Best Fake Dating / Fake Relationship Books

The highest-rated books featuring the Fake Dating / Fake Relationship trope, ranked by readers and listeners. Browse 37 titles across Romance, Thriller, Sci-Fi.

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Fake dating works because it creates the perfect pressure cooker: two people forced into constant proximity, performing intimacy they're supposed to not feel, while actual feelings develop in the cracks between the act. The emotional whiplash is exquisite—every touch is loaded, every lie gets harder to maintain, and the moment real feelings surface, everything becomes terrifyingly genuine. You're watching people fall in love while pretending they already have.

You'll find this trope everywhere romance lives: contemporary settings where characters need a plus-one or want to make someone jealous, workplace dynamics where fake dating becomes unavoidably real, high-stakes scenarios where the lie spirals into something neither person expected. The books on this page deliver the delicious awkwardness of forced proximity, the vulnerability of being seen while you're pretending, and the inevitable reckoning when pretense becomes inconvenient.

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    Just for the Summer cover

    Just for the Summer

    Part of Your World • Book 3

    by Abby Jimenez

    ★ 4.79 BLT Score (1.1M ratings)
    ★ 4.34 Goodreads (1.1M)
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    Twisted Lies

    Twisted • Book 4

    by Ana Huang

    ★ 4.57 BLT Score (707.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.16 Goodreads (707.3K)
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    Red, White & Royal Blue cover

    Red, White & Royal Blue

    by Casey McQuiston

    ★ 4.51 BLT Score (1.2M ratings)
    ★ 4.05 Goodreads (1.2M)
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    A Civil Campaign cover

    A Civil Campaign

    Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order) • Book 12

    by Lois McMaster Bujold

    ★ 4.47 BLT Score (20.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.41 Goodreads (20.4K)
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    The Love Hypothesis

    The Love Hypothesis • Book 1

    by Ali Hazelwood

    ★ 4.45 BLT Score (1.9M ratings)
    ★ 4.09 Goodreads (1.9M)
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    Mother Faker

    The Momcoms • Book 1

    by Brittanee Nicole

    ★ 4.44 BLT Score (24.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.16 Goodreads (24.5K)
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    Hopeless

    Chestnut Springs • Book 5

    by Elsie Silver

    ★ 4.36 BLT Score (368.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.08 Goodreads (368.4K)
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    Dolly All the Time

    by Annabel Monaghan

    ★ 4.33 BLT Score (1.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.54 Goodreads (1.6K)
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    On the Way to the Wedding

    Bridgertons • Book 8

    by Julia Quinn

    ★ 4.32 BLT Score (190.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.82 Goodreads (190.2K)
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    The Great Charade cover

    The Great Charade

    by Gerri Hill

    ★ 4.30 BLT Score (935 ratings)
    ★ 4.25 Goodreads (935)
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    Just for the Cameras

    Bay Area Players • Book 1

    by Meghan Quinn

    ★ 4.26 BLT Score (26.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.07 Goodreads (26.4K)
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    Deserving Maisy

    The Refuge • Book 6

    by Susan Stoker

    ★ 4.26 BLT Score (1.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.5 Goodreads (1.9K)
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    The Miles High Club Series 4 Books Collection Box Set By T L Swan (The Stopover, The Takeover, The Casanova & The Do-Over)

    The Miles High Club • Book 1

    by T.L. Swan

    ★ 4.25 BLT Score (279 ratings)
    ★ 4.57 Goodreads (279)
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    The Unhoneymooners

    Unhoneymooners • Book 1

    by Christina Lauren

    ★ 4.21 BLT Score (1.1M ratings)
    ★ 3.89 Goodreads (1.1M)
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    You're the One

    Very Irresistible Bachelors • Book 1

    by Layla Hagen

    ★ 4.15 BLT Score (7.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.13 Goodreads (7.3K)
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    Faking Cinderella cover

    Faking Cinderella

    Small Town Sisterhood • Book 3

    by Pippa Grant

    ★ 4.13 BLT Score (1.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.52 Goodreads (1.5K)
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    The Kiss Quotient cover

    The Kiss Quotient

    The Kiss Quotient • Book 1

    by Helen Hoang

    ★ 4.12 BLT Score (502.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.87 Goodreads (502.5K)
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    Shifting Nature

    Shape-Shifter • Book 4

    by Jae

    ★ 4.04 BLT Score (334 ratings)
    ★ 4.6 Goodreads (334)
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    The Floral Arrangement cover

    The Floral Arrangement

    Sapphire Springs • Book 3

    by Elizabeth Luly

    ★ 4.04 BLT Score (792 ratings)
    ★ 4.16 Goodreads (792)
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    Terms and Conditions

    Dreamland Billionaires • Book 2

    by Lauren Asher

    ★ 4.04 BLT Score (472.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.08 Goodreads (472.7K)
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    Enemies by Nature

    Shape-Shifter • Book 3

    by Jae

    ★ 4.01 BLT Score (385 ratings)
    ★ 4.55 Goodreads (385)
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    Radiant Sin

    Dark Olympus • Book 4

    by Katee Robert

    ★ 3.98 BLT Score (55.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.78 Goodreads (55.0K)
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    The Fine Print

    Dreamland Billionaires • Book 1

    by Lauren Asher

    ★ 3.98 BLT Score (671.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.8 Goodreads (671.5K)
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    A Lady by Midnight

    Spindle Cove • Book 3

    by Tessa Dare

    ★ 3.97 BLT Score (23.4K ratings)
    ★ 3.84 Goodreads (23.4K)
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    Undercover Operation: A K-9 Fake Marriage Inspirational Suspense Romance (Pacific Northwest K-9 Unit Book 7) cover

    Undercover Operation: A K-9 Fake Marriage Inspirational Suspense Romance (Pacific Northwest K-9 Unit Book 7)

    Pacific Northwest K-9 Unit • Book 7

    by Maggie K. Black

    ★ 3.96 BLT Score (517 ratings)
    ★ 4.5 Goodreads (517)
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    Bride Of The Alpha cover

    Bride Of The Alpha

    Timber Valley Pack • Book 1

    by Georgette St. Clair

    ★ 3.93 BLT Score (3.4K ratings)
    ★ 3.65 Goodreads (3.4K)
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    Dating Dr. Dil cover

    Dating Dr. Dil

    If Shakespeare Was an Auntie • Book 1

    by Nisha Sharma

    ★ 3.90 BLT Score (66.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.58 Goodreads (66.6K)
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    Undercover Connection

    The Finnegan Connection • Book 4

    by Heather Graham, B.J. Daniels, Adam Gold, Abby Craden

    ★ 3.89 BLT Score (525 ratings)
    ★ 4 Goodreads (525)
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    One Week Girlfriend

    One Week Girlfriend • Book 1

    by Monica Murphy

    ★ 3.87 BLT Score (54.7K ratings)
    ★ 3.9 Goodreads (54.7K)
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    St. Raven cover

    St. Raven

    Company of Rogues • Book 9

    by Jo Beverley

    ★ 3.87 BLT Score (1.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.89 Goodreads (1.5K)
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    Pacific Northwest K-9 Unit Books 7-9: Three Thrilling Suspense Novels – An Action-Packed Christian K-9 Romance cover

    Pacific Northwest K-9 Unit Books 7-9: Three Thrilling Suspense Novels – An Action-Packed Christian K-9 Romance

    Pacific Northwest K-9 Unit • Book 7

    by Maggie K. Black, Dana Mentink, Katy Lee, Sharee Stover

    ★ 3.84 BLT Score (24 ratings)
    ★ 4.33 Goodreads (24)
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    An Inconvenient Letter cover

    An Inconvenient Letter

    The Proper Romance Regency • Book 6

    by Julie Wright

    ★ 3.82 BLT Score (2.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.86 Goodreads (2.0K)
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    Merry and Bright

    Home Sweet Holidays • Book 2

    by Ali Rosen

    ★ 3.82 BLT Score (23.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.78 Goodreads (23.6K)
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    The Penalty Box Affair (That Steamy Hockey Romance Book 3) cover

    The Penalty Box Affair (That Steamy Hockey Romance Book 3)

    That Steamy Hockey Romance • Book 3

    by Lili Valente

    ★ 3.81 BLT Score (270 ratings)
    ★ 4.34 Goodreads (270)
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    The Devil's Heiress cover

    The Devil's Heiress

    Company of Rogues • Book 7

    by Jo Beverley

    ★ 3.75 BLT Score (1.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.9 Goodreads (1.6K)
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    Beauty and the Rake

    The Rookery Rogues • Book 3

    by Erica Monroe

    ★ 3.64 BLT Score (259 ratings)
    ★ 3.52 Goodreads (259)
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    Stone Brothers Box Set

    Stone Brothers • Book 1

    by Tess Oliver, Anna Hart, C.J. Bloom, Mason Lloyd, Maxine Mitchell, Joe Arden, Lucy Rivers, Christian Fox

    ★ 3.61 BLT Score (2 ratings)
    ★ 3.5 Goodreads (2)
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