In honor of Valentine's Day, we're serving up a range of books about love—from the romantic to the erotic thriller. We hope this holds you over until the second season of Blind Date With a Book arrives this spring. Here are the books mentioned during this episode.

• The Object of My Affection by Stephen McCauley
• The Guncle by Steven Rowley
• The Book of the Most Precious Substance by Sara Gran
• Talia Hibbert's Brown Sisters trilogy
• Happily Ever Afters by Elise Bryant
• Vladimir by Julia May Jonas
• All About Love by bell hooks
• Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
• I’m Not Hungry but I Could Eat by Christopher Gonzalez, “friend of the pod”
• This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love. by Jennifer Wortman