12 Books To Make Your Heart Beat Faster This Valentine’S Day

Romance is in the air, Terriers, and whether Valentine’s Day is your favorite, or least favorite, holiday, who doesn’t enjoy reading about love and romance? We’ve put together an eclectic list that includes the book about serial killers that made it onto Cosmo’s list of top romance novels of the year (!?), an anthology of essays about Black romantic love, a graphic novel featuring queer women in space, and for the cynics among us, a research-heavy memoir of one woman’s quest to prove that some people are destined for lives of solitude—and that’s okay.