*no spice* book recommendations (aka my favourite books ever) 

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

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

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 😭❤

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!!

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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 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.

TIMESTAMPS: <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="63">1:03</a> holy grails <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="172">2:52</a> cutesy "so high school" <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="238">3:58</a> for my asian girlies <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="265">4:25</a> fade to black adult romance <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="387">6:27</a> love triangles <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="428">7:08</a> MY kind of romantasy <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="510">8:30</a> fantasies w/ romance <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="630">10:30</a> SLOOOOW & subtle (or just delulu) <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="733">12:13</a> misc

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!

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

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!! :))

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.

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)

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

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"

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

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

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

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

YOURE SO REAL SUNNY ILY

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

Thank you for this video, I really needed it 💗

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

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!!!!

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

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

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)

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

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

AHH THIS IS THE BEST GIFT EVERRRR

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="272">4:32</a> 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.

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

Thank you for the recs bestie Sunny (:

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!

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 : )

You have amazing book taste!!

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!!

the video I have always needed.

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

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

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 youu! great recs

I needed this! 🤎

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

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

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

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)

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

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🥺

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. ❤

@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="77">1:17</a> 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 🤍

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

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.

Great video💕. I didn't really like the first Truthwitch book so I haven't read the second book yet but know which couple you're talking about because I also predicted their romance.

Thank you for this video❤

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

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

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 IF YOU COULD SEE THE SUNN LOVE THAT BOOK

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?

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!

Yay I need this!!!

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

Yay! A vid with its own unique title LMFAO 😂 I click 🔥 Always love your recommendation vids and was delighted to see one about no spice 😍

The rom commers also by Katherine Center, When in rome by Sarah Adams, the Selection by Kiera Cass, Ana and the french kiss by Stephanie Perkings, To sir with love by Lauren Layne, Emergency contact also by Lauren Layne, A novel love story by Ashley Poston ( there is one scene but it isn't very specific), Just haven't met you yet by Sophie Cousens, aaand those are all I can think about right now. 😊

A book that isn't really a top tier / holy grail romance BUT it's one that I had SUCH a hyperfixation on and I can't wait to reread it bc I'm obsessed with its trope is the Gilded/Cursed duology by Marissa Meyer. It's in a high fantasy world based off of a fairytale retelling for Rumpelstiltskin (I most assuredly spelled that wrong) and it's a romance between a girl and this ghost? boy and after The Last Hours I needed more of that trope so there you go if you're like me. It's also got great banter between the characters and as far as I remember there's no smut but it is more on the adult side.

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.

I’ve read some and quite a few are on my TBR…. So helpful. If I want to read spice, I’ll read icebreaker lol. If I don’t, I now have a huge list. Thanks again.

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

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.

my favorite adult romances that have absolutely no spice and only a bit of kissing (but lots of fluff and love) are Cleopatra Margot’s books!

This was very helpful, finding books without spice is really difficult nowadays. Thank you Sunny!! Ive seen some people saying that the seven year slip does have open door spice, is that correct though? Im asking because I dont know anyone who has read it.

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 ❤

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🥰)

Hey Sunny new subscriber here!! Just found you randomly nd now I am obsessed. ❤

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

SHATTER ME WAS SO GOOOD

Thank you lovely ❤

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

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.

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

THANK U

Six of crows is one of my favorites!!!!!

would you consider turning this into a bookshelf on goodreads?

I recommend Afterlove by Tanya Byrne. It's a sapphic love story split in two parts. The first is just girl meets girl and the girls have the softest most lovely romance ever (five stars five million trillion stars best romance ever and no spice) the second has more of a supernatural element / right person not enough time and there's a lot of conflict. I don't want to give spoilers but yeah. I liked the first part better than the second part bc the supernatural element was iffy for me. Books need to be either full on high fantasy or exclusively contemporary for me, so this one with just a tiny tiny bit of supernatural didn't do it for me. But the first part was so so lovely. My advice is read the first part then if you want read the second part

I used to love Kasie West, i def recommend all of her older stuff, especially PS I like you and By Your Side

Sunny I need you to read "Ferryman" by Claire McFall. It's a trilogy series, I'm currently reading the first book right now and I am OBSESSED with the characters.

My main language is not english so i cant be sure to buy them if i can understand. So could you tell me what are the levels of these books.TYSM💛

omg its like youtube read my mind because why did they know i need no spice recs

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!

I am not sure if you read this but it is a fantasy novel named powerless by lauren roberts and it is a trilogy with no spice or smut and is kind of an enemies to lovers trope and i highly recommend and it falls under your category now kiss ❤😊