Books like “Seduce Me at Sunrise”

What to read after “Seduce Me at Sunrise” by Lisa Kleypas: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Love and Other Words
Christina Lauren · 2018
Similar plot moves: “Mutual Pining” and “Friends to Lovers”
As teenagers Macy and Elliot spent every weekend trading books in a closet and slowly falling in love, until one night tore them apart. Eleven years later they meet again in San Francisco, and the friendship and heartbreak they buried come rushing back as they decide whether to try once more.
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Before We Were Strangers
Renée Carlino · 2015
Similar plot moves: “Mutual Pining” and “Friends to Lovers”
- Mutual Pining
- Friends to Lovers
In college, Matt and Grace were inseparable neighbours in their NYU dorm who fell in love, until lost contact after graduation pulled them apart. Fifteen years later, a missed-connections post brings Grace back into his life, and the two have one chance to understand what happened and decide whether their story is really over.
3
People We Meet on Vacation
Emily Henry · 2021
Similar plot moves: “Mutual Pining” and “Friends to Lovers”
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.
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One Day in December
Josie Silver · 2018
Similar plot moves: “Mutual Pining” and “Friends to Lovers”
Laurie locks eyes with a stranger through a bus window and spends a year searching for him, only to meet him again as her best friend's new boyfriend. Across ten years of friendship, missed chances and other relationships, the two circle a connection they are never free to act on.
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The Cheat Sheet
Sarah Adams · 2021
Similar plot moves: “Mutual Pining” and “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.
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The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie
Jennifer Ashley · 2009
Same genre: “Historical romance” and “Victorian romance”
- Forbidden Love
- Slow Burn
Lord Ian Mackenzie is brilliant, eccentric and widely believed to be mad. Widow Beth Ackerley looks past the rumours and sees the man beneath. Drawn together in Victorian London and the Highlands, they must face his family's secrets and a danger that has haunted him since childhood.
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Funny Feelings
Tarah DeWitt · 2022
Similar plot moves: “Mutual Pining” and “Friends to Lovers”
Stand-up comic Farley and her grumpy manager Meyer have been best friends and secret crushes for years. When a television opportunity requires a stable image, they fake a relationship, and the line between performance and real love disappears.
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The Highwayman
Kerrigan Byrne · 2015
Same genre: “Historical romance” and “Victorian romance”
- Byronic Hero
- Slow Burn
Farah and Dougan share a brief friendship as children before he is torn away and imprisoned. Years later Farah meets the feared highwayman Dorian Blackwell, and recognises in the scarred, guarded man the boy she once knew. He must decide whether he can let her close.
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The Bronze Horseman
Paullina Simons · 2000
Same genre: “Historical romance”
- Forbidden Love
- Slow Burn
In Leningrad in 1941, as the German army tightens its siege, Tatiana meets Alexander, a young officer with a secret. Their love is forbidden by her family and by the war, but through hunger, loss and the frozen winter they hold on to each other and to the hope of survival.
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The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller · 2011
Similar plot moves: “Friends to Lovers” and “Slow Burn”
- Friends to Lovers
- Slow Burn
Patroclus, a prince in disgrace, is sent to train under Achilles, the golden boy destined for glory. Their friendship deepens into love as the Trojan War calls them both toward a fate only one of them will regret.
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Twilight
Stephenie Meyer · 2005
Shared in the plot: distant, loved, danger
Bella Swan moves to the rainy town of Forks and is drawn to Edward Cullen, who is beautiful, distant and not human. As she learns he is a mind-reading vampire, the danger of loving him becomes impossible to ignore.
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The Love Hypothesis
Ali Hazelwood · 2021
Similar plot moves: “Mutual Pining” and “Slow Burn”
- Mutual Pining
- Slow Burn
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.