In a podcast where we set out to read every genre (regardless of our actual interest) we are hit with a doozy for our first episode: Historical Romance.
Listen to hosts Anna Ferri, Meghan Whyte, Amanda Wanner, Sam Mills, and Matthew Murray discuss royal marines, princesses, pirates, concubines, and far too many rakes and dukes.
Your Hosts This Episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Amanda Wanner | Sam Mills | Matthew Murray
Historical Romances We Read (or kinda):
Recommended
- Marrying the Royal Marine by Carla Kelly
- The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
- The Countess Conspiracy by Courtney Milan
- The Iron Duke by Meljean Brook *Steampunk*
Not Recommended
- Winterblaze by Kristen Callihan
- Destiny’s Captive by Beverly Jenkins
- The Virgin’s Lover by Philippa Gregory
- My Fair Concubine by Jeanne Lin
Did Not Finish
- Awful free kindle books like Sea Scoundrel by Annette Blair (not recommended)
- 9 Rules to Break when Romancing a Rake by Sarah MacLean
A few more books we mentioned
- A Week to be Wicked by Tessa Dare
- Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
- The Professor’s Daughter by Joann Sfar, Emmanuel Guibert
- The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
- Bear by Marian Engel
Other Links
- The article we read on the alpha male
- The Book Riot list Meghan selected from
- Good recommendations on how to read romance for the first time
- The Most exciting cleaning company in Vancouver
- Regencies vs Regency Historical Romance – Which is more historical and less “sexy times”?
- Historical Romance set in Mayan and Aztec eras
- The (absurdly) complete notes from our Book Club meeting
Questions
Where do you buy sheepskin condoms? Well, you can search for that yourself.
Our theme music is To Arrakis by DarkSunn, found on the Free Music Archive.