7 Books About Modern Dating Apps to Read

Some romances give you candlelit glances across a ballroom. Others give you a badly timed push notification, a dating profile that overshares, and a match who looked much taller in his photos. If you’re searching for books about modern dating apps, chances are you don’t want love stories pretending it’s still 2004. You want fiction that gets the weirdness - the swiping, the ghosting, the overthinking, the accidental emotional attachment after three voice notes and a meme.

And honestly, when a romance novel gets app dating right, it hits differently. The stakes feel both lower and more deranged. Nobody is crossing an ocean for love. They are, however, crossing London for a date they already suspect will be disappointing, while pretending not to mind if they get stood up outside a wine bar in Zone 2. That is modern romance. Slightly humiliating, occasionally hilarious, and weirdly hopeful.