10 Best Christina Lauren Books Full of Flirty Romance

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Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of dynamic writing duo Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings.

Since 2010, the two have co-authored 17 New York Times Bestselling novels, most of which can be classified as romances or romantic comedies. Their stories are often funny, sexy, and feature strong-minded female leads.

In this post, we’ve rounded up 10 of their best books that fans of contemporary romance won’t be able to resist.

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Here are 10 of Christina Lauren’s best books, according to Goodreads.

1. The Unhoneymooners

Olive Torres has always been the unlucky twin, while her sister Ami gets everything she wishes for. Ami even managed to pay for her own wedding by winning several contests.

Olive’s bad luck continues when she’s forced to spend the wedding day with the best man, Ethan Thomas—whom Olive despises.

When the entire wedding party gets food poisoning, the only two who aren’t affected are Olive and Ethan. With a free honeymoon suddenly up for grabs, Olive refuses to cede paradise to Ethan.

Agreeing to a temporary truce, Olive and Ethan head for Maui. It’s a trip well worth the price of playing newlyweds, but the more Olive pretends, the more she realizes she might just be the luckiest woman alive.

2. Love and Other Words

Macy Sorensen has settled into an ambitious, albeit monotonous, routine. She keeps her head down and works hard as a new pediatrics resident, while planning her wedding to an older, financially secure man.

But when Macy runs into Elliot Petropoulos—the first and only love of her life—she finds her carefully constructed bubble beginning to dissolve.

As the story unfolds in alternating timelines between Then and Now, we see teenaged Elliot and Macy grow from friends to much more. But as adults, they became strangers to one another… until their recent chance reunion.

Although their memories are tainted by the pain of what happened one night so many years ago, Elliot will come to realize the truth behind Macy’s decade-long silence, and he’ll have to overcome the past and himself to revive her faith in the possibility of true love.

3. Beautiful Bastard

Chloe Mills is incredibly smart, hardworking, and on her way to an MBA. Her only problem is her blunt, inconsiderate boss, Bennett Ryan, who also happens to be completely irresistible.

Bennett has just returned to Chicago from France to take a lead role in his family’s massive media business. He wasn’t expecting that the assistant who helped him from abroad was the gorgeous and completely infuriating Chloe.

Bennett has never been one for office hookups, but seeing Chloe now, he’s willing to bend the rules—but each of them will have to decide what exactly what they’re willing to lose in order to win each other.

4. Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating

Hazel knows that she’s too much for most men to handle, but her best friend Josh isn’t most men. Josh has known Hazel—and all her quirks—since college, and he’s always considered her more of a spectacle than a peer.

But now, 10 years later, after a cheating girlfriend has turned Josh’s life upside down, going out with Hazel feels like a breath of fresh air.

Still, Josh and Hazel don’t date each other. They’ve been setting each other up on progressively worse double blind dates, which must mean there’s nothing between them—right?

5. In a Holidaze

For Maelyn Jones, the “most wonderful time of the year” doesn’t feel very special—she’s living with her parents, hates her dead-end job, and has just made an epic romantic blunder. There’s one silver lining: her family’s annual trip to a snowy Utah cabin.

But this holiday will be the last Mae and her family spend at the cabin, and knowing this, Mae has a meltdown while driving away from the cabin for the final time, pleading to the universe to point her in the direction of what will make her happy.

Just then, after the screech of tires and the sound of metal colliding, everything goes black. When Mae opens her eyes, she’s back on an airplane bound for Utah, where she begins her holiday all over again.

As one hilarious disaster after another sends her back to the plane, Mae must figure out how to break free of the time loop and finally find her true love under the mistletoe.

6. The Soulmate Equation

Jess Davis is a data and statistics wiz working hard to stay afloat as a single mom. No amount of data can convince Jess to reenter the dating world, especially after her ex decided he wasn’t “father material” before her daughter was even born.

But then Jess hears about GeneticAlly, a new DNA-based matchmaking company. Now that’s something Jess can get behind.

Or so she thought—until her test came back showing an unheard-of 98 percent compatibility with GeneticAlly’s founder, Dr. River Peña. Jess already knows Dr. Peña as the stuck-up, stubborn man who can in no way be her soulmate.

When GeneticAlly offers to pay Jess just for getting to know Dr. Peña, Jess is in no position to refuse. As the two are dragged from one event to the next promoting GeneticAlly, Jess begins to realize there might be more to the science behind a soulmate than she thought.

7. Beautiful Stranger

Sara Dillon moves to New York City to escape a cheating ex and find some excitement with no strings attached.

So when she meets an irresistibly sexy Brit at a dance club, it shouldn’t be anything more than a night’s fun. But the way he melts her inhibitions turns him from a one-time hookup and into her Beautiful Stranger.

It’s no secret that Max Stella loves women, although he never seems to keep the same one around for long. It’s only when he meets Sara that he starts wondering if there’s someone for him outside of the bedroom.

8. Beautiful Player

When Hanna Bergstrom’s overprotective brother lectures her about neglecting her social life and burying herself in grad school, she’s determined to take on his implied assignment by going out, making friends, and dating.

For help turning into a sultry siren, Hanna turns to her brother’s gorgeous best friend, Will Sumner—a venture capitalist and unapologetic playboy.

Will is skeptical about the challenge, until the wild night his pupil tempts him into bed—and teaches him a thing or two about being with a woman he can’t forget.

Now that Hanna’s realized the power of her own sex appeal, Will is determined to show her he’s the only man she’ll ever need.

9. Roomies

For months Holland Bakker has frequented the subway station near her apartment to catch a glimpse of her street musician crush.

One night, fate intervenes as Holland is attacked by a drunk assailant and Calvin steps in to rescue her. But as soon as the police arrive, the Irishman disappears.

Unable to financially repay Calvin, Holland gets him an audition with her uncle, Broadway’s hottest musical director.

When the audition goes better than any of them could have imagined, Calvin is set for Broadway greatness. The only problem is that he’s in the country illegally, his student visa having expired years ago.

Since her uncle needs Calvin as much as Calvin needs him, Holland gets a wild idea and impulsively marries the musician, her infatuation a secret only to him. As their relationship evolves, how long will it take each to realize that they both stopped pretending a long time ago?

10. My Favorite Half-Night Stand

Professor Millie Morris has always been one of the guys. As a female-serial-killer expert, she’s quick with a deflection joke and terrible at getting personal. Just like her four best guy friends and fellow professors, Millie is perpetually single.

When the university’s black tie gala rolls around, Mille and her circle agree to join an online dating service to find plus-ones. However, after making the pact, Millie and one of the guys, Reid Campbell, secretly spend the sexiest half-night of their lives together. Still, they each decide that their relationship is better off as strictly platonic.

Online dating proves to be no walk in the park for Millie. While the guys find quality matches and potential dates, Millie’s first profile attempt returns nothing but unsolicited pictures and creepy conversations.

That’s when she decides to create a fictional persona—“Catherine”—which allows her to be more vulnerable than she’s ever been in person.

Soon “Catherine”and Reid strike up a digital pen-pal relationship, but Millie can’t resist temptation in real life. Soon, she’ll have to face her fear of intimacy or risk losing her best friend.

What Should You Read If You Like Christina Lauren?

Christina Lauren’s books are filled with romance, sultry scenes, and often hilarious situations.

Their novels play with many common romance tropes, so if you’re a fan of their work, check out some of our favorite friends-to-lovers and enemies-to-lovers books.

Do you have a favorite Christina Lauren book? Tell us about it in the comments below!

 

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