14 must-read regency books like Desperate Duchesses (Desperate Duchesses, #1) by Eloisa James

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Desperate Duchesses (Desperate Duchesses, #1)

By: Eloisa James

3.67

Format: 384 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Welcome to a world of reckless sensuality and glittering sophistication...of dangerously handsome…

"It was also bitterly true that a person who doesn’t want you is twice as desirable."

-Eloisa James, Desperate Duchesses (Desperate Duchesses, #1)

"Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts."

-Eloisa James, Desperate Duchesses (Desperate Duchesses, #1)

"Dowry doesn't rhyme with many words, so I had to rhyme dowry and peach tree [...] My nephew will inherit the estate, but the orchards are unentailed and will go to you."

-Eloisa James, Desperate Duchesses (Desperate Duchesses, #1)

"A fit encomium for marital bliss," Beaumont said, putting down his knife and fork. "Dancing to a tune one neither likes nor understands, with a partner who thinks you a cadaver."

-Eloisa James, Desperate Duchesses (Desperate Duchesses, #1)

If you liked the regency plot in Desperate Duchesses (Desperate Duchesses, #1) by Eloisa James , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart (Love By Numbers, #3)

By: Sarah MacLean

3.99

Format: 370 pages, Mass Market Paperback

There is no telling where a scandal might lead... She lives for passion. Bold, impulsive, and… read more

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  • romance
  • regency romance
  • historical
  • regency
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"He called me a pie!"

-Sarah MacLean, Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart (Love By Numbers, #3)

"Don’t you . . . ever . . ."

-Sarah MacLean, Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart (Love By Numbers, #3)

"Leave it to the English to fabricate a lake,"

-Sarah MacLean, Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart (Love By Numbers, #3)

"We are a motley bunch. But we more than make up for it with tenacity." ~ Ralston to Simon"

-Sarah MacLean, Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart (Love By Numbers, #3)

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2. Someone to Watch Over Me (Bow Street Runners, #1)

By: Lisa Kleypas

4.64

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alt Cover for ISBN 0380802309 Grant Morgan is one of London's most eligible and unattainable bachel… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • regency
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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3. Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover (The Rules of Scoundrels, #4)

By: Sarah MacLean

3.17

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

She is the most powerful woman in Britain, A queen of the London Underworld... But no one can ever … read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • regency
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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4. The Rogue Not Taken (Scandal & Scoundrel, #1)

By: Sarah MacLean

4.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

LADY SOPHIE'S SOCIETY SPLASH The youngest of the infamous Talbot sisters scandalized society at the… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • regency
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult

5. Lady Sophia's Lover (Bow Street Runners, #2)

By: Lisa Kleypas

3.32

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Why is Lady Sophia looking for a lover? And could she seduce the most marriageable man in London? L… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • regency
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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6. Where Dreams Begin

By: Lisa Kleypas

3.70

Format: 339 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"We're strangers in the darkness," he whispered. "We'll never be together like this again." Zachary… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • regency
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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7. Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord (Love By Numbers, #2)

By: Sarah MacLean

3.88

Format: 357 pages, Mass Market Paperback

“Lord Nicholas is a paragon of manhood. And his eyes, Dear Reader! So blue!” Pearls & Pelisses, Jun… read more

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  • romance
  • regency romance
  • historical
  • regency
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It’s quite pleasant, isn’t it?"

-Sarah MacLean, Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord (Love By Numbers, #2)

"She took a deep breath, looking up at the ceiling for a long moment. A raindrop moved slowly down her neck; he watched as it turned down the slope of her breast to disappear inside the collar of her …"

-Sarah MacLean, Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord (Love By Numbers, #2)

"Also-and this is critical-you are not ugly." She blinked. Nick's eyes danced with amusement. "Remember, Isabel. It was your brother who said it. I would not dare to take credit for such pretty words.…"

-Sarah MacLean, Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord (Love By Numbers, #2)

"– E se eu disser que quero que você fique? Nick não respondeu de imediato, e ela ficou mortificada ao pensar que podia ter falado a coisa errada. Então ele deu um único passo largo e a apoiou na mesa…"

-Sarah MacLean, Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord (Love By Numbers, #2)

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8. Desperate Duchesses (Desperate Duchesses, #1)

By: Eloisa James

3.67

Format: 384 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Welcome to a world of reckless sensuality and glittering sophistication...of dangerously handsome… read more

Similar categories in Eloisa James's Desperate Duchesses (Desperate Duchesses, #1) book and Eloisa James's Desperate Duchesses (Desperate Duchesses, #1)

  • romance
  • regency romance
  • historical
  • regency
  • georgian
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It was also bitterly true that a person who doesn’t want you is twice as desirable."

-Eloisa James, Desperate Duchesses (Desperate Duchesses, #1)

"Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts."

-Eloisa James, Desperate Duchesses (Desperate Duchesses, #1)

"Dowry doesn't rhyme with many words, so I had to rhyme dowry and peach tree [...] My nephew will inherit the estate, but the orchards are unentailed and will go to you."

-Eloisa James, Desperate Duchesses (Desperate Duchesses, #1)

"A fit encomium for marital bliss," Beaumont said, putting down his knife and fork. "Dancing to a tune one neither likes nor understands, with a partner who thinks you a cadaver."

-Eloisa James, Desperate Duchesses (Desperate Duchesses, #1)

9. Talk of the Ton

By: Eloisa James , Julia London , Rebecca Hagan Lee , Jacqueline Navin

3.49

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Nothing sets tongues wagging like a scandalous dalliance. In the salons of the Ton, no tidbit is mo… read more

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10. Sins of a Duke (Griffin Family, #4)

By: Suzanne Enoch

2.35

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

Lust is a Sin . . .Sebastian Griffin, the Duke of Melbourne, has raised his younger siblings, seen … read more

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11. Sinful in Satin (The Rarest Blooms #3)

By: Madeline Hunter

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

When famed London courtesan Alessandra Northrope passes away, her daughter Celia Pennifold inherits… read more

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12. Love, Come to Me

By: Lisa Kleypas

3.60

Format: 411 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bewildered, startled, she felt his lips against hers, tasting her in a way she had never dreamed of… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • regency
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
"Heath," she whispered, "you're all I want. No one else ... no one . . ."

-Lisa Kleypas, Love, Come to Me

"Sometimes people don't have to make you love them...you just do, and there's no help for it."

-Lisa Kleypas, Love, Come to Me

"Heath had been there to help her, letting her draw from his strength. Did she have enough strength to sustain him in the same way?"

-Lisa Kleypas, Love, Come to Me

"You're so sweet . . . Cinda ... I knew you would feel like this ... I knew it would be this way. Put your arms around me . . . ah, Cin. . ."

-Lisa Kleypas, Love, Come to Me

13. No Good Duke Goes Unpunished (The Rules of Scoundrels, #3)

By: Sarah MacLean

3.99

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

A rogue ruined . . . He is the Killer Duke, accused of murdering Mara Lowe on the eve of her weddin… read more

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14. The Lady Most Willing... (Lady Most..., #2)

By: Julia Quinn , Eloisa James , Connie Brockway

3.89

Format: 371 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Step into the glittering world of Regency and prepare to have your hearts warmed by Julia Quinn, El… read more

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  • romance
  • regency romance
  • historical
  • regency
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
"All I really need,"

-Julia Quinn, The Lady Most Willing... (Lady Most..., #2)

"Oakley won't," the duke said. She turned and blinked. "I beg your pardon." "Lord Oakley. He won't forget to find us rooms. I've known him for years. The only thing that is making this bearable is tha…"

-Julia Quinn, The Lady Most Willing... (Lady Most..., #2)

15. Somewhere I'll Find You (Capital Theatre, #1)

By: Lisa Kleypas

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The toast of the town... All London is at Julia Wentworth's feet--and anything she desires is hers … read more

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16. One Good Earl Deserves a Lover (The Rules of Scoundrels, #2)

By: Sarah MacLean

4.02

Format: 376 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The second in the incredible new Rules of Scoundrels series from New York Times bestselling author … read more

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  • romance
  • regency romance
  • historical
  • regency
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It makes you ache,"

-Sarah MacLean, One Good Earl Deserves a Lover (The Rules of Scoundrels, #2)

"I do, love. I want you more than you could ever know. More than I could have ever dreamed. I want you enough for two men. For ten."

-Sarah MacLean, One Good Earl Deserves a Lover (The Rules of Scoundrels, #2)

"But there, in that remarkable room, surrounded by a laughing, rollicking, unseeing collection of London's brightest and wickedest, Pippa's knowledge of anatomy expanded. It seemed there was such a th…"

-Sarah MacLean, One Good Earl Deserves a Lover (The Rules of Scoundrels, #2)

"You are an astronomer as well as a mathematician?" He turned to face her, finally, half his face cast into shadowy light from the manor beyond. "You are a horticulturalist as well as an anatomist?" S…"

-Sarah MacLean, One Good Earl Deserves a Lover (The Rules of Scoundrels, #2)

17. Sin and Sensibility (Griffin Family, #1)

By: Suzanne Enoch

3.88

Format: 373 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Lady Eleanor wants an adventure before she surrenders to a dull Society marriage. And who better th… read more

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18. A Scot in the Dark (Scandal & Scoundrel, #2)

By: Sarah MacLean

3.50

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

Lonesome Lily Turned Scandalous Siren Miss Lillian Hargrove has lived much of her life alone in a g… read more

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19. The Lady Most Likely... (Lady Most..., #1)

By: Julia Quinn , Eloisa James , Connie Brockway

3.79

Format: 372 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A Novel in Three Parts Hugh Dunne, the Earl of Briarly, needs a wife—so his sister hands him a l… read more

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  • romance
  • regency romance
  • historical
  • regency
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Love was the best present of all..."

-Julia Quinn, The Lady Most Likely... (Lady Most..., #1)

"Has no one ever taught you it is rude to pry?' 'Would you rather I sneaked about, ferreting things out? Of course not. 'Twould be most distasteful. All in all, I'd rather be thought rude than artful."

-Julia Quinn, The Lady Most Likely... (Lady Most..., #1)

"She had always looked like some confectioner's fantasia, a wee thing created of spun sugar, gossamer light, pale and shimmering, so fragile she might melt away in the morning dew. The years had made …"

-Julia Quinn, The Lady Most Likely... (Lady Most..., #1)

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20. Brazen and the Beast (The Bareknuckle Bastards, #2)

By: Sarah MacLean

4.08

Format: 436 pages, ebook

The Lady’s Plan When Lady Henrietta Sedley declares her twenty-ninth year her own, she has plans… read more

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  • romance
  • regency romance
  • historical
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  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We heard you were thrown out," Felicity said. He gave a little growl. "It was mutual." "Mutual," Felicity repeated. "Carriage tossing."

-Sarah MacLean, Brazen and the Beast (The Bareknuckle Bastards, #2)

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21. Daring and the Duke (The Bareknuckle Bastards, #3)

By: Sarah MacLean

3.77

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Grace Condry has spent a lifetime running from her past. Betrayed as a child by her only love and r… read more

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  • historical
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  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It was. It was you," he said, softly advancing on her with slow, predatory grace. "You think I would forget your touch? You think I wouldn't know it in the darkness? I would know it in battle. I woul…"

-Sarah MacLean, Daring and the Duke (The Bareknuckle Bastards, #3)

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Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover (The Rules of Scoundrels, #4)

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3.17

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4.14

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