The Ripped Bodice, established on March 4, 2016,[1] is a bookstore in Culver City, California in the United States, which sells only romance novels.
[1] Books sold in The Ripped Bodice span a variety of sub-genres within romance and erotica including historical, contemporary, paranormal, sci-fi, LGBTQ, and multilingual.
[9] Starting the year the store opened in 2016, the Koch sisters began releasing an annual report titled The State of Racial Diversity in Romance Publishing.
The winners included Xeni by Rebekah Weatherspoon, Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan, Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert, A Prince on Paper; One Ghosted, Twice Shy; and An Unconditional Freedom by Alyssa Cole, American Love Story by Adriana Herrera, Trashed by Mia Hopkins, and The Austen Playbook by Lucy Parker.
[13] The 2020 winners were Go Deep by Rilzy Adams, Harbor by Rebekah Weatherspoon, Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade, Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert, The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite, The Duke Who Didn’t by Courtney Milan, The Rakess by Scarlett Peckham, The Roommate by Rosie Danan, The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa, You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria, You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson, and Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur.