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Grab a box of tissues, slip into something comfortable, prepare something to snack on and pour a tall glass of your favorite beverage: It’s time to dive into a sexy, sensuous romance novel. We polled PEOPLE staffers for their favorite romance reads and came up with some swoon-worthy options.Whether historical fiction about rakish viscounts gets your bosom heaving, you prefer a flirty and fun rom-com that will have you snort-laughing through your happy tears or just want to watch two nerds fall in love, there’s something on our list for every taste.
Grab a box of tissues, slip into something comfortable, prepare something to snack on and pour a tall glass of your favorite beverage: It’s time to dive into a sexy, sensuous romance novel. We polled PEOPLE staffers for their favorite romance reads and came up with some swoon-worthy options.
Whether historical fiction about rakish viscounts gets your bosom heaving, you prefer a flirty and fun rom-com that will have you snort-laughing through your happy tears or just want to watch two nerds fall in love, there’s something on our list for every taste.
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Chess is having a moment right now, so brush up on your moves and get ready for the steamiest match you’ve ever seen. This one, from the hit-making author ofThe Love Hypothesis, follows rival chess players who wind up entangled in more gambits than the one on the board.
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Lilah and Shane are madly in love — or the characters they play on-screen are, anyway. They spend years shooting chemistry-filled scenes on the paranormal romance in which they costar, until Lilah leaves the show. When she comes back to film the final season, she’s got to confront the reason she left: Yes, of course it’s Shane, with whom she had a fling that ended badly. This classic will they/won’t they will steal your heart before the director yells “cut!”
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The reigning queen of romance has done it again, this time throwing two people who have broken up into a cottage with their friends — who don’t know they’re no longer together. Can they spend a week pulling one over on the people who know them best? Read to find out, while you wait for Henry’s latest,Funny Story, to drop in April.
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Brilliant, impoverished Annabelle Archer has earned a place at the University of Oxford — but to keep her scholarship, she has to support the rising women’s suffragist movement. That means recruiting men to join the cause; men like the decidedly chilly Sebastian Devereux, the Duke of Montgomery. This enemies-to-lovers is perfect for fans ofBridgerton.
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A struggling writer who interviews a Hollywood heartthrob. A whirlwind weekend that turns her life upside down. A few years' distance, a ton of therapy and a chance to resolve whatever really went on between them. If you’re not sold yet, you should be.
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There’s just nothing like the alchemy of first love. And ambitious pediatric resident Macy never really got over hers, even as she plans her wedding to the safe option a decade later after Elliot broke her heart. But then she runs into him and those feelings all come rushing back. Told in alternating timelines, this long-lost love story will have you sobbing into your snack bowl.
source: people.com
