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30 Best Historical Romance Books

Explore historical romance through stories in which love develops under the social rules, family pressures and material constraints of another period. These novels balance emotional relationships with a convincing sense of historical setting.

548 books 14 historical periods

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Prehistory 3,000–1,600 BCE 4 books Ancient World 2,200 BCE–628 CE 41 books American History 1607–1912 CE 24 books Asia & the Islamic World 221 BCE–1,997 CE 46 books Medieval Period 330–1,816 CE 76 books Renaissance & Early Modern Europe c. 1300–1789 CE 10 books Russian Empire & Revolution 1721–1922 CE 4 books Tudor & Stuart Britain 1485–1714 CE 32 books Georgian & Regency Britain 1714–1837 CE 47 books Age of Revolutions 1763–1848 CE 17 books Nineteenth-Century Europe 1815–1900 CE 112 books World War I & Interwar Era 1914–1939 CE 51 books World War II 1939–1945 CE 33 books Cold War and Post-war Era 1945–1991 CE 36 books

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