Books like When We Believed in Mermaids

If you liked When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. PS, I Love You

    Cecelia Ahern · 2004

    Because shares tags: romance, grief, contemporary fiction.

    Widowed at thirty, Holly Kennedy follows ten monthly letters left by her late husband Gerry, facing grief, loving family chaos and slow…

  2. Wish You Were Here

    Jodi Picoult · 2021

    Because shares tags: romance, grief.

    Diana goes to the Galapagos alone when Covid keeps her boyfriend in New York, and being stranded there forces her to rethink her job and…

  3. The Summer of Broken Rules

    K.L. Walther · 2021

    Because shares tags: romance, grief.

    Meredith plays Assassin at Vineyard wedding a year after sister Claire died.

  4. One Italian Summer

    Rebecca Serle · 2022

    Because shares tags: romance, grief.

    Grieving Katy meets her mother Carol at 30 in Positano and learns to see her as a young woman with wishes of her own.

  5. Message in a Bottle

    Nicholas Sparks · 1998

    Because shares tags: romance, grief.

    A divorced mother finds a grieving widower's letter and seeks him in North Carolina.

  6. Five Feet Apart

    Rachael Lippincott · 2018

    Because shares tags: romance, grief.

    Two teens with CF fall in love where six feet keeps alive and five tempts.

  7. Under the Whispering Door

    T.J. Klune · 2021

    Because shares tags: romance, grief.

    Workaholic Wallace dies and must learn tea, apology, and love before crossing the upstairs door.

  8. Point of Retreat

    Colleen Hoover · 2012 · Slammed #2

    Because shares tags: romance, grief.

    Will and Layken keep love and two brothers together through bills, jealousy, and a pregnancy scare.

  9. Where She Went

    Gayle Forman · 2011 · If I Stay #2

    Because shares tags: grief, romance.

    Three years after the crash, rock star Adam Wilde spends one night in New York facing Mia and their breakup.

  10. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

    Gabrielle Zevin · 2014

    Because shares tags: grief, romance.

    A widowed bookseller on Alice Island adopts abandoned toddler Maya, rebuilds Island Books, and finds love with sales rep Amelia before…

  11. The Seven Year Slip

    Ashley Poston · 2023

    Because shares tags: romance, grief.

    A grieving publicist inherits a time slipping Manhattan apartment and falls for a chef living seven years in the past.

  12. The Bodyguard

    Katherine Center · 2022

    Because shares tags: romance, grief.

    Hannah Brooks, an executive protection agent grieving her mother, poses as movie star Jack Stapleton's girlfriend on his Texas family ranch.

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