Books like “The Wall of Winnipeg and Me”

What to read after “The Wall of Winnipeg and Me” by Mariana Zapata: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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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.
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Icebreaker
Hannah Grace · 2022
Same genre: “Contemporary romance” and “Sports romance”
A rink scheduling clash forces competitive figure skater Anastasia to share the ice with the hockey team and its captain, Nate. What starts as irritation grows into friendship and then something more as she chases a national title and he tries to hold his team together.
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Twice Shy
Sarah Hogle · 2021
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
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.
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From Lukov with Love
Mariana Zapata · 2018
Same genre: “Contemporary romance” and “Sports romance”
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.
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The Cheat Sheet
Sarah Adams · 2021
Same genre: “Contemporary romance” and “Sports romance”
- Sports Romance
- Slow Burn
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 Duchess Deal
Tessa Dare · 2017
Shared in the plot: convent, marriage
Scarred and bitter, the Duke of Ashbury needs an heir, so he offers a plain marriage of convenience to Emma Gladstone, a vicar's daughter turned seamstress. She accepts on her own conditions. Inside his forbidding house, two wary strangers slowly discover warmth, trust and unexpected love.
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Things We Never Got Over
Lucy Score · 2022
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
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.
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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.
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The Roommate
Rosie Danan · 2020
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
- Grumpy Sunshine
- Forced Proximity
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.
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The Co-op
Tarah DeWitt · 2022
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
- Marriage of Convenience
- Forced Proximity
LaRynn and Deacon married young, divorced, and hoped never to see each other again. When they inherit a crumbling building that must be renovated before it can be sold, they are stuck working side by side and confronting why they failed the first time.
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The Charm Offensive
Alison Cochrun · 2021
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
- Grumpy Sunshine
- Forced Proximity
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.
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When a Scot Ties the Knot
Tessa Dare · 2015
Similar plot moves: “Marriage of Convenience” and “Forced Proximity”
Shy Maddie Gracechurch invents a soldier suitor to escape the London season and writes to him for years. Then the real Captain Logan MacKenzie appears, demanding the bride he never knew he had. To keep her home, they marry as strangers, and the arrangement slowly becomes something more.