August is Read a Romance Month! Love stories are celebrated in the middle of the hottest month of the year! If it has been a while since you've read a romance novel, you may be surprised at the changes in the genre. Romance novels now reflect people of different ethnicities, body types, and sexual orientations.
These atmospheric fantasy novels are retellings of traditional tales and have fairy tale conventions turned upside down. Dark and Deepest Red by Anna Marie McLemore Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust Lobizona by Romina Garber Red Hood by Elana K Arnold A Blade So Black by L.L McKinney The Wide Starlight by Nicole Lesperance Once
Check out some of BookTok’s favorite recommendations for adults. If you are a TikTok user and want to find book recommendations, simply search #booktok. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Verity by Colleen Hoover Red,
