I really like Jenny Han’s Burn for Burn series! Nobody seems to know about it for some reason.

Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen fits the bill for this. Jaw dropping drama and honestly one of the best love triangles I’ve read (like I honestly didn’t mind who’d she end up with bc they both weren’t bad).

Also, the movie adaptation “Love in Taipei” is coming this month 👀

Abbi Glines (The Vincent Boys)

Lauren Barnholdt (Sometimes It Happens)

Stephanie Perkins (Lola and the Boy Next Door)

Susane Colasanti (Something Like Fate)

Jennifer Echols (The One that I Want)

Elizabeth Scott (The Unwritten Rule)

…All are veterans in the HS contemporary romance genre. The books I mentioned in parenthesis have love triangles.

The OG Gossip Girl series by Cecily Ziegesar

Katie Cotugno’s books; 99 days series

I was a teen librarian, when these books were first popular. I feel like Meg Cabot, Sarah Desen, and Morgan Matson wrote novels that were very similar in tone. For adult authors Tessa Bailey and Emily Henry are reminiscent too.

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Maurene Goo's writing style has a similar vibe to Jenny Han. I've only read I Believe in a Thing Called Love and The Way You Make Me Feel but they were solid YA books.

The Summer I Turned Pretty is a trilogy, if you haven't read them all.

Somewhere Only We Know by Maurene Goo

I’ll Be the One by Lyla Lee

Made in Korea by Sarah Suk

I Love You So Mochi by Sarah Kuhn

Loved Jenny Han! What aspect are you looking for: the love triangles, or just summer romance?

Liu Yao (Coins of Destiny) - it's Xianxia, plot focused, full of truly lovable side characters for which you will feel, with a spark of tragedy which you will probably enjoy if you liked Nan Chan. It's a journey about a found family trying to find their place in the world.

Copper Coins - Xuanhuan (very Feng Shui focused), also plot focused and also with characters going to journey to solve mystery about the past like in Nan Chan, and there's also a dragon main character.

I’m not really sure why, but The Sword Named No Way Out feels really similar to Nan Chan in my head. Maybe it’s because both stories feature characters who were once powerful mythical beings before the current events. Maybe it’s that one steamy sex scene (TSNNWO only has one, but it’s a good one). Or maybe it’s just the overall vibe - where the MC is incredibly powerful but also absolutely clueless and adorably naive.

The Kung Fu Princess series (starting with Daughter of Light) by Pamela Walker?

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I finished it last week and I really loved it as well! In some parts, it almost reminded me of Bunny by Mona Awad, although I really enjoyed reading this more.

I finished it at about 4am last night! I couldn’t put it down. I loved how it balanced serious, funny, and suspenseful. The author wrote so descriptively. I wasn’t expecting too much but really enjoyed it too.

I’ve had an arc of this, but just didn’t catch my interest. Will definitely have to bump it up on my tbr list!

Thanks for the recco! Adding it to my list.

Omg this book took quite a weird turn that I didn’t expect 🤣if you like the whole influencer vibe you should check out You Will Never Be Me by Jesse Q Sutanto. I really enjoyed this one

I hope she does get a bit more involved in XO Kitty and that that runs for a few more seasons with her full focus. It has the potential for a Netflix film as well. I feel like that show has a lot of potential. And could be even better with more time and investment. I prefer it to TATBILB by quite a stretch even though it has no book source material but exists in the same universe.

It’s tricky for Jenny and what she does next as two huge franchises with beloved characters are ending for her and it’s likely XO Kitty has one or two more seasons maximum. I expect she might need to go in a new direction. So as you suggest maybe she’ll leave YA behind and try something darker/more complex. It’s hard though as she has nailed that demographic and audience and will have people eagerly awaiting her next, which is almost guaranteed success or at least interest and a ready-made audience.

That comes with drawbacks too though as she gets held to her books a lot and because the relationship/character ‘wars’ in her fandoms can get quite intense, I feel it sort of limits her creative freedoms as people can have specific and high expectations. So I think she should try something different.

I wonder if she sticks with TV and film and doesn’t return to writing novels for a while. I’m similar to you in that I have browsed the books and don’t connect with them but love the shows and the characters she creates.

I may have imagined this but I thought I read that Jenny Han was writing a new book that wasn’t YA.

I’d love a Laurel / Susannah prequel

I'm sure I'm not the only one who watched "We were liars" while waiting for TSITP. Since that's going to get a prequel about the moms, they could do another parallel with TSITP. Though I'm not sure if a TSITP prequel would be set at the summer house or rather at college.

I just want my kitty and Minho endgame. Bonrad is confirmed. 😭

lynn painters ya books, liana cincotti, k l walther (specifically the summer of broken rules) and ann liangs romances all give me a similar feel to jenny han!

Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter

A charming and heartfelt rom-com about a girl obsessed with romantic movies who finds herself in a love story she never expected. It’s filled with witty banter, slow-burn romance, and emotional depth that makes you root for the characters.

Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon

This rivals-to-lovers romance takes place over a single day, following two academic rivals who have spent years competing—only to realize they might have feelings for each other. It’s fun, emotional, and packed with slow-burn tension.

I attached the links in the titles above to their Amazon pages for you to check them out. Enjoy!

My Life With the Walter Boys by Ali Novak has the main girl being sent to live with her mom’s best friend and a love triangle with two brothers, similar to The Summer I Turned Pretty.