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The Duke and I
"The Duke and I," published by Julia Quinn in 2000, is the first novel in her Bridgerton series, following Daphne Bridgerton and Simon Basset, the Duke of Hastings, as they enter a fake courtship in Regency-era London that gradually turns into genuine love. Quinn's Bridgerton series became one of the best-selling historical romance franchises in the genre, known for blending witty, fast-paced dialogue with the traditional conventions of Regency romance popularized decades earlier by authors like Georgette Heyer. The novel found a dramatically larger new audience after Netflix adapted it into the hit 2020 series "Bridgerton," which became one of the streaming service's most-watched English-language series and introduced Quinn's Regency romance novels to a global television audience. The Duke and I's combination of Quinn's witty modern take on classic Regency romance conventions and its role launching the Netflix "Bridgerton" phenomenon has made it one of the most commercially significant romance novels of the past 25 years.
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Gone with the Wind
"Gone with the Wind," published by Margaret Mitchell in 1936, follows Scarlett O'Hara, the headstrong daughter of a Georgia plantation owner, through the American Civil War and Reconstruction era, centered on her tumultuous relationship with the roguish Rhett Butler. The novel was Mitchell's only published book during her lifetime, and it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937, becoming one of the best-selling novels of all time and one of the most commercially successful books in American publishing history. The novel's 1939 film adaptation became one of the highest-grossing films of all time when adjusted for inflation, further cementing the story's place in American popular culture, though both the book and film have also drawn significant and ongoing criticism for their romanticized depiction of the antebellum South and slavery. Gone with the Wind's combination of Mitchell's sole Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and its status as one of the best-selling books in American history has made it one of the most commercially significant, if historically contested, romance novels ever published.
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