Historical Romance Book Club discussion

For the month of November 2023 we will be reading historical romance novels that feature Class Difference: Romances where the main characters come from different social classes.

Rules of Nominations:

1. Not more than 2 novel nominations per member.
2. No book we have read as a group read in the last 2 yrs. (Please check the group's Bookshelf)
3. No author we have read in the last one year (see below).

(*we are no longer including novella’s as a separate BOTM. If a novella is nominated, please note the number of pages)

>> Nominations end on September 16th <<

Authors ineligible for November 2023:
Maya Banks - Oct 2023
Lynsay Sands - Oct 2023
Laura Lee Guhrke - Sept 2023
Georgette Heyer - Sept 2023
Karen Hawkins - Sept 2023
Kerrigan Byrne – Aug 2023
Caroline Linden – Aug 2023
Kresley Cole – Aug 2023
Tessa Dare – July 2023
Amalie Howard – July 2023
Julie Garwood – July 2023
Jennifer Ashley – June 2023
Elisa Braden – June 2023
Suzanne Enoch – June 2023
Sarah MacLean – May 2023
Kate Bateman – May 2023
Suzanne Enoch – May 2923
Mary Jo Putney – April 2023
Anne Gracie – April 2023
Eva Leigh – April 2023
Julia Quinn – March 2023
Reid, Stacy – March 2023
Ivory, Judith – March 2023
Jayne Fresina – Feb 2023
KJ Charles – Feb 2023
Wendy Vella – Feb 2023
Harris Channing – Feb 2023
Joanna Shupe – Jan 2023
Amy Rose Bennett – Jan 2023
Jill Barnett – Jan 2023
Grace Burrowes – Jan 2023
Carolyn Jewel - Dec 2022
Liz Carlyle - Dec 2022
Alice Coldbreath - Dec 2022
Christina Courtenay - Dec 2022
Amanda Quick/Jayne Ann Krantz - Nov 2022
Lorraine Heath - Nov 2022
Celeste Bradley - Nov 2022
Mary Lancaster - Nov 2022

....and I will start the nominations with a book which has been on my BOTM for a long time:

The Duke
The Duke - by Gaelen Foley

I nominate The Sheriff’s Outcast Bride by Chloe Carley and Freeing Joslyn by G.G. Shalton.

I nominate Slightly Dangerous by Mary Balogh and Private Arrangements by Sherry Thomas

I nominate Butterfly Swords by Jeannie Lin and The Duke's Holiday by Maggie Fenton

I nominate:
The Promise by May McGoldrick
An Undeniable Rogue by Annette Blair

The Last Hellion by Loretta Chase


Luck Be a Lady by Meredith Duran

I would like to nominate:

Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Wicked Intentions by Elizabeth Hoyt
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...

I nominate
Lucy and the Duke of secrets
By Sofi Laporte. (KU)

Adam
By Sydney Jane Bailey (KU)

I just read a class-difference HR that I enjoyed, although I won't change my nominations now because I'm not likely to read it again in November. I'll list it here anyway for those who like this theme, because it's a good, different and non-cliche read with complex and interesting characters. Set in 1840s England. Some of you might like to pick it up anyway. It can be read as a standalone.
The Orphan Pearl by Erin Satie

OK. Nominations are now closed. Voting form will be available soon.