Daphne’s fiancé leaves her for his childhood best friend, so she ends up sharing a house in Waning Bay, Michigan with that friend’s ex, a scruffy, chaotic man named Miles. It is an opposites-attract story with a lot of heart, a New York Times Notable Book of 2024, and the top-rated of her romances: 4.6 from nearly 20,000 listeners on Audible and about 4.2 on Goodreads.

Nora Stephens is a cutthroat literary agent who agrees to a sisters’ month in Sunshine Falls, North Carolina, only to keep bumping into Charlie Lastra, a brooding editor she knows from the city. Her bond with her sister is as important to the story as the romance. It matches Funny Story on Audible with 4.6 from nearly 20,000 ratings.

January Andrews writes bestselling romance and Augustus Everett writes literary fiction, and they are broke, blocked and living in neighboring beach houses. They make a deal to swap genres for the summer. It is the shortest of her six romances, so it makes an easy first listen, and it has a 4.5 on Audible from more than 15,000 ratings.

Two writers, the optimistic Alice Scott and the Pulitzer-winning Hayden Anderson, travel to an island to compete for the right to write the life story of Margaret Ives, a once-famous heiress who has not been seen in years. A Reese’s Book Club pick and the longest of the six, it rates 4.5 on Audible from nearly 16,700 listeners.

Poppy and Alex have taken a week-long trip together every summer for a decade, until a trip two years ago ruined things. She talks him into one more. It is the most-rated of her audiobooks, with more than 25,000 ratings and a 4.4 on Audible, and it has been made into a Netflix film.

Harriet and Wyn broke up five months ago and have not told their friends, so they share a bedroom at the Maine cottage where the group spends a week together every year. It scores a little lower on Audible (4.2) but was a number one New York Times bestseller, and the friend-group setting suits listeners who like ensemble stories.

Before her romcoms, Henry wrote this young adult novel about June O’Donnell and Saul Angert, whose families have feuded for a century over something that began with a cherry tree. Audible describes it as Romeo and Juliet meets One Hundred Years of Solitude. Julia Whelan reads it too, and it holds a 4.3 on Audible.

An ER doctor from a wealthy family of surgeons falls for a younger carpenter in a close-knit small town. It has a 4.8 on Audible from more than 17,000 ratings, and Julia Whelan is one of the two narrators.

A Ph.D. candidate kisses the first man she sees to prove she has a boyfriend, and he turns out to be a hotshot professor with a fearsome reputation, who agrees to play along. It holds a 4.6 on Audible from more than 14,000 ratings.

When a wedding party gets food poisoning, only Olive, the unluckiest twin, and Ethan, the best man she cannot stand, are left to use the free honeymoon in Hawaii. It has a 4.4 on Audible from more than 10,000 ratings.

Tiffy needs a cheap place to live and Leon works nights, so they share a London flat on opposite schedules without ever meeting. The two narrators give the story an extra warmth, and it holds a 4.5 on Audible.