Shannon Carlin

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The Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2024

From Ina Garten's memoir to Sabaa Tahir's new YA fantasy

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Lord of Scoundrels

Since the release of her first book nearly 40 years ago, best-selling author Loretta Chase has earned a reputation for crafting historical romances with feisty heroines that feel ahead of their time. With her 1995...

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If Only It Were True

French novelist Marc Levy’s 1999 debut, If Only It Were True, which was translated into English by Jeremy Leggatt the following year, is a quirky ghost story about love, loss, and fate. Arthur, a recently...

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Devil in Winter

Best-selling author and winner of a Romance Writers of America RITA Award, Lisa Kleypas has been writing romance novels since the 1980s. Her 2006 historical romance, Devil in Winter, the third book in her hit...

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All Through the Night

With Suzanne Brockmann’s 2007 high-octane queer romance, All Through the Night, she crucially helped expand the genre by publishing a mainstream romance novel with a main character who is gay. The 12th book in her...

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Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake

Lady Calpurnia Hartwell, the unmarried protagonist of best-selling author and Fated Mates podcast host Sarah MacLean’s 2010 novel, Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake, is a stickler for rules. To stay in society’s...

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The Lotus Palace

The title of high-school teacher turned award-winning author Jeannie Lin’s 2013 historical romance, The Lotus Palace, refers to the home of the courtesans in Tang Dynasty China. Due to a red birthmark that covers most...

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The Flatshare

In Beth O’Leary’s popular 2019 debut, The Flatshare, assistant book editor Tiffy Moore needs an apartment in London, and fast. So when Leon Twomey, a night hospice nurse in desperate need of extra cash, agrees...

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To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before

A pioneering voice in the YA romance landscape, Jenny Han’s books have expanded the genre by celebrating inclusivity and the very real emotions that come with adolescence. Her most swoon-worthy novel, To All the Boys...

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Chef’s Choice

In their charming 2023 rom-com Chef’s Choice, author TJ Alexander pushes queer representation in the genre forward by placing a transgender couple at the center of the story. After being unceremoniously fired from her job...

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All In

Simona Ahrnstedt’s international best seller All In is a riveting, high-stakes love story that helped popularize the romance genre in her home country of Sweden. When the novel was first published in Swedish in 2014,...

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An Extraordinary Union

Best-selling author Alyssa Cole's 2017 novel, An Extraordinary Union, is a tender espionage romance that is unsparing in its portrayal of the racism of the 19th century. Set during the U.S. Civil War, freedwoman Ellen...

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Get a Life, Chloe Brown

In best-selling British romance writer Talia Hibbert’s delightful 2019 novel, Get a Life, Chloe Brown, a near-death experience encourages the titular character, a chronically ill, prickly computer nerd, to live her life to the fullest....

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Before I Let Go

Best-selling author Kennedy Ryan’s 2022 novel, Before I Let Go, marked her return to traditional publishing after years of self-publishing success. The book begins after her protagonists, Yasmen and Josiah Wade, have finalized their divorce...

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Intercepted

In Alexa Martin’s sultry 2018 sports romance, Intercepted, it’s not easy being the longtime girlfriend of a football star whose love life is constant fodder for the tabloids, not to mention gossip among his teammates’...

By Shannon Carlin

The Wedding Date

A stalled hotel elevator is the setting for the unforgettable meet-cute in Jasmine Guillory’s charming and seductive 2018 debut, The Wedding Date, which offers a progressive depiction of modern sexual and racial politics in a...

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The Bride Test

Khai Diep, a wealthy Vietnamese American accountant, worries that being on the autism spectrum makes him incapable of feeling true affection. To help dissuade him of this notion, his matchmaker mom recruits Esme Tran, a...

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Icebreaker

College figure skater Anastasia Allen has her sights set on Olympic glory in Hannah Grace’s 2022 best-selling debut Icebreaker. That is, until she finds herself battling the school’s cocky hockey team captain Nate Hawkins for...

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Love, Theoretically

Since publishing her debut novel, The Love Hypothesis, in 2021, the semi-anonymous best-selling author Ali Hazelwood has become known for her immensely popular STEM romances. (Hazelwood is a pseudonym for an Italian-born, U.S.-based former neuroscience...

By Shannon Carlin

It Happened One Summer

For fans of Legally Blonde and The Simple Life: best-selling author Tessa Bailey’s 2021 rom-com, It Happened One Summer, looks at a spoiled Hollywood party girl’s journey toward self-discovery. After another unflattering story in the...

By Shannon Carlin
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