![]() In the just wrapped Bareknuckle Bastardsseries, a duke’s abandoned bastards find success and riches on the streets of London. Since then she’s gone on to write many wonderful, award winning books and series including Rules of Scoundrels (starts with A Rogue by Any Other Name) about a group of rebel aristocrats who are princes of the London underworld and the Scandal & Scoundrel series ( starts with A Rogue not Taken) gives a TMZ spin to historical romance. Sarah MacLean burst onto the scene about ten years ago with Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake (Love by Numbers #1) with a voluptuous wallflower who’s ready to grab life by the horns and asks the most notorious rake she knows to be her teacher and partner and much to the surprise of both of them, he accepts. Favorite Malloren titles are Devilish, Winter Fireand The Secret Wedding. Favorite Rogue titles include An Arranged Marriage, Forbidden and The Devil’s Heiress. (an all time favorite). The author also has the Georgian-set Malloren series about a sprawling, complicated aristocratic family and their many adjacent branches (that includes pirates and other untrustworthy rogues)-all ruled over by the Marquess of Rothgar. I love this series so much I wrote a previous blog post about it. In An Unwilling Bride, a son of a duke (or so he thinks!) discovers that he is the illegitimate product of an affair by his mother and he must find and marry the heretofore unknown daughter of his father's affair to save the family line-it will take all of the Rogues to help these opposites fall in love and get hitched. Best of all, they always have to Scooby Gang it to solve a mystery, win the girl and to vanquish both villains and posh society snobs. Her Company of Rogues Regency-set series, about a group of friends who bonded while fighting off bullies in boarding school, is full of complicated romances, dastardly villains, strong-willed heroines that can rescue themselves and rakes with hearts of gold. There was a time in my life when I stopped reading historical romance (what was I thinking?) but it is Jo Beverley that brought back my love of the genre. Most are available as e-books (through SimplyE and/or OverDrive), but you’ll also find e-audio books and of course, hard copies that you can check-out from our grab-and-go library locations. And, because I am indecisive, there are a lot of them. ![]() This list is full of old and new favorite romance books and series and iconic romance authors whose every book Kate and I love. ![]() In romance there's very little fear of spoilers because we know how they end! Unless it's suggested, you can mix and match and read out of order to your heart's content. Just because a book is part of a series does not mean it has to be read in order. If a romance isn’t fun for you (because reading romance should be fun!)-move on - there are plenty to choose from on this list. Kate and I have gathered our favorites, full of our favorite romantic tropes and archetypes but that doesn’t mean they will be to everyone’s taste nor will the love scene descriptions and heat levels be. What brings joy to one reader or escape for another is not always the same. Some of the plot lines and dialogue-not so much. The romance, tropes and character archetypes are timeless. So remember this when reading a romance novel written in the '90s, the early '00s and the mid-20th century (there are two!). ![]() The genre reflects the society of the time it is written. The journey is the who, what, where and why of the story. And, while they are set in a historical time period they're not exactly “historical fiction” and the endings are rarely-if ever-in question. The romance genre is officially defined as having a romantic relationship at the center of the plot and a happy/optimistic HEA (happily ever after) at the end. If you are just dipping back into the historical romance genre or are exploring the genre for the first time, here are some things to keep in mind: We have more sexy, brooding dukes then you will know what to do with (or will you.?), plus a lot of rakes and rogues too-all of whom will ultimately fulfill your every need first, listen to you and validate you (while shirtless!). Our list includes books set in Regency- and Victorian-era England plus, for good measure, Gilded Age New York. Do not be discouraged! Fellow romance reader Kate Fais (and YA Librarian) and I have got you covered. Go ahead and put your name on the lists for all the Bridgerton books you want but, in the meantime, Kate and I have put together a list of books you can enjoy and indulge in while you wait. If you’ve watched the Bridgerton series on Netflix and then gone to NYPL's catalog to look for all the other books in the series by Julia Quinn, you may have noticed something-HOLDS.
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