S09.02: Romance by Numbers

This is a fun one! We’re talking romance novels with numbers in the titles today, a wide collection of books from zero to infinity! While we came prepared to talk about four or five books each, we ended up playing a little impromptu game where we name books for every number we can. We haven’t reread most of these, but you’ll hear that there are a few peppered through here that we were prepared to talk about. We had a great time, and hope you do.

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A Number of Books

• Below Zero by Ali Hazelwood
• Zero to Sixty by Marie Harte
• It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey
• One and Only by Jenny Holiday
• Party of Two by Jasmine Guillory
• Goldie and the [three] Bears by Hannah Murray
• Three Dirty Secrets by Nikki Sloan
• Three Way Split by Elia Winters
• Party of Three by C. Travis Rice
• Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
• Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
• Five Brothers by Penelope Douglas
• Six by Opal Carew
• Holiday for Six by Kelly Finley
• Seven Secrets of Seduction by Anne Mallory
• The Seven Rings by Nora Roberts
• The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
• Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
• Chasin’ Eight by Lorelai James
• Eight Nights of Flirting by Hannah Reynolds
• Eight Seconds to Ride by Ashley James
• The Hell’s Eight Series by Sarah McCarty
• Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake by Sarah MacLean
• Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord by Sarah MacLean
• Ten by Roxie Riveria
• Ten Hammers by Liz Archer
• Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke’s Heart by Sarah MacLean
• Twelve Nights by Hope Tarr
• A Duke a Dozen by Shana Galen
• Cowboys by the Dozen by Tina Leonard
• Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
• Fifty Shades of Gray by EL James
• 52 Reasons to Hate my Father by Jessica Brody
• 99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne
• To One Hundred by Melissa Blue
• The 1001 Dark Nights Series
• 3000 Reasons to Act by Jamie P Bradley
• 10,000 Hours with a Rich Menace by Jahquel J.
• How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire by Kerrilyn Sparks
• The Blackout Billionaire Series by Naima Simone
• Infinite by Corinne Michaels
• Love Times Infinity by Lane Clark
• An Infinite Love Story by Chanel Cleeton

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00:00 Bantr

04:23 Sarah Has a Story About Numbers

08:45 AD: THOROUGHBREDS

10:30 Nine Rules

18:00 The Stephanie Plump Series

20:50 From Zero to Two

25:55 AD: THE KNAVE AND THE MOON

27:45 From Three to Seven

43:20 AD: BIG BAD WOLF

45:00 From Seven to Twelve

55:55 AD: MEET CUTE MAGIC

57:50 From 20 to Infinity

1:27:39 Wrapping Up