Collider has published a curated list of ten Regency-era romance novels recommended as strong entry points for readers new to the genre, amid a surge of new historical romance titles on bookshop shelves. The list mixes well-known classics with lesser-known favourites, chosen for their consistently strong storytelling from beginning to end.

Highlighted picks include Scarlett Peckham's "The Rakess", about a scandalous women's rights campaigner who falls for a widowed Scottish architect; Amalie Howard's YA novel "Queen Bee", a revenge tale likened to a Regency "Count of Monte Cristo"; Evie Dunmore's "Bringing Down the Duke", set in 1878 around Oxford's first women's college and suffragist politics; and Julia Quinn's "The Viscount Who Loved Me", the Bridgerton instalment centred on Anthony and Kate Sheffield.