If your summer reading list is calling for something magical, emotional, and just a little dramatic, in the best way, then trust me, this lineup really delivers this and so much more

Read our interview with April Asher, who wrote "The Cupid Dilemma," down below.

Summer reading season is officially heating up, and this latest batch of romance releases brings the perfect mix of humor, heart, and just enough chaos to keep things interesting.

Find out what inspired Edward Schmit to write "The Open Era" down below.

Check out our interview with Kara McDowell, who wrote "The Write Off."

In “My Bad: A Personal History of the Queer Nineties and Beyond” (Bold Type, 2026), out in May, queer historian Hugh Ryan takes us from the painful purgatory of 7th grade, where his gender was a Lisa Frank trapper keeper, to his experiences with camp, AOL chat rooms, androgyny, coming of age in the mid-1990s AIDS period, Radical Faeries, Burning Man, sex work, 9/11, thruppledom, and much more, amounting to the author’s “attempt at a balance sheet.”