Books like Reminders of Him

Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover reads as emotional, bittersweet. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

What Reminders of Him is like to read

An emotionally wringing second-chance romance built on guilt, grief, and the ache of a mother trying to earn back a life — spare, dialogue-forward prose with dual-POV chapters that make it fly. Best for: readers who want a good cry, a redemption arc, and a hard-won HEA in dual POV.

It Ends with Us

Colleen Hoover · 2016

An accessible, first-person contemporary romance that curdles into a raw portrait of intimate-partner abuse and the courage it takes to break the cycle.

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The Fault in Our Stars

John Green · 2012

A first-person teen voice that is arch, quotable, and openly literary, wielding wit against mortality until the emotional gut-punch lands.

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It Starts with Us

Colleen Hoover · 2022

An emotional, easy-reading second-chance romance told in alternating first-person voices, picking up Lily and Atlas's story with the shadow of a jealous ex looming.

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Me Before You

Jojo Moyes · 2012

An emotionally charged romance told through Lou's warm, ordinary-girl voice, contrasting her small-town life with Will's shrunken world after injury — tender and building toward heartbreak.

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After I Do

Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2014

An introspective, emotionally-charged look at a marriage on pause, foregrounding a woman's year of self-questioning about love, loyalty, and what commitment really means.

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In Five Years

Rebecca Serle · 2020

A tightly-plotted contemporary about a woman whose rigid five-year plan is upended by a vision of a future she can't explain — reads fast and lands as a gut-punch friendship story

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The Sun Is Also a Star

Nicola Yoon · 2016

A single-day NYC romance told in short alternating chapters with brief universe-eye interludes — earnest, propulsive in structure but emotionally reflective, with the ticking depor

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Dear Edward

Ann Napolitano · 2020

A quietly devastating story of a twelve-year-old sole survivor learning how to live again, braided with the final hours of the passengers he lost.

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The Heart Principle

Helen Hoang · 2021

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Two by Two

Nicholas Sparks · 2016

An intimate, earnest portrait of a man's emotional unraveling and rebuilding through the lens of his devotion to his daughter, rendered in Sparks' characteristic plain, melancholic

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