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11 New Reader-Approved Romances for June
Good news, romance readers: We’ve gathered below June’s hottest and most popular new love stories.
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. It’s easy, really. Some people love books. Some people fall in love. And some people love books about falling in love.
New in June: Helena Hunting returns with a feline-themed rom-com in A Love Catastrophe. Uzma Jalaluddin updates Jane Austen in Much Ado About Nada. And author Cat Sebastian unearths a 1950s queer romance with We Could Be So Good. Also new this month: shipper drama, time travel, and the latest novel from acclaimed playwright Paul Rudnick.
Add what catches your fancy to your Want to Read shelf, and let us know what you're reading and recommending in the comments.
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. It’s easy, really. Some people love books. Some people fall in love. And some people love books about falling in love.
New in June: Helena Hunting returns with a feline-themed rom-com in A Love Catastrophe. Uzma Jalaluddin updates Jane Austen in Much Ado About Nada. And author Cat Sebastian unearths a 1950s queer romance with We Could Be So Good. Also new this month: shipper drama, time travel, and the latest novel from acclaimed playwright Paul Rudnick.
Add what catches your fancy to your Want to Read shelf, and let us know what you're reading and recommending in the comments.
Author Ali Hazelwood’s hugely popular STEMinist rom-com series features women of science and the challenging calculations of their love lives. Hazelwood’s latest tells the story of two scientists, an MIT hiring committee, and the thermodynamics of mutual attraction. Elsie Hannaway and Jack Smith don’t particularly like each other—except that they do, on that chemical-attraction level that always proves so complicated. Can these two align their approach vectors in the name of love? Or lust, at least?
In the follow-up to Tessa Bailey’s series opener, Secretly Yours, Napa Valley heiress Natalie Vos returns from her wine-fueled time-out with a new plan. Her new business venture needs an initial round of funding, and fast. As it happens, Natalie’s former flame August Cates has similar issues. August is a giant pain, but perhaps a platonic marriage-of-convenience will solve both of their financial problems. It's foolproof! It’s a lock! OMG that man is hot.
Oklahoma City author Ava Wilder (How to Fake It in Hollywood) is back on shelves with another showbiz-adjacent love story. Lilah Hunter and Shane McCarthy, stars of the paranormal drama show Intangible, broke the hearts of shippers everywhere when Lilah left the show in Season 5. Now the co-stars have reunited for the series finale. Can they overcome their mutual distaste to accommodate their mutual horniness? The truth is out there.
Winner of this month’s unofficial Best Author Name award, Cat Sebastian specializes in queer historical romances from various eras in world history. Her new story is set in 1950s New York City, where ace reporter Nick Russo has developed a dangerous crush: Andy Fleming, the dissolute son of the paper’s tycoon owner. Out-and-proud gay relationships being famously hard to pull off in the 1950s, Nick and Andy have some tough decisions ahead. On the plus side: Love is indestructible.
Young love is hard to forget, a sentiment that becomes relevant to Samantha “Sam” Holloway when she runs into her childhood love while on a beach vacation. Wyatt broke Sam’s heart when she was 17. Now she’s 30 and engaged to someone else. Surely there is no peril in reconnecting again, right? Author Annabel Monaghan (Nora Goes Off Script) explores an interesting what-if scenario that, at some time or another, has occurred to approximately everyone on the planet.
Romance author Ashley Poston (The Dead Romantics) returns with the story of Clementine West, a young woman with an exceedingly strange dilemma. She’s fallen hard for Iwan, a great guy with a crooked smile and a Southern accent. Unfortunately, due to a localized pinch in the time-space continuum, Iwan exists seven years in the past. It’s hard to explain, but advance readers report that Poston has a real knack for combining love stories and lightly magical premises.
One of the most prolific writers in the biz, romance author Alexis Hall (Boyfriend Material, A Lady for a Duke) takes a walk on the supernatural side with this Regency romance set in a world teeming with fairies, deities, and nefarious sorcerers. When Miss Maelys Mitchelmore's society debut is nearly cut short by a malevolent curse that causes her dress to unravel over the course of an evening (the scandal!), she must seek out the aid of one Lady Georgianna Landrake. Complication: Rumor has it the lady is a witch.
Inspired by the Jane Austen classic Persuasion, author Uzma Jalaluddin returns to the romance aisle with the story of Nada Syed, successful engineer, proud Canadian, and lonely heart. When Nada’s best friend arranges a blind date with “Baz” at the annual Muslim cultural conference, intentions are good all around. What nobody knows is that Nada already has a past with this guy—and it didn’t end well. Can a random second chance correct a bad first impression?
Quito Cruz is a successful musician, pianist, and composer in Broadway tradition. But all that hasn’t helped him get past a bad college breakup with pretty-boy jock Emmett Aoki. When Quito agrees to a charity performance with a big-time Hollywood celebrity, it seems like the perfect distraction. Until everything goes sideways and—wouldn’t you know it—Emmett shows up. Bonus trivia: Author Dominic Lim is a working musician and alum of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
Professional cat sitter Kitty Hart is very good at what she does. But Kitty’s latest client, Miles Thorn, poses a problem: He doesn’t like cats. More specifically, Miles doesn’t like his mom’s cat, Prince Francis, who has been left in his care. Can these two possibly find a way forward? Bonus trivia: Helena Hunting is the author of the immortal hockey-themed series Pucked, quite possibly the best romance series title ever conceived.
Renowned playwright and screenwriter Paul Rudnick is back in the book business with one of the year’s most anticipated romances. His new novel tracks the 50-year relationship of handsome rich guy Farrell Covington and middle-class writer Nate Reminger, from the excesses of 1970s gay Manhattan to the profound changes of 21st-century LGBTQ+ life. Bonus trivia: Rudnick spent many years writing very funny columns for Premiere magazine under the pseudonym Libby Gelman-Waxner.
Which new releases are you looking forward to reading? Let's talk books in the comments!
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a june romance list and there's only four queer ones...🤨
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there’s literally only nine recommendations, they never said it was a pride list 😭
no wrote: "a june romance list and there's only four queer ones...🤨""only half the books represent a small subset of the population"
how about you count how many books are not American before you complain about representation.
list looks good will have to check some of these out
Amanda wrote: "no wrote: "a june romance list and there's only four queer ones...🤨""only half the books represent a small subset of the population"
how about you count how many books are not American before you..."
They're likely only commenting on it due to the fact that June is pride month.
no wrote: "a june romance list and there's only four queer ones...🤨"Hi! These are new books publishing in June that are popular with early readers, but we also have an article of tons of LGBTQ+ romances for Pride, which you can see here: https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/2591
Imagine complaining because a group isn’t represented when the group not repped AS MUCH here also has their own special lists with nothing but books in that category.
