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Funny Story

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ∙ A shimmering, joyful novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024

Named a Must-Read Book of 2024 by TIME ∙ NPR ∙ ELLE ∙ Parade ∙ Woman’s World and more!


Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.

Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak.

Scruffy and chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads—Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?

But it’s all just for show, of course, because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex . . . right?

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Published Apr 23, 2024

416 pages

Average rating: 7.87

2,772 RATINGS

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Community Reviews

Anonymous
May 21, 2025
10/10 stars
I just love everything Emily Henry writes. Definitely my second favorite, next to book lovers, of her books. It was a wonderful read!
Mhoovs21
May 12, 2025
10/10 stars
All the heart eyes.
MWind
May 08, 2025
4/10 stars
Enjoyable. Light. Easy. A quick read.
sweetlemoneade
May 02, 2025
8/10 stars
Good romance, I thought it was sweet and funny. I liked the secondary characters as well. I liked the setting the story took place in.
tayloractuallyreads
May 02, 2025
10/10 stars
I really like Daphne and I love her character development and it made me so happy she got to finally choose her life for herself instead of being a "we girl". Now, Miles. Driving out of town to go scream at the girl-you-love's dad???? Yeahhhhh, anyone that sticks up for someone else to their own family - immediately sat. But I think I wanted a little more character development from him. I wanted him to have a chance to tell his family fck off. Although I love happy place's found family, the one in this one seems more genuine and realistic.

I think I'm going to give this reread 4.75 stars.

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