If you want more ton and courtship and Regency manners in books like Bridgerton, try these historical romance novels…
If you’ve enjoyed Season 1 the most…
Lucretia by Rachel Carter
The titular Lucretia is a debutante who had been even more unusually sheltered than most. Now, suddenly finding herself an heiress, she has to navigate her first Season – and win the heart of one cold-hearted man of fashion…
Why it might fit if you liked S1: debutante heroine; worldly hero.
A Lord for Miss Larkin by Carola Dunn
Alison Larkin is suddenly launched into the ton by an arrival of her wealthy widowed aunt. She has a bevy of very different suitors, but finds herself falling for the most unsuitable one…
Why it might fit if you liked S1: debutante heroine; several suitors.
Miss Tavistock’s Mistake by Linore Rose Burkard
Miss Tavistock had been promised in marriage to a sea captain. However, when they actually meet, tempestuous sparks fly…
Why it might fit if you liked S1: ingenue heroine; finding-each-other-infuriating-to-lovers
The Nobody by Diane Farr
A frightened country miss flees a party after being insulted by a great socialite. She is saved from the danger of the dark streets – however, it turns out that her mystery man is engaged to the very socialite…
Why it might fit if you liked S1: debutante heroine; headstrong hero; scandal.
The Tenacious Miss Tamerlane by Kasey Michaels
A young lady’s chance introduction with distant cousins puts her in the path of a duke. He, in turn, is looking for someone to save his sister from her own high spirits…
Why it might fit if you liked S1: debutante heroine; hero who is a duke; scandal.
If you’ve enjoyed Season 2 the most…
A Very Merry Chase by Teresa Thomas Bohannon
A rebellious heroine and a somewhat stuffy hero clash during the Season.
Why it might fit if you liked S2: sharp-tongue heroine; clash of tempers.
My Lord Winter by Carola Dunn
The heroine’s coach breaks down in front of the stiff-necked hero’s country house. She has to ask for help – but she also has reasons for concealing her identity…
Why it might fit if you liked S2: sharp-tongue heroine; stuffy hero.
Talk of the Town by Joan Smith
Daphne wants to help her aunt, once a famed beauty, to write her scandalous memoirs. Unfortunately, a certain duke misinterprets these as an attempt to blackmail his family…
Why it might fit if you liked S2: sharp-tongue heroine; stuffy hero; enemies-to-lovers.
An Authoress and a Viscount by Ann Hawthrone
Not to toot my own horn, but… this romance does include a spirited ingenue heroine and a rakish hero – at Queen Charlotte’s court, no less.
Why it might fit if you liked S2: sharp-tongue heroine; rakish hero; opposites attract.
Three Weeks With Lady X by Eloisa James
The hero, a bastard son of a duke, is in search of a wife – but first he must acquire a certain polish, and the heroine will help him…
Why it might fit if you liked S2: sharp-tongue heroine; opposites attract.
If you’ve enjoyed Season 3 the most…
Escapade by Joan Smith
The seemingly unassuming heroine, Ella, is secretly a gossip columnist who takes a certain duke to task in her column. He does not suspect her, and therefore invites her and her aunt to his week-long country house party…
Why it might fit if you liked S3: gossip columnist heroine
Mismatched Under the Mistletoe by Jess Michaels
John Cavendish had been in love with Lady Emily for most of his adult life. Will a Christmas country house party be enough to bring them together – especially given that Emily has matchmaking plans for the guests?
Why it might fit if you liked S3: friends-to-lovers
Brighton Road by Susan Carroll
Gwenda Vickers is an author of Gothic novels, and happens upon Lord Ravenel’s proposal being rejected by the lady he courted. She tries to interfere with an advice… sparks fly.
Why it might fit if you liked S3: writer heroine, elements of comedy.
At Last Comes Love by Mary Balogh
Margaret is crossing decidedly into spinsterhood, and decides to make a desperate last shot at getting married. Then she runs into an old sweetheart who married another, and then into one infamous earl…
Why it might fit if you liked S3: spinster heroine with a rebellious streak.
A Poetess and an Heir by Ann Hawthorne
Ok, I’ve done it again. But it’s not my fault the novel includes both a writer heroine and an old friend hero who used to overlook her.
Why it might fit if you liked S3: see above.
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