Are you watching The Gilded Age on HBO? The Gilded Age shares a creator (and a vibe) with Downton Abbey, but it’s set in turn-of-the-century New York City. If you love the show, or love the period, or love reading historical fiction, check out my list of Books To Read if You Love HBO’s The Gilded Age! Updated in 2026!
Here’s what my Books to Read if You Love HBOs The Gilded Age post includes:
Top Rated Gilded Age Fiction
All these have 4.0 or higher Goodreads ratings!
- Peregrine Hill by Nina De Gramont (historical fiction)
- The Gilded Rose by Joanna Shupe (historical romance)
- Gilded Hour by Sara Donati (historical fiction)
- Gaslight Mystery Series by Victoria Thompson (mystery)
- An American Beauty by Shana Abe (fictionalized biography of Arabella Huntington)
- Opulence and Ashes (Gilded Gotham #4) by Kate Belli (mystery)
New Gilded Age Show!
The Buccaneers on Apple TV (London, 1870s)
Apple TV’s answer to Bridgerton is The Buccaneers. Set in the 1870s during the Gilded Age, it follows five wealthy young American women as they navigate London high society, deal with culture clashes, and try to land husbands.
New Gilded Age Titles from 2023- 2025
- A Matter of Persuasion by Theresa Howes (2025)
- Gilded Heiressby Joanna Shupe (2025)
- Forged by Danielle Teller (2025)
- A Lady’s Promise by Ranee S. Clark (2023)
- The Winthrop Agreement by Alice Simpson (2023)
- An American Beauty by Shana Abe (2023) Historical fiction based on a real story
- The Wharton Plot by Mariah Fredericks (2024) a mystery featuring Edith Wharton
- All My Secrets by Lynn Austin (2024) three generations of women struggle with a disinheritance
A retelling of Persuasion set in 1800s New York. Amy Eaton is a writer, much to the embarrassment of her Old Money family. Eight years ago, Amy gave up the love of her life, after her mother’s best friend persuaded her not to marry him. But now Wareham is a rich, self-made man in search of a wife. Amy must learn how to navigate her small social circle without letting her true feelings show.
What (and When) was “The Gilded Age?”
America’s Gilded Age, roughly from the end of the Civil War to the First World War, saw the United States evolve from being a rural agricultural society to an industrial one. Cities like New York grew in size and influence. Vast fortunes were made in industries like railroads and steamships. Income inequality between rich and poor exploded.
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Books to Read if You Love HBO’s The Gilded Age:
Classic Fiction Set in New York During the Gilded Age
Looking for Classic Books to Read if You Loved the Gilded Age?
These are some of my favorite classics ever! (I haven’t yet read A Custom of the Country, but I have read and loved all these others.
Washington Square by Henry James.
A sheltered young woman is “protected” from suitors by her overbearing father. (Character inspiration for Ada Brook?)
An heiress: Catherine Sloper, who grew up in opulence with a disappointed father and a fluttery aunt in a grand house on Washington Square.
Enter Morris Townsend, a handsome charmer who assures Catherine he loves her for herself and not for her money. But Catherine’s revered father sees in Townsend what she cannot.
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton.
Such a heartbreaking story about a woman trying to make an advantageous marriage. It’s a dark story but shows how treacherous it was for a woman to try to climb the social ladder through marriage.
A dark comedy of manners about vast wealth and a woman who can define herself only through the perceptions of others.
The beautiful Lily Bart lives among the nouveaux riches of New York City – people whose millions were made in railroads, shipping, land speculation and banking.
In this morally and aesthetically bankrupt world, Lily, age twenty-nine, seeks a husband who can satisfy her cravings for endless admiration and all the trappings of wealth.
But her quest comes to a scandalous end when she is accused of being the mistress of a wealthy man.
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton.
A young woman with social aspirations convinces her nouveau riche parents to leave the Midwest and settle in New York. (Perhaps a character inspiration for Bertha Russell?)
Single-minded and spoilt, Undine Spragg arrives in New York determined to procure for herself a social status to match her family’s wealth.
Ambition, greed and an arresting beauty soon secure her path to marriage…and also to divorce.
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton.
If you love The Gilded Age, this is the book, written by an author who lived it!
Countess Ellen Olenska, separated from her European husband, returns to old New York society. She bears with her an independence and an awareness of life which stirs the educated sensitivity of the charming Newland Archer, engaged to be married to her cousin, May Welland.
Though he accepts the society’s standards and rules he is acutely aware of their limitations. He knows May will assure him a conventional future but Ellen, scandalously separated from her husband, forces Archer to question his values and beliefs. With their love intensifying where does Archer’s ultimate loyalty lie?
Historical Fiction Books Set in New York During the Gilded Age
Does your book club love The Gilded Age and wants a book club version of the show? These would make great book club choices for fans of HBO’s The Gilded Age!
New Gilded Age Historical Fiction Titles in 2023 and 2024!
An American Beauty by Shana Abe (2023)
Inspired by a real story!
Collis Huntington, railroad baron and self-made multimillionaire, is drawn to seventeen year-old Arabella from their first meeting. Collis is married and thirty years her senior, but their mutual attraction rapidly escalates into an affair. Arabella eventually moves to New York, posing as a genteel, well-to-do Southern widow. Using Collis’s seed money and her own shrewd investing instincts, she begins to amass a fortune.
Their relationship is an open secret, and no one is surprised when Collis marries Arabella after his wife’s death. But “The Four Hundred”—the elite circle that includes the Astors and Vanderbilts—have their rules. Arabella must earn her place in Society—not just through her vast wealth, but with taste, style, and impeccable behavior. There are some who suspect the scandalous truth, and will blackmail her for it.
A Lady’s Promise by Ranee S. Clark (2023)
Orphaned New York socialite Isabella De Vries must find a husband. After being unsuccessful through four Seasons, it’s time to enlist the help of a family friend. Preston’s solution is both unconventional and heartbreaking: he will marry Isabella so that she may be the sole beneficiary of his inheritance when he succumbs to the disease that will soon take his life. Isabella will be cared for, and his money will be protected from his irresponsible younger brother, Prince.
When Prince hears that Preston is going to marry, he knows he will have to charm his way into friendship with Isabella if he wants to see any portion of his brother’s inheritance. His plot, however, quickly crumbles as he makes the mistake of falling in love with her.
The Winthrop Agreement by Alice Simpson (2023)
Rivkah arrives at Ellis Island during the Gilded Age. Alone and pregnant, she makes her way to the Lower East Side tenement of an old friend. Lottie Aarons, whose husband went out for a newspaper and never returned, takes Rivkah in and they work side-by-side in sweatshops. Rivkah gives birth to a daughter, Mimi, determined that her child will have a better life.
Frederick Winthrop, slum landlord, lives in one of Fifth Avenue‘s sumptuous mansions—and preys on young girls. When he serendipitously meets fifteen-year-old Mimi, she is easily seduced, and her life takes an unexpected turn. To avoid scandal, the Winthrop family offers Mimi a rare opportunity. But Mimi knows exactly what she wants. As she rises to international fame, she must struggle with the secrets of her past and protect those she loves.
All My Secrets by Lynn Austin (2024)
New York, 1898. The only thing more shocking than Arthur Stanhope III’s unexpected death is the revelation that his will bestows his vast fortune to the nearest male heir.
His widow, Sylvia, quickly realizes she must set aside her grief to find a wealthy husband for her daughter, Adelaide.
Sylvia’s mother-in-law, Junietta, has watched Sylvia play her role as a society wife, as she once did, despite what it cost them both. Junietta vows to give her granddaughter the power to choose a path beyond what society expects.
More Gilded Age Historical Fiction
The Gilded Hour (Waverly Place series) by Sara Donati
The year is 1883, and in New York City, it’s a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. Anna Savard and her cousin Sophie—both graduates of the Woman’s Medical School—treat the city’s most vulnerable, even if doing so may put everything they’ve strived for in jeopardy.
Anna’s work has placed her in the path of four children who have lost everything, just as she herself once had. Faced with their helplessness, Anna must make an unexpected choice between holding on to the pain of her past and letting love into her life.
For Sophie, an obstetrician and the orphaned daughter of free people of color, helping a desperate young mother forces her to grapple with the oath she took as a doctor—and thrusts her and Anna into the orbit of Anthony Comstock, a dangerous man who considers himself the enemy of everything indecent and of anyone who dares to defy him.
The Social Graces by Renee Rosen
In the glittering world of Manhattan’s upper crust, where wives turn a blind eye to husbands’ infidelities, and women have few rights and even less independence, society is everything. The more celebrated the hostess, the more powerful the woman. And none is more powerful than Caroline Astor—the Mrs. Astor.
But times are changing.
Alva Vanderbilt has recently married into one of America’s richest families. But what good is money when society refuses to acknowledge you? Alva, who knows what it is to have nothing, will do whatever it takes to have everything.
The Address by Fiona Davis
After a failed apprenticeship, working her way up to head housekeeper of a posh London hotel is more than Sara Smythe ever thought she’d make of herself.
But when a chance encounter with Theodore Camden, one of the architects of the grand New York apartment house The Dakota, leads to a job offer, her world is suddenly awash in possibility—no mean feat for a servant in 1884.
The opportunity to move to America, where a person can rise above one’s station.
The opportunity to be the female manager of The Dakota, which promises to be the greatest apartment house in the world.
And the opportunity to see more of Theo, who understands Sara like no one else…and is living in The Dakota with his wife and three young children.
The Widow of Rose House by Diana Biller
It’s 1875, and Alva Webster has perfected her stiff upper lip after three years of being pilloried in the presses of two continents over fleeing her abusive husband.
His sudden death allows her to return to New York to make a fresh start, restoring a dilapidated Hyde Park mansion and (hopefully) her reputation at the same time. However, fresh starts aren’t as easy as they seem, as Alva discovers when stories of a haunting at the house begin to reach her.
Alva doesn’t believe in ghosts, so when the eccentric and brilliant professor, Samuel Moore, appears and informs her that he can get to the bottom of the mystery, she turns him down flat. She doesn’t need any more complications in her life―especially not a handsome, convention-flouting, scandal-raising one like Sam.
Unfortunately, though Alva is loath to admit it, Sam, a pioneer in electric lighting and a member of the nationally-adored Moore family of scientists, is the only one who can help. Together, the two delve into the tragic secrets wreathing Alva’s new home while Sam attempts to unlock Alva’s history―and her heart.
A Well-Behaved Woman by Therese Ann Fowler
In 1883, the New York Times prints a lengthy rave of Alva Vanderbilt’s Fifth Ave. costume ball–a coup for the former Alva Smith, who not long before was destitute, her family’s good name useless on its own.
Marrying into the newly rich but socially scorned Vanderbilt clan (a union contrived by Alva’s bestfriend and now Duchess of Manchester) saved the Smiths and elevated the Vanderbilts.
From outside, Alva seems to have it all and want more. She does have a knack for getting all she tries for. The wants an invitation to the costume ball and acceptance from doyenne Caroline Astor.
Denied a box at the Academy of Music, Alva founds The Met. No obstacle puts her off for long.
But how much of ambition arises from insecurity? From despair? From refusal to play insipid games by absurd rules? –There are, however, consequences to breaking those rules. One must tread carefully.
The Gilded Years by Karen Tanabe
Since childhood, Anita Hemmings has longed to attend the country’s most exclusive school for women, Vassar College.
Now, a bright, beautiful senior in the class of 1897, she is hiding a secret that would have banned her from admission: Anita is the only African-American student ever to attend Vassar.
With her olive complexion and dark hair, this daughter of a janitor and descendant of slaves has successfully passed as white, but now finds herself rooming with Louise “Lottie” Taylor, the scion of one of New York’s most prominent families.
Though Anita has kept herself at a distance from her classmates, Lottie’s sphere of influence is inescapable, her energy irresistible, and the two become fast friends.
Pulled into her elite world, Anita learns what it’s like to be treated as a wealthy, educated white woman—the person everyone believes her to be—and even finds herself in a heady romance with a moneyed Harvard student.
When Lottie becomes infatuated with Anita’s brother, Frederick, whose skin is almost as light as his sister’s, the situation becomes particularly perilous. And as Anita’s college graduation looms, those closest to her will be the ones to dangerously threaten her secret.
The Fifth Avenue Artists Society by Joy Callaway
The Bronx, 1891. Virginia Loftin knows what she wants most: to become a celebrated novelist despite her gender, and to marry Charlie, her best friend, neighbor and first love.
Yet when Charlie proposes to another woman, Ginny is devastated; shutting out her family, she holes up and obsessively rewrites how their story should have gone.
Though Ginny works with newfound intensity, success eludes her—until she attends a salon hosted in her brother’s handsome author friend John’s Fifth Avenue mansion.
Amongst painters, musicians, actors, and writers, Ginny returns to herself, even blooming under John’s increasingly romantic attentions.
Just as she has begun to forget Charlie, however, he throws himself back into her path, and Ginny finds herself torn between a lifetime’s worth of complicated feelings and a budding relationship with a man who seems almost too good to be true.
Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
It’s 1893, and at the Chicago World’s Fair, Louis Comfort Tiffany makes his debut with a luminous exhibition of innovative stained-glass windows.
Behind the scenes in his New York studio is the freethinking Clara Driscoll, head of his women’s division. Publicly unrecognized by Tiffany, Clara conceives of and designs nearly all of the iconic leaded-glass lamps for which he is long remembered.
Clara struggles with her desire for artistic recognition and the seemingly insurmountable challenges that she faces as a professional woman, which ultimately force her to protest against the company she has worked so hard to cultivate.
She also yearns for love and companionship, and is devoted in different ways to five men, including Tiffany, who enforces to a strict policy: he does not hire married women, and any who do marry while under his employ must resign immediately.
Eventually, like many women, Clara must decide what makes her happiest—the professional world of her hands or the personal world of her heart.
Non-Fiction Books About New York and the Gilded Age
The Gilded Age highlights a little-known side of New York History: that there was a thriving community of Black elites and professionals in New York during the Gilded Age. I’m excited to read Black Gotham, by a Black scholar researching her family history.
Black Gotham by Carla Peterson.
Part detective tale, part social and cultural narrative, Black Gotham is Carla Peterson’s riveting account of her quest to reconstruct the lives of her nineteenth-century ancestors.
Black Gotham challenges many of the accepted “truths” about African-American history, including the assumption that the phrase “nineteenth-century black Americans” means enslaved people, that “New York state before the Civil War” refers to a place of freedom, and that a black elite did not exist until the twentieth century.
Beginning her story in the 1820s, Peterson focuses on the pupils of the Mulberry Street School, the graduates of which went on to become eminent African-American leaders.
She traces their political activities as well as their many achievements in trade, business, and the professions against the backdrop of the expansion of scientific racism, the trauma of the Civil War draft riots, and the rise of Jim Crow.
If you are interested in Black New York during the Gilded Age I found a great blog post on The Brownstoner!
A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New York by Greg King
Take a dazzling journey through the Gilded Age, when bluebloods from older, established families met the nouveau riche headlong—railway barons, steel magnates, and Wall Street speculators—and forged an uneasy and glittering new society in New York City.
The best of the best were Caroline Astor’s 400 families, and she shaped and ruled this high society with steel.
Read about the families, the wealth, the balls, the clothing, and the mansions in vivid detail—as well as the shocking end of the era with the sinking of the Titanic.
Romance Novels Set in New York During the Gilded Age
Romance novels draw heavily on the British Regency period, but there are quite a few series set in the Gilded Age in New York!
The Uptown Girls series, the Fifth Avenue Rebels series and The Four Hundred Series by Joanna Shupe
Duchess by Design (The Gilded Age Girls Club) by Maya Rodale
The Van Alen Sisters books by Meagan McKinney
The Gilded Age Heiresses series by Harper St. George
She Walks in Beauty by Siri Mitchell
Mystery Books to Read if You Love HBOs the Gilded Age
I had no idea there were so many Gilded Age mysteries out there and I’m excited!
New in 2024: The Wharton Plot by Mariah Fredericks!
Inspired by a true story.
In 1911, novelist Edith Wharton is tired of Manhattan. At a crossroads, she makes the dramatic decision to leave America, her publisher, and her loveless marriage.
But then dashing novelist David Graham Phillips, a writer with often notorious ideas about society and women’s place in it, is shot to death outside the Princeton Club. Edith met him only once, over tea in the Palm Court of the Belmont hotel.
When Phillips is killed, Edith’s life takes another turn. His sister is convinced Graham was killed by someone determined to stop the publication of his next book, which promised to uncover secrets that powerful people would rather stayed hidden. Though unconvinced, Edith is curious. What kind of book could push someone to kill?
Opium and Absinthe by Lydia Kang
New York City, 1899. Tillie Pembroke’s sister lies dead, her body drained of blood and with two puncture wounds on her neck. Bram Stoker’s new novel, Dracula, has just been published, and Tillie’s imagination leaps to the impossible: the murderer is a vampire. But it can’t be—can it?
A ravenous reader and researcher, Tillie has something of an addiction to truth, and she won’t rest until she unravels the mystery of her sister’s death. Unfortunately, Tillie’s addicted to more than just truth; to ease the pain from a recent injury, she’s taking more and more laudanum…and some in her immediate circle are happy to keep her well supplied.
Tillie can’t bring herself to believe vampires exist. But with the hysteria surrounding her sister’s death, the continued vampiric slayings, and the opium swirling through her body, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for a girl who relies on facts and figures to know what’s real—or whether she can trust those closest to her
The Gaslight mystery series by Victoria Thompson
Call the Midwife meets The Gilded Age!
After a routine delivery, midwife Sarah Brandt visits her patient in a rooming house and discovers that another boarder, a young girl, has been killed.
At the request of Sergeant Frank Malloy, she searches the girl’s room, and discovers that the victim is from one of the most prominent families in New York and the sister of an old friend.
The powerful family, fearful of scandal, refuses to permit an investigation. But with Malloy’s help, Sarah begins a dangerous quest to bring the killer to justice, before death claims another victim.
The Gilded Age mystery series by Rosemary Simpson
As the Great Blizzard of 1888 cripples the vast machinery that is New York City, heiress Prudence MacKenzie sits anxiously within her palatial Fifth Avenue home waiting for her fiance’s safe return.
The fearsome storm rages through the night. With daylight, more than two hundred people are found to have perished in the icy winds and treacherous snowdrifts. Among them is Prudence’s fiancé, his body frozen, his head crushed by a heavy branch, his fingers clutching a single playing card.
Close on the heels of her father’s untimely demise, Prudence is convinced her fiancé’s death was no accident. The ace of spades was a code he shared with his school friend, Geoffrey Hunter, a former Pinkerton agent and attorney from the South and a former Pinkerton agent.
Wary of sinister forces closing in on her, Prudence turns to Geoffrey as her only hope in solving a murder.
The Alienist by Caleb Carr. It’s also a TV show!
The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or “alienist.”
On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan’s infamous brothels.
The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler’s intellect and Moore’s knowledge of New York’s vast criminal underworld.
They are joined by Sara Howard, who works as a secretary in the police department. Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology– amassing a psychological profile of the man they’re looking for based on the details of his crimes.
Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who has killed before–and will kill again before the hunt is over
The Gilded Gotham mystery series by Kate Belli
As a chill sets in on New York City in the winter of 1888, a jewel thief dubbed the “Robin Hood of the Lower East Side” has been stealing from the city’s wealthiest and giving to the poor.
Genevieve Stewart’s family is part of Mrs. Astor’s famed 400. But she has forged a life of her own as a reporter and decides to chase the story. Genevieve gets more than she bargained for: a murder victim sprawled in a dark alley in the dangerous Five Points neighborhood.
A handsome neighborhood tough comes to her rescue–but when she encounters the same man at a glamorous ball a few nights later, she realizes he’s society scion Daniel McCaffrey. Could this be her Robin Hood?
When two more murders rock the Knickerbocker world, it becomes apparent that something much more sinister is afoot than a few stolen diamond necklaces. Genevieve is determined to prove that Daniel is Robin Hood–but she’s loath to believe he is a killer as well.
Murder on Millionaires Row (Rose Gallagher series) by Erin Lindsey
Rose Gallagher might dream of bigger things, but she’s content enough with her life as a housemaid. After all, it’s not every girl from Five Points who gets to spend her days in a posh Fifth Avenue brownstone, even if only to sweep its floors.
But all that changes on the day her boss, Mr. Thomas Wiltshire, disappears. Rose is certain Mr. Wiltshire is in trouble, but the police treat his disappearance as nothing more than the whims of a rich young man behaving badly.
Meanwhile, the friend who reported him missing is suspiciously unhelpful. With nowhere left to turn, Rose takes it upon herself to find her handsome young employer.
The investigation takes her from the marble palaces of Fifth Avenue to the sordid streets of Five Points. When a ghostly apparition accosts her on the street, Rose begins to realize that the world around her isn’t at all as it seems―and her place in it is about to change forever.
The Gilded Newport series by Alyssa Maxwell – book one is now a movie on the Hallmark Channel!
Newport, Rhode Island, August 1895: As a second cousin to Cornelius Vanderbilt, twenty-one-year-old Emma is on the guest list for a grand ball at the Breakers, the Vanderbilts’ summer home. She is also there to report on the event for the society page of the Newport Observer.
Instead, Emma witnesses a murder. The financial secretary to Cornelius Vanderbilt plunges off a balcony and Emma’s black sheep brother Brady is found in Cornelius’s bedroom passed out next to a bottle of bourbon and stolen plans for a new railroad line. Emma is sure someone is trying to railroad her brother and resolves to find the real killer.
YA Fiction Books to Read if You Love HBOs the Gilded Age
The Luxe by Anna Godberson This frothy New York series has a lush, romantic feel. It’s filled with girls in ballgowns, irresistible boys with dangerous intentions, dark secrets, and scandalous hookups.
Manhattan, 1899. Beautiful sisters Elizabeth and Diana Holland rule Manhattan’s social scene. Or so it appears.
When the girls discover their status among New York City’s elite is far from secure, suddenly everyone–from the backstabbing socialite Penelope Hayes, to the debonair bachelor Henry Schoonmaker, to the spiteful maid Lina Broud–threatens Elizabeth’s and Diana’s golden future.
With the fate of the Hollands resting on her shoulders, Elizabeth must choose between family duty and true love. But when her carriage overturns near the East River, the girl whose glittering life lit up the city’s gossip pages is swallowed by the rough current.
As all of New York grieves, some begin to wonder whether life at the top proved too much for this ethereal beauty, or if, perhaps, someone wanted to see Manhattan’s most celebrated daughter disappear…
In a world of luxury and deception, where appearance matters above everything and breaking the social code means running the risk of being ostracized forever, five teenagers lead dangerously scandalous lives. This thrilling trip to the age of innocence is anything but innocent.
These Shallow Graves by Jennifer Donnelly.
A wealthy girl expected to find a husband wants to be a journalist and investigates her father’s death.
Jo Montfort is beautiful and rich, and soon—like all the girls in her class—she’ll graduate from finishing school and be married off to a wealthy bachelor. Which is the last thing she wants. Jo secretly dreams of becoming a writer—a newspaper reporter like the trailblazing Nellie Bly.
Wild aspirations aside, Jo’s life seems perfect until tragedy strikes: her father is found dead. Charles Montfort accidentally shot himself while cleaning his revolver. One of New York City’s wealthiest men, he owned a newspaper and was partner in a massive shipping firm, and Jo knows he was far too smart to clean a loaded gun.
The more Jo uncovers about her father’s death, the more her suspicions grow. There are too many secrets. And they all seem to be buried in plain sight. Then she meets Eddie—a young, brash, infuriatingly handsome reporter at her father’s newspaper—and it becomes all too clear how much she stands to lose if she keeps searching for the truth. Only now it might be too late to stop.
Any more Books to Read if You Love HBO’s The Gilded Age to add to my list? Tell me in comments!!!
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It’s not really my genre but I’m sure it’s a good show.
Ha – I get that. You either like that kind of thing.. or not.
I’ll be honest, I know nothing about the time period. Is the show salacious?
It’s not – more like Downton Abbey than the Bridgertons 🙂
I wrote a book that I’d love to be considered for this list. It’s set in a late Gilded Age circus, but the series later features a parallel world with Gilded Age inspired wealth discrepancy and extravagance, only with a magical twist.
I love this list! The show The Gilded Age has inspired me to read historical fiction of that time period. Great list and thank you!
I am so glad you enjoyed it! Hoping to add some new books in 2024.