#valentine's book recs

[stardustandrockets]

Happy Valentine's Day, friends!

Whether you celebrate or not, I come bearing some of my favorite love stories. They're not all about romantic love as I wanted to be as inclusive as I could given the books I've read.

The conventional recs are pretty self explanatory, the unconventional recs are either stories where romance takes the backseat to the overall story, familial love, or not your typical read-on-Valentine's stories. The comic/manga recs are a mix.

Drop your recommendations below or tell me what you're currently reading.

Slide 2: • The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun • The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston • Never Been Kissed by Timothy Janovsky • XOXO by Axie Oh • Bookish and the Beast by Ashley Poston • A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard

Slide 3: • A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske • If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio • Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell • A Far Wilder Magic by Allison Saft • The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater • The Whispering Dark by Kelly Andrew

Slide 4: • Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Velero-O'Connell • Fence by C.S. Pacat • The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang • Hana-Kimi by Hisaya Nakajo • I Hear the Sunspot by Yuki Fumino • Love in Focus by Yoko Nogiri

[atelieron]

got some sun & snow for valentine's day!

goal: finish paper due tonight, start this week's seminar reading

🎧 listening: kiss me right now - tatyana

[what-am-i-doing-in-this-fandom]

First fanart I've ever done for a fic X3

PLEASE GO READ IT, it's SO good

(^^ that's the link :D )

[It's a Glacier fic set in the Hogwarts universe- it's beyond good- it's amazing- it's worth the read <33]

[shayandas]

Valentine's Month Poetry Recommendations 💌

1. Classical (rhymed & metered poetry)

Bright Star by John Keats

To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell

A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns

Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley

How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Browning

Amoretti LXXV by Edmund Spenser

When You Are Old by W.B. Yeats

I Loved You First by Christina Rossetti

I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale

To My Dear Husband by Anne Bradstreet

I Love You by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Air and Angels by John Donne

Love and Death by Lord Byron

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal by Tennyson

2. Modernist/Contemporary (free & blank verses)

Love Sonnet XI by Pablo Naruda

Unending Love by Rabindranath Tagore

[i carry your heart with me] by e.e. cummings

Bird-Understander by Craig Arnold

Mad Girl's Love Song by Sylvia Plath

For Keeps by Joy Harjo

Always For the First Time by Andre Breton

Love After Love by Derek Walcott

Any Lit by Harryette Mullen

To Be In Love by Gwendolyn Brooks

Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy

Desire by Alice Walker

Romantics by Lisel Mueller

Come, And Be My Baby by Maya Angelou

3. Written by Me (personal selection)

Amore Immortale by Shayan Das

Flawed Perfection by Shayan Das

I Love Thee Not by Shayan Das

A Song of Love by Shayan Das

If Only by Shayan Das

End of Eternity by Shayan Das

For My Valentine by Shayan Das

[desdasiwrites]

– Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

[princessofmanyfaces]

Unhinged

A 4 star read for me | I didn't have any expectations starting this book but I saw everyone talking about this door erotica and had to see for myself

Did I expect to find this actually cute? NO

Did I expect this to actually have plot? NO

I was surprised, to say the least

⭐⭐⭐⭐

[i-dont-read]

my February 2024 book ratings

# of books read: 2

House of Flame and Shadow (Crescent City #3) by Sarah J. Maas ★★★★★

Want You Still by CE Ricci & Marley Valentine ★★★★★

[tgsparks]

Happy Valentine’s Day from Hali and their dumb pick up lines. All of these are direct quotes from my book. Their such a goofy guy and I love them.

You can find more of them here!

[felt-squirrels]

guys for Valentine’s Day I’m handing out book recommendation lists, I need some good ones, literally any genre, preferably YA but any would help, send me an ask if you have one

[powells]

V-Day Superlatives: 13 Books Most Likely to Make You Fall in Love

Handing out trophies for 💕ROMANCE✨ on the Powell's Blog Today

[vulpinesaint]

MANIFESTING. I WILL READ A BOOK THIS WEEK. I WILL READ A BOOK THIS WEEK. I WILL READ A BOOK THIS WEEK.

[pagesandpothos]

A small selection of books that feature a romance that I loved:

The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson

Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows

All the Hidden Paths by Foz Meadows

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

[nessa-writes-stuff]

Happy valentines day wonderful people instead of my usual routine of reading and watching adorable and fluffy romance stuff I'll be studying for a test ( 3 actually very very fun)

If you do have a valentine this year great ( tell me your secrets noww) but if not remember that valentine's day isnt only about romantic relationships it's about all aspects of love including your friends and family so have fun

And remember there's always someone who cares about you

Nessa :)

[love-and-swords]

Five upcoming romance books I can’t wait to pick up! 

(via Love's Next Chapter: 5 Romance Novels to Watch Out for in 2024)

Happy Valentine babes! 

[ilikereadingactually]

Two Graves

Two Graves Volume 1: Wish You Were Here by Genevieve Valentine, art by Ming Doyle and Annie Wu

it's been a while since i picked up a legit comic tpb, and this one was a good time! mysterious, beautifully drawn, and in places non-chronological, which is always great. it's got a quiet feeling to it; there are little bursts of conflict and action, but it's more about the two main characters, what's happening to them, and the ways they play off each other. it's artistically really quiet too, a lot of interesting "camera" angles and beautiful colors, stunning landscapes, subtle facial expressions and body language. It all has a certain stillness to it, which i thought was really lovely for a comic about death on multiple levels, though that same quality did make the few action scenes feel a little stifled and stiff to me.

but i don't think this story is really about the action, or at least not in this volume! it's about Emilia, an almost-dead (or perhaps extra-dead) young woman grieving her mother and determined to get her mother's ashes to the Atlantic, and about death in the form of a man whose face and head are veiled in smoke, who delayed taking Emilia and now may have delayed too long. the slow reveal of what's actually happening between them, both emotionally and metaphysically, is really compelling; i'll be looking forward to the next volume to see what happens next.

the deets

how i read it: an e-galley from NetGalley. this one was a little hard to read on a phone, to be honest, so it took me longer than it might have otherwise, but i was interested enough in the story to keep coming back to it!

try this if you: are into Persephone retellings, love a story that's about the journey, delight in main characters who bicker and banter and don't get along but also are into each other.

maybe skip this if: you need to avoid stories involving a lot of death, including a suicide attempt.

some panels i really liked: the "you're not special" energy of this really sent me

pub date: September 19, 2023!

[desdasiwrites]

– Megan Bannen, The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy