Historical Romance Book Club discussion

For the month of AUGUST 2024 we will be reading historical romance novels that feature Working class romance: Books set among the working class. No lordly titles here.

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 June 16th <<

Authors ineligible for August 2024:

Suzanne Enoch - July 2024
Lenora Bell - July 2024
Sabrina Jeffries - July 2024
Julia Quinn - June 2024
Virgina Henley - June 2024
Carla Kelly - June 2024
Jillian Hunter – May 2024
Joanna Shupe – May 2024
Rose Gordon – May 2024
Meredith Duran – April 2024
Stacey Reid – April 2024
Courtney Milan – April 2024
Sophie Jordan - March 2024
Stella Riley - March 2024
Johanna Lindsey - March 2024
Lauren Smith - Feb 2024
Amy Jarecki – Feb 2024
Lorraine Heath – Feb 2024
Mary Balogh - Jan 2024
Virginia Heath - Jan 2024
Eva Leigh - Jan 2024
Elizabeth Hoyt - Dec 2023
Julie Anne Long - Dec 2023
Lara Temple - Dec 2023
Lisa Kleypas - Nov 2023
Gaelen Foley - Nov 2023
Maggie Fenton - Nov 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

Sorry for the delay, I'm always at lost with time... do you know the rabbit from Alice in Wonderland?! :D

I nominate Lost Lover by Mary Lancaster and A Devil of a Time by Gretchen Jeannette.

If this counts I nominate

Beauty and the Thief

Do both characters have to be working class?

Merry wrote: "This one is a bit offbeat Silver Lining by Maggie Osborne"

The next one is Ellen O;Connell Eyes of Silver

A Contracted Spouse for the Prizefighter by Alice Coldbreath. A former prizefighter, now a businessman/entrepreneur, and a woman who wants to be a music hall performer. Could easily be read as a standalone. I really enjoyed this one and would happily read it again.


Slowly Fell: A Tale of Love and Thumbscrews by Jayne Fresina. Another very enjoyable book that I would happily read again. A blacksmith and an 'ordinary woman' (an admiral's daughter). But there is so much more to this lovely book.

Merry wrote: This one is a bit offbeat Silver Lining by Maggie Osborne"

I read Silver Lining a few years ago and I remember liking it, so I would happily read it again.

Lauren, I was asking myself the same. I think they must, because if not this troupe is very similar to others

I'd like to nominate A Contracted Spouse for the Prizefighter by Alice Coldbreath ; and A Modest Independence by Mimi Matthews .

I 1st nominate: Night Secrets by Kat Martin

Olivia wrote: "I'd like to nominate A Contracted Spouse for the Prizefighter by Alice Coldbreath ; and [book:A Modest ..."

Olivia, I have already nominated the Alice Coldbreath book (see message #8), so you might want to take the opportunity to nominate another book.

2nd nomination :
The Irish Bride by Alex Harrington

Maybe we could extend the nominations until tonight 00:00 GMT because I can't do the Voting Thread until tonight, ok?

I nominate
One Day for a Valet
By Lauren Linn
Governess and Valet romance..

I nominate:
by Alice Chetwynd Ley
and
by Sarah M. Eden

My 2nd Nomination



The Dreadful Duke
He is a sculpture

i'M CLOSING THE NOMINATIONS!

(Sorry for the upper case!)

Sorry, for the delay, but we had a little question with the nominations.

I'm sorry, Mariana and Mamacita, but these books don't fulfil the requirements of the trope, for this BOTM:
Lost Lover - Mary Lancaster ---- IS A DUKE
The Dreadful Duke - Grace Burrowes ---- SHE'S A DUKE WIDOW

Thanks!

Sandra wrote: "Sorry, for the delay, but we had a little question with the nominations.

I'm sorry, Mariana and Mamacita, but these books don't fulfil the requirements of the trope, for this BOTM:
Lost Lover - Ma..."

I'm sorry I thought that they had to just work

Mamacita aka MawMaw wrote: "Sandra wrote: "Sorry, for the delay, but we had a little question with the nominations.

I'm sorry, Mariana and Mamacita, but these books don't fulfil the requirements of the trope, for this BOTM:
..."
Good point, but I believe not, because in the theme says "No lordly titles here"