Stephanie K. Klose

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley.

Adriana Herrera is well known in the romance world for her contemporaries (“Dreamers” series), but this year, she’s launching a historical series, “Las Leonas,” featuring three Dominican women in Paris for the 1889 Exposition Universelle. The first book in the series, A Caribbean Heiress in Paris (HQN, Jun.), features Luz Alana Heith-Benzan, who enters into a marriage of convenience with James Evanston Sinclair, Earl of Darnick, to help her expand her family’s rum business.

The term girl power gets new meaning, fairy tales are retold, and dark magic rules in the best horror novels of 2021.

A M/M historical trilogy concludes, a Victorian epistolary romance addresses colonialism, and a sassy, sexy romantic comedy explores geek culture and racism. The best romance novels of 2021.

Popular self-published romance novelist Chencia C. Higgins (“The Vow” and “Wolves of West Texas” series, among others) makes her trade debut with D’Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding (Carina Adores, Jan. 2022). LJ talks to Higgins about Texas, coming-out stories, reality television, and her research process.

This year’s top audiobooks, selected by LJ’s audio editor and reviewers, represent the best recorded literature published between November 2019 and December 2020. In a year that’s been like no other, these picks moved us, provided escape, and made us think critically and reflect upon the society in which we live. We hope these lists provide a means for readers’ advisory and (socially distanced) conversation.

Malcolm X, Rose Pastor Stokes, Natasha Trethewey. The best biographies & memoirs published in 2020.

Zombies, vampires, and assorted monsters stalk the pages of the best horror novels published in 2020.

Author Emily Oster's latest project finds her teaming up with researchers and students to launch COVID Explained, a site that aims to provide unbiased, comprehensive information to help people make good decisions.