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Readers' Most Anticipated September Romances
Some people love books. Some people fall in love. And some people love books about falling in love. Every month our team sorts through the new romance books and sees how early readers are responding. We use this information to curate a list of soon-to-be-beloved favorites.
New in September: Medieval literature students explore the very roots of romance in The Make-Up Test. A Napa Valley winery boss considers the perils and pleasures of the one-night stand in Drunk on Love. And author Sarah Adams reminds us that pop stars need love, too, with When in Rome. Also on tap this month: Tattooed bookstore hotties, handsome Australian blokes, and Victor Frankenstein’s little sister. Oh, and some up-and-comer named Nicholas Sparks.
Add what catches your fancy to your Want to Read shelf and let us know what you're reading and recommending in the comments.
New in September: Medieval literature students explore the very roots of romance in The Make-Up Test. A Napa Valley winery boss considers the perils and pleasures of the one-night stand in Drunk on Love. And author Sarah Adams reminds us that pop stars need love, too, with When in Rome. Also on tap this month: Tattooed bookstore hotties, handsome Australian blokes, and Victor Frankenstein’s little sister. Oh, and some up-and-comer named Nicholas Sparks.
Add what catches your fancy to your Want to Read shelf and let us know what you're reading and recommending in the comments.
If you liked The Spanish Love Deception—last year’s Goodreads Choice Award winner for debut romance—then you’ll probably enjoy this direct sequel. BookTok sensation Elena Armas is back with the further adventures of Rosie Graham and Lucas Martín. This time around, aspiring romance writer Rosie agrees to let handsome Lucas serve as her muse with a series of “experimental dates” in New York City.
Where does a global pop star go when it all gets to be too much? The small town of Rome, Kentucky, apparently. Amelia Rose has ditched her world tour to hide out in rural America. When she meets Noah Walker outside his pie shop, her quick vacation threatens to become a permanent break. Author Sarah Adams (The Cheat Sheet) investigates the healing power of pie.
The latest from prolific author Nicholas Sparks is a love story with bonus materials, as the author presents two narrative strands that gradually come together. In coastal Florida, a pair of musicians find each other late in life. Meanwhile, hundreds of miles away, a young single mother tries to protect her boy from an abusive ex-husband. Fate has plans for them all.
Shy and sheltered, Angelika Frankenstein is the younger sister of famed mad scientist Victor. When she catches wind that her sibling is putting together a new man, she thinks—that’s not a bad idea. This historical rom-com from author Sally Thorne (The Hating Game) takes a playful approach to the genre—just in time for Halloween preparations—and promises a story filled with “carriages, candles, and corpses.” How romantic!
Allison Avery has just been accepted into a prestigious Ph.D. program in medieval literature. That’s good! But her fellow graduate student turns out to be her ex-boyfriend from undergrad. That’s bad. Or is it? This academia-themed love story from debut author Jenny L. Howe is recommended for fans of Beach Read and One to Watch. Bonus trivia: The book features at least one “sexy game of Scrabble.” English majors are so weird.
Book number two in the witchy Ex Hex series, The Kiss Curse follows fan favorite Gwyn Jones in her new adventure running the witchcraft shop Something Wicked. When handsome young warlock Llewellyn “Wells” Penhallow opens a competing shop down the street, professional competitiveness turns into something else entirely. Pro tip: If you like Rachel Hawkins books, you’ll like Erin Sterling books, thanks to the arcane magic of pen names.
Winery boss Margot Noble’s recent and delightful one-night stand just got extremely complicated. She’s back at work and everything is fine, except that the handsome new hire at the winery looks very familiar. Set amongst the fertile vineyards of Napa Valley's wine country, Drunk on Love is the latest knotty romance from genre veteran Jasmine Guillory (The Wedding Date series).
It’s like grandma used to say: If there’s one thing better than a good-looking boy, it’s a good-looking boy with a bookstore. This retail romance follows the action when renovations force a sweet bakery owner to share space with a salty bookstore manager. The story also features a hamster called Pumpkin, which is a nice little extra.
Ironies abound in the latest romantic comedy from Iowa author Denise Williams (How to Fail at Flirting). Thanks to a random viral video event, divorce attorney RJ now finds herself as an in-demand officiant for hipster weddings. She’s handling both ends of the market, it seems. Things get even more complicated when her distaste for a good-looking wedding planner is overrun by pure physical lust. That does happen, sometimes.
Following up her popular romance A Brush with Love, author Mazey Eddings shifts the focus to unhappy heroine Lizzy, whose chronic ADHD issues have cost her yet another bakery job. When a one-night stand becomes a two-night stand, Lizzy finds herself in the family way, along with handsome Australian bloke Rake. But sometimes mistakes can have miraculous outcomes. Bonus trivia: The new book features a sequence of events referred to as “an underground erotic baking scheme.” Do we have your attention now?
Which new releases are you looking forward to reading? Let's talk books in the comments!
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Sep 01, 2022 02:26AM
How many bakeries can there be in one genre?
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Briggy wrote: "How many bakeries can there be in one genre?"It seems to be the thing now. These things go in chunks - one gets popular, then you get a lot of ppl trying to glom onto that popularity. Sometimes to even greater success than the first.
Apparently a lot of this comes from the publishers/ editors. Particularly for the "traditionally" published types, and those tend to be the only types that make these kinds of lists due to having the mega marketing budgets behind them.
I still haven't read The spanish love deception so I can't read The American roommate experiment until I've read that lol.
I didn't know that Nicholas Spark's new novel is coming out this month. I'm excited to read that.
Bill wrote: "No queer titles?"Seriously, I hate that queer titles always seem to be in a category of their own - romance is romance, include them with the other romance novels damn it! It just shows the "otherness" still associated with the LGBTQIA+ community which is quite disappointing.
I love romance novels but primarily read f/f with the occasional m/m or even more occasional f/m with a bisexual lead so this list is a disappointment
