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Finished Long Shot? Meet your next match.

You're not looking for just any book. You want that exact emotional feeling again. We compatibility-checked 12 books and found your matches.

by Kennedy Ryan

Sports Romance 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ 4/5 EmotionalSteamyDevastating

You just finished Long Shot and now everything else on your Kindle feels... flat. That emotional energy? The way Kennedy Ryan made you feel things you didn't sign up for? Yeah, we get it. That's a book hangover, and the only cure is another book that hits the same way. We didn't just search "books like Long Shot" and call it a day. We broke down exactly what made this book land — the mood, the tropes, the pacing, the heat — and found books that match on the elements that actually matter.

YOUR MATCHES

12 Books Matched to Long Shot

Grouped by the elements that made Long Shot unforgettable.

More spicy energy

97%
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Twisted Games
by Ana Huang
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ 4/5 · 357p · Dark Romance, New Adult
Your BookTok FYP is about to thank you for this one.
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94%
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King of Pride
by Ana Huang
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ 4/5 · 432p · Contemporary Romance, Billionaire
Same basketball energy as Long Shot, but Ana Huang cranks the emotional to eleven.
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91%
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The Idea of You
by Robinne Lee
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ 4/5 · 400p · Contemporary Romance, Celebrity
Same emotional energy. Same can't-put-it-down pacing. Different heartbreak. Perfect match.
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Compatible reads for emotional lovers

89%
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Sooley
by John Grisham
❄️ 0/5 · 366p · Contemporary Fiction, Sports
If Long Shot was your type, Sooley is its hot friend.
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Your #1 Match — We'd swipe right for you

Based on mood alignment, spice compatibility, and trope DNA.

Twisted Games by Ana Huang — 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ 4/5 spice, 357 pages

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BEFORE YOU COMMIT

Quick answers before your next match

Based on mood, trope, and pacing analysis, the most similar books to Long Shot include Twisted Games, King of Pride, The Idea of You. Each matches on specific elements like emotional and steamy that made Long Shot resonate with readers.

We recommend starting with Twisted Games by Ana Huang — it shares Long Shot's core Emotional energy while bringing something fresh to the table.

Long Shot is a standalone novel. You can jump right in without reading anything else first.

Long Shot has a spice level of 4/5. The recommendations on this page range across spice levels — each one is labeled so you can find your comfort zone.

Yes — several recommendations on this page have lower spice levels while keeping the same Emotional energy. Look for the ❄️ or 🌶️ (1/5) tags.

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