28 Cozy Fall Romance Books & Rom Coms

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Thirty-two-year-old Penelope has had enough of her overbearing mother, her married boyfriend, and her sexist boss. Her life needs a reset, so Pen picks up and moves from Minnesota to Tennessee to open her own financial business.

Once in Nashville, Pen meets brother and sister, Deanna and Grant. Despite the siblings’ best efforts, socially anxious Pen is reluctant to come out of her shell. She slowly opens up to a friendship with Deanna, and after joining Grant’s cycling group, it’s clear that something is blossoming between the two of them. But Pen is determined to ignore her feelings for Grant.

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Five years ago, June and Adam were best friends sharing a brownstone in NYC. Since that time, almost everything has changed. June and Adam are no longer friends, and June chased her dreams to LA, where she landed a hit TV show.

Right after learning that her show is being canceled, June receives a cryptic email from the company that manages the brownstone. With nothing to lose, she decides to fly back to NYC.

It turns out that, thanks to a legal loophole, if June and Adam move back into their beloved West Village brownstone together for one month, it will become theirs. Any New Yorker knows that you don’t pass up prime real estate.

Fall in NYC is the most magical time of year, but is it enough to bring these two former friends back together?

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Julia thought her future was in the Italian B&B she was going to restore with her boyfriend, Luca. However, they broke up a year ago and still live together in the dilapidated B&B. She’s broke, and her passport has expired.

She has to make some money in order to afford a flight home to Australia, and she knows she needs to get away from Luca in order to move forward in life. A job on an olive farm in Cividale del Friuli, the ancient Italian town on the banks of the gloriously blue Natisone River, seems like the perfect escape.

Julie has her walls up when she arrives, but then the community of farmers, neighbours, and locals generously welcome her into their lives. One of the locals, the broodingly handsome Alex, has also sworn off love for his own reasons, but maybe they need each other.

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In the aftermath of a divorce, Michelle takes over her mom’s bed and breakfast. She knew it wouldn’t be easy, but some aspects are even harder than she anticipated… like baking scones for the guests that don’t belong in the garbage.

Her new next-door neighbor, Cliff, on the other hand, bakes the best pastries. The town’s golden boy, Cliff, is a flannel-wearing, charming single dad.

Michelle will only be running the inn for three months before handing the role off to her sister and heading to Seattle for her dream job. Which is why she’s determined not to befriend Cliff, even though she can’t stop thinking about him.

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Amy Fox is a horror novelist with a major case of writer’s block. She’s heartbroken after recently calling off her fall wedding.

When she receives a call that her grandfather broke his wrist driving through a Dunkin’ Donuts (literally right through the front of the store), she has to return to her hometown of Autumnboro, New Hampshire, to care for him. But returning home runs the risk of bumping into Kit Parker – her childhood best friend and first love.

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Florence Day is a romance ghostwriter who no longer believes in romance. She has spent her career as the ghostwriter for one of the most well-known romance writers in the industry. But after a recent breakup with a man who took advantage of her trust and destroyed her self-esteem, she no longer believes in love and can’t seem to write about it either.

With a major deadline looming, her career is in serious danger. Then she gets a call from home that shifts her priorities.

She had an unusual, but very happy childhood growing up in a funeral home in a small town in South Carolina. However, a controversy when she was a teen caused her to flee for college and never turn back. However, after the phone call, she has no choice but to return home for the first time in a decade.

On her first night back, she finds a ghost standing on the front porch of her family’s funeral home. Florence was already convinced that romance is dead… but this complicates things further.

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Textile artist Sadie Fox came home to Indiana for one reason, and one reason only – to care for her father’s beloved pumpkin patch and grow a pumpkin big enough to win the Indiana State Fair in order to win back her father’s respect.

Unfortunately, things are not going according to plan. A horde of wild hogs destroyed the entire pumpkin patch. And to make matters worse, the annoyingly sexy next-door neighbor, Josh, is offering help, despite being her biggest competition.

Josh is tech millionaire who traded in the office for growing gourds, and he and Sadie couldn’t be more different. He’s all sunshine, while she’s tattoos, swear words, and a prickly personality. But nonetheless, there’s definitely something growing between them – something bigger than their pumpkins, or the secret Josh is hiding.

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Kamilah Vega’s family runs a Puerto Rican restaurant in a Chicago neighborhood that is quickly gentrifying. In order for the restaurant to survive, Kamilah knows it needs some updates. She also wants them to enter the Fall Foodie Tour. But convincing her family is another story. Her blackmailing abuelo (grandfather) says that he’ll only let her change his restaurant if she agrees to marry his best friend’s grandson – a man she can’t stand.

Irish American Liam Kane has spent a decade building up his family distillery, and he and his grandfather are on the verge of winning a national whiskey competition. Then he learns that his Granda (grandfather) has cancer. His dying wish is to see Liam married. But not just to any girl. It has to be Kamilah.

If Liam and Kamilah refuse, their grandfathers intend to sell the building that houses both of their businesses. So the pair decides to try to outfox the octogenarian duo by faking an engagement.

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Thirty-nine-year-old Maren just inherited a decrepit waterfront bait shop in Northern Wisconsin. After spending much of her life letting things happen to her, she finally took the reins. She just turned down a marriage proposal and walked away from her decade-long park ranger job.

Most people seem to think she’s making all the wrong decisions. But Josiah, a local resort owner and single dad, is on her side. Even his best friend, Maren’s brother, wants him to feel otherwise. Nonetheless, Josiah likes having her around.

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Starr’s Fall is a town in need of a fresh start, and Laurie is a woman who needs the same. She and her dog, Max, are new in town, and she hopes that reopening one of the empty shops on the main street will give her a fresh start.

The grumpy bookstore owner across the street, Joshua, should be happy that another shop is opening, but he thinks Laurie’s idea of a dog bakery and pet shop is ridiculous. But Laurie is undeterred. She also has a secret mission in town that involves a tragedy in her past.

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Livvy is a talented pastry chef at an exclusive Boston dinner club. Unfortunately, her career goes up in flames when she manages to flambé not just a desert, but the entire building. Needing to get out of town, she heads north to Vermont and the comfort of her best friend. She doesn’t intend to stay long, but that all changes when she’s offered a job at the Sugar Maple Inn. The owner of the Sugar Maple hopes that Livvy can help her reclaim the inn’s blue ribbon status in the apple pie contest at the county fair.

Livvy and her dog, Salty, move into a sugarhouse on the inn’s property. She loves creating mouthwatering desserts for the residents of Guthrie, and she soon finds herself immersed in small-town life. She hits it off with Martin McCraken, a Guthrie native who has recently returned home to care for his father.

Soon, there’s another new arrival in town that makes Livvy question if she really belongs in Guthrie after all.

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Josie has written many cute children’s stories set on her family’s pumpkin farm. But unfortunately, the only story anyone seems to remember is the one she wishes they would forget. As a teenager, she penned a fantasy romance in which she cast herself opposite an older guy at school that she had a crush on. To this day, she is known around town as the “Reece the Rogue Pirate” girl.

The real-life Reece grew up to be a lawyer, and he’s now representing Josie’s ex-fiancé in a legal battle over the engagement ring. To complicate matters even further, Reece also has an adorable daughter, and Josie is her teacher.

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Clemmie used to be a popular Instagram influencer, but she has been living a very private life for the past eighteen months, following a very public breakup. During that time, she’s been renovating a cottage on the outskirts of the small town of Wynbridge. Now, she’s finally feeling ready to get back out there.

A chance encounter with the exuberant Lizzie Dixon—co-owner of The Cherry Tree Café—draws Clemmie into organizing Wynbridge’s inaugural Autumn Festival. As the whole town rallies behind the event, she finds a renewed sense of community and purpose.

Her quiet life is quickly becoming a distant memory, and a local veterinarian has her wondering if she might even be ready for another chance at love.

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Jenna’s toxic trait is that she’s constantly attracted to the wrong men – ones who are totally emotionally unavailable. She wants to change them, and she’s objectively good at it. She can turn any dysfunctional man into Prince Charming, but unfortunately, they all go on to marry the next woman they meet instead of Jenna.

When she finds a fifty-dollar bill with a handwritten note on it that was accidentally donated to her family’s pumpkin patch, it turns out that the mystery man it belongs to is extremely attractive. But it should come as no surprise to Jenna that he’s also emotionally unavailable. She knows that this time she should just walk away, but when sparks fly, she tries to convince herself that this time will be different.

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After a difficult childhood, Louisa’s life was on a good path. She had a degree in counseling, a wealthy boyfriend, and an overall sunny outlook on life. But then that boyfriend dumped her and left her unable to afford the rent on their gorgeous home in the Colorado mountains.

Desperate not to be forced out of the home she loves, she approaches her landlord, Henry, with an idea. He agrees to let her rent out the extra rooms in the house as a bed-and-breakfast, but he’s less enthusiastic about the plan when she begins marketing the B&B as a retreat for the recently broken-hearted.

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As a teenager, Parker fell hard for her brother’s best friend, Logan, but he ghosted her and broke her heart. Logan went on to become hockey’s hottest bad boy, but now an injury has forced him to return to Harvest Hollow to play for his hometown’s minor league team. Parker is the team’s social media manager, so it’s her job to convince Logan to cooperate with the filming of trending TikTok videos.

Parker’s dad is trying to match her up with his business partner’s son. To avoid the setup, Parker ends up fake-dating Logan. The problem is that Parker’s old crush on Logan has resurfaced, and the feelings she’s supposed to be faking are starting to feel a bit too real.

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Pumpkin spice babka? Sign us up! In Kissing Kosher, Avital manages her family’s kosher bakery, Best Babka in Brooklyn. She was a photographer but had to give it up due to chronic pelvic pain. She’s barely surviving running the bakery, and needs to hire help.

Handsome Ethan walks through the door and seems like the perfect option to take over some of her duties. However, she doesn’t know that he isn’t an average baker looking for a job. He’s been sent by his grandfather, who makes mass-produced kosher baked goods, to steal Avital’s grandfather’s world-famous pumpkin spice babka recipe.

However, Ethan is soon more interested in Avital than in stealing secrets. But how can they build a relationship when he has deceived her from the moment they met?

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Tanika “Nikki” Ryan is a seasoned sports reporter, but when her vision starts to fail and she flubs her lines while squinting at the teleprompter, she loses her Thursday Night football spot to a younger, less qualified woman.

Forty-something Nikki knows she needs her vision checked, but she doesn’t expect the optometrist to be a handsome widower. And she certainly doesn’t expect that her new glasses will actually be so much more. She winds up with an “enchanted” pair of glasses that will not only change her life, but also help her see the love that’s right in front of her eyes.

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While Emily dreams of making a living as an artist, at 35, she’s still working at her grandmother’s Vermont inn. She tends to play it safe and is the only one in her friend group who hasn’t tried to summit the mountain in their hometown of Crescent Falls, Vermont.

Diana is a go-getter and so close to being next in line as CEO of her father’s hotel chain. Everything in her life is following her careful plans…until she meets an alluring artist on a Vermont mountain.

Emily and Diana’s passion for each other grows quickly…until they realize that Diana is in town to buy Emily’s grandmother’s beloved inn.

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Aria comes from a family of witches, but her magic always manages to blow up in her face. That’s why she left the magical village of Charming Cove to work a regular job in London. But her wonky magic still seems to get in her way.

After losing her job, her grandmother insists that she compete in a competition to win the biggest magical fortune in England, the Garden of Enchantment. Aria wants nothing to do with the competition, especially when she learns that her nemesis, Callan, is also a competitor. But when she learns that winning is the only way to save her grandmother’s potion shop, she finally gives in.

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Charlotte has not only been fired from her NYC job, she’s been blacklisted in her field by her former boss. Begrudgingly, she returns home to Hope Lake, PA to regroup. She’s pleasantly surprised by how the town has changed in the last twenty years. While Charlotte thought she was on a temporary visit, she unexpectedly reconnected with her childhood friends and her grandmother. She even managed to score her dream job at a floral shop.

Things get complicated again when she finds herself torn not only between New York City and Hope Lake, but between two men. One is the beloved high school English teacher, while the other is the charming town doctor. Are either of them the man she will spend the rest of her life with?

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This book takes place on November 9th over a series of years, following the one-day-per-year trope. Fallon meets aspiring novelist Ben the day before moving cross-country. They’re so enamored with each other that they spend the entire day together and then agree to reunite each year on the same day. Fallon’s life becomes the inspiration for Ben’s novels, but one year, Fallon begins doubting that Ben is sharing the truth about his life.

If you like an emotional read full of plot twists, this might be a good read for fall!

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Chloe and Hunter have been friends since high school. When he invites her to co-star alongside him as the lead love interest in a country music video that he’s directing, she knows it will be an acting challenge.

She’ll have to act like she’s in love with Hunter without giving away the fact that she actually is. This is made all the harder when the full force of his charm is being directed at her.

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Lydia is recently divorced and looking forward to attending her college roommate’s wedding. It will be a much-needed fall getaway with old friends to a beautiful manor in Connecticut. She never expected to meet a man, but she can’t help feeling an instant connection with Sam, a friend of the groom.

Lydia isn’t sure she’s ready for a new relationship so soon, but her friends encourage her to give Sam a chance. When the weekend comes to an end, and they each head their separate ways – him to Chicago and her to NY – will the spark survive the distance?