If you’re a Team Conrad girly, you know what it’s like to love someone who pushes you away just to pull you back in again. You live for the longing glances, the unresolved tension, and the quiet boys with a thousand emotions behind their eyes. You want pain with your romance. Yearning. Vibes.
These books were made for you.
1. Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
For the girls who fell in love at fifteen and never really fell out.
Second chances, childhood love, and a boy who never stopped loving her—even when it broke him to let her go? Conrad Fisher would cry.
2. Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
It’s giving: lake houses, old love, and bad timing.
If you miss Cousins Beach, this book is your soft, painful, perfect replacement. It’s practically the Canadian version of TSITP.
3. The Cheat Sheet by Sarah Adams
Because sometimes the boy best friend does get the girl.
This one’s for the girlies who always believed Conrad and Belly were endgame. Clean romance with SO much tension.
4. You’d Be Mine by Erin Hahn
Emotionally closed-off musician? Sign. Us. Up.
Think Johnny Cash meets Daisy Jones with a tortured country boy falling for the sunshine girl. Conrad with a guitar.
5. Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter
Enemies-to-lovers, soundtrack-worthy, with a rom-com twist.
Because sometimes the broody boy next door is your leading man. And yes, he’s always been in love with you.
6. The Summer of Broken Rules by K.L. Walther
Weddings, summer games, secret crushes… and major Conrad energy.
This one takes place in Martha’s Vineyard. Need we say more?
7. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
For the darker Conrad girlies who want academia, obsession, and moral decay.
Maybe Conrad went to Brown and started spiraling. Maybe you like your love interests dangerous and damaged. We don’t judge.
8. Beach Read by Emily Henry
Sad boy author + sunshine girl + writer’s block = chef’s kiss.
Gus Everett is Conrad’s older, grumpier, writer cousin. And we love him for it.
9. Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The messy, emotional chaos you crave.
Conrad would 1000% be in The Six. He’d be writing lyrics about Belly and pretending he didn’t care while staring longingly into the Pacific.
10. If He Had Been With Me by Laura Nowlin
Warning: this one will break you.
This book is Conrad in literary form. Quiet love, painful timing, and an ending that will haunt you forever. Read it with tissues.
Bonus: A Playlist, Obviously 🌊
You can’t love Conrad Fisher without having a playlist full of sad, beachy, soul-crushing songs. Here are a few to throw on while reading:
- “The Night We Met” – Lord Huron
- “illicit affairs” – Taylor Swift
- “505” – Arctic Monkeys
- “This Is Me Trying” – Taylor Swift
- “Exile” – Taylor Swift ft. Bon Iver
- “Like Real People Do” – Hozier
- “Daylight”- Taylor Swift
- “Vienna” – Billy Joel (Conrad coded, don’t argue)
- “Red”- Taylor Swift
Are you a true Team Conrad girlie?
And if you need me, I’ll be rewatching The Summer I Turned Pretty for the 17th time and sobbing into my hoodie.
#TeamConradForever
#BroodyBoysOnly
#SadHotLiteraryMen
Happy Reading,
Taylor
