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This is the full banana and it's completely out of print. Track down a used copy. It's worth the trouble!
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These Books Bang!
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Beat-for-beat, one of the best romcoms of all time. Susan Elizabeth Phillips is better at flawed characters than anyone else in the game.
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Romances With Lists
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One of the most beloved texts of the genre. There's a shocking lack of plot in this book, and we don't mind at all.
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A nearly perfect book, even 35 years later.
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O'Keefe wields tension and description and narrative voice and point of view like an absolute master and delivers a series that is not only deeply representative of the contemporary romance of the mid 2010s, but also a near perfect example of how contemporary can fire on all cylinders.
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Scenario 1: Someone who has never read romance before asks where they should start. You must recommend one book from this quest. Which do you choose? Scenario 2: An experienced romance reader is in a slump and desperate to find something to get them back in the game. Again, you must pick one book from this quest. What do you recommend?
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Basically there's a cheat code for a gold medal, and that's having read all of the IAD books the show covered. :P
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Spring 2025 New Romance Releases: Teasing Your TBR
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This one of those books everyone tells you is a must read, and they're right. It's stunning. People we think have read this: Ruby Dixon, Lisa Kleypas, Kresley Cole, Elizabeth Hoyt, Kerrigan Byrne. People we know have read it: Kate Clayborn (this is her favorite book) and Kennedy Ryan (this is one of her favorite books).
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This book does immense work, and talks about something romance usually steers clear of. Money. There's a billionaire here, but it's not like other billionaire books.
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Aside from setting the standard for adventure romance, it’s also a near-perfect road trip romance with one of the hottest slow burns you’ll ever read.
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A near perfect example of paranormal romance and road trip romance. Also, if you are looking for rom com, this is a very funny book.
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I've been meaning to try listening to audiobooks for a while and I'd love to know your best tips! Where do you listen to audiobooks? The only platforms I know that have the most range, at least according to what I usually read, are audible and audiobooks but I also don't love the fact that I'd be paying a membership plus paying for each individual book. How do you listen to audiobooks? Do you listen to them while doing other stuff or while reading the book you're listening to? A big reason why I want to try audiobooks is to do what I've seen people call "immersive reading" aka listening and reading the book at the same time cause it honestly sounds kinda fun! Thank you in advance <3
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These are the romance novels that we never get tired of reading. That we never get tired of reading about. Or talking about. We've been meaning to collect our deep dive episodes in one place for years, and we've finally done it, largely spurred on by Pagebound's existence. We hope you'll find something you love in this collection, and we hope you'll enjoy listening to us, your newfound discoverabilibuddies, talk about it. Go for the gold!
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One of the best romances of 2020. A textbook for human relationships.
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Lisa Valdez shook up the traditional historical world in 2005 when she released this erotic historical featuring a widow and a dude with an extremely large...
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