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Katherine Center

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Romance, Humor and Comedy, Women's Fiction

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BookPage calls Katherine Center “the reigning queen of comfort reads.” She’s the New York Times bestselling author of eleven novels, including The Bodyguard, Hello Stranger, Things You Save in a Fire, and her summer 2024 book, The Rom-Commers. Katherine writes laugh-and-cry books: bittersweet romantic comedies about how life knocks us down—and how we get back up. She’s been compared to both Jane Austen and Nora Ephron, and the Dallas Morning News calls her stories, “satisfying in the most soul-nourishing way.” The Netflix movie adaptation of her novel Happiness for Beginners—starring Ellie Kemper and Luke Grimes—just hit the Global Top Ten in 81 countries, and the mov ...more

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Average rating: 3.97 · 1,102,910 ratings · 156,670 reviews · 31 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Bodyguard 3.95 avg rating — 332,983 ratings — published 2022 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Things You Save in a Fire 4.01 avg rating — 159,642 ratings — published 2019 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rom-Commers 4.08 avg rating — 150,699 ratings — published 2024 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hello Stranger 3.93 avg rating — 141,855 ratings — published 2023 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Walk Away 4.08 avg rating — 111,242 ratings — published 2018 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Happiness for Beginners 4.05 avg rating — 66,464 ratings — published 2015 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What You Wish For 3.77 avg rating — 64,482 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost Husband 3.83 avg rating — 20,726 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bright Side of Disaster 3.66 avg rating — 18,017 ratings — published 2006 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everyone is Beautiful 3.74 avg rating — 17,174 ratings — published 2009 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Love Haters BOOK TOUR!

ALL THE DETAILS about The Love Haters BOOK TOUR !!— May 18 to June 11, 2025 —

KATHERINE CENTER is heading out on a coast-to-coast book tour tour for The Love Haters from mid-May to mid-June! This tour has a little bit of almost everything—with stops on the U.S. east coast, west coast, upper midwest, south, and, of course, as always, a whole lotta Texas!

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Good news, bookworms! Our annual Big Books of Spring collection returns for 2025 with a particularly good lineup of incoming titles....

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Hello Stranger

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Katherine Center said: " It's official, apparently.

I can't *not* review my own books on Goodreads.

I try to resist every time, but here we are again. Ya know? It's like seeing your kid outside on a chilly day in a thin t-shirt and just wanting to run out with a sweater SO B ...more "

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Katherine Center and 1 other person liked Donna's review of The Love Haters: "Thank you to Netgalley and Macmillan Audio for my advance audiobook copy of The Love Haters in exchange for my honest review! This book follows Katie, on a quest to save her job that her coworker Cole says in jeopardy, and travels to Florida where she" Read more of this review »
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Katherine Center liked Jessie May's review of The Love Haters: "Once again, Katherine Center delivers a story full of joy, hope, and LOVE. The Love Haters features a love story with a very good member of the Coast Guard (he rescued Jennifer Aniston’s dog!!) but more importantly, it shows a woman learned to love h" Read more of this review »
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Katherine Center liked Lisa's review of The Love Haters: "Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for allowing me to read an ARC of Katherine Center's The Love Haters in exchange for my honest review. A captivating 5 stars! Katherine Center has a way of grabbing your attention from the start and holding" Read more of this review »
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Katherine Center liked SookandBooks's review of The Love Haters: "The Love Haters is a single POV found family romance. Katie’s career is a sinking ship, and in a last ditch effort to salvage her job she agrees to film a promotional video for the Coast Guard, omitting the tiny fact that she can’t swim! Hutch, the" Read more of this review »
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**[No spoilers, but PLEASE NOTE: I wrote the climactic scene of this book with the very specific help of an actual, active-duty US Coast Guard rescue swimmer. We sat at a table and he walked me, step by step, through exactly* how that moment would ...more
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Katherine Center made a comment on Shannon Marie’s review of The Rom-Commers " HI! There is a bonus scene from Charlie's POV that's a free download on my website! Just go to The Rom-Commers page! :D ...more "
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“When you don't know what to do for yourself, do something for somebody else.”
― Katherine Center, How to Walk Away

tags: inspirational

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“Choosing to love—despite all the ways that people let you down, and disappear, and break your heart. Knowing everything we know about how hard life is and choosing to love, anyway.. That’s not weakness, that’s courage.”
― Katherine Center, Things You Save in a Fire

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“I think just because you can't keep something doesn't mean it wasn't worth it. Nothing lasts forever. What matters is what we take with us.”
― Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

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January Side Read Nominations ~ Final Poll

Things You Save in a Fire

by Katherine Center

15 votes, 41.7%

Nine Perfect Strangers

by Liane Moriarty

6 votes, 16.7%

A Place for Us

by Fatima Farheen Mirza

6 votes, 16.7%

Normal People

by Sally Rooney

5 votes, 13.9%

The End of Your Life Book Club

by Will Schwalbe

4 votes, 11.1%

36 total votes

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Katherine’s Quotes

“Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

tags: accountability, authenticity, belonging, courage, creativity, empathy, joy, love, meaning, purpose, spirituality, vulnerability

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“The things we remember are what we hold on to. And what we hold on to becomes the story of our lives.”
― Katherine Center, Happiness for Beginners

tags: happiness, life-lesson, memory

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“Barni loved talking about the dresses. "Aren't they huge? I've just always been this way," she said, twirling a little. "Just born healthy, I guess."

Oh, God. I hated her so much.”
― Katherine Center, Get Lucky

tags: annoying-people, bitchiness, vain

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“Courage is contagious. My friend Katherine Center says, "You have to be brave with your life so that others can be brave with theirs.”
― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection

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“Nobody was perfect. Not even close. And everybody had wrinkles from smiling and squinting and craining their necks. Everybody has marks on their bodies from years of living- a trail of life left on them. Evidence of all the adventures and sleepless nights and practical jokes and heartbreaks that had made them who they are.”
― Katherine Center, Everyone is Beautiful

tags: life

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