2006-11-12 04:40:23 · 11 answers · asked by Elli 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I'm asking because my friend is a huge historical romance reader and I'm just looking for a good book or two to get her for Christmas.
2006-11-12 04:53:27 · update #1
What an admission - Forever Amber, by Kathleen Wilson.
Broaden the definition slightly so there's less romance and it's Gone With The Wind.
And when I was a teenager, I got interested in history through the historical novels of Jean Plaidy - I'm pretty sure that she's still in print - because she made history interesting (i.e. about people) rather than dates and treaties.
2006-11-12 04:49:34 · answer #1 · answered by mrsgavanrossem 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Belva Plain and LaVyral Spencer both write really good Historical Fiction ( Romance ).
Those are my two favorites!
2006-11-12 04:58:42 · answer #2 · answered by One Race The Human Race 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you like (or don't mind) a long read, I suggest checking out "Outlander" by Diana Gabaldon. It's a bit of fantasy mixed in with historical romance. This book is the first of many in her series. Check out the Amazon.com listing for more details: http://www.amazon.com/Outlander-Diana-Gabaldon/dp/0440212561/sr=8-3/qid=1163353724/ref=pd_bbs_3/104-5576368-2074307?ie=UTF8&s=books
2006-11-12 04:54:17 · answer #3 · answered by Kelly G 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
dissimilar Susanna Kearsley's books are historic romances, ar least partly (she in many circumstances writes the two modern and historic characters, and how they overlap and have interaction).The wintry climate Sea - option identify in the united kingdom is Sophia's secret - is probable my familiar of hers, and very lots pronounced. yet another sturdy one is Mariana.
2016-10-17 04:43:06 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The one between Don Carlos and Elisabeth of Valois. Elisabeth was forced to marry Philip II Don Carlo's father.
2006-11-12 04:50:45 · answer #5 · answered by Santiking 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone already mentioned Gone With the Wind...that's still my favorite. You might try Alexandra Ripley. She's most notable for writing "Scarlett" the sequel to Gone With the Wind, but that's not her best book, in my opinion. Try "Charleston" or "Fields of Gold".
2006-11-12 07:52:59 · answer #6 · answered by AshletD 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love Julia Quinn. My favorite is her Bridgerton series set in Regency period england. There are 8 books total, but my favorite from the series is Romancing Mister Bridgerton, the fourth book.
http://juliaquinn.com/books/tree_big.htm
2006-11-12 07:01:48 · answer #7 · answered by laney_po 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Shanna by Kathleen Woodiwiss. I read it when I was 16 and have read it every year since!! You laugh, you cry and the Male love interest is so patient and understanding and passionate you will forever be looking for someone just like him!!!!
2006-11-13 20:47:54 · answer #8 · answered by sissy martin 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Get her "The Witch of Cologne" by Tobsha Learner. It's a great historical romance novel.
From Publishers Weekly
In a sensuous 17th-century saga set in German Catholic Cologne, Learner (Quiver) transports readers to a time when studying the ancient Kabbalah could prove deadly for a young Jewish midwife. Ruth bas Elazar Saul is the headstrong daughter of the chief rabbi of Deutz, Cologne's Jewish ghetto. She undertakes the forbidden course of mystical study, her Sephardic mother's legacy, before absconding to Amsterdam to escape an arranged marriage. There, Ruth acquires the contemporary midwifery skills she will combine with her sacred learning, and upon her return to Cologne she delivers wealthy burghers' babies using new lifesaving methods, earning a reputation for more than medical genius. Word of her skills travels quickly, and as the Spanish Inquisition stretches its tentacles to the Rhineland, Ruth is arrested for sorcery by the sadistic archbishop Carlos Vicente Solitario, whose persecution of her is fueled by a stymied youthful obsession with her mother. Ruth's keen intelligence and bravery in prison win her an ally, Canon Detlef von Tennen, who falls passionately in love with the "Jewess." The two marry, and Learner has readers rooting for the survival of their unlikely alliance. This steamy, riveting page-turner is also a paean to the triumph of a woman's spirit. (Aug.)
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From Booklist
In the tradition of books about strong Jewish women, which includes The Red Tent (1997)and Sarah (2004), comes this story of Ruth, a woman of the Middle Ages who fights against the prejudice that surrounds her gender and religion. The daughter of an influential rabbi in Cologne, 23-year-old Ruth is a highly skilled midwife, but she is also the obsession of Solitario, a Dominican inquisitor. Spurned by Ruth's mother, he is determined to destroy the daughter and uses Ruth's practice of kabbalah--seen as a form of Jewish magic--to launch his attack. Ruth is even more vulnerable to the inquisitor after she falls in love with Detlef von Tennan, a churchman struggling with his loyalty to Catholicism. Fans of sweeping historical dramas will be enthralled by Ruth's story; remarkably, Learner writes with equal power about the intensity of Ruth's spirituality, the passion of her forbidden love for Detlef, and the horror of the torture she suffers at Solitario's hands. This is the kind of all-consuming novel that readers hate to see end. Ilene Cooper
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2006-11-13 03:00:07 · answer #9 · answered by BlueManticore 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Gone with the Wind
Dr. Zhivago
2006-11-12 08:10:45 · answer #10 · answered by please remove me from here 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋