Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday, sponsored by That Artsy Reader Girl. Choose ten books for this week’s topic, "love," in honor of Valentine’s Day, which is this Friday!
I have chosen ten rom coms I've reviewed or featured in the past.
Lost in Tuscany by Sophie Sinclair, June 14, 2024; BooksGoSocial
Genre: travel romance, contemporary fiction
A travel romance on an Italian bike tour.
Genre: romantic comedy, women's fiction, travel
Lucia accepts a job in Rennes, France to renovate a 200-year-old hotel, and runs into interesting long term hotel residents and has a romantic involvement.
Seoulmates by Jen Frederick, January 25, 2022, Berkley
Genre: romantic drama, multi-cultural interest, Korea
When Korean adoptee Hara Wilson goes to Seoul to find her birth mother, she doesn’t plan on falling in love with the first man she lays eyes on, but Choi Yujun is irresistible. (publisher)
About: Three women are unwittingly stood up by the same man they all consider their boyfriend. How they each handle him is all the fun.
Crash by Tamara Lush, Jan. 24, 2023; Wattpad WEBTOON Book Group
Genre: rom com, contemporary fiction
This romance uses many of the rom com tropes: a fake engagement to fool the family of the wealthy guy; a bedroom with only one bed while they are at the family mansion; a romantic love between the two fakers that it takes the entire book for them to acknowledge.
Sophie Go's Lonely Hearts Club by Roselle LimPublication: August 16, 2022; BerkleyGenre: rom com, romance, magical realism
Sophie Go's Lonely Hearts Club by Roselle Lim
Publication: August 16, 2022; Berkley
Genre: rom com, romance, magical realism
Sophie tries to make it as a matchmaker in Toronto, to support herself and her elderly parents, with her septuagenarian clients helping her out. She finds her perfect match along the way. Clever plots, characters, and some magical realism.
Well, That Was Unexpected
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September 27, 2022; Delacorte Press
A humorous YA rom-com about a girl who's whisked from LA to her mother's native Indonesia to get back to her roots and finds herself fake-dating the son of one of the wealthiest families there, (publisher)
The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain by Kazuo Ishiguro, March 5, 2024; Knopf
Ishiguro's 16 song lyrics are infused with a sense of yearning, melancholy, love, and the romance of travel and liminal spaces.
Illustrated by the acclaimed Italian artist Bianca Bagnarelli
The Fraud Squad by Kyla ZhaoPublication: January 7, 2023; Berkley
The novel is part Pygmalion and part story of Icarus. Kyla, aspiring writer and PR person, urges two upper class friends to have her pass as a Singapore socialite. A Cinderella-like rom com.
A humorous YA rom-com about a girl who's whisked from LA to her mother's native Indonesia to get back to her roots and finds herself fake-dating the son of one of the wealthiest families there, (publisher)
The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain by Kazuo Ishiguro, March 5, 2024; Knopf
Ishiguro's 16 song lyrics are infused with a sense of yearning, melancholy, love, and the romance of travel and liminal spaces.
Illustrated by the acclaimed Italian artist Bianca Bagnarelli
The Fraud Squad by Kyla Zhao
Publication: January 7, 2023; Berkley
The novel is part Pygmalion and part story of Icarus. Kyla, aspiring writer and PR person, urges two upper class friends to have her pass as a Singapore socialite. A Cinderella-like rom com.
Ooh, I'll have to look for that Ishiguro title. I think I've read them before.
ReplyDeleteSeoulmates is such a great pun!
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Great list! I haven't read any of these but they all sound so good. I already have The No-Show on my wishlist.
ReplyDeleteThe Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain looks excellent!
ReplyDeleteThe Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain. That sounds familiar. Has it been around for a while? Hmm. Must check it out.
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