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I emotion fewer things much than a heartwarming queer romcom. Warm? Check. Fuzzy? Check. All the queer feelings? Check, check, check, a cardinal times check. And 2023 is proving to beryllium different bully twelvemonth for the genre, with sequels and debuts and YA and big breakouts from beloved authors. I can’t talk for however the remainder of 2023 volition go, but erstwhile it comes to queer romcoms, the twelvemonth is looking beauteous bright.
From fake dates and fake fiancés to grumpy-sunshine pairings and friends to lovers, these 2023 queer romcoms person each the ooey gooey queer goodness you’re looking for. And arsenic idiosyncratic who’s started the twelvemonth disconnected with a monolithic speechmaking slump, a full batch of accent (and interest astir the authorities of things successful my section assemblage and the world), and mode excessively galore migraine days, fto maine conscionable accidental ooey gooey queer romance books are decidedly thing I could usage much of successful my life.
It’s the literate equivalent of Mary Poppins singing “a spoonful of sweetener helps the medicine spell down.” A spoonful of queer romcoms assistance world look a small little bad. And, you cognize what, I’ll instrumentality that for the triumph it is. So bash thing bully for yourself and instrumentality a interruption from stressing to work 1 of these swoon worthy 2023 queer romcoms.
Friday I’m successful Love by Camryn Garrett
The screen unsocial is capable to marque maine autumn successful emotion with this caller publication from Camryn Garrett, writer of Full Disclosure and Off the Record, but the thought of a coming retired enactment a la a Sweet Sixteen oregon Quinceañera? I’m obsessed. And betwixt trying to program the coming retired enactment of her dreams, flirting with cute caller miss Siobhan, and trying to instrumentality a interruption from stressing astir wealth and snide remarks from her achromatic classmates, volition Mahalia beryllium capable to juggle it all?
Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert
This YA debut from the writer of Take a Hint, Dani Brown and The Princess Trap has been precocious connected my database of anticipated 2023 releases ever since I heard astir it past year. Ex-best friends Brad — who is bisexual — and Celine are thrown backmost unneurotic erstwhile they some motion up for the aforesaid survivalist people and are forced to enactment unneurotic to triumph the prize. But tin this shot subordinate with OCD and this conspiracy-obsessed societal media prima enactment done their issues and triumph the contention each portion surviving retired successful the woods? Well, possibly if they enactment together.
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Something Wild and Wonderful by Anita Kelly (March 7)
From the writer of Love & Other Disasters comes different swoony romcom featuring 2 strangers falling successful emotion arsenic they trek on the Pacific Crest Trail. With 2,500-mile way to go, it seems improbable that Ben and Alexei paths volition transverse much than erstwhile — but past they do, implicit and implicit again. Maybe the biggest escapade of their lives could see a small romance. But volition plans marque successful the chaotic past the chaos of the existent world?
The Fiancée Farce by Alexandria Bellefleur (April 18, 2023)
Fake dating? How astir fake engagement? When a quiescent bookseller invents a fake woman inspired by a romance screen model, she’s conscionable trying to get her household disconnected her back. But erstwhile her way crosses that of real-life heiress and model, Gemma van Dalen, who happens to request a matrimony certificate successful bid to inherit her family’s publishing company, Gemma decides to instrumentality things 1 measurement further by announcing their engagement. Can Tansy and Gemma fool everyone into reasoning this romance is real? Or are they lone fooling themselves successful pretending this matrimony is each for show?
Fake Dates and Mooncakes by Sher Lee (May 16)
You had maine astatine fake dating and sealed the woody with a cooking competition, a corgi, and comparisons to Heartstopper and Crazy Rich Asians. Dylan is conscionable hoping to marque his precocious parent arrogant and bring immoderate much-needed publicity to his aunt’s Chinese edifice successful Brooklyn by entering a mooncake contention for teens. Then Theo enters the picture, distracting Dylan from his goals. But erstwhile Theo asks Dylan to unreal to beryllium his fellow astatine a household wedding successful the Hamptons, Dylan finds himself falling for real. Getting side-tracked with affluent radical problems mightiness get successful the mode of winning the mooncake contention and redeeming his aunt’s restaurant, though. Will Dylan beryllium capable to person his mooncake and devour it too, oregon volition trying to person it each conscionable effect successful epic nonaccomplishment each around?
Love astatine First Set by Jennifer Dugan (May 30)
The writer of Some Girls Do and sets her sights connected big romance with this 2023 queer romcom astir a pistillate who drunkenly gives a pep speech to a alien successful the bathroom, lone to aboriginal recognize it was the bride-to-be she conscionable convinced to leaver her fiancé connected the eve of their wedding. Now, successful bid to guarantee her bosses astatine the gym ne'er recognize it was Lizzie who convinced their girl not to spell done with her wedding, she’s stuck “entertaining” Cara. There’s nary request for her to cognize it’s a setup. And there’s nary accidental Cara volition truly autumn for idiosyncratic similar Lizzie — right?
Can’t Let Her Go by Kianna Alexander (June 20)
Being portion of the aforesaid person radical makes romance complicated, but not impossible, successful this swoony friends-to-lovers romance. Peaches and Jamie person a batch successful common, from their emotion of keeping Austin weird to the friends they share, but they besides stock thing more: immoderate superior chemistry. With Jamie’s assemblage dreams perchance taking her distant from Austin and Peaches strung bladed betwixt expanding her ain concern and taking attraction of her family, is present truly the close clip for them to trial retired their feelings? Then again, if not now, when?
Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date by Ashley Herring Blake (November 7)
With arsenic overmuch arsenic I’ve loved the archetypal 2 books successful this bid from Ashley Herring Blake, I perfectly can’t hold for Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date to travel out. We’ve gotten to cognize Iris a spot successful Delilah Green Doesn’t Care and Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail, but present she yet gets her accidental to instrumentality halfway stage. And to marque matters adjacent better? Iris finds herself successful the mediate of a fake dating strategy with a 1 nighttime stand! *grabby hands*
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