Book sales — in general — are down, but one genre is bucking that trend: romance. Romance novel sales surged a whopping 52% in 2022. So what’s behind the popularity? How did romance become the reigning champion among fiction genres in America To find out we talk with Leah Koch and Bea Hodges-Koch, owners of The Ripped Bodice, (https://www.therippedbodicela.com/) a single-genre bookstore focused on romance novels. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy (https://cnn.com/privacy)
