Happy July, friends! In our fifth episode, we'll give our best "gateway romance" suggestions for interested readers just starting out in the genre. Also, we'll check in on our June challenge to read an intersectional rainbow, rhapsodize about talking to authors on social media (they're real people! and they're so nice!), and issue a plea to authors of romance: more periods, please!
Books and authors mentioned in this episode:
A Virtuous Ruby by Piper Huguley
Home to Milford College series by Piper Huguley
The Rat-Catcher's Daughter by KJ Charles
Brothers Sinister series by Courtney Milan
Loyal League series by Alyssa Cole
Hamilton's Battalion: A Trio of Romances by Rose Lerner, Courtney Milan, and Alyssa Cole
The Duke I Tempted by Scarlett Peckham
Untamed by Anna Cowan
All or Nothing by Rose Lerner
Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal
A Cowboy to Remember by Rebekah Weatherspoon
Take the Lead by Alexis Daria
Uptown Trilogy by Ruby Lang
A Bollywood Affair by Sonali Dev
Reluctant Royals, Runaway Royals, and Off the Grid series by Alyssa Cole
Cyclone series by Courtney Milan
Forbidden Hearts series by Alisha Rai (Hate To Want You, Wrong To Need You, Hurts to Love You)
Glutton for Pleasure by Alisha Rai
Bollywood Confidential series by Suleikha Snyder
Welcome to Sea Port and The Spies Who Loved Her series by Katrina Jackson
Fit trilogy and Beards and Bondage series by Rebekah Weatherspoon
Her Royal Spyness series by Rhys Bowen
An Inconvenient Duke by Anna Harrington
Rebel (and anything else!) by Beverly Jenkins
Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
Anything by Jojo Moyes
Anything by Jasmine Guillory
Ayesha At Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane
Get A Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai
Girl Gone Viral by Alisha Rai
Rafe: A Buff Male Nanny by Rebekah Weatherspoon
A Delicate Affair by Lindsay Evans
Take A Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
Meet Cute Club by Jack Harbon
Something True by Karelia Stetz-Waters
Portland Heat series by Annabeth Albert
Vampire Sorority Sisters series by Rebekah Weatherspoon (Better Off Red, Blacker Than Blue, Soul To Keep
Be Mine by Savannah J. Frierson
All Mine by Savannah J. Frierson
The Virgin and the Rogue by Sophie Jordan
Finding Joy by Adriana Herrera
Jeremiah by Jayce Ellis
Andre by Jayce Ellis
The Rakess by Scarlett Peckham
A Duke, The Lady, and A Baby by Vanessa Riley
