20 must-read historical books like The Bequest (Enlightenment, #3.5) by Joanna Chambers

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The Bequest (Enlightenment, #3.5)

By: Joanna Chambers

4.23

Format: 60 pages, ebook

David Lauriston and Lord Murdo Balfour have been living happily together for three years at the Lav…

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1. A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2)

By: K.J. Charles

4.18

Format: 211 pages, ebook

Magic in the blood. Danger in the streets. Lord Crane has never had a lover quite as elusive as … read more

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  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • historical fiction
"I like to make you know your master,"

-K.J. Charles, A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2)

"You look like the cat that swallowed the cream," Stephen said softly. "That comes later."

-K.J. Charles, A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2)

"Dear me, Mr. Day. You really do love to get fucked on desks, don't you? Put you on a desk, and you're begging for it. What is so particularly exciting about desks?"

-K.J. Charles, A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2)

"Charm's a very dangerous thing. Lucien, tell me," Stephen said thoughtfully. "This respect for shamans, this inviolability..." "Mmm?" "Well, I don't know if you remember, but some three weeks ago, yo…"

-K.J. Charles, A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2)

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2. The Soldier's Scoundrel (The Turners, #1)

By: Cat Sebastian

4.01

Format: 352 pages, ebook

A scoundrel who lives in the shadows Jack Turner grew up in the darkness of London's slums, born in… read more

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  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"Nobody had been more surprised than Jack to discover that when he was happy, he wanted to make others happy. What a soggy lot of rubbish, but there you had it."

-Cat Sebastian, The Soldier's Scoundrel (The Turners, #1)

"How many more snifters of brandy could that potted plant take before it withered up and died? Oliver had, on the sly, been dumping nearly all his brandy into that poor plant for days now. But it look…"

-Cat Sebastian, The Soldier's Scoundrel (The Turners, #1)

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3. It Takes Two to Tumble (Seducing the Sedgwicks, #1)

By: Cat Sebastian

3.88

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Some of Ben Sedgwick's favorite things: Helping his poor parishioners Baby animals Shamelessl… read more

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  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"He couldn't be serious and stern with a man who had ducklings in his hair, or who talked to baby birds like they were guests at a tea party, or who seemed to dearly want Phillip to smile."

-Cat Sebastian, It Takes Two to Tumble (Seducing the Sedgwicks, #1)

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4. A Case of Spirits (A Charm of Magpies, #2.5)

By: K.J. Charles

4.10

Format: 136 pages,

None so blind... As torrential rains wash away the stench of a London heat wave, another kind of wa… read more

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  • romance
  • m m romance
  • historical
  • short stories
  • historical fiction
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5. The Ruin of Gabriel Ashleigh (Society of Gentlemen, #0.5)

By: K.J. Charles

2.74

Format: None pages, ebook

Passion is on the cards for two reckless rogues as K. J. Charles ups the ante in her Society of Gen… read more

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  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • short stories
  • historical fiction
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6. Stormhaven (Whyborne & Griffin, #3)

By: Jordan L. Hawk

4.10

Format: None pages, ebook

Mysterious happenings are nothing new to reclusive scholar Percival Endicott Whyborne, but finding … read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • m m romance

7. Widdershins (Whyborne & Griffin, #1)

By: Jordan L. Hawk

3.72

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Some things should stay buried. Repressed scholar Percival Endicott Whyborne has two skills: readin… read more

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8. Flight of Magpies (A Charm of Magpies, #3)

By: K.J. Charles

3.40

Format: 96 pages, ebook

Danger in the air. Lovers on the brink. With the justiciary understaffed, a series of horrifying oc… read more

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9. A Seditious Affair (Society of Gentlemen, #2)

By: K.J. Charles

4.14

Format: 222 pages, ebook

K. J. Charles turns up the heat in her new Society of Gentlemen novel, as two lovers face off in a … read more

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10. Spectred Isle (Green Men, #1)

By: K.J. Charles

3.97

Format: None pages, ebook

Archaeologist Saul Lazenby has been all but unemployable since his disgrace during the War. Now he … read more

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11. Jackdaw

By: K.J. Charles

4.01

Format: 217 pages, ebook

If you stop running, you fall. Jonah Pastern is a magician, a liar, a windwalker, a professional th… read more

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12. Necropolis (Whyborne & Griffin, #4)

By: Jordan L. Hawk

4.14

Format: None pages, ebook

Introverted scholar Percival Endicott Whyborne has spent the last few months watching his lover, Gr… read more

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13. The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1)

By: K.J. Charles

4.04

Format: 271 pages, ebook

A lord in danger. A magician in turmoil. A snowball in hell. Exiled to China for twenty years, L… read more

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  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • historical fiction
"Have you seen the mummies at the British Museum?"

-K.J. Charles, The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1)

"Someone wanted to choke me to death on my own hair?"

-K.J. Charles, The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1)

"Two death sentences? Really? I mean, you look very well, considering."

-K.J. Charles, The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1)

"He had always found hope harder to deal with than despair. Despair didn't get disappointed."

-K.J. Charles, The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1)

14. Threshold (Whyborne & Griffin, #2)

By: Jordan L. Hawk

4.29

Format: None pages, ebook

Introverted scholar Percival Endicott Whyborne wants nothing more than to live quietly with his lov… read more

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15. A Fashionable Indulgence (Society of Gentlemen, #1)

By: K.J. Charles

3.98

Format: None pages, ebook

In the first novel of an explosive new series from K. J. Charles, a young gentleman and his elegant… read more

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16. A Gentleman's Position (Society of Gentlemen, #3)

By: K.J. Charles

4.33

Format: None pages, ebook

Power, privilege, and the rigid rules of class leave two hearts yearning for connection in the sizz… read more

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17. A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel (The Doomsday Books, #2)

By: K.J. Charles

4.25

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Major Rufus d'Aumesty has unexpectedly become the Earl of Oxney, master of a remote Norman manor on… read more

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  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
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18. The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1)

By: K.J. Charles

4.13

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

Bridgerton meets Poldark in this sweeping LGBTQIA+ Regency romance from award-winning author KJ Cha… read more

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  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"It didn’t have quite the melancholy feel of lost hopes and the futility of human endeavour that would have suited his mood, but it was still moderately picturesque."

-K.J. Charles, The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1)

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19. A Thief in the Night

By: K.J. Charles

3.77

Format: 76 pages, ebook

Toby never meant to be a highway robber, but needs must. He didn’t plan to impersonate a top London… read more

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  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
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20. You Should Be So Lucky

By: Cat Sebastian

4.39

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An emotional, slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, queer mid-century romance about grief and found family, b… read more

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  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"Sometimes you want to look at a guy and say: Well, he’s fucked, but he’s trying."

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

"But he also wants that feeling he had earlier, that feeling of being seen for who he is, and of being liked anyway."

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

"This urge to be kind to a relative stranger is unfamiliar and disconcerting, as if he's discovered in himself a hunger for raw meat or an enthusiasm for vaudeville."

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

"The actual problem is incredibly boring, and Mark hates admitting it even to himself. Unless a couple has the good fortune to get hit by the same freight train, their story ends in exactly one way. H…"

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

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21. The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting (Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, #1)

By: K.J. Charles

4.17

Format: 311 pages, Paperback

Robin Loxleigh and his sister Marianne are the hit of the Season, so attractive and delightful that… read more

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  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"... when people want to hurt someone very much, they often reach for the thing that would hurt themselves most deeply."

-K.J. Charles, The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting (Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, #1)

"... why have we all decided that the most important and to-be-respected quality is the one possessed by the worst people?"

-K.J. Charles, The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting (Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, #1)

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22. Hither, Page (Page & Sommers, #1)

By: Cat Sebastian

3.97

Format: 232 pages, ebook

A jaded spy and a shell shocked country doctor team up to solve a murder in postwar England. Jam… read more

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  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
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23. Any Old Diamonds (Lilywhite Boys, #1)

By: K.J. Charles

4.29

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Lord Alexander Pyne-ffoulkes is the younger son of the Duke of Ilvar, with a bitter grudge against … read more

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  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"I've spent my life hoping people don't let me down and waiting for them to do exactly that and believing it's inevitable and thinking it's my fault. I don't want to do that anymore."

-K.J. Charles, Any Old Diamonds (Lilywhite Boys, #1)

"The question was never whether I loved you," Alec whispered. "It was, How brave am I? or maybe How afraid am I? And it turns out I'm slightly braver than I am afraid when it comes to you."

-K.J. Charles, Any Old Diamonds (Lilywhite Boys, #1)

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24. Gilded Cage (Lilywhite Boys, #2)

By: K.J. Charles

4.17

Format: 248 pages, ebook

Once upon a time a boy from a noble family fell in love with a girl from the gutter. It went as bad… read more

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  • lgbt
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
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25. Something Fabulous (Something Fabulous, #1)

By: Alexis Hall

3.59

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

From the acclaimed author of Boyfriend Material comes a delightfully witty romance featuring a rese… read more

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  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"Three months ago Valentine would have said no because it was easy to be gracious when you were largely indifferent. When manner were just another mask. Three weeks ago, he would have said yes because…"

-Alexis Hall, Something Fabulous (Something Fabulous, #1)

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26. Pet (Captive Prince Short Stories, #4)

By: C.S. Pacat

4.09

Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition

Pet follows the rise of Ancel at the poisonous court of Vere. Set during the events of Captive Prin… read more

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  • lgbt
  • historical
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • queer
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27. Gary of a Hundred Days (The Unwanted King #1)

By: Isabel Murray

4.03

Format: 159 pages, Kindle Edition

The Kingdom of Estla is in turmoil. Power plays, intrigue, and plots seethe in the corridors of pow… read more

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28. Adam Only (Those Other Books #2)

By: Roe Horvat

4.02

Format: None pages, ebook

On stage, Adam lets his passion drive him. All his secret desires, everything nasty, dirty, and bea… read more

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  • m m romance
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"Sweetheart, I feel alive with you. I don’t know if it’s healthy. But it’s fucking invigorating."

-Roe Horvat, Adam Only (Those Other Books #2)

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29. The Mating of Michael (Sex in Seattle, #3)

By: Eli Easton

4.12

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the 3rd book in the Sex in Seattle series, but it features a new couple and can be read as … read more

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"New love is grand. Savor all the crazy, muddled might of it."

-Eli Easton, The Mating of Michael (Sex in Seattle, #3)

"James rolled his eyes. "That was way harder than it should have been." "That's what he said."

-Eli Easton, The Mating of Michael (Sex in Seattle, #3)

"Michael scrambled around again and kissed James’s lips and cheeks in brief, silly pecks. “Breakfast?"

-Eli Easton, The Mating of Michael (Sex in Seattle, #3)

"Michael looked embarrassed. “No, I don’t really… I mean in real life, I don’t do that. I read BDSM once in a while, but honestly, I prefer the sweeter romances."

-Eli Easton, The Mating of Michael (Sex in Seattle, #3)

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30. The Bequest (Enlightenment, #3.5)

By: Joanna Chambers

4.23

Format: 60 pages, ebook

David Lauriston and Lord Murdo Balfour have been living happily together for three years at the Lav… read more

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  • historical
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  • historical romance
  • short stories
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  • historical fiction
  • queer
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31. The Duke at Hazard (Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, #2)

By: K.J. Charles

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Don't miss the second thrilling Regency romance in the Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune series by KJ … read more

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