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Julia Quinn

36 fiction · 1 non-fiction

Julia Quinn is an American author of historical romance best known for her witty, character-driven novels set in Regency England. A graduate of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, she began writing shortly after university while preparing to attend medical school, but abandoned that path when her first novels attracted publishing interest. Quinn became a number-one New York Times bestselling author and was inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame.

Quinn’s most successful work is the Bridgerton series, which follows the marriages and family relationships of eight aristocratic siblings. Beginning with The Duke and I, the books combine romance, social comedy and family drama, with the society columnist Lady Whistledown providing a recurring commentary on the fashionable world. Quinn has also written connected Regency series and collaborated with Shonda Rhimes on Queen Charlotte. The television adaptation of Bridgerton brought her novels to a much wider international readership.

Periods and events

American Revolutionary War1775–1783 CE Cornwall in the Georgian Era1714–1837 CE Georgian & Regency Britain1714–1837 CE Georgian Empire and Atlantic World1714–1837 CE Georgian Era1714–1830 CE Georgian London1714–1837 CE Regency Era1811–1820 CE

Historical fiction

Historical fiction series by Julia Quinn (9 series)

Bridgerton Series in Order

by Julia Quinn 9 books 4.5(388,889)

The Bridgerton series follows the eight children of Violet and the late Viscount Bridgerton as each negotiates marriage, family expectation and reputation between 1813 and 1827. The novels move from the formal Regency into the later reign of George IV, using London seasons and country estates as a…

1. The Duke and I

First published 2000 · 4.4(76,209)

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2. The Viscount Who Loved Me

First published 2000 · 4.5(59,435)

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3. An Offer from a Gentleman

First published 2001 · 4.5(52,072)

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4. Romancing Mister Bridgerton

First published 2002 · 4.5(61,738)

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5. To Sir Phillip, with Love

First published 2003 · 4.5(42,415)

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6. When He Was Wicked

First published 2004 · 4.5(37,258)

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7. It’s in His Kiss

First published 2005 · 4.6(31,491)

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8. On the Way to the Wedding

First published 2006 · 4.5(28,266)

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9. The Bridgertons: Happily Ever After

First published 2013 · 2.5(5)

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Rokesby Series in Order

by Julia Quinn 4 books 4.5(58,814)

The Rokesby novels are prequels to the Bridgerton books, following an earlier generation of the neighbouring Bridgerton and Rokesby families from 1779 to 1791. Their country estates provide a stable family centre, but the stories reach into the American Revolutionary War, Atlantic travel, private intelligence work and medical…

1. Because of Miss Bridgerton

First published 2016 · 4.5(17,964)

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2. The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband

First published 2017 · 4.5(15,314)

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3. The Other Miss Bridgerton

First published 2018 · 4.6(12,303)

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4. First Comes Scandal

First published 2020 · 4.4(13,233)

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Smythe-Smith Quartet in Order

by Julia Quinn 4 books 4.4(36,183)

The Smythe-Smith Quartet develops a family joke from the Bridgerton novels into four connected romances. Members of the large Smythe-Smith clan perform an annual musicale despite limited talent, and the event repeatedly brings together characters whose private difficulties are concealed by comic social ritual. Set mainly in 1824…

1. Just Like Heaven

First published 2011 · 4.3(10,757)

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2. A Night Like This

First published 2012 · 4.3(7,940)

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3. The Sum of All Kisses

First published 2013 · 4.4(7,338)

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4. The Secrets of Sir Richard Kenworthy

First published 2015 · 4.4(10,148)

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Bevelstoke Series in Order

by Julia Quinn 4 books 4.4(20,299)

The Bevelstoke books follow connected members and friends of the Bevelstoke family through late Georgian courtship, inheritance and social intrigue. Miranda Cheever’s long attachment to the wounded Viscount Turner begins the sequence, while Olivia Bevelstoke and Sebastian Grey lead the later London stories. The graphic novel Miss Butterworth…

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1. The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever

First published 2009 · 4.4(6,980)

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2. What Happens in London

First published 2009 · 4.4(6,923)

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3. Ten Things I Love About You

First published 2010 · 4.5(6,391)

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4. Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron, a Graphic Novel

First published 2022 · 2.5(5)

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The Ladies Most in Order

by Julia Quinn 2 books 4.2(5,975)

The Ladies Most consists of two collaborative Regency novels by Julia Quinn, Eloisa James and Connie Brockway. Each volume uses linked sections, recurring characters and a single house-party premise, so the books read as continuous ensemble stories rather than as collections of independent novellas. The Lady Most Likely……

1. The Lady Most Likely…

First published 2010 · 4.2(2,823)

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2. The Lady Most Willing…

First published 2012 · 4.2(3,152)

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Splendid Trilogy in Order

by Julia Quinn 4 books 2.5(20)

The Splendid books begin with American heiress Emma Dunster’s arrival in Regency London and continue through the courtships of her British friends and relations. Splendid contrasts American commercial confidence with aristocratic convention, Dancing at Midnight centres on a veteran marked by war, and Minx follows a woman already…

1. Splendid

First published 1995 · 2.5(5)

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2. Dancing at Midnight

First published 1995 · 2.5(5)

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3. Minx

First published 1996 · 2.5(5)

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4. Where’s My Hero?

First published 2003 · 2.5(5)

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Agents of the Crown in Order

by Julia Quinn 2 books 2.5(10)

Agents of the Crown combines Regency romance with intelligence work. To Catch an Heiress begins with a mistaken arrest during an investigation into espionage, while How to Marry a Marquis places an aristocratic agent undercover in a country household threatened by blackmail. Both books contrast concealed identities with…

1. To Catch an Heiress

First published 1998 · 2.5(5)

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2. How to Marry a Marquis

First published 1999 · 2.5(5)

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Lyndon Sisters in Order

by Julia Quinn 2 books 2.5(10)

The Lyndon Sisters books follow Victoria and Eleanor Lyndon, daughters of a country vicar. Everything and the Moon reunites Victoria with the aristocratic first love from whom she was separated by family deception, while Brighter Than the Sun gives Eleanor a sudden marriage of convenience with an earl…

1. Everything and the Moon

First published 1997 · 2.5(5)

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2. Brighter Than the Sun

First published 1997 · 2.5(5)

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Two Dukes of Wyndham in Order

by Julia Quinn 2 books 2.5(10)

The Two Dukes of Wyndham novels tell one disputed-succession crisis through two romantic viewpoints. A highwayman may be the legitimate Duke of Wyndham, threatening the title held by the man raised to inherit it. The Lost Duke of Wyndham follows Jack Audley and Grace Eversleigh, while Mr. Cavendish,…

1. Mr. Cavendish, I Presume

First published 2008 · 2.5(5)

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1. The Lost Duke of Wyndham

First published 2008 · 2.5(5)

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Historical fiction

Standalone historical fiction by Julia Quinn (3 books)

Ranked by rating and voting volume.

Queen Charlotte

by Julia Quinn

First published 2023 · 4.6(5,839)

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Lady Whistledown Strikes Back

by Julia Quinn

First published 2004 · 2.5(5)

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The Further Observations of Lady Whistledown

by Julia Quinn

First published 2003 · 2.5(5)

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Non-fiction

Non-fiction by Julia Quinn (1 book)

Reference works, biographies and other non-fiction are kept separate from the historical fiction above.

The Wit and Wisdom of Bridgerton

by Julia Quinn

First published 2021 · 2.5(5)

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