Royal Reads

Royalty can refer to sovereignty or nobility, but it can also be used to describe the money that someone receives as payment for work or the use of their property. This list is a mix of both definitions of Royalty!

Updated March 30, 2025
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In royal service to the Queen : a novel of the Queen's governess
Arlen, Tessa
Paper Book
Marion Crawford, governess to Queen Elizabeth II, has always stood by the young royal's side. In May 1945, the Queen falls in love with Prince Phillip - and no one except Marion thinks the match is a good one. Marion feels she can t leave the Queens's side until Elizabeth and Philip have received...
The lie maker : a novel
Barclay, Linwood
Paper Book
In this twisty, fast-paced thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Find You First and Take Your Breath Away, a man desperately tries to track down his father--who was taken into witness protection years ago--before his enemies can get to him. Your...
Murder most royal
Bennett, S. J.
Paper Book
"One imagines Christmas at the royal family's country house at Sandringham Estate bustling with drama, but Bennett's version raises the stakes... Bennett charmingly portrays relationships between royal family members." -- Washington Post Evidence that an aristocrat has gone missing-...
God rest ye, royal gentlemen
Bowen, Rhys
Paper Book
Georgie is excited for her first Christmas as a married woman in her lovely new home. She suggests to her dashing husband, Darcy, that they have a little house party, but when Darcy receives a letter from his aunt Ermintrude, there is an abrupt change in plans and they find themselves invited to...
Good rich people
Brazier, Eliza Jane
Paper Book
Lyla has always believed that life is a game she is destined to win, but her husband, Graham, takes the game to dangerous levels. The wealthy couple invites self-made success stories to live in their guesthouse and then conspires to ruin their lives. After all, there is nothing worse than a...
Royal wedding
Cabot, Meg
Paper Book
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Princess Diaries series, comes the very first adult installment, which follows Princess Mia and her Prince Charming as they plan their fairy tale wedding--but a few poisoned apples could turn this happily-ever-after into a royal nightmare. ...
Good fortune
Chau, C. K.
Paper Book
A whip-smart and charming debut novel that brilliantly reimagines Pride and Prejudice, set in contemporary Chinatown, exploring contemporary issues of class divides, family ties, cultural identity, and the pleasures and frustrations that come with falling in love. When Elizabeth Chen's...
Falling hard for the royal guard
Clawson, Megan
Paper Book
Despite living in an actual castle, happily ever after is evading Margaret 'Maggie' Moore. From her bedroom in the Tower of London, twenty-six-year-old Maggie has always dreamed of her own fairy-tale ending. Yet this is twenty-first century London, so instead of...
How to find a princess
Cole, Alyssa
Paper Book
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Alyssa Cole's second Runaway Royals novel is a queer Anastasia retelling, featuring a long-lost princess who finds love with the female investigator tasked with tracking her down. Makeda Hicks has lost her job and her girlfriend...
Her majesty's royal coven
Dawson, Juno
Paper Book
"Superb and almost unbearably charming, Her Majesty's Royal Coven... expertly launches an exciting new trilogy." --The New York Times Book Review   "Talk about a gut punch of a novel. ...A provocative exploration of intersectional feminism,...
The queen of blood
Durst, Sarah Beth
Paper Book
Set in the magical world of Renthia, The Queen of Blood is Sarah Beth Durst's ambitious entry into adult epic fantasy. With the danger of Peter Brett's The Warded Man, heart of Naomi Novik's Uprooted, and lyricism of Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind, this is the first chapter in a series...
One for the money
Evanovich, Janet.
Paper Book
The dynamite blockbusterfrom Janet Evanovichthat started it all--now a major motion picture starring Katherine Heigl as Stephanie Plum! ONE FINE MESS Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey, home to wiseguys, average Joes, and Stephanie Plum, who sports a big...
Homecoming
Everett, Lily.
Paper Book
Don't miss the entire Billionaire Brothers series--The Firefly Cafe, The Summer Cottage, andIsland Road--together for the first time in print! Three billionaire brothers are about to discover exactly where they belong, in this romance from Lily Everett.
The mystery writer : a novel
Gentill, Sulari
Paper Book
There's nothing easier to dismiss than a conspiracy theory--until it turns out to be true When Theodosia Benton abandons her career path as an attorney and shows up on her brother's doorstep with two suitcases and an unfinished novel, she expects to face a few challenges. Will her brother...
Payment in blood
George, Elizabeth
Ebook
"The Lynley books constitute the smartest, most gratifyingly complex and impassioned mysteries now being published."--Entertainment Weekly The career of playwright Joy Sinclair comes to an abrupt end on an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands when someone drives an...
The inheritance : a novel
Goodman, Joanna
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls and The Forgotten Daughter comes a compulsively readable mother-daughter story in which two women who share a difficult past must come to together to claim the future they deserve. Arden Moore enjoyed an affluent life thanks to her...
The Romanov empress : a novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna
Gortner, C. W.
Paper Book
For readers of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir comes a dramatic novel of the beloved Empress Maria, the Danish girl who became the mother of the last Russian tsar. Even from behind the throne, a woman can rule. Narrated by the mother of Russia's last tsar,...
The kingmaker's daughter
Gregory, Philippa.
Paper Book
In this New York Times bestseller that inspired the critically acclaimed Starz miniseries The White Queen, Philippa Gregory tells the tale of Anne Neville, a beautiful young woman who must navigate the treachery of the English court as her father, known as the Kingmaker, uses her and...
Goodbye girl
Grippando, James
Paper Book
A contentious intellectual piracy case leads to an unsolved murder, and Jack Swyteck's client--a pop music icon--is the accused killer. Piracy costs the movie and music industry billions. No one has been able to stop it. But that won't stop Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack...
Royal holiday
Guillory, Jasmine
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal and a "rising star in the romance genre" (Entertainment Weekly) comes a dazzling novel about a spontaneous holiday vacation that turns into an unforgettable romance. Vivian Forest has been out of the...
A problem princess
Harrington, Anna (Romance fiction writer)
Ebook
Princess ever after
Hauck, Rachel
Paper Book
Regina Beswick was born to be a princess. But she's content to be a small-town girl, running a classic auto restoration shop, unaware a secret destiny awaits her. One that will leap from the pages of her grandmother's hand-painted book of fairytales. Tanner Burkhardt is the stoic Minister of Culture...
The heiress : a novel
Hawkins, Rachel
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A January 2024 Indie Next Pick and LibraryReads Pick "The reigning queen of the Gothic thriller." --Entertainment Weekly THERE'S NOTHING AS GOOD AS THE RICH GONE BAD. When Ruby McTavish...
Princess of Dune
Herbert, Brian
Paper Book
Set two years before Dune, Princess of Dune is the never-before-told story of two key women in the life of Paul Muad'Dib--Princess Irulan, his wife in name only, and Paul's true love, the Fremen Chani. Both women become central to Paul's galaxy-spanning Imperial...
The Norse king's daughter
Hill, Sandra.
Ebook
Hell hath no fury like a princess scorned! A swoon-worthy historical romance from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Viking Takes a Knight.Every hilarious, sexy, sensational historical romance novel from Sandra Hill is a delight--and nobody but nobody does hot...
The royal governess : a novel of Queen Elizabeth II's childhood
Holden, Wendy
Paper Book
"This captivating page-turner whisks readers back in time to Buckingham Palace in 1933...A majestic story that delves into the incredible life of Queen Elizabeth II before she took her place on the throne."--Woman's World   Sunday Times ...
Duke, actually : a novel
Holiday, Jenny (Romance author)
Paper Book
USA Today bestselling author Jenny Holiday follows A Princess for Christmas with another delightful contemporary Christmas romance, set in the heart of New York City, about a playboy baron and a woman who has said goodbye to love. "[A] master of witty banter."--Entertainment...
Esther : royal beauty
Hunt, Angela Elwell
Paper Book
When an ambitious tyrant threatens genocide against the Jews, an inexperienced young queen must take a stand for her people. When Xerxes, king of Persia, issues a call for beautiful young women, Hadassah, a Jewish orphan living in Susa, is forcibly taken to the palace of the...
The fortune seller : a novel
Kapelke-Dale, Rachel
Paper Book
"Sophisticated with just the right dose of sinister, this coming-of-age story doesn't shy from the grisly power dynamics of privilege." --Library Journal When it comes to seeing the future--do you really want to know? Middle-class Rosie Macalister...
Reefs, royals, reckonings
Keyse-Walker, John
Paper Book
Constable Teddy Creque has to get to the bottom of a murder committed during a British royal reception in this lively and atmospheric mystery set in the sunny Caribbean. When Constable Teddy Creque is assigned to the security detail at a grand reception on the little...
Crazy rich Asians
Kwan, Kevin.
Paper Book
Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of...
That prince is mine : a novel
Lee, Jayci
A love-averse Korean royal court cuisine instructor is waylaid by a gorgeous professor -- and prince in disguise -- who will do anything to prove to her that love and happily ever after can be theirs....
The ruin of kings
Lyons, Jenn
Paper Book
A Kirkus Best of Science Fiction and Fantasy pick for 2019!A Library Journal Best Book of 2019! An NPR Favorite Book of 2019! "Everything epic fantasy should be: rich, cruel, gorgeous, brilliant, enthralling and deeply, deeply satisfying. I...
Princess Elizabeth's spy : a Maggie Hope mystery
MacNeal, Susan Elia.
Audiobook
Susan Elia MacNeal introduced the remarkable Maggie Hope in her acclaimed debut, Mr. Churchill's Secretary. Now Maggie returns to protect Britain's beloved royals against an international plot--one that could change the course of history. As World War II sweeps the...
A knight of the seven kingdoms
Martin, George R. R.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Taking place nearly a century before the events of A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms compiles the first three official prequel novellas to George R. R. Martin's ongoing masterwork, A Song of Ice and Fire. ...
The Bombay prince
Massey, Sujata
Paper Book
Bombay's first female lawyer, Perveen Mistry, is compelled to bring justice to the family of a murdered female Parsi student just as Bombay's streets erupt in riots to protest British colonial rule. Sujata Massey is back with this third installment to the Agatha and Mary Higgins Clark Award...
The Royal Wulff murders
McCafferty, Keith.
Paper Book
The first novel in the clever and fast-paced Sean Stranahan Mystery Series. When a fishing guide reels in the body of a young man on the Madison, the Holy Grail of Montana trout rivers, Sheriff Martha Ettinger suspects foul play. It's not just the stick jammed into the man's eye that draws...
Red, white & royal blue
McQuiston, Casey
Paper Book
* Instant NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestseller * * GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER for BEST DEBUT and BEST ROMANCE of 2019 * * BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR* for VOGUE, NPR, VANITY FAIR, and more! * What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the...
Kentucky rich
Michaels, Fern.
Ebook
First in the Kentucky trilogy from the #1 bestselling author. "Prose so natural that it seems you are witnessing a story rather than reading about it." --Los Angeles Sunday Times   The Colemans and Thorntons, the unforgettable American families...
A royal affair
Montclair, Allison
Paper Book
More goes wrong than could be imagined when Iris Sparks and Gwendolyn Bainbridge of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are unexpectedly engaged to dig into the past of a suitor of a royal princess in Allison Montclair's delightful second novel, A Royal Affair. In London...
The wealth of shadows : a novel
Moore, Graham
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "A thriller of a different kind--with an unlikely band of economists and bureaucrats working in the shadows to save the world."--Charles Frazier, New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain An ordinary man joins a secret mission to bring...
Battle royal : a novel
Parker, Lucy (Novelist)
Paper Book
"Lucy Parker writes deliciously fun enemies-to-lovers perfection!"  -- Tessa Bailey, New York Times bestselling author Beloved author Lucy Parker pens a delicious new romantic comedy that is a battle of whisks and wits. Ready... Four years...
Private : the royals
Patterson, James
Paper Book
James Patterson's BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. Jack Morgan is visiting Peter Knight and the team in the London branch of his investigation agency, Private. At a cocktail party the night before the Trooping the Colour parade for the Queen's 90th...
Queen Charlotte
Quinn, Julia
Paper Book
Go beyond the original Shondaland series on Netflix, Queen Charlotte, with this lushly romantic Bridgerton prequel novel written by New York Times bestselling authors Julia Quinn and Shonda Rhimes as the marriage of Queen Charlotte and King George of England leads to an unexpected love...
The royal secret : a novel
Riley, Lucinda
Paper Book
Note to readers: In the UK, this book is published under the title The Love Letter. "Plenty of twists, flashbacks, and a dash of romance keep the suspense high. For anyone looking for a dose of palace intrigue or upper-crust scandal, Riley's latest novel delivers on...
Queen of exiles : a novel
Riley, Vanessa
Paper Book
"You may not know Marie-Louise Christophe but once you have met her, you won't forget her. Vanessa Riley's historical novel feels timely and relevant, commemorating a time when Black women were queens." --Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author Acclaimed historical...
The way of kings
Sanderson, Brandon.
Paper Book
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Book One of the Stormlight Archive, begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion. Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky...
Royal : a novel
Steel, Danielle
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In this spellbinding tale from Danielle Steel, a princess is sent away to safety during World War II, where she falls in love, and is lost forever. As the war rages on in the summer of 1943, causing massive destruction and widespread fear,...
City of fortune
Thompson, Victoria
Paper Book
The next instalment in a popular historical-mystery series featuring Elizabeth Miles, a young con woman who finds herself embroiled in intrigue in turn-of-the-century New York.
Margo's got money troubles : a novel
Thorpe, Rufi
Paper Book
"Margo's Got Money Troubles is the feel-good novel we need right now." --The Washington Post  "[An] enormously entertaining and lovable book." --Nick Hornby, New York Times Book Review    A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman...
Ne'er duke well
Vasti, Alexandra
Paper Book
INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER! Featured in Entertainment Weekly, New York Times, Good Housekeeping, NPR, Oprah Daily, and more... In this steamy Regency romp, Lady Selina is determined to find the Duke of Stanhope the perfect wife-...
The empress of salt and fortune
Vo, Nghi
Audiobook
The king's pleasure : a novel of Henry VIII
Weir, Alison
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series explores the private side of the legendary king Henry VIII and his dramatic and brutal reign in this extraordinary historical novel. "A delightful yarn . . . an all-around fun read about a king and a cad."--...
The passionate Tudor : a novel of Queen Mary I
Weir, Alison
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series explores the dramatic and poignant life of King Henry VIII's daughter--infamously known as Bloody Mary--who ruled England for five violent years. "An exquisitely drawn, poignant portrayal of one of history's...
Queenie of Norwich
Wilde, L K
Ebook
The bird king
Wilson, G. Willow
Paper Book
From award-winning author G. Willow Wilson, The Bird King is an epic journey set during the reign of the last sultan in the Iberian peninsula at the height of the Spanish Inquisition. G. Willow Wilson's debut novel Alif the Unseen was an NPR and Washington Post...

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