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What to read after “Icebreaker” by Hannah Grace: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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1
The Deal
Elle Kennedy · 2015
Same genre: “Contemporary romance” and “Sports romance”
- Sports Romance
- Friends to Lovers
Hockey captain Garrett needs a passing grade, and quiet music student Hannah needs the courage to approach her crush. They strike a deal: she tutors him, he pretends to date her. Studying late into the night, the fake arrangement deepens into trust and a real attraction neither of them expected.
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The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
Mariana Zapata · 2016
Same genre: “Contemporary romance” and “Sports romance”
Vanessa spends years as the assistant to Aiden Graves, a silent, demanding football star, and finally quits. He then turns up at her door to ask her back and follows it with a bigger request: a marriage of convenience that helps his immigration case. The practical bargain and the time it forces them to spend together wear down his reserve.
3
From Lukov with Love
Mariana Zapata · 2018
Same genre: “Contemporary romance” and “Sports romance”
- Sports Romance
- Forced Proximity
Jasmine's pairs figure-skating career is nearly over when her former partner leaves. The only skater willing to take her on is Ivan Lukov, her longtime rival, and she has no choice but to accept. Months of gruelling shared training force them past years of resentment and into reluctant trust.
4
Natural Born Charmer
Susan Elizabeth Phillips · 2007
Same genre: “Contemporary romance” and “Sports romance”
Pro quarterback Dean, restless and disillusioned with his gilded life, picks up a hitchhiker in a beaver costume on a Colorado highway. Blue, a broke portrait painter running from her past, takes the ride, and their uneasy road trip leads to a Tennessee farmhouse where two guarded people begin to build a life and a makeshift family.
5
The Roommate
Rosie Danan · 2020
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
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.
6
The Charm Offensive
Alison Cochrun · 2021
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
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.
7
Beach Read
Emily Henry · 2020
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
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.
8
Get a Life, Chloe Brown
Talia Hibbert · 2019
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
- Friends to Lovers
- Grumpy Sunshine
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.
9
The Kiss Quotient
Helen Hoang · 2018
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
- Cinnamon Roll
- Friends to Lovers
Stella, a successful econometrician with autism, finds dating and physical touch bewildering, so she hires escort Michael to tutor her in intimacy. The arrangement is meant to stay businesslike, but their lessons turn into genuine feeling, and both must work through the past before they can trust it.
10
The Cheat Sheet
Sarah Adams · 2021
Same genre: “Contemporary romance” and “Sports romance”
- Sports Romance
- Friends to Lovers
Ballet dancer Bree has been secretly in love with her best friend Nathan, a football star, for years. When a publicity plan calls for Nathan to have a girlfriend, Bree agrees to play the role, risking the friendship she cannot imagine losing.
11
Twice Shy
Sarah Hogle · 2021
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
- Grumpy Sunshine
- Forced Proximity
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.
12
Fangirl
Rainbow Rowell · 2013
Similar plot moves: “Cinnamon Roll” and “Friends to Lovers”
Cath starts college separated from her twin sister for the first time and takes refuge in writing fan fiction. Between a new roommate, a classmate who keeps showing up, and her father's struggles, she slowly learns to live beyond her stories.