
Romancing Mister Bridgerton
by Julia Quinn
Colin Bridgerton discovers that Penelope Featherington — the wallflower he has known for years, and the anonymous Lady Whistledown — has secretly loved him for a decade.
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Sophie Laurence believes that romance fiction gets less credit than it deserves and that contemporary fiction gets more than it sometimes earns. As Contemporary Fiction Editor at Editors Reads, she reviews across the spectrum from literary romance to beach reads, with an interest in writers who understand emotional dynamics with precision — who know why people fall in love, stay there, and fall apart. She reads quickly, writes critically, and has strong opinions about endings.

by Julia Quinn
Colin Bridgerton discovers that Penelope Featherington — the wallflower he has known for years, and the anonymous Lady Whistledown — has secretly loved him for a decade.
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by Julia Quinn
Anthony Bridgerton, London's most notorious rake, decides to marry for convenience — but falls helplessly in love with his intended's sharp-tongued, fiercely protective sister, Kate Sharma.
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by Julia Quinn
Hyacinth Bridgerton recruits the roguish Gareth St. Clair to translate his grandmother's Italian diaries — and discovers that the diaries contain a secret that changes both their lives.
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by Nicholas Sparks
A rebellious teenager falls for the quiet minister's daughter in a small North Carolina town — and discovers what it truly means to love someone, and what it costs.
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by Julia Quinn
A Regency Cinderella: Benedict Bridgerton dances with a mysterious masked woman at a masquerade ball and cannot forget her — but Sophie Beckett is a servant who knows their worlds can never meet.
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by Julia Quinn
Gregory Bridgerton falls for a woman who loves someone else — and must stop a wedding to claim his own happy ending in the final chapter of Julia Quinn's beloved Regency series.
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by Nicholas Sparks
An elderly man reads aloud to his wife from a notebook — the story of their love across decades, class barriers, and the Second World War. One of the best-selling love stories ever written.
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by Julia Quinn
Eloise Bridgerton has been writing letters to a widowed botanist for months. When she decides to meet Sir Phillip Crane in person, she discovers that a man on paper and a man in a home are not the same man at all.
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by Julia Quinn
Michael Stirling falls in love with Francesca Bridgerton at first sight — and discovers that she is about to marry his cousin. This is the darkest, most formally daring novel in the Bridgerton series.
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by Nicholas Sparks
A divorced journalist finds a heartbreaking love letter in a bottle on the beach and tracks down its author — a widower still grieving his lost wife — and must discover whether love can exist alongside grief that refuses to be finished.
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by Audrey Niffenegger
Henry DeTamble has a genetic condition that causes him to involuntarily time travel, always to times and places connected to his own life — including the childhood of the woman he will one day marry.
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