Plus, a New Movie About a Legendary Author 🎞️
 | | Hi there! Valentine’s Day is over, but we’re not quite ready to give up on love. Check out our suggestions for fans of To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before and two lush and romantic reads set in gothic mansions. Plus, the hottest books on Likewise this week. |  | The Bookends |
| | Gothic Houses with Hidden Secrets | | In The Bookends, we pick an exciting new release and pair it with an older title readers will also love. This week: Beautiful but crumbling mansions play host to fairy tales turned reality in these romantic stories. |  | | The Last Tale of the Flower Bride | | When a woman and her husband are forced to return to her childhood home, their agreement to never discuss her past comes tumbling down as he attempts to understand the line between reality and their shared fairytale. | | Add to reading list |
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|  | | The Clockmaker’s Daughter | | The discovery of an antique drawing that looks exactly like the house that Elodie heard described in childhood stories sends her on a quest to discover the truth about the house’s past. | | Add to reading list |
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|  | | | See the rest of the weekly top 10. | | |  | Ask a Librarian |
| | I’m looking for books similar to To All the Boys I Loved Before. I love that series, and I want more like it centered around school, drama, and high school love. - Aubrie | The Netflix adaptation of To All the Boys introduced Lara Jean, her adorable family, and her complicated love life to a much wider audience. While there are plenty of other books-turned-Netflix movies worth checking out (we see you, Dumplin’), there are lots of fabulous teen novels that haven’t gotten the silver screen treatment yet.
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What these picks have in common: authentic teen characters who are juggling all the pieces of their lives in realistic and sometimes messy ways—and romances that will give you butterflies. |  | | Tokyo Ever After | | When Izumi finds out that the father she’s never known is actually the Crown Prince of Japan, her exceedingly normal life in Northern California is turned upside down. | | Add to reading list |
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|  | | You Should See Me in a Crown | | When her scholarship plans collapse, senior Liz Lighty decides to run for prom queen and the $10,000 scholarship that comes with it. Since she’s spent three years trying to blend in, the prom queen campaign changes the way her classmates see Liz—and the way she sees herself. | | Add to reading list |
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|  | | Anna and the French Kiss | | Anna isn’t excited to be spending her senior year in Paris. She doesn’t speak French, and she’d rather stay in and watch movies—until funny, charming Etienne St. Clair offers to show her the City of Light. | | Add to reading list |
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| | Meet the Librarian
Emily Calkins has worked at public libraries across the US. Tell her what you’re looking for! | | |
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|  | Guess The Writer |
| - This writer’s work was originally published under the pseudonym “Ellis Bell.”
- She once planned to open a school with her sister, also a well-known writer.
- She died in 1848, just a year after the publication of her first and only novel.
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| Critical Love
Reese picked the sophomore novel from acclaimed writer Sadeqa Johnson for her book club this month, and she’s far from the novel’s only fan. The Washington Post calls it “a triumph of historical fiction” and PopSugar says it’s “powerful and honest.” |  | | The House of Eve | | Sponsored | | Johnson’s 1950s-era novel follows two young Black women—one hoping to be the first in her family to attend college and the other a junior at Howard University—as they find both love and unexpected obstacles. | | Buy now |
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| | The Big Debut
The New York Times says Daisy Alpert Florin’s debut “lands like a refreshing, deep breath” and Town & Country calls it “timely and deeply relevant.” |  | | My Last Innocent Year | | Reeling from a sexual assault, college senior Isabel begins affair with her married poetry professor in this coming-of-age campus novel set in the mid-1990s. | | Add to reading list |
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| | Bookworld |
| 🤠 Alright, alright, alright! Guess who has a picture book coming out this fall?
✨ The Luckiest Girl Alive author Jessica Knoll revealed the cover to her new novel Bright Young Women, based on a real-life serial killer’s attack on a sorority.
💕 Entertainment Weekly shared an excerpt from the upcoming rom-com by Ali Hazelwood, author of The Love Hypothesis.
🎬 ET has the trailer for the new movie adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s One True Loves. | | | PS: Products you purchase through our links may earn Likewise a commission. |
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