Feb. Romance Culture Calendar and a Wuthering Heights Surprise Treat
Love things for love month, and up top: a very fun giveaway
Are you through Volume 1 of Wuthering Heights, and do you have *waves hands* thoughts? Join the chat here, and if you’re in NYC this Saturday, Jan. 24, come read and book-gossip in person at P&T Knitwear, 3 P.M. to 6 P.M. at 180 Orchard St.
And now, for a big reveal:
831 Stories and Belletrist are giving away 15 pairs of tickets to a private Warner Bros. Pictures advance screening of Emerald Fennell’s film interpretation of the novel on Feb. 5 in NYC: Enter below for a chance to win a seat for you and a pal. Entries will close on Jan. 27, and we’ll notify our randomly selected winners on Jan. 28.
831’s February Romance Culture Calendar
A dozen things we’re looking forward to during the love-iest month.
Eight Books
One & Only by Maurene Goo: Buzzy adult debut about a Korean-American matchmaker who falls into a love triangle and unearths a family secret (Feb. 3)
Heap Earth Upon It: Exclusive American Edition by Chloe Michelle Howarth: Sapphic obsession set in the sixties, care of the author of Sunburn (Feb. 3)
The End of Romance by Lily Meyer: Pitched as an anti-romance romance novel…with a happily ever after?! (Feb. 3)
Two Can Play by Ali Hazelwood: An enemies-to-lovers novella in the world of video-game design, for fans of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, surely (Feb. 10)
It’s All in Your Head by Sabina Nordqvist: The set-up: Fake-dating at a chronic-pain support group (Feb. 10)
The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family by Dorothy Roberts: Non-fiction with so much love (Feb. 10)
And Now, Back to You by B.K. Borison: A meteorologist meet-cute in the world of Borison’s bestselling First-Time Caller (Feb. 24)
All We Have Is Time by Amy Tordoff: An immortal woman and a time-traveling man encounter each other at Shakespeare’s Globe in 1605 and Woodstock in 1969 (Feb. 24)
Three Screen Happenings
Pillion: A24 queer BDSM love story (dom-com?) based on the novel Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones and starring Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård (Feb. 6 in theaters)
“Wuthering Heights”: Emerald Fennell’s version of Emily Brontë’s classic…which you are reading or re-reading right now?! (Feb. 13 in theaters)
Bridgerton Season 4, Part 2: Following Part 1 kicking off Jan. 29 and focusing on Benedict and Sophie’s love story (Feb. 26 on Netflix)
One Event
An Evening of Romances with 831 Stories at Greenlight Bookstore: Featuring 831 authors Upasna Barath, Cat Disabato, Eliza Dumais, Lana Schwartz, and Erika Veurink, with Lindsey Weber of Who? Weekly in the role of Andy Cohen–esque moderator (Feb. 5 in Brooklyn)
Head to our events page for the full (very packed!) 831 Stories Jan. & Feb. event calendar with happenings in NYC, L.A., SF, D.C., Philly, and Chicago.






Ooh, I wasn’t aware of any of those romance novels and so many of them sound like my kind of thing! Especially intrigued by The End of Romance
One and only is amazing! I’ll probably finish tonight. It’s everything I want in a romance — even as a non romance reader.