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Our online book club offers a chance to discuss both fiction and non-fiction that is about or written during the early 19th century. We gather on Zoom every few weeks or so to share opinions, ask questions, and give additional recommendations. The Book Club is free and open to all regardless of RSV membership status--check out our Events page to register for one of our upcoming selections!

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Books We've Read

Looking for your next great Regency read? Click on the any of the bars below to expand the selection to see the list of books that we read in each of the years that our Book Club has been around. Have a suggestion for a future year's list that we haven't read yet? Feel free to e-mail us at info@varegency.org!




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2020 Book List
2020 Book List

Fiction


The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe

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2021 Book List
2021 Book List

Fiction


"Rip Van Winkle"/"English Writers on America" (from The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.) by Washington Irving

Sharpe's Eagle by Bernard Cornwell

Beat to Quarters by C. S. Forester

False Colours by Georgette Heyer



Non-Fiction


The Richmond Theater Fire by Meredith Henne Baker

A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor

Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell

American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson

An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency England by Venetia Murray


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2022 Book List
2022 Book List

Fiction


Dolley Madison and the War of 1812 by Libby Carty McNamee

His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow

The General's Cook by Ramin Ganeshram

The Hamilton Affair by Elizabeth Cobb



Non-Fiction


Never Caught by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley

Unwise Passions by Alan Pell Crawford

Diary of an Early American Boy by Eric Sloane

Dancing into Battle: A Social History of the Battle of Waterloo by Nick Foulkes

Nelson's Trafalgar by Roy Adkins

Native Memoirs of the War of 1812 by Carl Benn


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2023 Book List
2023 Book List

Fiction


A Close Run Thing by Allan Mallinson

Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini

Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian

A Little Folly by Jude Morgan

What Angels Fear by C. S. Harris



Non-Fiction


Gabriel's Rebellion by Douglas Egerton

Jack Tars by Roy and Leslie Adkins

Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain by Ian Mortimer

Rifleman Costello by E. Costello

The Strange Genius of Mr. O by Carolyn Eastman


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2024 Book List
2024 Book List

Fiction


The House is on Fire by Rachel Beanland

The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A. Flynn

Rifleman Dodd by C.S. Forester

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth

Shirley by Charlotte Bronte



Non-Fiction


Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers by Richard S. Newman

Vienna, 1814 by David King

A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation by Catherine Allgor

Commander: The Life and Exploits of Britain’s Greatest Frigate Captain by Stephen Taylor

A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter by William Deresiewicz