Historical Romance Book Club discussion

For the month of MARCH 2025, we will be reading historical romance with the following theme ‘ Overlooked Heroine : Combined Spinster, Wallflower, Bluestocking tropes.

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 January 16th <<

Authors ineligible for March 2025:

Liz Carlyle- Feb 2025
C.J. Archer – Feb 2025
Annie Burrows – Feb 2025
Georgette Heyer – January 2025
Judith Ivory – January 2025
Elisa Braden – January 2025
Julie Garwood – December 2024
Jo Goodman – December 2024
Jodie Thomas – December 2024
Vivienne Lorret – November 2024
Candace Camp – November 2024
Olivia Parker – November 2024
Jane Feather – October 2024
LM Montgomery – October 2024
Laura Lee Guhrke – October 2024
Loretta Chase – September 2024
Grace Burrowes – September 2024
Minerva Spencer – September 2024
Shana Galen – August 2024
Alice Coldbreath – August 2024
Mimi Matthews – 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

Starting the nominations off with Love Is Blind by Lynsay Sands and Duke Most Wanted by Celeste Bradley

I don't remember if we have read this one recently. Book blurb list the heroine as a bluestocking.

The Bounce in the Captain's Boots by Jayne Fresina


Irresistible by Mary Balogh

I will nominate the following:

The Spinster and the Rake by Anne Stuart

The Husband Trap by Tracy Anne Warren

Silver Lining by Maggie Osborne
A Week to be Wicked by Tessa Dare

I will nominate:
What the Duke Wants by Amy Quinton
A Wild Marquess for the Wallflower: A Historical Regency Romance Novel by Patricia Haverton - on tbr so i hope it fits.

I will nominate:

Seduction by Amanda Quick.

(I'm not sure where to look for the group reads?)

I will nominate:

The Duke and the Wallflower by Jessie Clever

The Arrangement by Mary Balough

I like to nominate
A Scarred Wallflower for the Duke
By Harriet Caves

A Bluestocking’s Pirate
By Audrey Harrison

Merry wrote: " I don't remember if we have read this one recently. Book blurb list the heroine as a bluestocking.

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Hi Merry - The Lord of Scoundrel by Loretta Chase is ineligible, as we read another book by Loretta Chase in September 2024.
Please feel free to choose another book

Thanks Susan, I missed that. There are several that look good so I will just stick with my one.