15 Bookish Romance Novels Featuring Writers, Editors, Librarians, and More!

The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston

Florence is simply a ghostwriter for 1 of the astir palmy romance novelists. She’s astir to conscionable her caller editor, but there’s a problem. After a horrible interruption up, Florence doesn’t judge successful emotion anymore and can’t find the words to decorativeness the past publication successful her contract. She’s instantly attracted to her caller editor, Ben. But erstwhile she goes location for her father’s ceremonial and sees Ben arsenic a ghost, a unusual romance unfolds betwixt them. Florence has seen ghosts and helped them find bid each her life. She assumes to assistance her exertion determination connected to the adjacent realm, she needs to decorativeness her past owed romance novel. But past she and Ben commencement having feelings for each other. Florence knows falling successful emotion with a shade can’t reconstruct her content successful romance, but she isn’t definite she tin assistance herself.

The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest (February 28)

Lily is an overworked editorial adjunct who wants to edit children’s books, not enactment connected boring nonfiction. In a infinitesimal of desperation, she emails her bosom retired to her favorite, little-known phantasy author. They statesman a correspondence that gets amazingly heavy and, perhaps, adjacent romantic. But past the writer ghosts Lily conscionable erstwhile thing much seems possible. A fewer months later, she’s inactive hurting from the full interaction. But she needs to find a day to her sister’s wedding. She asks her playboy neighbour Nick for assistance snagging a date. When helium agrees, she doesn’t cognize he’s her favourite phantasy writer who utilized a pen name. And Nick doesn’t cognize who Lily is astatine archetypal either. Once they find out, their narration is going to get complicated. You’ll person to hold until the extremity of the period for this bookish romance novel. But judge me, it’s worthy the wait!

Read Between the Lines by Rachel Lacey

Online, Rosie has a flirtatious email romance brewing with her favourite romance novelist, Brie. But in-person, Brie is truly Jane, who spends her days moving for her family’s spot institution and her nights penning romance nether a pen name. Online, Rosie and Brie are falling successful love. In-person, Rosie and Jane are enemies, owed to Jane terminating the lease connected Rosie’s autarkic bookstore. If you are reasoning this sounds similar a sapphic You’ve Got Mail, past you are 1 100 percent correct!

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Book Lovers by Emily Henry

Could I constitute astir bookish romance novels and not see Book Lovers? Obviously, I didn’t deliberation so. This publication takes a meta attack to the tiny municipality romance trope, with literate cause Nora going connected abrogation to the tiny municipality that inspired her apical client’s astir caller hit. There she finds Charlie, the grumpy exertion she knows backmost from New York City. Nora’s sister keeps trying to propulsion her into a romanticist situations with section men, but for immoderate crushed Nora can’t support distant from Charlie, the 1 different New Yorker successful town. This publication is immense for a reason. And, successful my opinion, it lives up to the hype. Another large prime for a literate emotion communicative would beryllium Emily Henry’s earlier caller Beach Read.

A Summer for Scandal by Lydia San Andres

This humanities romance takes readers to the Caribbean successful 1911 for an epic emotion communicative betwixt concealed writer Emilia and snobby publication professional Ruben. When Ruben loudly tears the publication Emilia wrote nether a pen sanction to shreds, lone she and her sister recognize the value of the moment. She has to support her penning a concealed oregon it would make a ungraded she and her household would ne'er retrieve from. But Ruben is determined to find retired the individuality of the romance writer helium loves to hate. As the 2 support bumping into each other, Ruben and Emilia volition observe astonishment aft surprise. This caller is debased angst with beardown banter and a cleanable manifesto lasting up for romance against precocious brow literate haters.

By the Book by Jasmine Guillory

Isabelle is an editorial adjunct who is burned retired astatine enactment and being gaslit by a coworker. In a infinitesimal of desperation to beryllium herself, she agrees to thrust to the location of a personage who is past owed with the tell-all publication helium promised Isabelle’s boss. Beau wants to crook Isabelle distant astatine first. But helium agrees to fto her enactment successful his gorgeous Santa Barbara location to assistance him statesman penning his book. And implicit time, the 2 autumn successful emotion and Isabelle rediscovers her emotion of books and writing. But volition their narration past erstwhile the publication is finished and Isabelle has to instrumentality to the existent world? This bookish “Beauty and the Beast” retelling answers this question of an epic happily ever aft that’s worthy of a fairytale.

The Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka

Katrina and Nathan cowrote a huge, bestselling publication unneurotic and were champion friends. But aft their publication came out, a rift betwixt them occurred that was truthful immense they haven’t spoken since, and Katrina has mislaid her quality to write. But Nathan’s archetypal solo publication is simply a commercialized flop. And Katrina’s fiancé (who is besides her literate agent) gets into fiscal occupation and asks her to assistance bail him out. Which means, Nathan and Katrina are going to constitute different publication together. They spell backmost to the Florida location wherever they wrote their hit. It’s the spot wherever the astir magic and the worst moments of their narration occurred. Told successful dual timelines, Katrina and Nathan’s aboriginal and past unravel leafage by leafage for the reader. There aren’t conscionable large will-they-won’t-they vibes successful this novel, but besides the overarching question of what the heck happened betwixt them?

Love successful the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson

Phoebe is simply a PhD pupil trying to decorativeness her dissertation connected existent transgression and surviving successful her puerility location successful Florida. When she meets her caller neighbour Sam, she isn’t definite if he’s the antheral of her dreams oregon a serial killer. Something earnestly weird is up with him, but each the execution books she’s speechmaking besides could beryllium influencing her judgement. There’s besides a beardown household and grief subplot that makes this publication somewhat straddle the enactment of women’s fabrication and romance. But since I’m including it connected this list, I deliberation you astir apt person bully capable instincts to expect which broadside of the enactment the publication falls connected by the end.

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

Mika is simply a lonely, isolated witch who keeps her magic a concealed astatine each costs. But erstwhile a missive comes asking her to assistance 3 young witches astatine Nowhere House, Mika answers the telephone and travels to the mysterious location to help. Besides her caller pupils, erstwhile she arrives she finds Jamie, the overly-protective librarian of Nowhere House. Mika begins to find a magical household for the archetypal clip since her parents died. And erstwhile a menace jeopardizes her aboriginal with this caller magical community, Mika and Jamie volition some bash thing they tin to support their household and their future.

Seven Days successful June by Tia Williams

Eva writes bestselling vampire erotica but has writer’s artifact trying to conscionable her deadline for her adjacent book. The Black Brooklyn literate country goes bananas erstwhile reclusive, literate darling Shane shows up astatine 1 of Eva’s panels and admits that he’s work (and loved) each of her books. The sparks betwixt them fly. But they don’t travel retired of nowhere. The 2 shared an aggravated 7 time romance arsenic teenagers that influenced the remainder of their lives and literate careers. This publication is emotionally aggravated touching connected issues with chronic pain, kid abuse, aforesaid harm, and addiction. But the emotion communicative and transportation betwixt these 2 characters is some heavy and vivid. And their emotion of penning and lit shines done connected each page.

The Make-Up Test by Jenny L. Howe

Allison has been accepted into her imagination PhD programme to survey Medieval Literature and hopefully go a prof someday. She’s thrilled erstwhile she is assigned to teaching adjunct for her imagination mentor. But past she finds retired Colin, her snobby assemblage ex-boyfriend, is successful her programme arsenic well. And adjacent worse, helium is chosen arsenic the different TA for the aforesaid professor. Let the contention begin! The 2 cognize they are nonstop rivals for recommendations, apical grades, and prestigious probe adjunct position. It doesn’t substance if they some inactive person feelings for each other. Everyone knows all’s just successful love, war, and academia.

The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

In this beauteous humanities romance, Lucy Muchenly and Catherine the Countess of Moth are brought unneurotic done the task of translating a analyzable French astronomy book. Catherine is simply a caller widow who hires Lucy for the job, hoping to implicit the technological enactment of her dormant hubby and solidify his legacy. Lucy is an aspiring astronomer who finds sex favoritism is holding her backmost from achieving her dreams. Both deliberation the publication translation volition beryllium a reasonably casual job, but they make an attraction for each different done the project. And erstwhile that attraction deepens into beardown feelings of love, their narration volition alteration the people of some Lucy and Catherine’s lives.

Any Duchess Will Do by Tessa Dare

Griffin the Duke of Halford is successful a powerfulness conflict with his parent implicit his matrimonial future. His parent insists helium take a bride from the infamous Spindle Cove (nicknamed Spinster Cove) and to thatch her a lesson, Griffin chooses Pauline, the section barmaid. Pauline isn’t peculiarly funny successful Griffin, but she agrees to the fake engagement if helium volition springiness her the wealth to unfastened up her imagination bookstore and lending library. Both are convinced that wrong a week, nine volition state Pauline a nonaccomplishment and his parent volition importune connected them breaking the engagement. The lone occupation is Pauline wins implicit the hearts of the aristocratic town, Griffin’s mother, and Griffin himself. But tin Griffin person Pauline to spell down a dramatically antithetic beingness way than the 1 she planned?

Glitterland by Alexis Hall

Ash was erstwhile considered a promising young literate writer. But now, he’s a pulp transgression writer who deals with objective slump and societal anxiety. Ash has wholly fixed up connected ever falling successful love. But a accidental gathering with Darian, a cheerful exemplary with an astonishing consciousness of humor, challenges Ash’s content successful his ain future. It’s hard for him to judge that anyone could genuinely emotion him. But if anyone tin reconstruct his religion successful emotion and successful himself, it’s going to beryllium Darian.

Her Perfect Affair by Priscilla Oliveras

Rosa is simply a liable schoolhouse librarian who writes romanticist poems successful her spare time. Most of her poems are inspired by her crush connected Jeremy, the lad of a affluent lawyer she danced with erstwhile astatine a wedding. They some aren’t looking for a superior relationship. But Jeremy and Rosa person an undeniable chemistry that makes it intolerable for them to support distant from each other. They aren’t definite if their steamy matter tin crook into a everlastingly romance, particularly erstwhile Rosa’s occupation astatine a blimpish Catholic schoolhouse is threatened by gossip astir her narration with Jeremy.