XOXO by Axie Oh

e-Audio, 09:13:10Narrated by: Greta JungRelease Date: July 13, 2021Published by: HarperTeenRead from: August 6-9, 2021Stand-aloneSource: Overdrive AudioTW: For Readers Interested In: Contemporary Romance, Books Set Outside the US, Music, K-pop, Realistic Fiction, YA   Cello prodigy Jenny has one goal: to get into a prestigious music conservatory. When she meets mysterious, handsome Jaewoo in her uncle’s…

Accidentally Engaged by Farah Heron

e-Audio, 11:08:12Narrated by: Soneela Nankani Release Date: March 6, 2021Published by: Hachette Book GroupRead from: May 26-29, 2021 & July 20, 2021Stand-alone (Hints at being a companion novel!)Source: Overdrive AudioTW: For Readers Interested In: Contemporary Romance, Realistic Fiction, Rom Coms, Own Voices, Country other than USA, 1 on the Spice Scale, Adult    Reena Manji doesn’t love…

Don’t Hate the Player by Alexis Nedd

e-Audio, 09:30:17Narrated by: Aaron Landon & Stacy GonazalezRelease Date: June 8, 2021Published by: Bloomsbury Publishing (US)Read from: July 11-13, 2021Stand-aloneSource: Overdrive AudioTW: For Readers Interested In: Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Romance, Gaming, YA    By day, Emilia is a field hockey star with a popular boyfriend and a mother obsessed with her academic future. But by night,…

We Can’t Keep Meeting Like This by Rachel Lynn Solomon

e-Audio, 09:26:07Narrated by: Carly Robins Release Date: June 8, 2021Published by: Simon & Schuster AudioRead from: July 8-9, 2021Stand-aloneSource: Overdrive AudioTW: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, OCD, Clinical DepressionFor Readers Interested In: Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Romance, Mental Health, Weddings, Fictional Foodie, YA    A wedding harpist disillusioned with love and a hopeless romantic cater-waiter flirt and fight their…

Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean

e-Audio, 09:33:34Narrated by: Ali AhnRelease Date: May 18, 2021Published by: Flatiron BooksRead from: July 4-6, 2021Stand-aloneSource: Overdrive AudioTW:For Readers Interested In: Contemporary Romance, Forbidden Love, Books set in places other than the USA, YA      Izumi Tanaka has never really felt like she fit in—it isn’t easy being Japanese American in her small, mostly…

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

e-Audio, 10:46:46Narrated by: Julia WhelanRelease Date: May 11, 2021Published by: Berkley BooksRead from: June 29-July 3, 2021Stand-aloneSource: Overdrive AudioTW: For Readers Interested In: Non-linear timeline, Friends to Lovers, Contemporary Romance, Adult      Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.     Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing…

Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon

Hardcover, 304 pages Release Date: June 1, 2021Published by: Delacorte Press Read from: June 1-26, 2021Stand-alone Source: BoughtTW: Cheating (Not on page, but is mentioned several times) For fans of: Contemporary, Romance, Coming of Age, Magical Realism, YA   #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun is Also a Star Nicola Yoon is back with her eagerly anticipated…

Hang the Moon by Alexandria Bellefleur

e-Audio, 10:50:41Narrated by: Lauren SweetRelease Date: May 25, 2021Published by: HarperAudioRead from: June 14-17, 2021Written in the Stars, #2Source: Overdrive AudioTW: For Readers Interested In: Contemporary,  Romance, Realistic Fiction, Series, Adult       In a delightful follow-up to Written in the Stars, Alexandria Bellefleur delivers another #ownvoices queer rom-com about a hopeless romantic who vows to…

Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by Joya Goffney

e-Audio, 09:39:51Narrated by: Jordan CobbRelease Date: May 4, 2021Published by: HarperTeenRead from: June 9-11, 2021Stand-aloneSource: Netgalley AudioTW: Mention of the n word (Never fully says it), Micro-aggressions, ColorismFor Readers Interested In: Contemporary,  Romance, Realistic Fiction, Stand-alones, YA       Quinn keeps lists of everything—from the days she’s ugly cried, to “Things That I Would Never…

The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon

e-Audio, 10:52:32Narrated by: Emily ElletRelease Date: January 26, 2021Published by: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing GroupRead from: June 7-9, 2021Stand-aloneSource: Library (Overdrive)TW: For Readers Interested In: Contemporary,  Romance, Realistic Fiction, Enemies to Lovers, Adult      Public radio co-hosts navigate mixed signals in Rachel Lynn Solomon’s sparkling romantic comedy debut.     Shay Goldstein has been a…

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