Welcome to Buzz Books: Romance 2026, curated by industry insider Publishers Marketplace to showcase upcoming books from both established voices and emerging talents. Whether you are an avid reader of horrormance, age-gap or mafia, or simply curious about this fast-growing genre, this edition has something for everyone. Peruse 29 exclusive excerpts from some of the buzziest upcoming love stories, steamy makeouts, and monster mashes of the year.

Discover compelling stories filled with mythology and love triangles like Bethan Croome’s Reign, or F1 academy rivalries in Piper Lawson’s Crash Course, or the culturally rich Palestinian-American romance in Zahra, Unapologetic, and a new installment in Keri Lake’s New York Times-bestselling The Eating Woods trilogy. This diverse collection spans young adult, new adult, and adult romance across alluring subgenres and tropes: sports romance, contemporary romance, dark academia, romantasy, Western, and more.

And of course, our popular heat scale is back, too 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥! We hope this helps guide your reading choices—whether you like the bedroom door cracked, or blown wide open.

Buzz Books is our love letter to the books and reading community we adore, and we are glad you are part of building the buzz for great books.