Do you like Georgette Heyer Regency novels? Any other authors come close to her skill?

[bobbieinok]

I'm beginning to think Grace Burrowes does.

What are your suggestions?

ETA--Heyer novels are great ways to escape present mess.

Recently reread Cotillion, The Corinthian, and The Grand Sophy.

For novels set in moden times I like those by Crusie.

[AJT]

1. I'm going to have to check our library.

[bobbieinok]

2. Many of Heyer's books can be read free online. Same for Burrowes.

[emmaverybo]

3. I loved the Poldark series by Winston Graham; also Taylor Caldwell and Frank Yerby. Hilary Mantel

brilliant, but too literary (beautiful prose style) for my rec. reading needs.

Yerby was a best selling author writing in the forties and fifties. His main characters were white, but he wove in black history no other best selling author was writing—Southern slavery, Haitian revolt...

Great story-teller even though he could not write African American-centered literature and sell big. His book Foxes of Harrow made into a movie.

Highly recommend Banners of Silk by Rosalind Laker. Great tale involving historical post-French revolution historical era and the rise of haute couture.

[iamateacher]

4. Eloisa James is excellent

Sarah MacLean , Julia Quinn, Lisa Kleypas, Julia Ann Long, Laura Lee Guhrke, Tessa Dare, Courtney Milan, Mere dith Duran are all very good but my favorites are Sherry Thomas (who does not always write Regency) and Loretta Chase. Many if not all of the above authors are RITA winners.

[yardwork]

5. I love her. Have you read Jane Austen?

[lunatica]

6. I loved them when I was a teenager!

I used to laugh at my father telling me they were trashy sex novels.

Anyone who has read them knows why I’m laughing!