36 Books like Boulevard

Friends to Lovers Series Volume 1 and 2 If He Had Been with Me + If Only I had Told Her

by Laura Nowlin

Neighbors since birth, they've shared everything but the one truth that could change it all.

3.86

74k+

👫 Friends To Lovers 💔 Tragic Romance ⏰ Right Person Wrong Time

Friends to Lovers Series Volume 1 and 2 If He Had Been with Me + If Only I had Told Her Summary

Friends to Lovers Series Volume 1 and 2 If He Had Been with Me + If Only I had Told Her 94%

Neighbors since birth, they've shared everything but the one truth that could change it all.

by Laura Nowlin

3.86

74k+ ratings

👫 Friends To Lovers 💔 Tragic Romance ⏰ Right Person Wrong Time

Sad Girls

by Lang Leav • 2017

Audrey told a lie. A girl died. Now she's falling for the boy who lost everything.

3.33

12k+

🖤 Grief And Guilt 💔 Forbidden Romance 🏘️ Small Town Secrets

Sad Girls 94%

Audrey told a lie. A girl died. Now she's falling for the boy who lost everything.

by Lang Leav 2017

3.33

12k+ ratings

🖤 Grief And Guilt 💔 Forbidden Romance 🏘️ Small Town Secrets

Un amigo gratis

by Inma Rubiales • 2019

A guarded boy falls for the girl whose free-friendship project won't let him stay invisible.

4.16

3k+

🫂 Friends To Lovers 💔 Tragic Romance 🏠 Found Family

Un amigo gratis 94%

A guarded boy falls for the girl whose free-friendship project won't let him stay invisible.

by Inma Rubiales 2019

4.16

3k+ ratings

🫂 Friends To Lovers 💔 Tragic Romance 🏠 Found Family

If He Had Been With Me

by Laura Nowlin • 2013

She always loved the boy next door. She never told him. Now she never will.

3.78

598k+

🖤 Tragic Romance 💕 Friends To Lovers 💔 Unspoken Love

If He Had Been With Me 93%

She always loved the boy next door. She never told him. Now she never will.

by Laura Nowlin 2013

3.78

598k+ ratings

🖤 Tragic Romance 💕 Friends To Lovers 💔 Unspoken Love

One Small Thing

by Erin Watt • 2018

After a reckless night with a stranger, seventeen-year-old Beth discovers he killed her sister.

3.80

11k+

💔 Forbidden Love 🕊️ Grief And Healing 🏚️ Family Dysfunction

One Small Thing 93%

After a reckless night with a stranger, seventeen-year-old Beth discovers he killed her sister.

by Erin Watt 2018

3.80

11k+ ratings

💔 Forbidden Love 🕊️ Grief And Healing 🏚️ Family Dysfunction

Yo te inventé

by Francesca Zappia • 2015

Her first friend was a hallucination. Now he's her chemistry partner, and she's falling.

4.02

31k+

🧠 Mental Health Ya 💥 Enemies To Lovers 👁️ Unreliable Narrator

Yo te inventé 93%

Her first friend was a hallucination. Now he's her chemistry partner, and she's falling.

by Francesca Zappia 2015

4.02

31k+ ratings

🧠 Mental Health Ya 💥 Enemies To Lovers 👁️ Unreliable Narrator

Darling Venom

by Parker S. Huntington • 2021

Her friend's suicide left a novel to finish and a brother to resist. She's failing at both.

4.25

84k+

🖤 Grief Romance ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 💔 Suicide Grief

Darling Venom 93%

Her friend's suicide left a novel to finish and a brother to resist. She's failing at both.

by Parker S. Huntington 2021

4.25

84k+ ratings

🖤 Grief Romance ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 💔 Suicide Grief

Heartache and Hope

by Jay McLean • 2019

A mother broken by war. A basketball dream. Two teens collide, knowing love cannot save them.

4.07

10k+

🏫 High School Romance ⏰ Right Person Wrong Time 💔 Bittersweet Ending

Heartache and Hope 93%

A mother broken by war. A basketball dream. Two teens collide, knowing love cannot save them.

by Jay McLean 2019

4.07

10k+ ratings

🏫 High School Romance ⏰ Right Person Wrong Time 💔 Bittersweet Ending

All the Bright Places

by Jennifer Niven • 2015

A grieving girl meets a troubled boy on a ledge. Wandering Indiana, they fall in love.

4.11

633k+

🖤 Tragic Teen Love 💔 Mental Health Romance 🧠 Bipolar Representation

All the Bright Places 92%

A grieving girl meets a troubled boy on a ledge. Wandering Indiana, they fall in love.

by Jennifer Niven 2015

4.11

633k+ ratings

🖤 Tragic Teen Love 💔 Mental Health Romance 🧠 Bipolar Representation

The Boy & His Ribbon

by Pepper Winters • 2018

At ten, he fled captivity carrying an infant. At twenty-eight, he can't escape loving her.

4.40

11k+

🖤 Dark Forbidden Romance 🛡️ Guardian Ward Romance 💔 Trauma Bonded

The Boy & His Ribbon 92%

At ten, he fled captivity carrying an infant. At twenty-eight, he can't escape loving her.

by Pepper Winters 2018

4.40

11k+ ratings

🖤 Dark Forbidden Romance 🛡️ Guardian Ward Romance 💔 Trauma Bonded

If There's No Tomorrow

by Jennifer L. Armentrout • 2017

After a party, she got in a car with drunk friends and was the only survivor.

4.02

21k+

🏫 Ya Contemporary Romance 💕 Friends To Lovers 💔 Survivor'S Guilt

If There's No Tomorrow 92%

After a party, she got in a car with drunk friends and was the only survivor.

by Jennifer L. Armentrout 2017

4.02

21k+ ratings

🏫 Ya Contemporary Romance 💕 Friends To Lovers 💔 Survivor'S Guilt

The Sea of Tranquility

by Katja Millay • 2012

A mute girl, a grieving boy, and a garage where silence says everything.

4.28

89k+

🖤 Trauma Romance 💔 Broken Boy Broken Girl 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

The Sea of Tranquility 92%

A mute girl, a grieving boy, and a garage where silence says everything.

by Katja Millay 2012

4.28

89k+ ratings

🖤 Trauma Romance 💔 Broken Boy Broken Girl 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

Talking at Night

by Claire Daverley • 2023

Her twin dies; a guarded boy's vulnerability sparks a connection that haunts them for years.

3.90

75k+

🖤 Twin Grief ⏳ Right Person Wrong Time 🔥 Slow Burn

Talking at Night 92%

Her twin dies; a guarded boy's vulnerability sparks a connection that haunts them for years.

by Claire Daverley 2023

3.90

75k+ ratings

🖤 Twin Grief ⏳ Right Person Wrong Time 🔥 Slow Burn

Letters to the Lost

by Brigid Kemmerer • 2017

Two grieving teens bare their souls in anonymous letters, never realizing they clash in real life.

4.31

52k+

✉️ Anonymous Pen Pals 😈 Good Girl Bad Boy 👥 Dual Pov Romance

Letters to the Lost 92%

Two grieving teens bare their souls in anonymous letters, never realizing they clash in real life.

by Brigid Kemmerer 2017

4.31

52k+ ratings

✉️ Anonymous Pen Pals 😈 Good Girl Bad Boy 👥 Dual Pov Romance

Little Pieces of Light

by Emma Scott • 2025

They reunite at prep school, but lost promises and class divides threaten their second chance.

4.12

2k+

💞 Friends To Lovers 🔄 Second Chance Romance 🧲 Opposites Attract

Little Pieces of Light 92%

They reunite at prep school, but lost promises and class divides threaten their second chance.

by Emma Scott 2025

4.12

2k+ ratings

💞 Friends To Lovers 🔄 Second Chance Romance 🧲 Opposites Attract

A Thousand Boy Kisses

by Tillie Cole • 2016

Childhood soulmates reunite after years apart, only to learn her days are numbered.

4.03

468k+

🍃 Childhood Sweethearts 🕊️ Terminal Illness 💕 Friends To Lovers

A Thousand Boy Kisses 92%

Childhood soulmates reunite after years apart, only to learn her days are numbered.

by Tillie Cole 2016

4.03

468k+ ratings

🍃 Childhood Sweethearts 🕊️ Terminal Illness 💕 Friends To Lovers

Guitar Notes

by Mary Amato • 2012

A cellist and guitarist trade notes in a practice room that become their only honest conversations.

4.04

6k+

🎵 Musical Coming Of Age 🎻 Opposites Attract 📝 Secret Friendship

Guitar Notes 92%

A cellist and guitarist trade notes in a practice room that become their only honest conversations.

by Mary Amato 2012

4.04

6k+ ratings

🎵 Musical Coming Of Age 🎻 Opposites Attract 📝 Secret Friendship

Hopeless

by Colleen Hoover • 2012

Sky Davis meets Dean Holder, and the bracelet on her wrist reopens a past they share.

4.22

690k+

💞 Reunion Romance 🩹 Trauma Healing 🛡️ Protective Hero

Hopeless 92%

Sky Davis meets Dean Holder, and the bracelet on her wrist reopens a past they share.

by Colleen Hoover 2012

4.22

690k+ ratings

💞 Reunion Romance 🩹 Trauma Healing 🛡️ Protective Hero

Catch the Sun

by Jennifer Hartmann • 2024

Her brother the murderer. Her town the jury. And the boy next door, her only shelter.

4.24

39k+

🫂 Friends To Lovers 🏘️ Small Town Romance 🩹 Trauma Healing

Catch the Sun 92%

Her brother the murderer. Her town the jury. And the boy next door, her only shelter.

by Jennifer Hartmann 2024

4.24

39k+ ratings

🫂 Friends To Lovers 🏘️ Small Town Romance 🩹 Trauma Healing

Full Tilt

by Emma Scott • 2016

A glass artist with a borrowed heart gives a blackout-drunk guitarist a ride home.

4.36

40k+

🖤 Terminal Illness Love 🌟 Rock Star Heroine 💔 Addiction Recovery

Full Tilt 92%

A glass artist with a borrowed heart gives a blackout-drunk guitarist a ride home.

by Emma Scott 2016

4.36

40k+ ratings

🖤 Terminal Illness Love 🌟 Rock Star Heroine 💔 Addiction Recovery

So Damn Sketchy

by Bonnie Kent • 2020

A girl loses her parents, then herself, in the arms of her brother's best friend.

3.93

218

🔥 Dark Coming Of Age 💔 Parental Abandonment ⚠️ Blurred Boundaries

So Damn Sketchy 92%

A girl loses her parents, then herself, in the arms of her brother's best friend.

by Bonnie Kent 2020

3.93

218 ratings

🔥 Dark Coming Of Age 💔 Parental Abandonment ⚠️ Blurred Boundaries

The Map That Leads to You

by J.P. Monninger • 2017

On a crowded train, a planner meets a wanderer, and a European summer redraws her map.

3.56

14k+

🥀 Tragic Romance 💔 Terminal Illness ⚡ Opposites Attract

The Map That Leads to You 92%

On a crowded train, a planner meets a wanderer, and a European summer redraws her map.

by J.P. Monninger 2017

3.56

14k+ ratings

🥀 Tragic Romance 💔 Terminal Illness ⚡ Opposites Attract

My Heart and Other Black Holes

by Jasmine Warga • 2015

A suicidal girl and a guilt-ridden boy make a suicide pact and stumble into love instead.

3.95

63k+

🖤 Suicide Pact 🌐 Online Strangers To Lovers 🥀 Guilt And Grief

My Heart and Other Black Holes 92%

A suicidal girl and a guilt-ridden boy make a suicide pact and stumble into love instead.

by Jasmine Warga 2015

3.95

63k+ ratings

🖤 Suicide Pact 🌐 Online Strangers To Lovers 🥀 Guilt And Grief

Slammed

by Colleen Hoover • 2012

Her new neighbor shares her love of poetry and loss. Then she discovers he's her teacher.

4.14

454k+

🍎 Student Teacher Romance 🏠 Boy Next Door 🎤 Poetry Slam

Slammed 92%

Her new neighbor shares her love of poetry and loss. Then she discovers he's her teacher.

by Colleen Hoover 2012

4.14

454k+ ratings

🍎 Student Teacher Romance 🏠 Boy Next Door 🎤 Poetry Slam

A Wish for Us

by Tillie Cole • 2018

She needs his music to live. He needs her to teach him how to feel.

4.32

26k+

🎓 College Romance ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 🎵 Music And Healing

A Wish for Us 92%

She needs his music to live. He needs her to teach him how to feel.

by Tillie Cole 2018

4.32

26k+ ratings

🎓 College Romance ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 🎵 Music And Healing

Write Me for You

by Tillie Cole • 2025

Two dying teens meet at a ranch and fall in love, determined to write their ending.

4.30

9k+

🤒 Sick Lit 🫂 Found Family 📚 Metafiction

Write Me for You 92%

Two dying teens meet at a ranch and fall in love, determined to write their ending.

by Tillie Cole 2025

4.30

9k+ ratings

🤒 Sick Lit 🫂 Found Family 📚 Metafiction

Art & Soul

by Brittainy C. Cherry • 2015

A pregnant artist and a grieving boy, paired for class, find love born of shared wounds.

4.24

9k+

🍼 Teen Pregnancy 💕 Friends To Lovers 🏠 Found Family

Art & Soul 92%

A pregnant artist and a grieving boy, paired for class, find love born of shared wounds.

by Brittainy C. Cherry 2015

4.24

9k+ ratings

🍼 Teen Pregnancy 💕 Friends To Lovers 🏠 Found Family

Eleanor & Park

by Rainbow Rowell • 2012

Two misfits share comics and mixtapes on the school bus, until her home life endangers everything.

3.92

1.3M+

🎵 Mixtape Romance 🚌 Opposites Attract 🏠 Abusive Home

Eleanor & Park 92%

Two misfits share comics and mixtapes on the school bus, until her home life endangers everything.

by Rainbow Rowell 2012

3.92

1.3M+ ratings

🎵 Mixtape Romance 🚌 Opposites Attract 🏠 Abusive Home

Wrecked

by Bree L. Mina • 2025

Stranded after a plane crash with the man who broke her heart: he's marrying her sister.

4.20

13k+

💔 Tragic Romance 🏝️ Survival Romance 🔄 Second Chance Love

Wrecked 92%

Stranded after a plane crash with the man who broke her heart: he's marrying her sister.

by Bree L. Mina 2025

4.20

13k+ ratings

💔 Tragic Romance 🏝️ Survival Romance 🔄 Second Chance Love

August and Everything After

by Jennifer Salvato Doktorski • 2018

Scandal sends Quinn to the shore, where a wounded musician's songs crack open hidden grief.

3.41

5k+

🏖️ Summer Romance 🖤 Wounded Hero 🎵 Music As Therapy

August and Everything After 92%

Scandal sends Quinn to the shore, where a wounded musician's songs crack open hidden grief.

by Jennifer Salvato Doktorski 2018

3.41

5k+ ratings

🏖️ Summer Romance 🖤 Wounded Hero 🎵 Music As Therapy

All Our Broken Pieces

by L.D. Crichton • 2019

Her OCD demands ritual. His scars hide the past. A school project cracks their walls.

4.10

3k+

🎭 Dual Pov Romance 🧠 Mental Health Romance 🏠 Boy Next Door

All Our Broken Pieces 92%

Her OCD demands ritual. His scars hide the past. A school project cracks their walls.

by L.D. Crichton 2019

4.10

3k+ ratings

🎭 Dual Pov Romance 🧠 Mental Health Romance 🏠 Boy Next Door

The Love of My Next Life

by Brit Benson • 2022

Hating her best friend's brother was easy until their parents got engaged.

4.12

20k+

🖤 Enemies To Lovers 🚫 Forbidden Love 🏠 Forced Proximity

The Love of My Next Life 92%

Hating her best friend's brother was easy until their parents got engaged.

by Brit Benson 2022

4.12

20k+ ratings

🖤 Enemies To Lovers 🚫 Forbidden Love 🏠 Forced Proximity

Forbidden

by Tabitha Suzuma • 2010

Raising their siblings alone, a teenage brother and sister cross the line from co-parents to lovers.

3.95

76k+

🚫 Taboo Romance 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Parentified Siblings 😰 Social Anxiety

Forbidden 92%

Raising their siblings alone, a teenage brother and sister cross the line from co-parents to lovers.

by Tabitha Suzuma 2010

3.95

76k+ ratings

🚫 Taboo Romance 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Parentified Siblings 😰 Social Anxiety

The Summer I Turned Pretty

by Jenny Han • 2009

Every summer, one beach house, two brothers. Until the year they both fall for her.

3.74

1.1M+

☀️ Summer Romance 💘 Love Triangle 👧 Childhood Friends To Lovers

The Summer I Turned Pretty 92%

Every summer, one beach house, two brothers. Until the year they both fall for her.

by Jenny Han 2009

3.74

1.1M+ ratings

☀️ Summer Romance 💘 Love Triangle 👧 Childhood Friends To Lovers

My Return to the Walter Boys

by Ali Novak • 2025

Grieving Jackie returns to the Walters and the boy she left behind, craving a second chance.

3.73

23k+

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 💕 Second Chance Romance 🕊️ Grief And Healing

My Return to the Walter Boys 92%

Grieving Jackie returns to the Walters and the boy she left behind, craving a second chance.

by Ali Novak 2025

3.73

23k+ ratings

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 💕 Second Chance Romance 🕊️ Grief And Healing

The Sun Is Also a Star

by Nicola Yoon • 2016

Her immune system keeps her prisoner. The new boy next door makes her want to escape.

3.95

360k+

🏥 Illness Romance 🏠 Neighbors To Lovers 💔 Forbidden Love

The Sun Is Also a Star 92%

Her immune system keeps her prisoner. The new boy next door makes her want to escape.

by Nicola Yoon 2016

3.95

360k+ ratings

🏥 Illness Romance 🏠 Neighbors To Lovers 💔 Forbidden Love

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