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Historical Romance

Historical romance (also historical novel) is a broad category of fiction in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past. Walter Scott helped popularise this genre in the early 19th-century, with works such as Rob Roy and Ivanhoe. Literary fiction historical romances continue to be published, and a notable recent example is Wolf Hall (2009), a multi-award winning novel by English historical novelist Hilary Mantel. It is also a genre of mass-market fiction, which is related to the broader romantic love genre.

The terms "romance novel" and "historical romance" are ambiguous, becau
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Much Ado About Margaret
I Shall Never Fall in Love
A Vile Season
The Wolf of Mayfair
The Gentleman's Confession (Matchmaking Mamas, #3)
The Beast Takes a Bride (The Palace of Rogues, #8)
Tomb of the Sun King (Raiders of the Arcana #2)
Hope Like Wildflowers
The Scandal of Rose: A Gilded Age Novella
As the Earl Likes (Rogue Rules, #4)
The Worst Duke in London  (Taming of the Dukes, #3)
Christmas at Sugar Plum Manor
Of Gold and Shadows (Time's Lost Treasures #1)
So True a Love
A Token of Love
Husbands & Lovers
The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern
Behind Every Good Man
The Hidden Girl
Under the Oak Tree, Vol. 1
The Wolf of Mayfair
Puck and Prejudice
Sisters of Fortune
Bringing Down the Duke (A League of Extraordinary Women, #1)
Secrets of the Lost Ledgers (The Glass Library #5)
The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love (Love's Academic, #1)
The Duke Who Despised Christmas (Christmas Dukes Book 1)
An American Beauty
A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting (A Lady's Guide, #1)
Under the Oak Tree: The Comic, Vol. 1 (Under the Oak Tree, #1)
Outlander by Diana GabaldonDevil in Winter by Lisa KleypasGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Duke and I by Julia QuinnWhitney, My Love by Judith McNaught
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September 2018 Most-Anticipated Romances
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November 2019 Most-Anticipated Romances
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January 2019 Most Anticipated Romances
139 books — 1,858 voters

The Duke and I (Bridgertons, #1)
The Viscount Who Loved Me (Bridgertons, #2)
Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
Romancing Mister Bridgerton (Bridgertons, #4)
An Offer From a Gentleman (Bridgertons, #3)
Secrets of a Summer Night (Wallflowers, #1)
Mine Till Midnight (The Hathaways, #1)
It Happened One Autumn (Wallflowers, #2)
To Sir Phillip, With Love (Bridgertons, #5)
When He Was Wicked (Bridgertons, #6)
The Duchess Deal (Girl Meets Duke, #1)
Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake (Love By Numbers, #1)
Scandal in Spring (Wallflowers, #4)
Love in the Afternoon (The Hathaways, #5)
Romancing the Duke (Castles Ever After, #1)

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