Recs if you like Her Night with the Duke (Clandestine Affairs, #1)...

Every year we pick 10 books that we think rise above the rest. These are the 70 we've picked since 2019.

Updated to include our Best of 2025 picks.

For people who love watching Bridgerton for its diversity and want to read more historical romances that are genuinely diverse

Love me like you duke, lo-lo-love me like you duke Touch me like you duke, to-to-touch me like you duke What are you waiting for?

These are books/series that have Dukes and Duchesses in the title. 😌 🏰🫖🤵🏻‍♂️

Melanated historical romances that need to be centered in the genre immediately

Historical romance books that showcase people of marginalized and diverse communities by people of marginalized and diverse communities.

Romances with ticking clocks and clear time frames, about how this impacts conflict and makes books more breathless, and of course about the books that deploy this strategy perfectly. Inside, you'll find road trips and adventures, vacation romances and romantic suspense, house parties and that classic romance chestnut: "I have 30 days to get pregnant."

A list of the Top 100 Romances of the past 50 years as voted on by the Magnificent Firebird community.

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Never read a historical romance? Choose one of these! All the balls, the inheritances, the petticoats, the rakes, and the reputations. May or may not be the first book in a series (but if it's on this list, my recommendation would be to just go ahead and read it)! Amazing writers doing incredible work building truly beautiful love stories in a world and time different from ours. All sex on the page (steaminess levels vary), all HEA (of course).

Love stories set in the past, often with strict social rules, grand settings, and slow-burning passion.