Did you bingewatch Netflix's Bridgerton in one weekend and are now impatiently awaiting season two? If so, why not cozy up with a readalike or watch another sizzling period drama? Below we've collected a few recommendations for similar books, shows, and films to tide you over until the spring. Should you wish to get a sneak peak at what Lady Whistledown will get up to next, you can read or listen to the Bridgerton novels here on OverDrive.

Books

Bringing Down the Duke and A Rogue of One's Own by Evie Dunmore
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“A bright, penniless suffragette in Victorian-era England melts the heart of a notoriously icy duke in this delightful romance. Annabelle Archer is granted a scholarship by the National Society for Women’s Suffrage to become one of the first women to study at Oxford University. In exchange, she’s required to publicly support their cause. When she brazenly offers a political pamphlet to the Duke of Montgomery, it is just the first of many times that she shocks him with her brains and courage.”–Publishers Weekly

The True Queen by Zen Cho
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“Cho returns to the alternate 19th-century England of Sorcerer to the Crown with a standalone tale full of delightful characters and devious plots. Sisters Sakti and Muna wake on the island of Janda Baik with no memories. Mak Genggang, a powerful witch, casts a spell revealing that Muna and Sakti are cursed. When Sakti begins fading, Mak sends Muna and Sakti through the land of Fairy to the magic academy for women run by England’s Sorceress Royal, where they hope to find a cure. But Sakti gets lost in Fairy, and Muna must learn to navigate high society alone, uncover their lost past, save Sakti, and defeat the curse.”–Publishers Weekly
Mr. Malcolm's List by Suzanne Allain
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“The Honorable Jeremy Malcolm isn't an earl or a duke, but he's nevertheless the catch of the season and thus besieged by fortune-hunting potential brides. To aid his search for a love match, Malcolm creates a list of qualities he's looking for, allowing for an objective approach to courting. When Julia Thistlewaite discovers Malcolm has spurned her with his list, she enacts revenge by inviting former school friend Selina Dalton to give him a taste of his own medicine.”–Library Journal
A Gentleman Never Keeps Score by Cat Sebastian
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“When Hartley Sedgwick first spots a stranger lurking outside his London townhouse, he assumes he is about to be robbed. However, after a few confusing minutes, during which each man tries to figure the other one out, Hartley winds up sharing a drink with ex-boxer and current pub owner Sam Fox. What Sam wants is a scandalous painting of his friend Kate that had been commissioned by Hartley's deceased godfather, Sir Humphrey Easterbrook. Ever since gossip–fomented in great part by Easterbrook's son, Martin–had gotten out about Hartley's real relationship with Easterbrook, Hartley had become a social pariah. So he would enjoy nothing more than helping Sam appropriate the painting…Romance supernova Sebastian once again brings her A-game to the latest potently sexy addition to her male-male, Regency-set Seducing the Sedgwicks series, following It Takes Two to Tumble (2018).”–Booklist
Westcott series by Mary Balogh
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“The reluctant heir to an earldom discovers love with the sister of a duke in the pitch-perfect eighth romance of Balogh’s Westcott Regency series (after Someone to Remember). At the “old” age of 25, Jessica Archer, sister of the Duke of Netherby, decides the time has come to find a husband—despite not being enamored with any of the men she’s met during the London season. Then Gabriel Thorne, a British nobleman who fled England 13 years ago to become a successful Boston merchant, returns to town and boldly declares his intention to marry her. At the same time, the handsome Anthony Rochford, a man who anticipates inheriting the title of Earl of Lyndale, begins courting Jessica.”–Publishers Weekly
A Duke, The Lady, and a Baby by Vanessa Riley
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“Well-educated West Indian heiress Patience Jordan was abruptly widowed, separated from her baby, and imprisoned. She escapes and, disguised as a footman, sneaks into her former home to nurse her son. When her late husband's cousin shows up with a company of soldiers, she flees through a third-floor window and ends up helping wounded hero Busick Strathmore, Duke of Repington, up the long stairs into the manor. The first entry in Riley's new Regency series, Rogues and Remarkable Women, features a diverse cast of characters with a mixed-race heroine and an amputee hero.”–Booklist
My Lady's Choosing: An Interactive Romance Novel by Kitty Curran
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“Harking back to those fun-filled, choose-your-own-adventure stories beloved of kids and teens, this lighthearted book takes the reader–in this case, you, a 28-year-old penniless Regency-era heroine in search of a match–on any number of romantic escapades on her way to the requisite happy ending. Characters, settings, and situations are typical of the genre but pushed to the limit (e.g., featuring orphans, werewolves, double-dealings, Egyptian antiquities).”–Library Journal

TV & Film

Sanditon. Season One.
Starring Theo James, Rose Williams, Kris Marshall, Charlotte Spencer, Crystal Clarke
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Tom Parker is obsessed with turning the sleepy seaside village of Sanditon into a fashionable health resort. He enlists the backing of local bigwig Lady Denham. Through a mishap, Tom makes the acquaintance of the Heywoods and invites their eldest daughter, Charlotte, for an extended stay at Sanditon. Meanwhile, Lady Denham, a widow, is playing matchmaker for her destitute nephew, Sir Edward, who is determined to seduce Lady Denham's ward, Clara.

The Great. Season One
Starring Elle Fanning & Nicholas Hoult
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A satirical, comedic drama, based on the occasional historical fact, about the rise of Catherine the Great. An idealistic romantic young girl, she arrives from Prussia for an arranged marriage to the mercurial Emperor Peter hoping for love and sunshine and finds instead a dangerous, depraved, backward world that she resolves to change. All she has to do is kill her husband, beat the church, baffle the military, and get the court on her side.
Belle (2013 Film)
Starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Felton, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson, Sam Reid, Matthew Goode
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Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate daughter of a British Navy captain and an African slave under the care of her aristocratic great-uncle Lord Mansfield, successfully navigates prejudicial eighteenth-century English society and plays a part in the downfall of British slave trade.
North & South (2004 Mini-Series)
Starring Richard Armitage, Sinéad Cusack, and Daniela Denby-Ashe
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When the privileged Margaret Hale's father uproots the family to take work in the northern mill town of Milton, she is shocked by the dirt and gruffness of the people. But she reserves her highest contempt for the charismatic mill-owner John Thornton.
Gentleman Jack. Season One
Starring Suranne Jones, Sophie Rundle, Gemma Whelan, Timothy West, Amelia Bullmore
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It's 1832 in West Yorkshire, England — the cradle of the evolving Industrial Revolution — where landowner Anne Lister is determined to save her faded ancestral home, Shibden Hall, even if it means bucking society's expectations. In addition to reopening the coal mines, a part of Lister's plan to help her family is to marry well. But the charismatic, single-minded Lister — who dresses head-to-toe in black and charms her way into high society — has no intention of marrying a man. “Gentleman Jack” examines Lister's relationships with her family, servants, tenants and industrial rivals, and would-be wife. The real-life Anne Lister's story was recorded in her diaries, and the most intimate details of her life are revealed for the series.
Emma. (2020 Film)
Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Bill Nighy, Johnny Flynn, Josh O'Connor, Gemma Whelan
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Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town. In this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing up, Emma must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find the love that has been there all along.