Lusty Library: A Spicy Romance Book Podcast

Left unsupervised, Joey and Birdie went feral on the internet and chose chaos. The Dames unearthed the weirdest, most unhinged books known to mankind. Then, naturally, they decided to put them in a literary cage match.

Welcome to the FIRST EVER BATTLE OF THE UNHINGED BOOKS!

Birdie’s Pick: Unhinged by Vera Valentine — an erotic paranormal romance. Because apparently humans are too boring. Why not fall for a sentient door w...

Secrets? Check. Hot garage boys? Unfortunately, yes. Vintage cars? A whole damn parking lot of 'em. Enough sexual tension to send your Pinterest board into a full shrine of old cars captioned with men's names in pink cursive? You already know.

Join The Dames as they unpack all the drama in the viral BookTok sensation Flock by Kate Stewart. This episode features an alarming amount of enthusiasm for fictional men who should legally re...

Congratulations to us! We have officially reached 50 episodes, which is honestly terrifying because this podcast should've been put on a watchlist around Episode 3... and yet, here we are. Completely unsupervised.

Join us Dirty Dames as we celebrate this wildly unnecessary milestone the only way we know how: with cocktails, cake, chaos, and enough collective delusion to convince ourselves the morally gray guy with the dagger collect...

This episode features haunted mansions, supernatural chaos, unbearable longing, deadly trials, emotional damage, and an MMC who could absolutely ruin your life...and somehow you'd still be screaming, "But he's so romantic!"

Join The Dames as they descend through all nine levels of hell with Phantasma by Kaylie Smith, the BookTok-favorite dark fantasy romance packed with gothic horror, deadly competition, and "I can save him" delusio...

Nobody expected a gothic Victorian romance to get everyone acting unhinged, but The Poisoner by I.V. Ophelia has managed to do just that! 

Birdie was done the moment she saw the cover. Before anyone had been poisoned, bitten, or betrayed, she was already kicking her feet and twirling her hair.

Meanwhile, Lexx is fighting for her life against a gloriously unhinged take on the knot trope all while her historical fact-checking gene...

Somebody call the FBI because Joey is breaking every rule of the podcast and bringing out her all-time favorite dark romance novel for this episode.  Join The Dames as they binge-read their way through The Risk by S.T. Abby.  If you like books packed with serial killer chaos, revenge plots, and one wildly unhinged FMC you would absolutely help hide a body for, then Captain Joey would like to formally welcome you to her te...

Want to meet the coolest mom ever? This Mother’s Day, The Dames welcome Lexx’s Mum for a heartfelt conversation full of her sage wisdom you won’t want to miss. Travel back in time to 1983 small town Dalton Montana courtesy of Bluebird Gold by Devney Perry. Can The Dames discuss the plot like respectful intelligent humans or will they find themselves fully derailed by vivid mental images of thick-thighed Sheriffs b...

Birdie claimed part two was “for closure,” which is hilarious because there is no closure in this episode, but rather the continuation of a rapid, irreversible descent into the cult of male/male hockey romance...

In this special Part-2 Episode, The Dames reheat Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid for another glorious hour, all while making utterly lewd hydration choices. At this point, Birdie has dropped all pretense of normal...

Birdie held the podcast hostage and threatened to quit unless we read this book immediately, so obviously we folded like a cheap lawn chair. Join The Dames as we body-check our way into Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid. Is it an obsession? A commitment? A lifestyle? A cry for help? Birdie says it’s just “devouring positive content,” which apparently means consuming hockey romance at a pace that concerns medical profe...

Welcome to Episode 43 of the Lusty Library Podcast, where The Dames lace up their combat boots, apply their lip gloss, and descend into War Games by Sheridan Anne. Listener Warning: If the word "plop" has ever bothered you, you may want to skip the first five minutes...Stretch, hydrate, text your therapist a heads-up, and get ready to join us on the battlefield.

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Two Dames are living their absolute nerd-girl fantasy, and one is rolling her eyes so hard she risks blacking out before the episode ends. Strap in as The Dames crash-land into I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I’m Trapped in a Rom-Com by Kimberly Lemming. Will the aliens' sucker tails earn them a certified hot-factor green light from The Dames, or will they get a "Hell No" like the minotaurs before them?

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Are you into witches, men who absolutely should not be lurking in forests, and all the wildly inappropriate things one can do with shadow magic? Perfect. You’re our people. Join The Dames as we descend into the debut novel of Bria Rose, Her Dark Promise. If you happen to be extremely knowledgeable about the Gutenberg Press or the witchcraft hysteria, we strongly recommend imbibing in a "Witch’s Curse" before pressing pl...

If this podcast had HR, OSHA, or even a mildly concerned manager, this episode would’ve been shut down before the record button finished blinking.  Join The Dames as we recklessly clock in at Morning Glory Milking Farm by C.M. Nascosta. Wildly over educated and mildly under qualified, we may have treated this book like hands-on job training. What starts as “surely this will be fine” devolves into chaos, and u...

Forget cocoa, small towns, and wholesome holiday kisses—This holiday season, The Dames skipped the sugar and went straight for the spice with The Naughty List by Jade West. Think you've read a lot of smut? So did we, and we spent the entire book with our jaws on the floor. Was this the best holiday gift we could’ve asked for? Without question.

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Breaking news: Joey has officially been taken out at the knees by a listener selection so wild, it deserves its own warning label. Ride along as The Dames speed, swerve, and occasionally scream their way through Creedence by Penelope Douglas. This episode is jam-packed with intrigue, moral dilemmas, and did we say hot brothers AND a hot dad? Stay until the end to see how The Dames rate this one! 

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Grab your red cloak, because we’re straying off the path...This episode is chock full of claws, growls, knots, and so much feral alpha wolf energy that you may think you've found your true mate. Join The Dames as they journey through A Cage of Crimson by K.F. Breene. Will Birdie’s rage over this cliffhanger ever be soothed? Or will her utter bewilderment over the creative anatomical positioning choices in chapter 2 dist...

Join The Dames as they collectively scream “Let’s-go! We'll win! BC!” We’re here with our pom poms because this smut goes into overtime!

This week we’re tackling For The Fans by Nyla K.—a boy-love bonanza with enough sweaty tension to fog up a stadium. Can Lexx survive her personal hell of reading about sports without breaking into hives, or will hometown Pride pull her through?

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This episode The Dames are crashing into the gun-toting, grudge-holding, morally-gray-man buffet that is Forget Me Not Bombshell by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti. It’s dark. It’s dirty. It’s the mafia madness we crave.

Will The Dames swoon for the brooding brute with a blood-soaked past? Fall head-over-heels for the seductive chaotic sweet-talker who’d burn the world for a smirk? Or maybe they’ll...

Did you ever dream of being the cheese in a man meat sandwich; toasted, melted, and absolutely smothered between two possessive, sinfully hot alpha males??? Then this is the episode for you! Join The Dames as they argue about quality smut in The Moon and His Tides by Gianna Darling. Ain’t nothing soft and dreamy about this moon, Darling. You’re about to be served up a hot, chaotic, moon-soaked ménage à turmoil that may ...