23 Cozy Fall Romance Books & Rom Coms

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Clara and Teddy first met at summer camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Both were homeschooled and found a connection through a shared love of literature and music. Over the years their friendship grew into love, but they had a falling out ten years ago and haven’t spoken since.

Now Clara a history professor at a private liberal arts college in Maryland – her dream job – and she’s finally up for tenure. Her world is turned upside down when Theodore is brought on for the fall semester as a visiting scholar in her department.

He may have once been her best friend, but Professor Harrison seems like a total stranger to Clara. However, as the two spend evenings working on a shared project over drinks at a college bar, Clara quickly realizes how easily she could fall for him all over again.

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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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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 into 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 decide to try to outfox the octogenarian duo by faking an engagement.

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Thrity-nine-year-old Maren just inherited a decretpit waterfront bait-shop in Northern Wisconsin. After spending much of her life letting things happen to her, she finally taking the reigns. 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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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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Lexi was a college track store, but she was forced to drop out of school when her dad passed away. Now she’s working as a waitress and struggling to put herself through school while caring for her grieving mother. Her waitressing skills leave a lot to be desired, but they do result in the perfect restaurant meet cute with Will.

Seattle’s most eligible bachelor and the heir to a major corporation, Will has been placed in charge of a major merger. In order to close the deal, he has to convince the other company that he’s settled down and represents the family values they are looking for.

When Lexi is drawn into a fake engagement with Will, she begins to get a taste for his glamorous world, but she’s more interested in the real feelings budding between them.

Set amid apple picking, outdoor breweries, and Halloween preparations, the scariest part of the season is taking a chance on love.

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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-fiance 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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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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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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This book takes place on November 9th over a series of years, following the one-day-per-year trope. Fallon meetings 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 expects 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?

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Alex is the early 20-something son of the first female US President, and Prince Henry is the 2nd in line to the British Throne. Alex considers Henry his nemesis, and the two get into an embarrassing scuffle during a royal wedding.

In order to calm the press and convince them the sons of the US and England aren’t foes, Alex and Henry agree to make public appearances as friends over the course of several months. After spending more time together, and exchanging many amusing text messages, Alex realizes there is much more to Henry than he assumed.

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Fall means football! In this rom com, Taylor is a personal trainer who expects the best out of her clients. However, she’s falling a little short personally when it comes to her finances.

Jamar is a former NFL player desperate to win his position back on a team. He wants Taylor to help him get back in prime shape, but he doesn’t want anyone to know that he’s planning a comeback. When the press spots Taylor and Jamar together, they pretend to be lovers to distract the media. What could go wrong?

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If college football is your preferred fall sport, you might enjoy this slow-burn romance about Dylan, a star wide receiver expected to be drafted into the NFL. He meets quirky classmate Zoe during an embarrassing encounter and then runs into her again and again. Prepare to experience second-hand embarrassment for Zoe!

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This is the story of four friends, two crushes, and a secret.

Juliet is in her late thirties and recently divorced. With the help of her gay best friend, Coco, she is interviewing potential flatmates. The search isn’t going well until they meet Floz. Juliet and Floz become fast friends, and they bond over their recent relationship splits.

When Juliet’s twin brother, Guy, meets Floz, he instantly has a massive crush on her. Although she’d never know it by the way he acts around her). At the same time, Guy’s best friend, Steve, is interested in Juliet.

Then Juliet discovers a secret that turns all their lives upside down.

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Hattie’s mom is the stern headmaster at Northanger Abbey High School, which is said to be the most haunted school in the United States. The school leans into the reputation, even offering ghost-hunting scholarships. Hattie used to enjoy ghost hunting with her father, but since he passed away, she no longer believes in ghosts and instead is focused on being an overachiever to get her busy mom’s attention, all while keeping her little brother in line.

When Hattie is partnered with a new student, Kit, to investigate the school’s paranormal activity, she’s ready to prove that ghosts aren’t real. But the more time she spends with Kit, the more she feels like she’s ready to believe in life again.