Seven Romantic Books for Valentine's Day
Let’s just dispense with the formalities. CanLit can be sexy, funny and romantic. It’s full of books that are perfect for Valentine’s Day or anytime you want something to warm your heart or raise your temperature in the cold, dark month of February, without even needing to mention Bear. Here are seven splendid independently published books with love in the mix to get you through the shortest month:
Friend Beloved: Marie Stopes, Gordon Hewit and an Ecology of Letters
edited by Laura Jean Cameron
Friendship, collaboration and tangled emotions between real people, this is a fascinating look at young scientists forging careers before WWI through their letters to each other and the co-authored article they called their “one little sin.”
You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked.
by Sheung-King
Ethereal, romantic and disorienting this is an elegant, globe-spanning tale that captures being young, rootless and in love even though the love doesn’t last.
At Last Count
by Claire Ross Dunn
Sweet, heartbreaking and redemptive with great depictions of OCD and birding wrapped up with a gentle enemies-to-lovers romance.
The Capacity for Infinite Happiness
by Alexis von Koniglsow
Family mysteries, slapstick comedy (literally, the Marx Brothers are in here) and even some math combined with a tender coming-home romance.
Once Upon a Time in West Toronto
by Terri Favro
Sexy, funny and action-packed with an operatic cast of characters, a fabulous setting in the Italian community of 1970s Toronto and a forbidden love.
#Indianlovepoems,
by Tenille K. Campbell
Hot, funny and political this poetry collection celebrates Indigenous intimacy in all its complexity with great storytelling, a welcoming voice and decidedly erotic lines.
Secret Sex: An anthology,
edited by Russel Smith
Fan-yourself-while-reading spicy, with a fabulous mix of voices, this collection of short fiction pieces has some well-known Canadian writers, though we don’t know who wrote what, sharing their raciest work.
