Historical Romance, like much of romance, is all about the series. The Bridgerton Series by Julia Quinn is a must-read for the Regency fan. The family interactions will leave you laughing as you read and waiting for the next book to see what our favorite regency siblings will get up to next! Two of the books in the series scored a perfect 10 on our podcast and the rest are equally high scorers. It is also an upcoming series on Netflix, so now is a perfect time to dive into the pages before it hits the screen! After that, you can read the rest of Julia Quinn’s work as it is, in our opinion, a staple of the genre.
Click here to listen to Bridgerton 1: The Duke and I (TW: Consent)
For those of you already in love with Historical Romance or simply looking for more recs after our three brilliant suggestions, feel free to check out our podcast! For new listeners, we recommend starting with Episode 044 “It Happened One Midnight” by Julie Anne Long. We started our podcast with her Pennyroyal Green series and this book, which falls towards the tail end of the series, surprised us in the best way – and we’d read the book before!
We also have few interviews with authors in the genre. For that we recommend checking out Episode 041: Quietly Triumphant and Delightfully Mad with Olivia Waite. Waite is the author of Avon’s first F/F romance, A Beginner’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics. She has amazing insights into the genre and mainstreaming Queer Romance. We could easily have spoken to her for days.
Thank you for reading and we hope all your ever afters end happily!
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