Love & Desire
Books across every Love & Desire genre
- Anne of the Island — L. M. Montgomery
- Fruits Basket, Vol. 13 — Alethea Nibley / Athena Nibley / Natsuki Takaya
- Fanning the Flames — Victoria Dahl
- The Dragon and the Sun Lotus — Amélie Wen Zhao
- King Sized — Jessa Kane
- Shadows So Cruel — Liv Zander
- Sins of the Night — Sherrilyn Kenyon
- Soulless — Gail Carriger
- Mate — Ali Hazelwood
- Frost Burned — Patricia Briggs
- A Duel with the Vampire Lord — Elise Kova
- Animal Prints — May Williams
- Sweet Bean Paste — Alison Watts
- Bastard Out of Carolina — Dorothy Allison
- Soulless: The Manga, Vol. 2 — Rem / Gail Carriger
- Dead as a Doornail — Charlaine Harris
- God and the gay Christian — Matthew Vines
- Lovely, Dark, and Deep — Susannah Sandlin
- Black Magic Sanction — Kim Harrison
- Sputnik Sweetheart — Haruki Murakami
- Living Dead in Dallas — Charlaine Harris
- Fruits Basket, Vol. 9 — Natsuki Takaya
- The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World — Laura Imai Messina
- Books, Iced Coffee & a Side of Dragons: A Graphic Novel — Amanda Lovelace
Every genre on this shelf
- Romance — Love at the center of the plot, and the promise of an ending that earns it. The broad umbrella for romance that doesn't fit a narrower subcategory like historical, fantasy, or LGBTQ+ romance.
- Fantasy Romance — Romance and magic intertwined, neither diminishing the other. Fantasy worlds where the love story is the plot — not a subplot — and the stakes are emotional as much as they are world-ending. Enemies to lovers across warring kingdoms, destined mates in ancient systems of power.
- Intimate Fiction — Desire as the subject, not the subplot. Sensual adult fiction about attraction and the charged space between people — frank without being graphic, and under no obligation to end happily.
- Smutty Corner — Explicit, unapologetic, and here for it. These books don't fade to black — they're written for readers who want desire on the page in full detail. Hot, sometimes filthy, always intentional.
- Historical Romance — A love story the period keeps getting in the way of. Romance set firmly in another era, where propriety, class and the arranged marriage are the obstacle the couple has to outlast.
- LGBTQ+ Romance — Love stories where desire doesn't conform to the default. LGBTQ+ romance across every subgenre — contemporary, historical, fantasy — where queer joy is not incidental to the plot but the whole point of it. Happily ever afters that feel hard-won and real.
- Contemporary Romance — Love stories set now, in the world as it is. Coffee shops, shared flats and small towns, where the obstacles are emotional rather than historical and the happy ending feels within reach.
- Regency — Courtship as a high-stakes game with strict rules. Romance set during the English Regency — balls, estates, and reputations won or lost over a single dance. Manners are the plot.
Two people, and everything in the way.
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