What’s calming for one person might be a nightmare for others, which is why dark romance as it’s currently understood has ...

Texas is home to a growing crop of rom-com bookshops, and their proprietors know exactly what you should be reading this ...

Romantasy has been promoted in a huge way by TikTok, or, specifically, by the sub-segment of TikTok known as BookTok. Romance has been the most popular genre of fiction since the 1980s. With the rise ...

The Empyrean series, a cross between romance and fantasy, has racked up millions of fans, with more books and a TV adaptation ...

Love is in the air – and on the page. Look on any “As Seen on BookTok” table at your local bookstore, and you’re likely to ...

Romantasy novels — that’s romance plus fantasy — are outselling other adult fiction. But has the romance genre truly shed its stigma?

In 2025, things have changed: romance novels are no longer relegated to dark corners. Thanks in part to BookTok and ...

If you’ve been online at any point since 2020, you’ve likely heard of “BookTok,” the literature-focused side of TikTok.

Look on any “As Seen on BookTok” table at your local bookstore, and you’re likely to find them: Romance books that seem demure with cursive fonts and illustrated couples on the cover but ...

“I have to credit BookTok a lot, because it provided that forum for people to start sharing what they were interested in,” Weaver tells Rolling Stone. “Even though dark romance is relatively ...