Romance Booklist

Fall in love with this selection of novels from some of our favorite romance authors!

We’ve featured a mixture of classic romance authors and some more contemporary authors who we hope you’ll enjoy.

We recommend
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

“When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their past buried traumas, but the eyebrows of New York’s Black literati. What no one knows is that twenty years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. Before Shane disappears again, there are a few questions she needs answered. . . With its keen observations of Black life and the condition of modern motherhood, as well as the consequences of motherless-ness, Seven Days in June is by turns humorous, warm and deeply sensual.”–

We recommend
The Friendship List by Susan Mallery

“Best friends Unity and Ellen are in serious ruts. Each woman goads the other to venture out of her restrictive comfort zone, daring the other to take on a list of challenges, ranging from singing karaoke to wearing sexy clothes. Ellen accompanies her son, a dozen other high school athletes, and her good friend Coach Keith on a bus tour of Pacific coast universities. Unity, who works at a senior living community, is speechless when a septuagenarian friend tries to set her up with her great-nephew, but then she thinks about her bet with Ellen.”–

We recommend
The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang

“Anna, a professional musician- struggling with burnout, learns to embrace the unexpected-and her solution is to create a low-stress environment, with no expectations to fulfill, where she can experiment with being herself and going after what she wants. Translation: Anna is going to embark on a string of one-night stands. The more unacceptable the men, the better.”

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The Duke and I by Julia Quinn

“By all accounts, Simon Basset is on the verge of proposing to his best friend’s sister–the lovely and almost-on-the-shelf–Daphne Bridgerton. But the two of the know the truth–it’s all an elaborate ruse to keep Simon free from marriage-minded society mothers. And as for Daphne, surely she will attract some worthy suitors now that it seems a duke has declared her desirable …”

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