Hey folks, as I'm sure you know we are deep in Best Books of the Year so far, season here at

Book Riot and on the literary internet in general.

Since Jeff and I tend to lean towards literary and upmarket fiction and some of the more serious non-fiction.

We thought that it would be fun to invite our fellow editors at Book Riot over to share with

you some of their favorite genre reads of the year. So that's what you'll

with you'll find here a little bit of a clip show a little bit of a chance to hear

from some more voices besides us altogether so hope you will enjoy this

opportunity to hear from our colleagues and rack up some of you know your

reading lists for romance and mystery and horror and sci-fi fantasy and maybe even

some romancy. Thanks so much for listening and we'll be back in your ears

with the news show next week.

My name is Danica.

I'm an editor at Book Riot.

I am a co-host on all the books and I write the Read Harder and our Queer

Shelf's newsletters. And today I want to talk about a couple of my favorite romances, both of which are sappic that came out this year.

First, I want to recommend, here we go again, by Allison Cochran, which is an author I knew from Kiss or Once

for Me, a Christmas sappic romance, which I enjoyed, but I absolutely loved this one and partly it is for very specific

reasons of my own interests so I have to have that little bit of a disclaimer

because both of the main characters have ADHD they are both high school English teachers and obviously they're queer.

I have shared or might share or do share all of those qualities. So I was fully on board. I was very briefly an

English teacher, but it definitely left a big impression and I felt a lot for them especially one of them really

burning out on it. This is also dedicated to queer educators. The author used to be a high school English teacher

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