a steady romance slowly teaches her to trust and to want a future of her own.
After a Hollywood party scandal, Piper is cut off and sent to a rainy Washington fishing town to run her late father's bar. The town's grumpy sea captain wants her gone, but the summer pushes the socialite and the fisherman into an uneasy partnership that softens into more.
Darcy Barrett has loved Tom Valeska since childhood, but her twin brother Jamie claimed him first, and Tom has stayed loyal to that friendship. When the three reunite to renovate the family cottage, Darcy and Tom must decide whether the one rule they never broke is still worth keeping.
Chloe, who lives with chronic pain and a careful routine, draws up a list of things she wants to do to get a life. To tick off the first item she asks Red, the tattooed handyman who looks after her building, for help, and their cautious friendship deepens into more.
Naomi arrives in the small town of Knockemout to help her estranged twin, who promptly robs her and leaves her stranded with the young niece she never knew she had. With no car, job, or home, she turns for help to Knox, the town's grumpy, bearded barber, who claims he wants nothing to do with anyone but keeps turning up as she starts over.
Olive, a third-year biology PhD student, kisses the first man she sees to convince her friend that her dating life is fine, and it turns out to be the famously severe Professor Adam Carlsen. To keep the story convincing, the two agree to fake a relationship, and their staged arrangement slowly becomes real.
Rhett Eaton is the face of professional bull riding until a scandal forces him to accept a minder: his agent's daughter, Summer Hamilton. She has no patience for cowboys, and he resents being watched. Travelling the rodeo circuit together, their arguments soften, and a hotel booking mix-up leaves them with one bed.
Disgraced rock star's son Luc needs a respectable boyfriend to save his job, and buttoned-up barrister Oliver needs a date for his parents' party. They agree to fake a relationship for a few weeks, but the arrangement keeps blurring into real affection.
Lincoln O'Neill takes a night job monitoring a newspaper's email system and finds himself reading the messages between Beth and Jennifer. Their friendship and jokes draw him in, but he cannot reply without revealing his role. By the time he falls for Beth, meeting her means confessing what he has been doing.
Start with “The Bodyguard”, “Twice Shy”, “People We Meet on Vacation”: they are the closest to “All the Feels” in tropes and mood. Under each book in the list you will see what exactly it has in common.
How are similar books chosen?
We compare tropes (for “All the Feels” these are Only One Bed, Forced Proximity, Slow Burn), genre, plot, era and tone. It is not “readers also bought”; it is similarity in the content itself.
Are there recent books in this list?
Yes. Among the newer ones are “The Bodyguard”, “Twice Shy”, “People We Meet on Vacation”. Switch the “Modern” filter to keep only books from 2000 onward.
