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Books like A Knight in Shining Armor

Jude Deveraux · 1989 · US · romance · historical fiction
★ 4.19 Goodreads · 39,212 ratings

Abandoned by her boyfriend in an English church, Dougless Montgomery weeps on the tomb of Nicholas Stafford, Earl of Thornwyck, and he appears beside her, a man from 1564 with no idea how he came to be there.

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12 books for readers of A Knight in Shining Armor

One Last Stop

Casey McQuiston · 2021 · US 96% match ★ 3.88 Goodreads · 299,666 ratings
shares: time travel, feel good, romantic · easy read, romance-driven

August Landry, twenty-three and cynical about love, moves to New York and keeps meeting Jane Su, a charming punk on the Q train, who turns out to be stuck there, displaced in time from the 1970s.

The Bride

Julie Garwood · 1989 · US 95% match ★ 4.22 Goodreads · 72,010 ratings
shares: courtship, sensual, romantic · easy read, romance-driven

Jamie, youngest daughter of an English baron, is ordered by the king to marry Alec Kincaid, a Highland laird with a fearsome reputation, and is carried north to a clan that does not want an Englishwoman as its lady.

Cassandra in Reverse

Holly Smale · 2023 · UK 94% match ★ 3.57 Goodreads · 59,199 ratings
shares: second chance, time travel, female perspective · easy read, earnest

Cassandra Dankworth, who is autistic and likes life to follow its rules, loses her job and her boyfriend on the same day, and then finds she can go back in time and try both again.

Vision in White

Nora Roberts · 2009 · US 94% match ★ 4.12 Goodreads · 145,374 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Bride Quartet
shares: courtship, feel good, romantic · easy read, earnest

Mac Elliot photographs weddings for Vows, the Connecticut business she runs with her three childhood friends, and keeps love at arm's length after her mother's string of marriages, until Carter Maguire, an English teacher who has carried a torch for her since high school, walks into a planning session.

Seven Days in June

Tia Williams · 2021 · US 94% match ★ 3.97 Goodreads · 241,039 ratings
shares: second chance, sensual, romantic · romance-driven, easy read

Eva Mercy, a single mother in Brooklyn who writes a bestselling erotic vampire series, runs into Shane Hall, a reclusive literary novelist, at a New York literary event, fifteen years after the one week they spent in love as teenagers.

The Seven Year Slip

Ashley Poston · 2023 · US 94% match ★ 4.14 Goodreads · 720,211 ratings
shares: time travel, romantic · easy read, romance-driven

Clementine West, grieving the aunt who left her a New York apartment said to slip through time, comes home one evening to find a handsome stranger in her kitchen, a chef named Iwan who is living there seven years in the past.

The Duke and I

Julia Quinn · 2000 · US 94% match ★ 3.79 Goodreads · 743,727 ratings
Book 1 of 8 in Bridgerton
shares: courtship, sensual, romantic · easy read, romance-driven

In Regency London, Daphne Bridgerton, eldest daughter of a large and loving family, and Simon Basset, the new Duke of Hastings, who has sworn never to marry, pretend to court so he can escape the matchmaking mothers and she can attract better suitors.

Persuasion

Jane Austen · 1817 · UK 94% match ★ 4.15 Goodreads · 814,608 ratings
shares: second chance, courtship, romantic · romance-driven, intimate

Eight years after she was persuaded to break off her engagement to a penniless naval officer, Anne Elliot meets Captain Wentworth again, now rich and seemingly indifferent to her.

Red, White & Royal Blue

Casey McQuiston · 2019 · US 94% match ★ 4.04 Goodreads · 1,288,938 ratings
shares: feel good, romantic · easy read, romance-driven

Alex Claremont-Diaz, son of the American president, has a public feud with Prince Henry of Wales, and after it ends with both of them falling into a royal wedding cake, the two are ordered to stage a friendship for the cameras.

Someone to Love

Mary Balogh · 2016 · UK 94% match ★ 3.79 Goodreads · 14,592 ratings
Book 1 of 10 in Westcott
shares: courtship, romantic · easy read, romance-driven

When the Earl of Riverdale dies, his family learns that Anna Snow, raised in a Bath orphanage and teaching there, is his legitimate daughter and heir, which leaves his other children illegitimate and Anna under the eye of the cool, elegant Duke of Netherby.

Outlander

Diana Gabaldon · 1991 · US 94% match ★ 4.27 Goodreads · 1,190,364 ratings
Book 1 of 9 in Outlander
shares: time travel, romantic · easy read, earnest

A WWII nurse touches a standing stone in the Scottish Highlands and is hurled back to 1743, into the arms of a Highland warrior and the Jacobite rising.

The Duchess Deal

Tessa Dare · 2017 · US 94% match ★ 3.98 Goodreads · 71,909 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Girl Meets Duke
shares: courtship, feel good, romantic · easy read, romance-driven

Emma Gladstone, a vicar's daughter turned seamstress, storms the Duke of Ashbury's house to collect payment for a wedding gown his jilting fiancée never paid for, and the duke, scarred at Waterloo and in need of an heir, proposes a marriage of convenience.