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Sunshine and Spice

You'll enjoy these titles because: Join our Steamy Lit Book Club to discuss "Sunshine and Spice" by Aurora Palit on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, from 6:00 - 7:00 pm at the Ottawa Hills Branch. Looking for more multicultural "grumpy-sunshine" romances, excellent workplace-adjacent fake dating scenarios, or stories that grapple with questions of cultural identity, belonging, and family? Check out these similar reads!

Grand Rapids Public Library

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  • Another debut 'grumpy-sunshine' romance about two East Indians fake dating to dodge their parents' matchmaking schemes, "Say You'll Be Mine" follows Meghna Raman - whose best friend/big crush has just announced his engagement and recruited…
    BookNew York : Dell, [2024] — Romance Kumar
  • What happens when you get fake married for a few years of student housing benefits, then forget to file the divorce papers after you graduate? Anna Green and Liam Weston have been blissfully "estranged" for years... until Liam shows up out…
    Downloadable AudiobookNew York : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2024.
  • A fake dating romance about a woman in over her head, leading a project rooted in a cultural heritage that her upbringing denied her, and a man feeling smothered by his community (and his parents' pressure to marry within it). In this…
    BookNew York : Berkley Romance, 2024. — Romance Elliot
  • An enemies-to-lovers romance about a woman who's barely maintaining the illusion of having her life together, and a "perfect Indian son" with an off-putting personality. In this case, it's Jasmine Randhawa and her childhood acquaintance…
    BookNew York : Berkley Romance, [2023] — Romance Lalli
  • The second book in Jamie Wesley's "Sugar Blitz", this second-chance sports romance is all about combining talents to build a community-oriented business. Everyone is buzzing about August Hodges, not for his football fame or his…
    Downloadable Audiobook[United States] : Spotify Audiobooks, 2024. — eAudiobook hoopla
  • Joy has been carrying a torch for Malcom for years, but he only sees her as a BFF and work-wife. Still, it's a shock when he invites her on a weekend trip to meet a woman he's planning on proposing to... who he's been seeing for months,…
    Downloadable AudiobookNew York : Penguin Audio, 2022.
  • A debut workplace romance that starts with the heroine telling a little white lie about her heritage to get the job, and the ways that one half-truth (effacing the Native American side of her heritage to pass as white), spirals out of…
    Downloadable AudiobookNew York : Books on Tape, 2024.
  • Catalina Martín's ex is getting married, and because of a little white lie, now the whole guest list is expecting to meet her nonexistent American boyfriend. Getting a date who's willing to take a round trip from New York to Spain AND sell…
    BookNew York, NY : Atria Paperback, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2022. — Fiction Armas
  • Pitched as a modern day Muslim retelling of Pride and Prejudice, "Ayesha at Last" is an enemies-to-lovers story that shines in its own right. Intelligent, willful Ayesha is every inch a modern woman. Khalid is handsome but conservative -…
    Downloadable AudiobookNew York : Penguin Audio, 2019.
  • Kamilah Vega is trying to save her family's Puerto Rican restaurant from the creeping pressure of Chicago gentrification. Liam Kane is on the cusp of gaining national recognition for his family's Irish American whiskey distillery. The…
    Downloadable Audiobook
  • Sofia Khan has had one too many terrible matchmaking sessions; she's ready to swear off men for good. That is, until work ropes her into writing about the Muslim dating scene. But will searching for her next big scoop turn up a real shot…
    BookLondon : Twenty7, 2016. — Fiction Malik
  • The first book in Nisha Sharma's "If Shakespeare Was An Auntie" series, "Dating Dr. Dil" is a modern adaptation of "The Taming of the Shrew". Kareena is in love with the idea of love - but not so much the task of going out to find it. That…
    Downloadable AudiobookNew York : HarperAudio, 2022.
  • Haven't had a chance to read "Sunshine and Spice" by Aurora Palit? Click through to check out a copy in your preferred format!
    BookNew York : Berkley Romance, 2024. — Romance Palit