Your top 10 historical romance novels published in the last five years?
Riffing off the somewhat extraordinary fact* that there were only two recently-published historical romance novels in the sub's Top 100 Romances of 2024 (compiled for us by u/A_Seductive_Cactus, may your spines always be sharp and your xylem vessels flourishing), I want to know what your top 10 historical romances published in the last five years (i.e. 2020-2024) are, and why.
I'm not going to give any other requirements! Like a lot of readers, I love historical romance, but a lot of newer authors I've tried lately just haven't worked for me (personal exceptions: Adriana Herrera, Alexandra Vasti), which in turn makes me hesitant to pick up yet more unfamiliar authors, so I want to hear what everyone else's top top top recent historical romances are, in the hopes that you'll help me pick what I should add to my TBR for 2025.** Any setting or time period is fine.
Bonus points for available via the library (or at least non-Amazon sources) but again, I don't want to restrict what you're listing, I just want to know what recently-published historical romance has been added to your personal canon of Best Most Re-Readable Historical Romance.
\by fact I mean a quick skim of the list by me, accuracy not guaranteed*
\*I shouldn't actually add anything to my TBR for 2025, it's currently at four figures and climbing*