{"id":51439,"date":"2025-04-26T06:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T06:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/51439\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T06:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T06:31:09","slug":"the-five-best-romcom-novels-of-all-time-according-to-emily-henry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/51439\/","title":{"rendered":"The five best romcom novels of all time, according to Emily Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\tLooking for a swoony, loveable read? Allow the queen of romantic comedies to recommend her favourites\t\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n

Emily Henry has become the undisputed queen of the modern romcom<\/a>. With bestselling novels like Beach Read, People We Meet on Vacation, and Book Lovers, she has won over millions of readers with her whip-smart characters and emotionally rich love stories.<\/p>\n

Her books consistently top charts and dominate BookTok<\/a>, cementing her place as one of the most beloved voices in contemporary romance.<\/p>\n

But which romantic comedies does the romcom queen herself turn to for inspiration, comfort, and joy? Here, Henry shares her five favourites.<\/p>\n

The Hating Game by Sally Thorne\"\" <\/p>\n

\u201cI love that so many new romance readers discover their obsession for the genre via this brilliant book. It\u2019s about Josh and Lucy, two coworkers who hate each other, competing for the same promotion (and sharing an office in the meantime). I found it so playful, bright, and clever.<\/p>\n

\u201cReading Thorne\u2019s books always gives me the feeling of walking into a nicely air-conditioned sweet shop on a sweltering summer<\/a> day. There are borderline slapstick paragraphs right alongside heart-swelling, tears-in-your-eyes sentences, and I\u2019m honestly not sure which she does better. This feels like one of the classic romantic comedies and it\u2019s one to read and re-read.\u201d<\/p>\n

Piatkus, \u00a39.99<\/p>\n

Thank You For Listening by Julia Whelan\"\" <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a delightfully meta, heart-squeezing, face-heating love story about two audiobook<\/a> narrators paired together to record a famous romance novelist\u2019s final book. It\u2019s ridiculously romantic, with fully drawn characters and charming shades of You\u2019ve Got Mail and The Shop Around the Corner, while also feeling like something that\u2019s never been done before.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s sexy, funny, and moving all at once. I read it three or four years ago and still think about it all the time. The best part is that Whelan herself narrates the audiobook version, which is a total treat. It was definitely one of my favourite books of that year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Avon, \u00a39.99<\/p>\n

A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams\"\" <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a book that is funny, sexy and breathtakingly romantic, all while being a magical ode to New York. It is centred on Ricki Wilde, an artist in a family of businesspeople, none of whom understand her desire to succeed on her own terms or her passion for crafting bespoke floral arrangements.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen an opportunity to open a flower shop in Harlem arises, Ricki pounces on the chance. As she falls in love with her new life and home, she keeps crossing paths with a mysterious man: a musician she feels an inexplicable pull to, despite all of his secrets and idiosyncrasies. I adored this sensual, passionate genre-bender of a love story and know it\u2019ll stay with me forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quercus, \u00a39.99<\/p>\n

Last Night by Mhairi McFarlane\"\" <\/p>\n

\u201cMhairi McFarlane\u2019s ability to encapsulate complicated friendships and relationships is incredible. She\u2019s an astute of observer of human nature who has a distinct and singular viewpoint that makes every book she writes unputdownable for me. In Last Night, we follow Eve, who has always been in love with her friend Ed, another member of an inseparable foursome of friends. She thinks, wonders and hopes that maybe he\u2019s in love with her too.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore she has a chance to find out, though, tragedy<\/a> strikes and everything she thought she knew\u2014about Ed, about her friends, about herself\u2014is thrown into question. As she\u2019s dealing with the fallout, someone surprising from her past reenters the picture, and her initial impressions of him might\u2019ve been just as far off as impressions of her friend group. McFarlane\u2019s writing is at turns poignantly heartbreaking and, at others, genuinely hilarious.\u201d<\/p>\n

HarperFiction, \u00a37.99<\/p>\n

Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan\"\" <\/p>\n

\u201cTruly, one of the most poignant love stories I\u2019ve read over the past few years, and a book full of healing as well as delightfully swoony, steamy moments. It\u2019s a second-chance romance between recently divorced (and co-parenting<\/a>) Yasmen and Josiah.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe writing itself is evocative and lyrical, and the characters of Yas and Si are so fully realized, their hurts and their joys palpable. Ryan\u2019s books always feel like a dose of real life on the page: the most painful parts pressed up next to the wonderful times that make everything worth it. If you\u2019re looking for stories full of yearning, start here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Piatkus, \u00a39.99<\/p>\n

Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry is published by Viking, <\/strong>\u00a320<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Looking for a swoony, loveable read? Allow the queen of romantic comedies to recommend her favourites Emily Henry…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,17977,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-51439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-books-feature","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114402865299341154","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}