Dear Reader,

 

Welcome to my 2023 Love is in the Air Reading Challenge! It’s time to cozy up and snuggle down, y’all. It’s cold outside and love is in the air, so let’s find some romance to heat things up! This reading challenge is all about love, but don’t let that fool ya, this isn’t just a strictly romance reading challenge. There’s 15 prompts here, but 9 of them are bonus prompts!   

 

I've added many books to each prompt to give you some options, but you're more than welcome to read whatever book you want to fulfill the prompt requirements! I tried to steer clear of the more popular authors and books that are found on BookTok/Bookstagram or just big name books (but there’s still a bunch there!). I also tried to be as inclusive as I could and collected books that represented (and were written by) LGBTQIA+, plus-sized, BIPOC, and disabled characters, but feel free to add your own recommendations to make the challenge as inclusive as possible. A lot of these books are ones I'd read if I could, but for the most part, they're books I haven't read, so they're not recommendations from me, but ones I found to fit the criteria for the prompts. That being said, some of these books could be terrible, and some of them could be problematic (which I tried really hard to filter out but I’m not perfect). I tried to only include books that had a rating of 3.30 or higher just to be sure, but that's no guarantee either. They’re mostly there to give you an idea of what the prompt is looking for and to help you if you’re having trouble choosing something. 

 

Keep in mind that there's A LOT of crossovers with the books I've added, therefore there may be LGBTQIA+ protagonists in some of the books not in the Queer Love, Actually prompt, and there may be some books scattered throughout that handle difficult topics. But if you see a book in one prompt that could satisfy another prompt, feel free to use it for both! Other than the YA and platonic prompts, you’re free to choose how spicy/smutty you’d like your books. ALWAYS check a book and its trigger warnings before reading!! 

 

 

Happy Reading! Happy Valentine’s Day!  

 

Love, 

Rose

 

  

  

These are the prompts:

 

 *These are the bonus prompts!

  

Also check out the other challenges I've been working on:

 

*Please note that some of these books have recent release dates (though I tried to only add books that were released before the start of the challenge!) 

**As a younger millennial, a lot of these books are written for the 20-30 year old demographic, but I made sure to add some books for our younger and more mature readers!