Thank you!!! I'm muslim and it's really hard to find romance books without spice 💞💞

As a christian girlie who loves romance thats exactly what i needed, thanks Sunny 💛

As a Christian this is a God send!!! I’m a huge romance reader and don’t want to read explicit scenes. Thank you so much for this video!!

No but when I tell you I’ve realized I also much prefer more emotional, swoony romances with no spice and thus was in such a need for a rec video like this 😭❤

yesss! my christian self doesn’t have to skip over them explicit scenes 😩🤩❤️🎉!!

As a young 13 year old Christian girlie who’s obsessed with romance books but HATES smut I think I speak for all of us in saying THANK YOU SO MUCH

As a Christian I love to see those kind of recommendations 🥹💕

Someone has finally heard our cries😭😭as a Christian girlie who reads romance, especially romantic fantasy I have been struggling 😭thank you so much!

Thank you! I'm asexual and it makes me incredibly frustrated and angry that it seems like ANY romance is reduced to sex only

Homegirl really did just drop the BEST the toppest of the tier book rec video ever.❤❤🎉

girl i finally read better than the movies this past week and it had me giggling at like 3 am! it was sooo sweet 😭 i love the books with slow-burn moments of literally nothing happening because all the small scenes become such gems + my christian self always ends up speed-skimming explicit scenes lol. I love all the fluffy romances so ty!! ♥

more book reccomendation videos please!! (Not that my tbr is anywhere close to getting finished but still AHAHHA)

TIMESTAMPS: 1:03 holy grails 2:52 cutesy "so high school" 3:58 for my asian girlies 4:25 fade to black adult romance 6:27 love triangles 7:08 MY kind of romantasy 8:30 fantasies w/ romance 10:30 SLOOOOW & subtle (or just delulu) 12:13 misc

help i was literally getting tired of all the smutty books- tysmmmm!! 💛💛💛

Thank you! I always feel bad when I read books with smut. Like I’m intruding on something or reading corn. I like true romance stories on a deeper level than physical💖

Adding all the Brigid Kemmerer books to my more immediate "Read now!!!" TBR after having added them like months ago when I first saw you recommend them.

I would love to see you do a video about your favorite books and who you would fan-cast or just who you imagined while reading them.

One of my favorite books without spice is The Girl Who Fell Beneath The Sea! It’s so good and the romance is so sweet

I knew i was deep in sunny kim recs when i’ve read most of these 😭

Love this!! I really wish there were more really good no spice adult books, though because as I get older ya feels more disconnected but I still rather no spice to dodge

The way I just saw the notification for this video and I dropped what I was dooing to watch it I love you Sunny!!

the scream i scrumpt when you started off with letters to the lost. it’s one of my absolute favourite books ever! i’m also someone who enjoys feeling emotional pain when reading lol. love the recs!

I love this type of rec! For people that want to avoid spice all together, today tonight tomorrow, one for my enemy, and divine rivals all have spicy scenes (but all three are not a substantial part of their books)

4:32 OH MY GOODNESS! As a girl who doesn't like spice and has a hard time finding good books because of that, I was hoping to add more books to my list but was not expecting to see Choi Yeonjun here. I am a huge fan of TXT and Yeojun is my bias, girl you're gonna convince me to look more into this book.

sunny girl you are literally saving me during exam season with your videos I LOVE YOUUUU

As a Christian girlie, i am soooo glad i found you! Ive got soooo many new book recs now, youve earned a sub! I also feel spicy book take away from the plot and the characters personalities and stuff, i just prefer no spicr anyway, like whats the point? You forget away it like 2 days after anyway. Thanks again Sunny!!❤

i love this!! i will always need more no spice/closed door romances! difficult to find, but it’s worth the search to avoid smut. thank you so much for this video!

So many good recs! I’ve read a few of these and Lovely War is so good! Saving this video for future reference!

ahh thank you sm for this list! I saw this in my recommended and immediately clicked I’MMSO HAPPY TO FINALLY GET SOME NEW NO SPICEBOOK RECS

For people who love the vibes of bridgerton but want no spice- Blackmoore and Edenbrooke by Julianne Donaldson!!! I'm obsessed with them, esp Also Jo & Laurie, which is basically like the ultimate fix it fanfic for Little Women (aka where we stop denying that Jo & Laurie belonggg together). It also has my fav book quotes of all time - "Love yourself like I love you, old friend" and "who knew a heart could break open so expansively"

thank you so much for making this video it helped me add so many books to my tbr 😭❤️ but 2 other no spice books that i would recommend are Love & Gelato and Tweet Cute, they are seriously some of my favorite books of all time!!

Thank you so much! I’m like you, spice just isn’t my thing but it is EVERYWHERE on book social media 😭

Ahh I was so excited to find quite a few of these books on Kindle Unlimited! Thanks for the recommendations Sunny

thank you soo much for this! so many people only care about spice now…. 😕and its sad. but this video was great!!

i feel like sarah dessen's books would also fit the slowburn and no spice category (especially just listen and the truth about forever), they're very emotional and just focus on the development of the relationship before anything even happens (which happens mostly near the very end)

Ugh FINE! I'm opening Goodreads and adding more books to my TBR! Also, I really love your rapid fire recommendation videos like this!

For the delulu girl says now kiss genre you might enjoy North and South girl!! if you want to get into classics with a book where almost nothing happens until the very end but uuuuugh the angst the tensionnnn I loved itt. Towards the end of the book I almost second guessed myself, I was like wait did I imagine everything, is this even a romance (sub)plot?

No, like, I needed this! I been DNF all the booktok recommended stuff. I love story and when the story is all smut I just skip every page.

Thanks for this. ❤ I feel like spice is just so unnecessary and sometimes even ruins the tension between the characters.

Girl, you are running through this list getting right to it. I love that!!!

thank you!!!! feels like every book is explicit these days and when you don't vibe with that sort of stuff it's hard to find anything to read. very grateful for this vid!!!!

I LOVE LOVE LOVEEEE THAT YOU ADDED THE INFERNAL DEVICES I JUST FINISHED REREADING THEMAND UGHHHH WILL TESSA AND JEM ❤❤❤❤ so underrated 10/10 reccomend (bothget the girl love triangle )

ahh this came at the perfect time because I literally just finished reading if you could see the sun!! if you liked the book, i would highly recommend ann liang's other two books!! they are my current hyperfixation and i NEED more people to know about them🥺

If u haven’t already read Powerless, you gotta! It’s kinda a slowburn? You can say they are denial, but they still flirt with each other. Both of them also have a backstory that brings them closer.. or farther apart 🫢🫢 Either way, so good! 10 /10 recommend

Thank you !! I really want to get into romance, but i feel like i'm still too young for spice and so i avoid it. This is THE video i needed. ❤

For delulu girl "now kiss" I think The Year Of The Reaper by Makiiia Lucier is great. It is obvious that there is interest there, but nothing happens between the characters until the very very end, and the romantic feelings are swept aside throughout so I felt there was great buildup.

leigh bardugo makes books specifically for the delulu girls I feel because alex and darlington from ninth house makes me feel the same way even tho they literally have NO romantic interactions like none at all NOTHING HAPPENS yet they have been my roman empire for 2 years now I cry real tears for them

Thank you for sharing your recommendations! It is so hard to find books without spice these days, even in YA, which has always been my go-to “spice-free” reading. I will definitely be adding your recommendations to my TBR.

STOPP JACKS AND CORRICK DO IT FOR ME BRO I CANNOTT 😭😭😭

Love love the clean romance book list Sunny!! I've been looking for clean romance books😊❤

OMG OMG YOU ARE GOING TO DEVOUR ANN LIANG'S BOOKS: "This time it's real" & "I hope this doesn't find you" because omg I died especially I hope this doesn't find you because godddd the enemies to lovers in that one is STRONGGGGG!!

I’m blessed that I found this video and your channel! Tysm🤎

“The slowest slow slow burns literally nothing happens.” YOU ARE SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE THOSE BOOKS R THE BESTTT 😭

wanted to write all the books down here for myself or any people in the future :) HOLY GRAIL books -Letters to the Lost by Brigid Kemmerer -More Than We Can Tell by Brigid Kemmerer -Call It What You Want by Brigid Kemmerer cutesy “so high school” by taylor swift books -Better than the Movies by Lynn Painter -Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by Joya Goffney -Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon for my fellow sisters -Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean -If You Could See The Sun by Ann Liang -Not Here to be Liked by Michelle Quach -The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee -The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han fade to black adult romances -Worst Wingman Ever by Abby Jimenez -The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston -The Bodyguard by Katherine Center -Hello Stranger by Katherine Center here for the plot but the plot is a love triangle -The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes -The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes MY kind of “romantasy” -This Woven Kingdom by Tahereh Mafi -Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi -Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber -Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare -Heartless by Marissa Meyer -The Cruel Prince by Holly Black fantasies w/ a romance SUBPLOT (aka, the best) -Defy the Night by Brigid Kemmerer -The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni -Fable by Adrienne Young -Saint by Adrienne Young -Foul Lady Fortune by Chloe Gong -One for My Enemy by Olivie Blake -Dance of Thieves by Mary E. Pearson delulu girl says “now kiss!” -Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo -Truthwitch by Susan Dennard miscellaneous -Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross -On the Fence by Kasie West happy reading everyone!! :))

I recommend "Beneath the Wide Silk Sky" It's such a well written book with romance and dreams etc. +0 spice

And I immediately subscribed!! Your recs are SO good, I've probably read about half of these already (which gives me so many exciting ones to look forward too). I don't hate spice inherently, I just need to feel really connected to the characters and their relationship first (slow burns are sooo much juicier!!), and I've found that most books I read that feature it tend to overdo it, and forget that the genre was supposed to be romance, it just becomes a full on smut novel. At that point I just get super bored, and mentally check out lol. As for recs, I'd say pretty much everything by Kasie West (Sunkissed, and Places We've Never Been are faves), Margaret Rogerson's first two books (An Enchantment of Ravens, and Sorcery of Thorns), and Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (I've only read book one so far tho and can't speak about sequels)

OMG i lovee Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry such a cute book

Thank you so much for this!! It’s so hard to find no spice books as a Christian

Girrrl im saving this and opening my TBR list next time, I'm rewatching this video again def

Thank you girl, I've added plenty of books on my tbr 📚!

thumbnail n editing (n content, obviously) always goes so hard

Love these recs! I loved some of these books and added some to my tbr :)

Oh my gosh I never hear people talk about these Brigid Kemmerer books but they're SO good!!! I love them. Thanks for all the recommendations! I don't mind spice sometimes but it would be nice to change it up with some no spice too!

as someone who gets uncomfortable over explicit scenes (I know I can just.. skip it.), this video was sent from the heavens

BIG +1 FOR THE INFERNAL DEVICES, LITERALLY A MASTERCLASS OF A SERIES IN HOW TO WRITE LOVE TRIANGLES

I can also recommend Susan Dennard‘s other series the Luminaries, love story there is also really slow burn, Magic is interesting and the books are not to long. ❤

Yes thank you for this, every 2024 new release I’ve read has had spice and it’s overwhelming when every book I pick up is like surprise spicy scene! I prefer no spice as well

If you like closed-door dark romance, you should try Whispers of Fire by Cassie Kellergan, it's about a biker falling for a mute girl and the swoon is swoooooning

I read If You Could See the Sun recently and received my own copy today (the one I read was from the library, in case it did have smut) -- and Hello Stranger is amazing! Glad to see there other *no smut* readers out there 💕

i wrote all of them down omg i will read them all🌺✨ thank u for the recs i don't like spice in books (it's super scary to read it public🥰)

Thanks for the recommendations! One thing I'd note is that the Shatter Me series and Once Upon a Broken Heart are not 0 spice. I suppose s3x doesn’t happen on page, but if makeout sences ect. aren't your thing, (they aren't for me, haha) then I'd maybe look elsewhere.

Thank you for this video, I really needed it 💗

this was the perfect video for me as someone who doesn’t read spice💖 also, I’m in a terrible slump and I want to start the infernal devices trilogy but I was wondering if you would recommend it to get out of a reading slump? I’m a romance girly too so it has to have romance for me to enjoy it

Yass no smut or spice plz! Thank you thank you!!! ❤❤❤

thanks so much for this video! kinda mad at myself because some of these books were already on my physical and digital TBH list, but now it gave me the courage to read them ASAP : )

AHH THIS IS THE BEST GIFT EVERRRR

once you mentioned the prison healer i put my full trust into you

@1:17 omg. after browsing my shelf, i was just thinking to myself why these books are not that popular because i loved both (letters to the lost & more than we can tell) after reading them years ago. and i'm also planning on rereading them because it's been a while and i don't remember much but i remember really, really enjoying them. so glad i found this video 🤍

just to add to the sentiment of other comments - thank you so much for making a video like this! I love romance but I feel like spice is such a big thing right now and it's hard to find good books without spice when that's not what I'm looking for like sometimes I just want something sweet!! lol amazing recs

YOURE SO REAL SUNNY ILY

I needed this! 🤎

Finally someone talks about these books! Brigid K. is so good, i recommend Dear Emmie Blue in new adult books. No spice but so good, Lia is amazing. And Kasie West books are perfect for no spice fans.

Thank you for posting this🙏

omg i wanna read tokyo ever after now because i lovee Yeonjun LOLL

Thank you for the recs bestie Sunny (:

Brigid Kemmerer might be my favorite author! If you are open to fantasy I highly recommend her other series.

I love On The Fence! I have read almost all of that authors books and they are all really good

guys if you like the so highschool category I would recommend Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert and I Hope This Doesn't Find You by Ann Liang, they're so adorable!

I LOVE romance books but I am not a fan of spicy books so I can never find good books. Thank you soooooo much for the recommendations!

YES IF YOU COULD SEE THE SUNN LOVE THAT BOOK

Keep doing this recommedation videos! Im a Christian and really aprecciate videos like this! Specially since I feel like in general smut ruins what I really like about romance. Even if I wasnt christian I still wouldnt like smut, mainly because I like more the tension and build up! Plus the idea of them loving each other because of who they are and not for pleasure or their body yk.

recent non-spice list of books I liked ! - Kit McBride Gets A Wife by Amy Barry (dual POV Historical Romance, matchmaking) and these two I LOOOOVED (take my memory so I can read them again

Letters to the lost literally dragged me out of my reading slump

Thx sunny ☀️

hey! I quickly wanted to let you know that today tonight tomorrow does have some spice! its minimal and not detailed but it does have some.

The fact that I knew it was Six of crows before you said it😂 but seriously NOTHING HAPPENS!! But it was one of the best romances ❤

Excuse me while I ugly cry ughhh so gooood

Just wanted to give the heads up for people that the infernal devices, the folk of the air, and fable (if memory serves me correctly) definitely have sex scenes. I think clockwork princess is does eventually fade to black but it still gets steamy! I remember skipping ahead in the queen of nothing because it was more than I was comfortable with. I wouldn't call them super spicy (it's basically just one scene), but the content is in there. I've read better than the movies, letters to the lost, and heartless and those are definitely smut free! Six of crows and the inheritance games also doesn't show anything more than kissing on page from my memory. Tokyo ever after is also no smut, but the sequel has a sex scene so know that going in. I see my fellow religious people in the comments and I see your efforts to cultivate virtue!

Oh my goodness i literally adore the Tokyo ever after series! Yeonjun🤭🤭

This is great! Thank you so much. I need more of these recs