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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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Want to know what books are in our future? Click on the button below to download the current year's book list! And don't forget to register for our book club meetings on the Event Page!

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Books We've Read

Looking for your next great Regency read? Click on any of the tabs below 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!

2023 Book List

2022 Book List

2021 Book List

2020 Book List

2024 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

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

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

Fiction

The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe

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