The Hating Game
Two executive assistants compete for the same promotion and lose the plot entirely.
Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman share an office, despise each other with elaborate formality, and are competing for the same promotion. Thorne’s first novel took the enemies-to-lovers structure and played it almost entirely through workplace minutiae, and it is credited with the romantic-comedy resurgence that followed. It was adapted for film in 2021.
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Tessa Bailey
This is the book that made me want to write romantic comedy. A story about workplace enemies who are secretly hot for each other, it's plucky and clever, but it punches you in the chest at all the right moments.
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