4.5: Get Recc'd for the #23for23 Challenge!

The Busy Romnivores

Get Recc’d with authors Nikki Payne, Adriana Herrera, and Nisha Sharma!

In this episode, Marianna and Kristen chat with Adriana Herrera, Nisha Sharma, and Nikki Payne! These three authors (along with 21 others) launched the #23for23 Reading Challenge at Steamy Lit Con in August of this year. They talk about just how good intersectionality with a side of romance can be!

Get Recc’d with these:

Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys Super Mysteries by Carolyn Keene

(specifically Secrets of the Nile)

Inner Harbor by Nora Roberts

Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier

The Heir by Ava Rani

The Art of Scandal by Regina Black

Sex, Lies, and Sensibility by Nikki Payne (releasing 2/13/2024)

An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera (#listeningtothismightbeanHRcomplaint)

Unnatural by Mirka Andolfo

A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera

Tastes Like Shakkar by Nisha Sharma

The Fraud by Zadie Smith

Pride and Protest by Nikki Payne

Mickey Chambers Shakes It Up by Charish Reid

Wild Life by Opal Wei (releasing 1/23/2024)

Full Moon Over Freedom by Angelina M. Lopez

Wild Pitch by Cat Giraldo

Queenie and the Krakens by Aleera Anaya Ceres

The Duchess Effect by Tracey Livesay

Kiss the Girl by Zoraida Cordova

That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf by Kimberly Lemming

Redemption by Kenya Wright

Trashed by Mia Hopkins

Rebekah Weatherspoon

Resonance Surge by Nalini Singh

Kresley Cole’s Immortals After Dark series

I Married a Lizardman by Regine Abel

Farrah Rochon sports romances!

Kennedy Ryan sports romances!

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

The Hellmouth Guardian’s Lover by Adriana Herrera

To Plunder a Pirate Queen by Nina Saxena

Run Darling by Adriana Herrera

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Challenge yourself with these: #20BooksByBlackWomen (@melanatedreader) and #DecolonizeYourShelf2023 (@blackwalnutbooks)

You can find more Adriana Herrera here: @ladriana_herrera on Instagram and www.adrianaherreraromance.com. You can order her latest release An Island Princess Starts a Scandal here! And be on the lookout for Run Darling, coming out December 5!

You can find more Nikki Payne here: @nikkipaynebooks on Instagram, nikkipaynewrites on TikTok, and www.nikkipaynebooks.com. Preorder Sex, Lies, and Sensibility, releasing on February 13, 2024, here!

You can find more Nisha Sharma here: @nishawrites on Instagram and TikTok and www.nisha-sharma.com. Her latest release is Tastes Like Shakkar, and you can order it here!

Please check out www.23for23.net for SO, SO many more amazing books about BIPOC characters written by BIPOC authors!

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