TIME Magazine names The Viscount Who Loved Me one of their “50 Best Romance Novels to Read Right Now”

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Aug 1, 2024

“If you’re looking to read just one of the Bridgerton books after watching the immensely popular Netflix adaptation, start with The Viscount Who Loved Me, published in 2000. Second in Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton series, the novel showcases the author’s sweet, sometimes silly, and terribly interesting plots.”

Don’t miss the full list, or “How We Chose the 50 Best Romance Novels,” in which the editors explain why they felt the need for the list in the first place, allowing for the obvious: that romance novels have “never felt so needed, or enjoyed such mainstream celebration, as they have over the past few years.”

Also featured: “Romance Novels Are Literature” in which author Casey McQuiston points out how “romance holds a mirror to our wants and needs,” and “even at its cheekiest or darkest or most satirical, it’s a genre made of sincerity.”