Romance Book and Audiobook Reviews and Deals
It’s my 14th year of doing this list. I read 109 books in 2025 and had two 5+++ Star Reads, five 5-star reads, and eight 4.75-star reads. Honestly, all of these were my favorites of the year, there may have been a small reason to not give 5-stars, but I still loved them to pieces. I wasn’t going to list the… Read More
I love holiday books! Every December I read almost all holiday books. This list has 3 parts. 1: This year’s books I have read and reviewed, plus the ones I plan to read (which will change). 2: The new Christmas Books for 2025 3: ALL of the Christmas books I have read over the years with their star ratings and… Read More
Hanukkah Romance Novels 2025 Please let me know if you have others to add to the list. If you are looking for Christmas novels, take a look at my 2025 Christmas Romance list. I also have a full list of Jewish Romance Novels that you can check out right here, currently being updated. Ana’s Attic is a participant in the… Read More
It’s my 13th year of doing this list. I read 110 books in 2024 and had 10 5-star reads, 6 4.75-star reads, and 14 4.5-star reads. Honestly, all of these were my favorites of the year, there may have been a small reason to not give 5-stars, but I still loved them to pieces. I wasn’t going to list the… Read More
It Ends With Us Movie Review Starring Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni and Brandon Skelnar Based on the book by Colleen Hoover I went with a group of my book friends to see It Ends With Us on the first night it was out. We were all excited to see it even though a couple in the group hadn’t read the… Read More
My Favorite Books and Audiobooks from 2023 This is my 12th year of doing this list! I always wait until January because there has always been a last minute December surprise! Up until now 3 authors have been on every list. 2 of those did not publish this year, so the only person on every single list is Kristen Ashley…. Read More
*My new list for 2024 is right here* I love Christmas and Hanukkah books! From Thanksgiving until the end of the year, I usually read only that. You can check out my new Hanukkah list for 2023 here. For Holiday books that released last year, see my 2022 list of Holiday novels. This list is divided into 3 sections. Part… Read More
Jewish Contemporary Romance Novels and Women’s Fiction I love reading a romance with characters like myself, so give me a book with an old, fat Jewish single lady, and I would love that 🤣, but I will take characters with any one of those traits. I am more culturally Jewish (secular?): I married a non-Jew, I haven’t attended temple as… Read More
Please see my new list for 2024 Updated for 2023! Please let me know if you have others to add to the list. If you are looking for Christmas novels, check out my 2022 list of Holiday novels. as well as all of my older favorites. I am working on an update for 2023 now. I also have a full… Read More
TOP PICKS: My Favorite Books and Audiobooks of 2022 This is my 11th list since starting Ana’s Attic, and 3 authors on this list have been on all of them: Tara Sivec, Colleen Hoover and Kristen Ashley. This year I had four 5++++ Star books and six 5 star books. After that are seven books that were almost 5 stars… Read More
Here are the new holiday releases for 2022 that I found, and after that, you’ll find a list of all of the holiday books I’ve reviewed and loved over the years. Though there are a few on here, also check out my separate list of Hanukkah Romance Novels right here. Purchase Purchase Purchase Purchase Purchase Pchs ppbk aud Pchs audio… Read More
Please check out my updated list for 2023!!!! If you are looking for Christmas novels, check out my other list of all of the new ones for 2022 as well as all of my older favorites. Review Purchase Review Pchs Audio Review Pchs Audio Review Purchase Lesbian Purchase fake Purchase workplace Purchase Older Purchase forced prox Purchase Firefighter Purchase… Read More
Taylor Jenkins Reid Book Crossovers and TV/Movie News The Crossovers between The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Daisy Jones and the Six, Malibu Rising, Carrie Soto is Back plus the novella Evidence of the Affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Updated July 2026 Have you read Taylor Jenkins Reid yet? She has 11 books out as of this post. Five books… Read More
Sadly the Wicked Book Weekend site was hacked and we lost the whole site including all the photo albums from the events. Many can be found on Facebook in the various event groups. Here are the author lists and some highlights of the event through the years. Wicked Book Weekend was one of the very first indie romance book signings… Read More
Welcome to the 9th Annual Chrismukkah Giveaways! Each Night, for 8 Nights, I will have a new Giveaway. They will all stay open for 8 days each. (Gifts will likely not be received before Christmas.) This year, there are at least TWO ways to enter for EACH NIGHT and each one counts. You can enter on Facebook, but you MUST like… Read More
Tidy the F*ck Up: The American Art of Organizing Your Sh*t by Messie Condo Parody/Self-Help I’m kind of a hoarder. You wouldn’t know it from walking in my house, but look in my garage or my closets and you’ll know. I love to shop and buy stupid stuff online in the middle of the night. I have closets so full… Read More
MEET THE CHARACTERS OF A GUY WALKS INTO MY BAR by #1 NYT BESTSELLING AUTHOR LAUREN BLAKELY We are so excited to bring you a special sneak peek this week of the characters from Lauren Blakely’s A GUY WALKS INTO MY BAR!! I am in the middle of listening to an ARC of Lauren Blakely’s first m/m romance, A Guy… Read More
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Narrated by Bahni Turpin Standalone. All ages above 12 (imo). When the George Floyd protests began, The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas was the first book that so many people recommended to understand systemic racism and white privilege. I expected it to be powerful. I expected it to make me feel uncomfortable…. Read More
#1 New York Times bestselling author (and my favorite audiobook author) Lauren Blakely brings another exciting and sizzling audiobook to listeners in her upcoming title, A GUY WALKS INTO MY BAR. Releasing in audio August 17th and eBook August 21st. Lauren is thrilled to share that her first M/M romance will be performed in duet narration by two of her… Read More
Hot Mess by Emma Hart Hot Mess is enrolled into kindle unlimited. What do you do when the whole world has seen you getting down and dirty in a broom closet? I, Elle Evans, am on the run. Not from the fuzz—although that would be more exciting. No, I’m on the run from the four-year-old private tape that, thanks to… Read More
Oprah’s 2020 Vision Tour: Your Life in Focus *Looking for a quick review? Skip down to the Likes & Dislikes and Down & Dirty* I saw Oprah’s 2020 Vision Tour was coming to my city (Ft. Lauderdale) on January 4th with Lady Gaga as her special guest. I knew this was a wellness tour, and the timing couldn’t have been… Read More
May was quite a month! With 5 book and 6 audiobook reviews, it was kind of a mixed bag this month, but there are a lot of exciting books for June! Let me know if you’ve read any of these and what you are looking forward to in June! Remember that my FULL REVIEWS have all the Likes & Dislikes… Read More
Welcome the 7th Annual Mental Health Awareness Month Book Fundraiser benefiting the Keith Milano Memorial Fund at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. For the 7th year, an amazing group of authors have generously agreed to donate a portion of their May sales to the Keith Milano Memorial Fund, and Ana’s Attic has been trying to help from the start,… Read More
The Mister by E.L. James Narrated by Dominic Thorburn, Jessica O’Hara-Baker Contemporary Romance. Currently a standalone, but a little open-ended for a follow-up. I loved Fifty Shades. Sure, there were some issues, but overall, how the books made me FEEL overruled everything. E.L. James changed my life in many ways, so it was with a bit of trepidation that I… Read More
