We're both staying very still in front of air conditioners this week, so that means we're very very happy to have a pile of summer reads at the ready! We're teeing up your piles of summer reads this week with our quarterly romance roundup! As a reminder, we haven't read most of these books -- but they're the ones toppling our TBR! As a reminder, preorders mean a lot more than they should these days, so if there's anything on this list that makes you go "oh, yes. that's for me," and you're able to preorder from your local bookstore (or from Pocket Books Bookshop with the code PREORDER) or reserve at your local library. The authors on this list thank you.

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The Books

June

When Javi Dumped Mari by Mia Sosa
Best Summer Ever by Jessica Cunsolo
Keeping the Countess by Lille Moore
An Ancient Witch’s Guide to Modern Dating by Ceclia Edwards
Sunny Side Up by Katie Sturino
Party of Three by C. Travis Rice
Eliza and the Duke by Harper St. George
Steel Horses & Leather Roads by Cher Terais

July

These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean
Enemies with an Earl by Lizzie C. Koz
The Summer You Were Mine by Jill Francis
Give Me a Reason by Jayci Lee
Behind Frenemy Lines by Zen Cho
How Freaking Romantic by Emily Harding
One More Time by Emily S. Morris
Totally and Completely Fine by Elissa Sussman
Love is a War Song by Danica Nava
August Lane by Regina Black
Only Lovers in the Building by Nadine Gonzalez
Sweet Thing by Kate Meader
Bad Luck Bride by Laura Lee Guhrke
Scotch on the Rocks by Elliot Fletcher
Roll for Romance by Lenora Woods
Not Part of the Plan by Lucy Score
Soulgazer by Maggie Rapier
The Great Misfortune of Stella Sedgwick by S. Isabelle
Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe by CB Lee
A Forbidden Alchemy by Stacey McEwan

August

Heart Strings by Ivy Fairbanks
A Promise of Forever by Sheryl Lister
The Sea Witch by Eva Leigh
His Forgotten Wife by Tara Pammi
You’ve Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Love Stories Set at HBCUs
The Fortune Hunter’s Guide to Love by Emma-Claire Sunday
My Big Fat Vampire Wedding by Jessica Gadziala
Zom Romcom by Olivia Dade
Kiss & Collide by Amanda Weaver
The Gilded Heiress by Joanna Shupe
Here For a Good Time by Pyae Moe Thet War
The Entanglement of Rival Wizards by Sara Raasch
Love is an Open Book by Chandra Blumberg
Gabriela and His Grace by Liana De La Rosa
Once Upon a Time in Dollywood by Ashley Jordan
A Waltz on the Wide Side by Erica Ridley
My Best Friend’s Earl by Bethany Bennett

September

Time for You by Elizabeth Davis
By the Horns by Ruby Dixon
It Had to be Him by Adib Khorram
Dead Poet Sorority by Sofia Shelley
The Haunting of William Thorn by Ben Alderson
The Princess and the P.I. by Nikki Payne
Tracing Her Stolen Identity by Katie Mettner
To Heist and to Hold by Christina Britton
Honey and Heat by Aurora Palit
We Met Like This by Kasie West
Scoundrel, Take Me Away by Louisa Darling
Charlie Quinn Lets Go by Jamie Varon
Mourner for Hire by Caitlin Moss
Sweet Heat by Bolu Babalola

The Rest

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00:00 Opening the Book Hydrant

11:33 June

21:24 AD: ANOTHER SUMMER

23:38 July

42:34 AD: POCKET BOOKS

44:41 More July!

55:31 AD: AGAIN SCOUNDREL

57:36 August

1:20:03 AD: LUMI GUMMIES

1:22:08 More August!

1:32:07 September

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