Read This Next: Historical Romance


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Dropdeadredtx is offline Dropdeadredtx Post #1  March 1,2011, 6:08pm
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Since Jane Eyre and the historical romance have been recently discussed, I thought I would see what the authors of Read This Next considered to be the best of that genre.


Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell (Civil War)
The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley (Arthurian England)
Outlander, Diana Gabaldon (Scotland, 1945 and 1743)
Forever Amber, Katleen Windsor, (reign of King Charles II) (This novel was literally ‘banned in Boston’!)
A Bloodsmoor Romance, Joyce Carol Oates (The Gilded Age)
Ali and Nino: A Love Story, Kurban Said (Azerbijan in the Bolshevik era)
The Birth of Venus, Sarah Dunant (15th century Florence)
The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory (the court of HenryVIII)
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden (1930’s)
The Far Pavillions, M.M. Kaye(1850’s India)
Music & Silence, Rose Tremain (Danish court in 1629)
The Tailor’s Daughter, Janice Graham (Victorian London)
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Have you read any of these? All of these? Have any you think should go on the list? Or would you rather read a cereal box?
I admit that this category is the one in which I have read the least number, only 6 of the above.
 
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I read Gone with Wind years ago. I have read the Outlander series and really love it as it has the time travel aspect to it also. I used to read a lot of historical romance. I particularly liked Catherine Coulter when she was still writing historical romance as opposed to the mystery/thriller fiction she writes now. There was a lot of humor in her books as well.

I don't read many romance books anymore (jaded maybe?). Another good author is Karen Marie Moning. Her highlander series also has a time travel/fantasy aspect to it.
 
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Oh! I highly recommend the Diana Gabaldon series.....OUTLANDER..... I think there may be 6 in the series now, and an off shoot of one the main characters. I wouldn't really label them as Historical Romance.....really more Historical Fiction...with an amazing character list and.........fabulously written romance (read sex!)

Memoirs of a Geisha.....superb, again not a romance. IMHO

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