Regency

Get in the mood for our upcoming Jane Austen event at Point Cook Library with these great regency reads.

Updated January 29, 2025
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Belgravia
Fellowes, Julian
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling novel about scandalous secrets and star-crossed lovers. On the evening of 15 June 1815, the great and the good of British society have gathered in Brussels at what is to become one of the most tragic parties in history - the Duchess of...
The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies
Goodman, Alison
Paper Book
A Washington Post Best Mystery Novel of 2023 A high society amateur detective at the heart of Regency London uses her wits and invisibility as an 'old maid' to protect other women in a new and fiercely feminist historical mystery series from New York Times bestselling...
The Duke and I
Quinn, Julia
Paper Book
Simon Basset, the irresistible Duke of Hastings, has hatched a plan to keep himself free from the town′s marriage-minded society mothers. He pretends to be engaged to the lovely Daphne Bridgerton. After all, it isn′t as if the brooding rogue has any real plans to marry - though there...
A duke in shining armor
Chase, Loretta Lynda 1949-
Paper Book
Hugh Philemon Ancaster, seventh Duke of Ripley, will never win prizes for virtue. But even he draws the line at running off with his best friend's bride. He's only trying to recapture the inebriated Lady Olympia Hightower and return her to her intended. For reasons that elude her, bookish Olympia...
Frankenstein (unabridged) (AR).
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft 1797-1851
Paper Book
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS'sThe Great American Read At the age of eighteen, Mary Shelley, while staying in the Swiss Alps with her lover Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and others, conceived the tale of Dr. Victor Frankenstein and the monster he...
The heiress : the revelations of Anne De Bourgh
Greeley, Molly
Paper Book
"Greeley's storytelling is intricate, masterly, and delightfully imaginative. Highly recommended."--Library Journal (starred review)  In this gorgeously written and spellbinding historical novel based on Pride and Prejudice, the author of The Clergyman's Wife combines the knowing eye...
The ladies rewrite the rules
Allain, Suzanne
Paper Book
Diana Boyle, a wealthy young widow living a quiet life on the outskirts of London, has no desire to ever marry again. When fortune-hunting suitors begin arriving on her doorstep, she's furious to discover her name and address have been published in a directory of England's most affluent unmarried...
Longbourn
Baker, Jo.
Paper Book
* Pride and Prejudice was only half the story *   If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, she'd most likely be a sight more careful with them.   In this irresistibly imagined belowstairs...
Mansfield Park
Austen, Jane 1775-1817
Paper Book
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with...
Miss Austen
Hornby, Gill
Paper Book
A #1 International Bestseller "A deeply imagined and deeply moving novel. Reading it made me happy and weepy in equally copious amounts." --Karen Joy Fowler "You can't help feeling that Jane would have approved." --The Guardian For...
Mr. Malcolm's list
Allain, Suzanne
Paper Book
The Honourable Mr. Malcolm is searching for a wife who will meet the qualifications on his well-crafted list. He's beginning to despair, until Selina Dalton arrives in town. Selina, a vicar's daughter, is thrilled when her friend Julia invites her to London, until she learns it's all a plot to exact...
Northanger Abbey
Austen, Jane 1775-1817
Paper Book
At Northanger Abbey Jane Austen's charmingly imperfect heroine, Catherine Morland, meets all the trappings of gothic horror and imagines the worst. Fortunately she has, at hand, her own fundamental good sense and the irresistible but unsentimental hero, Henry Tilney.
Pride and prejudice
Austen, Jane 1775-1817
Paper Book
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets...
Pride and prejudice and zombies : the classic regency romance--now with ultraviolent zombie mayhem : the deluxe heirloom edition
Grahame-Smith, Seth
Paper Book
The New York Times best seller is now a major motion picture starring Lily James and Sam Riley, with Matt Smith, Charles Dance, and Lena Headey.    This deluxe heirloom edition includes a new preface by coauthor Seth Grahame-Smith, thirteen oil...
Queen bee : an anti-historical Regency romp
Howard, Amalie
Paper Book
A young woman seeking retribution against her backstabbing best friend finds her plans derailed once she reunites with the only boy she's ever loved-a delightful second chance romance with the vibe of Bridgerton, from a USA Today bestselling author! "A divine dip...
Remember love
Balogh, Mary
Paper Book
"One of the best." - Julia Quinn The beloved queen of Regency romance is back with a brand-new story perfect for fans of Bridgerton. The handsome and charismatic Earl of Stratton, Caleb Ware, has been exposed to the ton for his clandestine affairs-...
To marry and to meddle : a novel
Waters, Martha 1988-
Paper Book
"Sure to delight Bridgerton fans." --USA TODAY The "sweet, sexy, and utterly fun" (Emily Henry, author of People We Meet on Vacation) Regency Vows series continues with a witty, charming, and joyful novel following a seasoned debutante and a rakish theater...
Trouble : a novel
Croucher, Lex
Paper Book
A Regency-era romantic comedy with a deliciously feminist and queer twist, from the New York Times bestselling author of Gwen & Art Are Not in Love. There's a new governess at Fairmont House, and she's going to be nothing but trouble. Emily...

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