Eloisa James Reading Order

5 books (2004–2025)

Start with The One That Got Away, the first of 5 books in the Anthologies series.

9 books (2007–2017)

Start with An Affair Before Christmas, the first of 9 books in the Desperate Duchesses series.

#	Title
1	An Affair Before Christmas 2007Buy 🇺🇸
2	Desperate Duchesses 2007Buy 🇺🇸
3	Duchess By Night 2007Buy 🇺🇸
4	When the Duke Returns 2008Buy 🇺🇸
5	A Duke of Her Own 2009Buy 🇺🇸
6	This Duchess of Mine 2009Buy 🇺🇸
7	Three Weeks With Lady X 2014Buy 🇺🇸
8	Four Nights With the Duke 2015Buy 🇺🇸
9	Seven Minutes in Heaven 2017Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2002–2011)

Start with Duchess in Love, the first of 5 books in the Duchess Quartet series.

#	Title
1	Duchess in Love 2002Buy 🇺🇸
2	Fool for Love 2003Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Wild Pursuit 2004Buy 🇺🇸
4	Your Wicked Ways 2004Buy 🇺🇸
5	A Fool Again 2011Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2004–2016)

Start with Much Ado About You, the first of 5 books in the Essex Sisters series.

#	Title
1	Much Ado About You 2004Buy 🇺🇸
2	Kiss Me, Annabel 2005Buy 🇺🇸
3	Pleasure for Pleasure 2006Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Taming of the Duke 2006Buy 🇺🇸
5	A Gentleman Never Tells 2016Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2016–2016)

5 books (2010–2013)

Start with A Kiss at Midnight, the first of 5 books in the Fairy Tales series.

#	Title
1	A Kiss at Midnight 2010Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Duke Is Mine 2011Buy 🇺🇸
3	When Beauty Tamed the Beast 2011Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Ugly Duchess 2012Buy 🇺🇸
5	Once Upon a Tower 2013Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2010–2013)

Start with Storming the Castle, the first of 6 books in the Happily Ever After... series.

2 books (2010–2012)

Start with The Lady Most Likely... and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Lady Most Likely... 2010Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Lady Most Willing... 2012Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2012–2012)

#	Title
1	Paris in Love 2012Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1999–2002)

Start with Potent Pleasures and read in order.

#	Title
1	Potent Pleasures 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	Midnight Pleasures 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	Enchanting Pleasures 2002Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2023–2024)

Start with Two Dances and a Duke, the first of 4 books in the Seduction series.

1 book (2005–2005)

2 books (2013–2018)

Start with As You Wish and read in order.

#	Title
1	As You Wish 2013Buy 🇺🇸
2	Midsummer Delights 2018Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2015–2026)

Start with My American Duchess, the first of 4 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	My American Duchess 2015Buy 🇺🇸
2	Viscount in Love 2024Buy 🇺🇸
3	Hardly a Gentleman 2025Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Last Lady B 2026Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (2017–2021)

Start with Wilde in Love, the first of 7 books in the Wildes Of Lindow Castle series.

#	Title
1	Wilde in Love 2017Buy 🇺🇸
2	Born to Be Wilde 2018Buy 🇺🇸
3	Too Wilde to Wed 2018Buy 🇺🇸
4	Say No to the Duke 2019Buy 🇺🇸
5	My Last Duchess 2020Buy 🇺🇸
6	Say Yes to the Duke 2020Buy 🇺🇸
7	Wilde Child 2021Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2022–2023)

Start with How to Be a Wallflower and read in order.

#	Title
1	How to Be a Wallflower 2022Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Reluctant Countess 2022Buy 🇺🇸
3	Not That Duke 2023Buy 🇺🇸