Are you a fan of Jenny Han's novel The Summer I Turned Pretty, or of the TV adaptation of the book? (The show is streaming on Amazon Prime--if you don't have access to Prime and want to watch the show, you can borrow MHL's Roku with Amazon Prime access!) If you're looking for more summery romances, maybe featuring long-time friendship turning into something more, here are some more great YA novels to check out.
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The summer I turned pretty
by Jenny Han Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different. |
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To all the boys I've loved before
by Jenny Han Keeping private love letters written to five secret crushes she has had, Lara Jean Song finds her personal life going from imaginary to out of control when the letters are unexpectedly mailed. |
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Chasing Lucky
by Jenn Bennett Returning to her historical New England hometown to help run the family bookstore, a budding photographer reconnects with the local bad boy, her former childhood best friend, during a poorly executed act of revenge that lands the wrong person in trouble. |
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One true loves
by Elise Bryant While on a post-graduation Mediterranean cruise with her family, Lenore Bennett meets a hopeless romantic with a 10-year plan who helps her find something she's been looking for--love. |
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Where the rhythm takes you
by Sarah Dass Presents a romantic, mesmerizing story of first love and second chances, all to the tunes of sweet soca music. |
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Once and for all
by Sarah Dessen Gaining considerable experience while working for her cynical mother's successful wedding-planner business throughout her high school years, Louna holds her own wary beliefs about love before charming playboy Ambrose joins the company and dares her to date while he attempts a long-term relationship with one woman. |
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Dating makes perfect
by Pintip Dunn After her older twin sisters refuse to develop serious relationships in college, Winnie's traditional-minded Thai parents decide she must practice dating under their supervision, and set her up with the arrogant son of family friends where she must set aside her lifelong loathing of the young man to satisfy expectations. |
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Some other now
by Sarah Everett Jessi is caught between two brothers as the three navigate family, loss, and love over the course of her seventeenth and eighteenth summers. |
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I believe in a thing called love
by Maurene Goo A disaster in romance, high school senior Desi Lee decides to tackle her flirting failures by watching Korean television dramas, where the hapless heroine always seems to end up in the arms of her true love by episode ten. |
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Tahira in bloom
by Farah Heron After her coveted fashion internship falls through, 17-year-old aspiring designer Tahira is sent to the flower capital of Ontario where she unexpectedly learns what she is made of--and made for--with the help of her aunt and her aunt's handsome next-door neighbor. |
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Café con lychee
by Emery Lee Theo Mori and Gabriel Moreno have always been at odds. Their parents own rival businesses-an Asian American café and a Puerto Rican bakery-and Gabi's lack of coordination has cost their soccer team too many games to count. Stuck in the closet and scared to pursue his own dreams, Gabi sees his parents' shop as his future. Stuck under the weight of his parents' expectations, Theo's best shot at leaving Vermont means first ensuring his parents' livelihood is secure. So when a new fusion café threatens both shops, Theo and Gabi realize an unfortunate truth-they can only achieve their goals by working together to cook up an underground bakery operation and win back their customers. But can they put aside their differences long enough to save their parents' shops or will the new feelings between them boil over? |
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The lucky list
by Rachael Lippincott Rising high school senior Emily felt lucky until her mother's death, but now, with childhood friend Blake, she sets out to accomplish every exciting, scary, and intimidating task on her mother's bucket list. |
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I kissed Shara Wheeler : a novel
by Casey McQuiston When her rival, prom queen Shara Wheeler, kisses her and disappears, leaving behind cryptic notes, Chloe Green hunts for answers and discovers there is more to this small town than she thought--and maybe more to Shara, as well. |
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10 things I hate about Pinky
by Sandhya Menon Told in two voices, Ashish's friends Pinky and Samir pretend to date during a summer at Cape Cod to achieve their individual goals--especially to get their respective mothers off their backs. |
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Today tonight tomorrow
by Rachel Lynn Solomon A bitter rivalry between two overachieving high school seniors erupts after one of them is named valedictorian on a day that finds them unexpectedly teaming up and falling for each other while competing against their fellow graduates during a farewell tour of Seattle. |