Julia Quinn
The largest author holding in this Library, spanning five separate series and twenty years, from the 1995 debut through to the Bridgertons and their spin-offs.
What is here
Nineteen titles, five series, one shared world
Everything on this shelf by Quinn sits in the same Regency England. The Bridgertons are the center of it, the Rokesbys are the generation before them, and the Smythe-Smiths run alongside as neighbors whose annual concert everyone dreads. The two earliest series predate that world and stand apart.
Bridgerton
Eight siblings named alphabetically, one anonymous gossip columnist, and the series that became the Netflix adaptation. Six of the eight novels are here.
- The Duke and I · #1 · has its own hub and a full spoiler plotline
- The Viscount Who Loved Me · #2
- An Offer from a Gentleman · #3
- When He Was Wicked · #6
- It’s in His Kiss · #7
- On the Way to the Wedding · #8
- Second epilogues · for books 2, 3, 4 and 6, bought separately
Rokesby
A prequel sequence set a generation before the Bridgertons, following the Rokesby family who live next door to them. Reading it after the Bridgertons is the intended experience: it is written to be recognized rather than introduced.
- Because of Miss Bridgerton · #1 · the only one on this shelf
Smythe-Smith Quartet
The famously dreadful annual musicale was a running joke across the Bridgerton novels. This quartet goes back and gives the girls holding the instruments their own books.
- A Night Like This · #2
- The Sum of All Kisses · #3
- The Secrets of Sir Richard Kenworthy · #4
Before the Bridgertons
The early books, and why they are worth having
Five of the nineteen predate everything above. Quinn debuted in 1995, and these two short family sagas are the first things she published, five books across roughly two years, before the world that made her name existed.
The Blydon Family Saga
- Splendid · her first published novel, 1995
- Dancing at Midnight
- Minx · 1996
Also sold as the Splendid Trilogy. Listings disagree about the internal order of these three, because publication order and the family’s own chronology do not match: the shelf follows one convention and other bibliographies follow the other. All three are here either way.
The Lyndon Family Saga
- Everything and the Moon
- Brighter than the Sun
Also listed as the Lyndon Sisters. Both books on the shelf, which makes this the second complete Quinn run here after the Blydons.
Coverage
What still has no hub
The Bridgerton and Smythe-Smith runs have their own pages. The Rokesby book and the two early sagas do not yet, five novels and one prequel between them.
Compiled from the shelf record and standard series bibliographies. No part of these novels has been read directly for this page.