Weekend reads: Week of December 27, 2025

Here's a collection of literary posts that we didn't share on our reader blog this past week but thought were worth highlighting.

• Not just love, actually: why romance fiction is booming (The Guardian)

• Why I stopped reading print and embraced audiobooks (The New York Times)

• She put the heat in Heated Rivalry (The New York Times)

• A short history of romantasy (Book Riot)

• What if readers like AI-generated fiction? (The New Yorker)

• If you quit social media, will you read more books? (The New Yorker)