Books like Venetia
12 books with a reading profile close to Venetia by Georgette Heyer. Practical, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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The Grand Sophy
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, entertainment
Set during the English Regency, the story follows Sophy Stanton-Lacy as she arrives at Berkeley Square to stay with her aunt, Lady Ombersley.
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Splendid
by Julia Quinn
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, entertainment
Emma Dunster, an American heiress from a Boston shipping family, travels to Regency London to visit her cousins before deciding whether to take over her father’s business.
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Other Miss Bridgerton
by Julia Quinn
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, entertainment
Poppy Bridgerton is an independent young woman who discovers a smuggler’s cave while walking on the coast of Dorset.
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Dulce chico indecente
by Christina Lauren, Neus Nueno Cobas
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, entertainment
London Hughes is a professional illustrator who finds her routine disrupted when she meets Luke Sutter.
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Beautiful Bastard
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, entertainment
Bennett Ryan returns from France to take a leadership role in his family's media empire, where he meets Chloe Mills, an ambitious MBA intern nearing the end of her program.
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Barefoot
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, entertainment
Three women, each facing a crisis in love, family, or work, take a house in Nantucket for the summer.
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The Hotel Nantucket
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, entertainment
After her husband's death, Lizbet Keaton takes a job as manager of a renovated hotel on Nantucket, owned by the wealthy Xavier Darling and said to be haunted by the ghost of a woman who died there in the 1920s.
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Honey & Spice
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, entertainment
Kiki Banjo is a student at Whitewell University who hosts a local radio show called Brown Sugar, where she offers bracing advice to women on how to avoid heartbreak and "wasteman" culture.
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Scarlet Feather
by Maeve Binchy
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, entertainment
Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather start a Dublin catering business called Scarlet Feather, and the novel follows their small company's work.
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Kiss Her Once for Me
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, entertainment
Ellie Oliver is at rock bottom, working a dead-end job in a Portland bookstore after her career dreams collapsed.
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Born in Fire
by Nora Roberts
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, entertainment
Maggie Concannon is a glass artist living in County Clare, Ireland, whose work is defined by a volatile temperament and a background of family resentment.
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Someday, Someday, Maybe
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, entertainment
Franny Banks is an aspiring actress in Los Angeles navigating the ups and downs of her acting career, her relationships, and the constant pressure to make it "someday." As she juggles auditions, roommates, a complicated…
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