And remember, for other recs, you can click the #RomanceColumn hashtag for gift links to past columns and threads of past romance recommendations!
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It’s #RomanceColumn time again! We’ve got a pair of sci-fi tv actors who loathe each other, a meticulous romantasy with a widow and her necromancer neighbor, and an adrenaline-filled queer tennis romance for more Heated Rivary vibes. Gift link:
#Romancelandia #booksky
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Remember, you can see all past column threads by clicking the #RomanceColumn hashtag! There are so many romance recs waiting for you.
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New #RomanceColumn! We’ve got a screamingly funny cursed knight plus evil sorcerer queer romance, a sweet small-town bad-boy romance with a beekeeper heroine (yay bees!), and a New York-set romcom romp with a Regency cosplayer hero and screenwriter heroine (gift link): #romancelandia #booksky 💙📚
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And, as always, clicking the #RomanceColumn hashtag will get you all past column threads as well — go forth, read books, give yourself a relief from The Horrors!
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#RomanceColumn day is here! This month I looked at an Arthurian romance that should have been on the best of 2025, a romcom with a dom hero and terrible workplace boundaries, and a touching hockey romance with a women’s hockey star in the Olympics (gift link).
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My #RomanceColumn best romances list for the NYT is live today! It’s impossible to pick just a few books from so many, but as the song says, impossible things are happening every day, so let’s get to it! (Gift link)
#Romancelandia #booksky
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It’s #RomanceColumn time and this month’s books are: a sweet and sexy second-chance m/m romance in Italy, a queer fake-dating Jewish baseball contemporary, and a light but tart romantasy about a villain’s henchwitch trying to do good after the villain’s defeat (gift link!).
#booksky #Romancelandia
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We’ve got a seasonal #RomanceColumn for all your ghostly Halloweeny romance needs! Featuring: a haunting short take on Cinderella, a Florida town full of ghosts, a pair of Regency sapphic Gothic novelists, and a stunning romantasy with a witch and a lady knight. (Gift link)
#Romancelandia 💙📚
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In this month’s #RomanceColumn, it’s all about Austen anniversaries and the centuries-old urge to yell “just tell them, you fool!” at a fictional character. Dukes, time travellers, private eyes, and flapper heiresses ahoy! (Gift link)
#Romancelandia 💙📚 #booksky
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This month’s #RomanceColumn features: a wonderfully angsty Black country singer romance, a D&D-inspired enemies-to-lovers romantasy in a magical Philadelphia grad school, and a queer Regency about two men on the road staying one step ahead of the press gang. #Romancelandia 💙📚 #booksky
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This month’s #RomanceColumn is a doozy: a witch regaining her lost power; a Native American pop star reconnecting with her roots; a Black sapphic football coach romances her nemesis; and a schoolteacher takes down her boss’s MLM with help from a hot dad. (Gift link) #Romancelandia #booksky 💙📚
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Time for a new #RomanceColumn gift link! This month we’ve got dueling trope treatments: enemies-to-lovers from Joanna Lowell and Aydra Richards, and time loop romance from Jackie Lau and Annie Mare.
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In lighter fare, it’s time for the Best Romances of 2025 (So Far), as chosen by me, one human with limited time and too much stress who is obviously objectively right about everything all the time, no YOU shut up. #RomanceColumn
#romancelandia #bookreview
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And as always, you can see books featured in past columns by clicking the #RomanceColumn hashtag, both in search and in my bio!
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Latest #RomanceColumn: an opposites-attract pair of Manhattan witches, a teacher and hotel owner’s soapy secret affair, and a graphic novel about two girls falling in love while doing undercover journalism in Gilded Age garment factories (gift link). #Romancelandia 💙📚 #booksky
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For anyone who wants book lists from actual humans who do actual reading with actual eyeballs, I use the hashtag #RomanceColumn to post gift links of the column itself, as well as linking directly to the authors/books reviewed.
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And as always: if you click the hashtag #RomanceColumn here or in my bio, you can see all the books and recs from past months (with gift links!)!
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This month’s #RomanceColumn: a mind-controlled supersoldier and engineer trapped on a prison planet; a blacksmith and a merman on Coney Island; a sapphic firefighter and fire safety scientist; and a Black historical at Versailles! #Romancelandia 💙📚
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In this month’s #RomanceColumn: CW-type werewolf actor becomes actual werewolf; a trans Regency lord pines for his starchy valet; two teachers fall in love in a simulated Mars habitat; and an evil sorceress discovers her dark wizard librarian is really a runaway king!
(Gift link) #Romancelandia 💙📚
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This month’s #RomanceColumn: A hot and harrowing historical set in Belle Epoque Paris, an Instagram-inflected contemporary about fake dating the ex who broke your heart, and a hockey player and Black ballerina doing it for the ‘gram (gift link). #Romancelandia
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ICYMI: I built a starter pack of classic romances that goes all the way back to the 1950s. Selected to show the genre’s breadth, not simply to hit familiar highlights. It’s a lot of hidden gems, and I’ve probably left off at least one of your faves (gift link). #RomanceColumn #Romancelandia
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This month’s #RomanceColumn is out! Featuring: an incredible cheesemaking historical (plus: murders!), a serial graphic novel about slow-burn friends to lovers in a supernatural Paris, and a roommates-turned-lovers situation between a trans academic and a butch mechanic. #Romancelandia
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One great feature here on Bluesky is that if you click on the hashtag #RomanceColumn in my bio, you can see all my columns and reviews in the NYT! I add the new ones when they go live, so there’s always more books being added! #Romancelandia
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Time again for the NYT’s Best Romances of 2024, as chosen by me: A single fallible human reader, admittedly widely read, but with a finite amount of time and energy after the events of this horrible year.
In sum: lotta romances about grief in here.
#Romancelandia 💙📚 #RomanceColumn
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This month’s #RomanceColumn (gift link) features three books whose heroines have been rejected and hurt by their families — and the happy ending is NOT reconciliation.
(Click on the #RomanceColumn hashtag in my bio to see past columns! A neat Bluesky feature.) #Romancelandia
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This month’s #RomanceColumn is ghostly af: a haunted Florida town, a trans Jewish hero who sees ghosts, a demon and an angel trapped in a demolished fantasy city, and a dying girl given a second chance as a fantasy villainess.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/10/24/b...
#Romancelandia 📚💙
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This month’s #RomanceColumn digs into dualities: we start with Casey McQuiston’s The Pairing, showing that binaries can be boundless. Then we look at a pair (get it?) of historicals that take very different approaches to writing romance in the past: www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/b...
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This month’s #RomanceColumn includes books by longtime favorites Zen Cho and Courtney Milan, and new delights from new-to-me Danaca Nava and Karelia and Fay Stetz-Waters. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/08/24/b...
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