Top Ten Tuesday: Rom Coms For Valentine's Day

 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.

Lucy Checks In by Dee Ernst, August 16, 2022, St. Martin's Griffin

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)

The No-Show by Beth O'Leary, April 26, 2022, Berkley

Genre: rom-com, women's fiction

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 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

by 

Jesse Q. Sutanto, author of Dial A for Aunties

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 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. 

Bad Cruz

by 

L.J. Shen,

 published November 10th, 2021

Unlikely couple find each other on an accidental cruise. A small town physician and a single mom with a bad reputation are thrown together on a different ship from the pre-wedding cruise meant for their entire families.

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