I am shocked no one has mentioned The Prize by Julie Garwood. It is one of the best and sweetest enemies to lovers, and I re-read it once a year. All of these authors/books though are way better than most of what comes out today.
No list would be complete without adding KATHLEEN E. WOODIWISS. Her stories: The FLAME and the FLOWER, 1972. The WOLF and the DOVE, 1974. Are not to be missed! Should be on everyone's must read list.
‘Whitney My Love’ by Judith McNaught. I’ve read thousands of books and it is still my favorite. It’s dark. Real in the ways that things were different then and not all unicorns and dragons.
The Came You by Lisa Kleypas made me UGLY CRY, girl... it was soooo good, and of course, we're introduced to Derek Craven in this book - such an emotional story 😍❤
The Secret by Julie Garwood is one of my favorites. All her historicals are great. Also, A Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Devereau is fun. That is a time travel historical.
OMG..I was so gonna say that...knight in the shining armour was my first novel 12 years back and after that it was history..along with the secret both are my favorite..our choices click
Loved The Bride and The Secret by Julie Garwood. She's definitely one of the best historical romance authors for me 💖 And btw I am excited to read the other books you've mentioned in this video. Thank you so much!!
My absolute favorite is Johanna Lindsey 'Once a Princess' (1991). I've lost count how many times I've read it. It's got a feisty heroine , alpha hero and humor.
Most of these are from my favorite historical romance authors. Judith McNaught doesn’t have a bad book. My favorites I read dozens of times as a teenager was Kingdom of Dreams, Once & Always and Whitney My Love. I love most of Julie Garwood books. The Wedding, The Bride and The Secret were my top favs. She’s like McNaught. Doesn’t have a bad or boring book and the sense of humor was great too. Johanna Lindsay has so many. Her Mallory Family books, The Magic of you, A Loving Scoundrel and Gentle Rogue were my top favs. But I also loved Secret Fire, Fires of Winter and Paradise Wild. Most of her books are golden too. Jude Deveraux Montgomery series. My BFF gave my Velvet Song for my 14 bday. I first forage into history romance. I even named my dog Raine after the hero. The Velvet Saga is still one of my favorite books of all time. And Deveraux humor is on point. Her time travel books Legend, Remembrance and A Knight in Shining Armor are great too . Brenda Joyce is another top notch author whose books you should give a try. Promise of the Rose and Violet Fire are my favorites. Sigh. I went back and time. Nostalgia took over.
Theres something about old historical romances that hit different. I LOVE older historical romances, especially Julie Garwood, set in medieval times. I'm constantly looking for more
Jess, read more mcnaught! Paradise is her best contemporary romance book. Almost all her historical romances are topnotch, esp kingdom of dreams, which you mentioned liking a lot. Try also julie garwoods the wedding. And her For the Roses series (claybornes fsmily). Linda howards Mckenzie family is great too, popular around the 90s (not historical, but full of alpha males galore. lol)
Ransom, by Julie Garwood, is also very enjoyable. It is Gillian and Brodick's story and we see Iain and Judith Maitland again in that book when their young son is rescued by Gillian.
Omg this is my FAVORITE book. I've read it 2 times in 3 months and now I plan to read it again 3 months after the last read. I LOVE it with my whole heart and think about it really often😂😂
Nobody mention shirlee busbee books, while passion sleep (Louisiana series) Deceive not my heart (Louisiana series) Spanish rose Each time we love Love be mine Love a dark rider
Judith Mcnaught and Johanna Lindsey are my two favorite HisRom authors. 😍😍😍😍 I think women with J in their first name are masters of HisRom novels.😍 Jane Austen, Julie Garwood, Jude Devereux are some proofs
I've been reading Johanna Lindsey since I was a teen. *Love Only Once* is about a large family of brothers but they are her uncles not brothers. Each brother has a book and then they extend to another set of brothers. They are by far the most beloved of Johanna's books. *Hearts Aflame* was my first JL book I ever read and each Haardrad family member has a book. I think it is the best one.
@@lesliethegal4339 Gentle Rogue is my favorite too. It was one of the first romance books I read and I was obsessed with it. My cousin was pregnant at the time and I gave her the idea to name her son James after the main character. I love telling my Godson how he was named after a romance book character.
For me, the best part of Then Came You is what else, meeting Derek Craven. I read Ravished when if first came out way, way back. I reread it a couple of weeks ago and adored it all over again.
Sunset Embrace by Sandra Brown is one of her best. Before she got into writing thrillers. Published in the mid 80s. And anything by Lavyrle Spencer! All her books are lovely and gentle romances that are incredibly well written. It's so funny watching you discover these books, when I remember when they were first published! How to make me feel ancient, lol.
It's been so enjoyable and fun watching these younger women gush over 'our' older romances. Lots to be said for an oldey but a goody! Many wonderful historical romances written years ago.
Johanna Lindsey is the Queen of historical romance! I never read a book from her that I don't like and i've read 15+. Savage Thunder is the one I liked best. He is a half blood and she's an English Lady. I love a good brooding hero.
Yeesss!! Love McNaught, love all her historicals and most of her contemporary books! If you love conflict/angst - Lindsey's A Gentle Feuding (deep sigh)
Judith Mcnaught is one of my favorite old school romance authors! Have you ever read Virginia Henley? I love her books Tempted, Dream lover, and The Pirate and the Pagan.
The first romances I read were by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, 'The Flame and the Flower' and 'The Wolf and the Dove' - real eye-openers for a 14-year-old! If you want to talk about DARK, there is a series of books from the '70s where the 'hero' locks the heroine in a charnel house (where decaying human skeletons are stored) because she wouldn't sleep with him!
Every and I do mean every historical romance book reader must have in their collection is Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase. I promise you will love it - you will have every emotion reading this book.
Jess, really "problematic" historical romances came out long before 1992. The 90s is when they started to get tame. Thank you for reading and discussing the older books.
@@MsBluheart I go back to older books there was more challenges, adventure, action and higher stakes. I find a lot of current romance too talky and the stakes are "daddy issues" or communication, and other psychological issues.
Also, finding out so many reccomedations for historical romance books feels like I've just touched a piece of heaven. Big thank you to all the reccomendations in the video and in the comments!💜
My favourite old school H.R is definitely 'Suddenly You' by Lisa Kleypas! It's actually my favourite Lisa Kleypas book ( and I've read them all!). I think I love it so much for the combo of a strong independent heroine ( but she is still very sweet!) and I like the fact that it was not strictly based on the aristocratic, restricted and idle world but in a book publishing world where people actually work and have some depth of character! Julie Garwood historicals are generally very good!
Isn't it wonderful how books connect us. After reading your comment I started reading it last night and just finished it. Loved it beautifully written just 2 characters but drawn such beautifully you totally carried away. I have read her Ravenals If you could recommend any other would be delighted💙
oh i love u already i am a big fan of JULIE GARWOOD❤️❤️❤️ i kept repeating reading all of them the bride, the gift, oh em gee i have to write all of them here...
Love Johanna Lindsey! Hearts 💕 Aflame is also one my favorites! Thanks for the new book ideas. I’m checking them all out.I love me a good historical romance😊
I’m sure I have several since I started reading romance early but my all time fave is probably Annie’s Song by Catherine Anderson! It has stuck with me ever since I read it as a kid. Very cathartic but worth the read. 🥲😮💨👌🏽
Omg I think like 5 books on ur lists are my favorites too 🤣 Johanna Lindsey is what introduce me to hisrom genre, and Lisa Kleypas is the one who made me stay :') I have the Secret by Julie Garwood already on my tbr, just gonna find time to read it, and from ur review I think I might like it. I need more hisrom book with medieval themed background tbh, the regency one kind of bored me lol 🙈 anyway, I would recommend The Joining by Johanna Lindsey as one of the best old school his rom books ever. Just the childhood-enemy-to-lovers trope in medieval settings with a hard headed and a bit tomboy-ish female lead is such a chef's kiss for me 🤣
Even though I'm a guy I love romances, Historical, Fantasy, High finance, si-fi, etc. A while ago I read a detective/police romance series called "Fatal" series (6 books) by Marie Force since then I've looked for other books and authors in the same category but without success.
Have you read the "In Death" novels by J D Robb? First one is "Naked In Death", they take place in the near future in NYC. She's a Homicide Lieutenant, he's an ultra rich mostly-former criminal mastermind from Ireland.
I have all the Stephanie Laurens of the Cynster series and there’s a lot of them She has a few other great series as well I adore her books had them all on paper back and slowly have gotten them all on my Kindle also the same with Julie Garwood read everything she’s ever written historical and re-read them at least once a year
Have you read anything from Bertrice Small yet? Skye O’Malley series is a good start. Bertrice Small research the history for her books to make them more real. (For her time it was very amazing)
Georgette Heyerdahl writes the absolute most hilarious conversations. I don’t remember when I started reading romance/historical books, but it seems like forever. Books are the best antidote for a host of maladies! I almost always take a book with me wherever I go.
I LOVEEE Ravished so much! I can't believe it was published in the 1990s. It felt like I could have been reading an adventurous Julia Quinn novel, so I feel like it will always have timeless appeal
😁 Shout out to John DeSalvo for being the cover model of many of these books. Without him gracing these covers, romance of the 90's and 2000's just wouldn't be the same. Forever and ever one handsome man.
Something wonderful and Whitney, My love got me feeling like getting my heart broken again everytime I read it. And other books that I so dearly love were A Rose in Winter - Kathleen Woodiwiss; Your's until dawn - Teresa Medeiros; The Awakening - Jude Deveraux; Hummingbird, Years, November of the heart - Lavryle Spencer
With your comments on The Bride, I believe you will love Honor's Splendour by Julie. The scene at the end of the book is great. I always thought it would make a wonderful scene in a movie. Another Amanda Quick you may like is Scandal. I thought it was really well written along with introducing a very small amount of Eastern culture.
The first historical romance I ever read was Fires of Destiny by Linda Barlow (published 1986) - such a great story! It's got everything - Elizabethan murder mystery, the Queen's court, heretics, an old witch who lives in the forest, disguises, an abduction to a pirate ship, the Tower of London - I could go on!!
I am so happy, that Jess is in a historycal mood 🤩but i"m afraid she is going to burn out and we need to starve for HR content till next year end again 🤣🤣🤣 i mean in this quantity and quality 🤣🤣🤣
I love seeing the comments of so many of my favorite books ❤️since I was a teenager I loved used bookstores with the older historical romance books. Johanna Lindsey The Mallory/Anderson brothers books, “Prisoner of my Desire” Kathleen E. Woodiwiss “Petals on the River”, “The flame and the Flower” Julie Garwood “The wedding” “The secret” Betina Krahn “The paradise Bargain” Tracy Anne Warren “The Husband Trap”& “My Fair Mistress” Candace Camp “The Hidden Heart” Catherine Coulter “The Hellion Bride” & “The Sherbrooke Bride” Beatrice Small “A Love for all Time” was one of the first romance books I read as a teenager in 2008 😅
Hearts Aflame is my favorite of that series. Fires of Winter (Book 1) is about Kristen’s parents. It’s not a light hearted read. There is some questionable consent. I also enjoyed Love Only Once but I think Gentle Rogue is the best book of the series.
I am shocked no one has mentioned The Prize by Julie Garwood. It is one of the best and sweetest enemies to lovers, and I re-read it once a year. All of these authors/books though are way better than most of what comes out today.
I love The Prize too. It has one of my favourite heroes because of how tenderly he treated the heroine.
It’s been years since I read her books, but I remember loving all her books.
OMG,The Prize is one of my faves and constant re-reads..I totally feel u,there seems to be none out there like these books anymore.😭
I will have to read that.
I just thought of that book today!!! Love Royce, he is one of my all time favorite Hero’s🥰🥰🥰🥰
Something Wonderful by Judith McNaught is my favorite old school HR!
One of mine too!
Yes! Love Alexandra and Jordan! I also love her selection of Kingdom of Dreams by Judith McNaught.
Yes yes yes me toooooo
Same
@@anneb889 Yup! Absolutely loved Alex & Jordan. And one of my faves too is Jordan's cousin - Ian with his Elizabeth on Almost Heaven
Johanna Lindsey is one of my favorite historical romance authors. Pure nostalgia for me as I read them in the 90s!
One of my favourites too. Unfortunately she passed away and we won’t get anymore from her.
The 90s were my favourite years of reading. Devoured Johanna Lindsey, Julie Garwood, Judith McNaught and Virginia Henley.
@@tamarak9393 i was so sad to learn she died. Her books are absolutely amazing 🥺🙏
It sucked to hear she passed, she was on my watchlist for new releases
No list would be complete without adding KATHLEEN E. WOODIWISS. Her stories: The FLAME and the FLOWER, 1972.
The WOLF and the DOVE, 1974.
Are not to be missed!
Should be on everyone's must read list.
I read all of hers years ago. I think the wolf and the dove had an r scene right off the bat almost put it down.
Flame & the Flower one of my all time favs ❤️
The Flame and the Flower was one of the first historical romances I ever read. Loved it.
Her books are coming to audible April 2022
Yes! I still have all of my old original copies!
‘Whitney My Love’ by Judith McNaught.
I’ve read thousands of books and it is still my favorite.
It’s dark. Real in the ways that things were different then and not all unicorns and dragons.
The Came You by Lisa Kleypas made me UGLY CRY, girl... it was soooo good, and of course, we're introduced to Derek Craven in this book - such an emotional story 😍❤
Ah Derek! His story is my favourite from Lisa. I've read it so many times.
@@aesinam 💖
Julie Garwood is one of my favorite authors. Loved The Secret 💕
The Secret by Julie Garwood is one of my favorites. All her historicals are great. Also, A Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Devereau is fun. That is a time travel historical.
OMG..I was so gonna say that...knight in the shining armour was my first novel 12 years back and after that it was history..along with the secret both are my favorite..our choices click
I totally agreee this book is also one of my all time favourite HR books of Jude Devereaux. I just loved it read it at least a 100 times 😊
Loved The Bride and The Secret by Julie Garwood. She's definitely one of the best historical romance authors for me 💖 And btw I am excited to read the other books you've mentioned in this video. Thank you so much!!
My absolute favorite is Johanna Lindsey 'Once a Princess' (1991). I've lost count how many times I've read it. It's got a feisty heroine , alpha hero and humor.
Most of these are from my favorite historical romance authors.
Judith McNaught doesn’t have a bad book. My favorites I read dozens of times as a teenager was Kingdom of Dreams, Once & Always and Whitney My Love.
I love most of Julie Garwood books. The Wedding, The Bride and The Secret were my top favs. She’s like McNaught. Doesn’t have a bad or boring book and the sense of humor was great too.
Johanna Lindsay has so many. Her Mallory Family books, The Magic of you, A Loving Scoundrel and Gentle Rogue were my top favs. But I also loved Secret Fire, Fires of Winter and Paradise Wild. Most of her books are golden too.
Jude Deveraux Montgomery series. My BFF gave my Velvet Song for my 14 bday. I first forage into history romance. I even named my dog Raine after the hero. The Velvet Saga is still one of my favorite books of all time. And Deveraux humor is on point. Her time travel books Legend, Remembrance and A Knight in Shining Armor are great too .
Brenda Joyce is another top notch author whose books you should give a try. Promise of the Rose and Violet Fire are my favorites.
Sigh. I went back and time. Nostalgia took over.
Theres something about old historical romances that hit different. I LOVE older historical romances, especially Julie Garwood, set in medieval times. I'm constantly looking for more
I’ve read Judith Mcnaught just recently and absolutely fallen in love with her HR novels. Westmorland saga is my fav❤️
The Bride is one of my all time favorites
Love the Mallory series!!
My all time favorite Johanna Lindsay books are the Mallory/Anderson series. I also loved Warrior's Woman.
Ravished by Amanda Quick is definitely my favorite discovery through the book club so far!
Jess, read more mcnaught! Paradise is her best contemporary romance book. Almost all her historical romances are topnotch, esp kingdom of dreams, which you mentioned liking a lot. Try also julie garwoods the wedding. And her For the Roses series (claybornes fsmily). Linda howards Mckenzie family is great too, popular around the 90s (not historical, but full of alpha males galore. lol)
Honestly McNaught was the GOAT for me. I reread her historical and modern romances all the time.
Yoooooo Paradise is THE shit!!!, ive re-read that book like 3 times and its still good every timee
Aww Lisa Kleypas. I love all her books. These authors are all some of my favourites
Flowers from the storm by Laura Kinsale published almost 30 years ago is one of my favorites of all HR !!
Yes, Laura Kinsale is a definite MUST on any list!
This list is everything! All my favorite books and authors. I’ve been reading romance since I was 12 and I’m now 54.
Ransom, by Julie Garwood, is also very enjoyable. It is Gillian and Brodick's story and we see Iain and Judith Maitland again in that book when their young son is rescued by Gillian.
Random was really good!!
One of my all time favorites. Read it every year or two.
Ransom is so good! I don’t think it gets mentioned enough when people bring up Julie Garwood.
My absolutely favorite of s favorite author.
Omg this is my FAVORITE book. I've read it 2 times in 3 months and now I plan to read it again 3 months after the last read. I LOVE it with my whole heart and think about it really often😂😂
Love all Julie Garwood historical books. She so makes me laugh at her humorous characters. I agree with your other authors as well. Good job!
Nobody mention shirlee busbee books, while passion sleep (Louisiana series)
Deceive not my heart (Louisiana series)
Spanish rose
Each time we love
Love be mine
Love a dark rider
I LOVE LOVE LOVEDDDDD a kingdom of dreams 😭❤️ Night song is my second runner up! Amazing list
Judith Mcnaught and Johanna Lindsey are my two favorite HisRom authors. 😍😍😍😍
I think women with J in their first name are masters of HisRom novels.😍
Jane Austen, Julie Garwood, Jude Devereux are some proofs
I've always said that, too! Those are my four favorite historical romance writers.
Joana Lindsey, all of her books, but especially "Savage Thunder " my favorite.
1.Prisoner of My Desire by Johanna Lindsey
2.A Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux
3.Almost Heaven by Judith McNaught
Oo! And who remembers writer Rosemary Rogers? Her books were scandalous!
I love these ones too. Almost Heaven by Judith McNaught is probably my favourite.
I always wonder why they don't mention Almost heaven it's totally my favourite Judith McNaught HR
Flowers from the Storm will always be one of my all time favorites.
A kingdom of dreams by Judith Macnaught was my first historical romance and I fell in love and never looked back ❤❤❤
I dont remember how many times I have read Kingdom of dreams 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍😍😍 one of my favourite books
the mallory novels are wonderful
Shanna by Kathleen woodiwiss
I've been reading Johanna Lindsey since I was a teen. *Love Only Once* is about a large family of brothers but they are her uncles not brothers. Each brother has a book and then they extend to another set of brothers. They are by far the most beloved of Johanna's books.
*Hearts Aflame* was my first JL book I ever read and each Haardrad family member has a book. I think it is the best one.
Love Only Once is my least favorite of the series. But it is a great series!
@@lesliethegal4339 My favorite book by Johanna is Man Of My Dreams.
Gentle Rogue is my fave. I haven't read Man of My Dreams. It sounds funny though. The comic, teasing, shameless heroes are always my favorite.
@@lesliethegal4339 Devlin is one of those heros that doesn't take crap. He calls the heroine a brat, because she is.
@@lesliethegal4339 Gentle Rogue is my favorite too. It was one of the first romance books I read and I was obsessed with it. My cousin was pregnant at the time and I gave her the idea to name her son James after the main character. I love telling my Godson how he was named after a romance book character.
Judith McNaught is a GOD! Read every single one of her books and it is incomparable. A Kingdom of Dreams is to die for!
Love love only once!
Going back for Then Came You then Dreaming Of You 😍 Glad its on this list 😉
For me, the best part of Then Came You is what else, meeting Derek Craven.
I read Ravished when if first came out way, way back. I reread it a couple of weeks ago and adored it all over again.
The Secret was a GREAT book! You should try Black Lyon or A Knight in Shining Armor
Agree I read the knight in shining armor many years ago. Mrs Deverous sold 800 thousands copies. I own the knight and the black lion.
Omg a knight in shining armor is epic
A knight in shining armor was written early 80 and Jude deveraux sold, 2 millions of copy whao
Omggggg I thought I was the one crazy over A Knight in Shining Armor!
I love So Worthy My Love by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss. Lovely!
I agree. It's my favorite book of all time!!
One of my favourite historical romance authors is Dorothy Garlock. She started writing in the 80s and has written over 40 books. 💖
I'm obsessed with dark historical romance. I've read all the novels that you have recommended. Love them all.
Sunset Embrace by Sandra Brown is one of her best. Before she got into writing thrillers. Published in the mid 80s. And anything by Lavyrle Spencer! All her books are lovely and gentle romances that are incredibly well written. It's so funny watching you discover these books, when I remember when they were first published! How to make me feel ancient, lol.
It's been so enjoyable and fun watching these younger women gush over 'our' older romances. Lots to be said for an oldey but a goody! Many wonderful historical romances written years ago.
Layverle Spencer is so talented
@@somethingclever8916 loved Morning Glory by her
Morning Glory is one of my all time faves.
I agree. The prize is one of the best
yep. do agrees, Then Came You by lisa kleypas my favorite . then second best Suddenly You by same author
Johanna Lindsey is the Queen of historical romance! I never read a book from her that I don't like and i've read 15+. Savage Thunder is the one I liked best. He is a half blood and she's an English Lady. I love a good brooding hero.
Nothing excites me more than having something in common with someone and bonus, agreeing on the same thing. I totally agree with you🤩
Yeesss!! Love McNaught, love all her historicals and most of her contemporary books! If you love conflict/angst - Lindsey's A Gentle Feuding (deep sigh)
I love "Then came you" sooo much 😍😍😍😍😍
Been reading historical romances since 1979
I'm surprised that Beatrice Small wasn't on the list. Her work is so good.
I just read the Bride and currently reading A Kingdom of Dreams. Can't wait to read all the other books. Thank you for sharing :)
Hearts of Flames, - writes this down. Loves Viking Romance.
Judith Mcnaught is one of my favorite old school romance authors! Have you ever read Virginia Henley? I love her books Tempted, Dream lover, and The Pirate and the Pagan.
I am currently rereading The Bride. Lisa Kleypas is my favorite Historical Romance author.
The first romances I read were by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, 'The Flame and the Flower' and 'The Wolf and the Dove' - real eye-openers for a 14-year-old! If you want to talk about DARK, there is a series of books from the '70s where the 'hero' locks the heroine in a charnel house (where decaying human skeletons are stored) because she wouldn't sleep with him!
Love, love, love The Secret! Have you read Ransom? So many awesome old school books. I need get mine out
Knight in Shining, The Legend, & Eternity - Jude Deveraux
Mad Jack & Temptation - Catherine Coulter
Every and I do mean every historical romance book reader must have in their collection is Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase. I promise you will love it - you will have every emotion reading this book.
I have to recommend Laurie McBain & Shirlee Busbee
Jess, really "problematic" historical romances came out long before 1992. The 90s is when they started to get tame. Thank you for reading and discussing the older books.
Yes! I have the old seventies ones, like Sweet Savage Love, The Flame and the Flower, etc.. All were quite spicy!
@@MsBluheart I go back to older books there was more challenges, adventure, action and higher stakes.
I find a lot of current romance too talky and the stakes are "daddy issues" or communication, and other psychological issues.
@@somethingclever8916 I thought it was just me getting older and my tastes had changed, but maybe not!
Also, finding out so many reccomedations for historical romance books feels like I've just touched a piece of heaven. Big thank you to all the reccomendations in the video and in the comments!💜
Then Came You, Indigo, and The Secret? Now you have me adding the rest to my TBR those are some of my FAVOOORRIITTESS.
My favourite old school H.R is definitely 'Suddenly You' by Lisa Kleypas! It's actually my favourite Lisa Kleypas book ( and I've read them all!). I think I love it so much for the combo of a strong independent heroine ( but she is still very sweet!) and I like the fact that it was not strictly based on the aristocratic, restricted and idle world but in a book publishing world where people actually work and have some depth of character!
Julie Garwood historicals are generally very good!
Isn't it wonderful how books connect us. After reading your comment I started reading it last night and just finished it. Loved it beautifully written just 2 characters but drawn such beautifully you totally carried away. I have read her Ravenals
If you could recommend any other would be delighted💙
Fire and ice, can't remember the author but love the book so much
oh i love u already i am a big fan of JULIE GARWOOD❤️❤️❤️ i kept repeating reading all of them the bride, the gift, oh em gee i have to write all of them here...
Love Johanna Lindsey! Hearts 💕 Aflame is also one my favorites! Thanks for the new book ideas. I’m checking them all out.I love me a good historical romance😊
Love Only Once and The Bride are some of my favorites as well! 💜
I’m sure I have several since I started reading romance early but my all time fave is probably Annie’s Song by Catherine Anderson! It has stuck with me ever since I read it as a kid. Very cathartic but worth the read. 🥲😮💨👌🏽
Have you read Comanche Moon too? It's one of my all time favourites.
@@may-fd8jc I haven’t! I heard it’s good but I don’t read series lol. I’ve read two other of her standalones which I’ve really enjoyed though! ☺️
@@mirnatius oh I understand, I only read the first book myself and won't be reading the rest
Hearts aflame? Goes right into my TBR list!
Wallflower series by Lisa Kleypas are my favorite especially Secret of Summer Night,i prefer the heroes fall in love first to the heroines type story😊
Historical romance is my fave book genre. 💖
I loved so many of the books you mentioned and still own the paperbacks. I feel a long overdue reread in my immediate future. Thanks for the memories!
Me too! :)
Devil in Winter is the best♥️
Omg I think like 5 books on ur lists are my favorites too 🤣 Johanna Lindsey is what introduce me to hisrom genre, and Lisa Kleypas is the one who made me stay :') I have the Secret by Julie Garwood already on my tbr, just gonna find time to read it, and from ur review I think I might like it. I need more hisrom book with medieval themed background tbh, the regency one kind of bored me lol 🙈 anyway, I would recommend The Joining by Johanna Lindsey as one of the best old school his rom books ever. Just the childhood-enemy-to-lovers trope in medieval settings with a hard headed and a bit tomboy-ish female lead is such a chef's kiss for me 🤣
Oh man I forgot about the joining. I re read that one so many times. I love if
Even though I'm a guy I love romances, Historical, Fantasy, High finance, si-fi, etc. A while ago I read a detective/police romance series called "Fatal" series (6 books) by Marie Force since then I've looked for other books and authors in the same category but without success.
Have you read the "In Death" novels by J D Robb? First one is "Naked In Death", they take place in the near future in NYC. She's a Homicide Lieutenant, he's an ultra rich mostly-former criminal mastermind from Ireland.
i hope you read Honour’s Splendour and Saving Grace by Julie Garwood soon! 💓
My favorite books do you know more like them?
@@SD-wc4kc Dreaming of you by Lisa kleypas! and Annie’s song by Catherine Anderson are so good
😊 thanks
I have all the Stephanie Laurens of the Cynster series and there’s a lot of them She has a few other great series as well I adore her books had them all on paper back and slowly have gotten them all on my Kindle also the same with Julie Garwood read everything she’s ever written historical and re-read them at least once a year
Akķkkk! My favorite era. My fave all-time HR book is A Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux. It has time travel in it and it's sooo goodddd
Have you read anything from Bertrice Small yet? Skye O’Malley series is a good start. Bertrice Small research the history for her books to make them more real. (For her time it was very amazing)
Thank u so soooo much for doing this...🥰💗...absolutely loved this kind of stuff.. btw...love u a lottt too😁🙋♀️
For really old school romances, I always head to Georgette Heyer. "Venetia" is my favourite, but "Sprig Muslin" and "Devil's Cub" are close behind.
The Grand Sophy!
Georgette Heyerdahl writes the absolute most hilarious conversations. I don’t remember when I started reading romance/historical books, but it seems like forever. Books are the best antidote for a host of maladies! I almost always take a book with me wherever I go.
I LOVEEE Ravished so much! I can't believe it was published in the 1990s. It felt like I could have been reading an adventurous Julia Quinn novel, so I feel like it will always have timeless appeal
I'm reading the Secret this month and I can not wait!!
Do add Laura Kinsale to your "to read list" - you won't regret it!
I love Mary Balogh and Lisa Kleypas historical romances! They got me hooked me on the genre 😊.
😁 Shout out to John DeSalvo for being the cover model of many of these books. Without him gracing these covers, romance of the 90's and 2000's just wouldn't be the same.
Forever and ever one handsome man.
Ravished ❤️❤️😭😭😭
Love this channel. Love how you talk fast!
Thanks for doing this video! I'm excited about getting to The Secret and Ravished at some point!
Johanna Lindsey and Judith McNaught have always been favorites of mine.
Something wonderful and Whitney, My love got me feeling like getting my heart broken again everytime I read it. And other books that I so dearly love were
A Rose in Winter - Kathleen Woodiwiss; Your's until dawn - Teresa Medeiros;
The Awakening - Jude Deveraux;
Hummingbird, Years, November of the heart - Lavryle Spencer
With your comments on The Bride, I believe you will love Honor's Splendour by Julie. The scene at the end of the book is great. I always thought it would make a wonderful scene in a movie. Another Amanda Quick you may like is Scandal. I thought it was really well written along with introducing a very small amount of Eastern culture.
Whitney my love by Judith McNaught! My fav old school romance… read it so many times.
The first historical romance I ever read was Fires of Destiny by Linda Barlow (published 1986) - such a great story! It's got everything - Elizabethan murder mystery, the Queen's court, heretics, an old witch who lives in the forest, disguises, an abduction to a pirate ship, the Tower of London - I could go on!!
I love this book
I picked it up used because Jennifer Wilde endorsed it
Hands down….”Katherine” by Anya Seton. Then anything by Pamela Belle
Ravished is one of my favorite all time romances! Have you read A knight In Shinning Armour by Jude Deveraux?
Love your historical romance content 😍
I am so happy, that Jess is in a historycal mood 🤩but i"m afraid she is going to burn out and we need to starve for HR content till next year end again 🤣🤣🤣 i mean in this quantity and quality 🤣🤣🤣
I love seeing the comments of so many of my favorite books ❤️since I was a teenager I loved used bookstores with the older historical romance books.
Johanna Lindsey The Mallory/Anderson brothers books, “Prisoner of my Desire”
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss “Petals on the River”, “The flame and the Flower”
Julie Garwood “The wedding” “The secret”
Betina Krahn “The paradise Bargain”
Tracy Anne Warren “The Husband Trap”& “My Fair Mistress”
Candace Camp “The Hidden Heart”
Catherine Coulter “The Hellion Bride” & “The Sherbrooke Bride”
Beatrice Small “A Love for all Time” was one of the first romance books I read as a teenager in 2008 😅
Hearts Aflame is my favorite of that series. Fires of Winter (Book 1) is about Kristen’s parents. It’s not a light hearted read. There is some questionable consent.
I also enjoyed Love Only Once but I think Gentle Rogue is the best book of the series.