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Throw back to the Regency fashion of the Netflix series Bridgerton for very of-the-moment, on-trend imagery.
When the world goes to hell, it follows that Earth dwellers would start looking for an escape hatch—one of the most popular, it turns out, is a paperback. There’s a long history of sales of romance novels spiking during times of war and unrest. As recently as 2008’s Great Recession, the only book sales that did not plummet were steamy paperbacks from Harlequin publishers, which actually rose. People, desperate for dopamine, search out distraction. And, in many cases, the more …