A Century of American Romance

These twelve books were reviewed as one. Eight of the books were reissued in early 2004. The ISBN and Amazon link are for Stranger in Paradise, the final reissue. Amazon links for each of the reissues can be found at the bottom of this review. Our database does not allow us to input more than ten authors in an anthology given that most romance anthologies usually feature fewer than six authors. And while this is not actually an anthology but twelve individual books, the DIK was written by this reader as one.

Whenever I hear someone lament the lack of historicals set in the twentieth century, I point them toward the Century of American Romance series published as part of Harlequin’s American Romance line in 1990 and 1991. This series of twelve books, each set in a different decade, takes the reader on an unforgettable tour of the United States in the twentieth century. It’s so rare to find a series this long without a weak link somewhere, but this one manages to do it admirably.