What to Read After Watching To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before

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August 17 2018
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From The Kissing Booth to Set It Up, Netflix has positively dominated the rom-com scene this summer, but the streaming giant’s newest film, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Beforemay just be its best yet. (Not that I’m biased, or anything.)* Based on Jenny Han’s beloved YA novel by the same name, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before follows 16-year-old Lara Jean Song Covey on a year of self-discovery and romance after the secret love letters she’s written to each of her five crushes end up getting mailed to them. (Oops!) The movie has everything I adored in the book: delicious angst, awkward/hilarious misunderstandings, sweet family bonding, and a whole lot of swoon-y moments courtesy of one Mr. Peter Kavinsky, a.k.a. the best fake boyfriend on the planet. In fact, my only complaint about the movie is that it ended, because I just thought: What am I supposed to do now??? 

If you, too, are desperate to recapture the feeling of watching To All the Boys for the first time, here are 5 books I recommend adding to the top of your to-be-read pile.

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The To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before Paperback Collection
by Jenny Han

Did the ending of the movie leave you craving more of Lara Jean, Peter K., and the Song sisters? Don’t worry, the story doesn’t end thereJenny Han wrote two sequels, P.S. I Still Love You and Always and Forever, Lara JeanHere’s hoping we get to see them on the screen one day, too. *I am extremely biased; I love this trilogy to bits.

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The To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before Paperback Collection
Jenny Han

New York Times bestselling author Jenny Han’s beloved novels are now available together in this delightful paperback boxed set!What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them…all at once? Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren’t love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she’s written. One for every boy she’s ever loved—five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day her secret letters are mailed, and suddenly, Lara Jean’s love life goes from imaginary to out of control. This enchanting collection includes paperback editions of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before; P.S. I Still Love You; and Always and Forever, Lara Jean.

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The Complete Summer I Turned Pretty Trilogy
by Jenny Han

Before Lara Jean, there was Belly and her feelings for two brothers, Jeremiah and Conrad. Don’t be surprised if you find yourself rooting for her to date one boy and then the other over the course of the three books (the sequels are It’s Not Summer Without You and We’ll Always Have Summer), because this love triangle is a doozy. Complicated love life aside, Belly is also a daughter and a friend, and you’ll love watching her grow up and mature through bittersweet experiences. 

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The Complete Summer I Turned Pretty Trilogy
Jenny Han

Summer love abounds in the New York Times bestselling The Summer I Turned Pretty series, now available in a paperback boxed set.Belly has always lived for the summertime, because summer means all her favorite things: swimming, the beach, and the Fischer boys, Conrad and Jeremiah. For as long as she can remember, she’s shared her summers with the brothers at Cousins Beach. And for as long as she can remember, she’s been in love with Conrad. Then one summer it seems like he might have feelings for her too—but so does Jeremiah. As the summer seasons pass, Belly has to choose between two brothers who love her…and she’ll have to break one of their hearts. This paperback collection of the complete series includes The Summer I Turned Pretty, It’s Not Summer Without You, and We’ll Always Have Summer.

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Anna and the French Kiss
by Stephanie Perkins

Allow me to introduce you to Étienne St. Clair, who could probably give Peter K. a run for his money. When Anna’s parents send her to boarding school in Paris for her senior year of high school, she struggles to adjust to her new city and school. Though one cute and charming classmate (that would be Étienne!) quickly becomes a good friend, he’s also totally off-limits. But a lot can change in a year…! 

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Anna and the French Kiss
Stephanie Perkins

Allow me to introduce you to Étienne St. Clair, who could probably give Peter K. a run for his money. When Anna’s parents send her to boarding school in Paris for her senior year of high school, she struggles to adjust to her new city and school. Though one cute and charming classmate (that would be Étienne!) quickly becomes a good friend, he’s also totally off-limits. But a lot can change in a year…! 

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Catching Jordan
by Miranda Kenneally

Like Lara Jean, Catching Jordan heroine Jordan feels like she doesn’t quite fit in. As the quarterback and captain of her high school football team, she is completely in control during games and confident she’ll get recruited to play in college too. But being “one of the guys” off the field is suddenly not as comfortable as it used to be, especially when she realizes she’s torn between two members of the team.

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Catching Jordan
Miranda Kenneally

Like Lara Jean, Catching Jordan heroine Jordan feels like she doesn’t quite fit in. As the quarterback and captain of her high school football team, she is completely in control during games and confident she’ll get recruited to play in college too. But being “one of the guys” off the field is suddenly not as comfortable as it used to be, especially when she realizes she’s torn between two members of the team.

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Emergency Contact
by Mary H. K. Choi

While she bares her soul in text messages rather than in love letters, Penny’s anxieties about love and dating will make you just as nostalgic as Lara Jean’s did. A college freshman navigating new friendships in a new town, Penny meets the equally awkward Sam (an aspiring movie director who works and lives at a local café) in less than ideal circumstances. But after agreeing to stay in touch via text, they surprise themselves by opening up more and more to each other about their dreams and fears alike. If only they could figure out how to do that IRL. 

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Emergency Contact
Mary H. K. Choi

“Smart and funny, with characters so real and vulnerable, you want to send them care packages. I loved this book.” —Rainbow Rowell From debut author Mary H.K. Choi comes a compulsively readable novel that shows young love in all its awkward glory—perfect for fans of Eleanor & Park and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before.For Penny Lee high school was a total nonevent. Her friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while she somehow managed to land a boyfriend, he doesn’t actually know anything about her. When Penny heads to college in Austin, Texas, to learn how to become a writer, it’s seventy-nine miles and a zillion light years away from everything she can’t wait to leave behind. Sam’s stuck. Literally, figuratively, emotionally, financially. He works at a café and sleeps there too, on a mattress on the floor of an empty storage room upstairs. He knows that this is the god-awful chapter of his life that will serve as inspiration for when he’s a famous movie director but right this second the seventeen bucks in his checking account and his dying laptop are really testing him. When Sam and Penny cross paths it’s less meet-cute and more a collision of unbearable awkwardness. Still, they swap numbers and stay in touch—via text—and soon become digitally inseparable, sharing their deepest anxieties and secret dreams without the humiliating weirdness of having to see each other.

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