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Best gay historical romance

American

Colonial ()

F/F

Revolutionary Period ()

F/F

M/M

Antebellum Period ()

F/F

M/M

M/F

Civil War and Reconstruction ()

F/F

  • Grey Dawn by Nyri A. Bakkalian (/) &#; T

M/F/M

Industrialization ()

F/F

Progressive Era ()

F/F

M/M

Prohibition Era ()

F/F

M/M

M/M/F

The Cold War Era ()

F/F

M/M

M/F/F

Asian

European Colonial ()

F/F

  • The Wicked and the Willing by Lianyu Tan (, Singapore)

British

Middle Ages ()

F/F

  • All the Painted Stars by Emma Denny ()

M/M

Georgian ()

F/F

M/M

Regency ()

F/F

M/M

M/F

F/NB

M/X

X/X

F/F/M

M/M/F

  • Regency Menage by Nicola Davidson (Amz)

Victorian ()

F/F

M/M

M/F

Edwardian ()

F/F

M/M

WWI-WWII ()

F/F

M/M

M/NB

Post-WWII ()

M/M

Caribbean

Early 20th Century

F/F

French

Bourbon Restoration ()

F/X

  • The Anonymous Letters of C de Forestier by Felicia Davin

X/X

  • The Scandalous Letters of V and J by Felicia Davin

M/F/X

  • The Mischievous Letters of the Marquise de Q by Felicia Davin

The Ancient World

M/M

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