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19+ of Your Favorite Books With Royal Weddings

Kelly Jensen

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Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She's the editor/author of (DON'T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen.

This week’s Riot Recommendation is sponsored by The Winner’s Crime by Marie Rutkoski.

the winners crimeA royal wedding is every girl’s dream. It means one celebration after another: balls, fireworks, and revelry until dawn. But to Kestrel it means living in a cage of her own making. As the wedding approaches, she aches to tell Arin the truth about her engagement—that she agreed to marry the crown prince just to guarantee Arin’s freedom—if she could only trust him. Yet can she even trust herself? For Kestrel is becoming very good at deception. She’s working as a spy in the court. Kestrel’s running a high risk, but she has always been tempted by a gamble. If caught, she’ll be exposed as a traitor to her country. Yet even as the danger grows, she can’t help searching for a way to change her ruthless world . . . and she is close to uncovering a shocking secret . . .

 

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Real royal weddings can range from the ecstatically happy to tools of political business to being hate-filled murder vehicles, and fictional royal weddings are no different. We asked you to tell us your favorite books that feature royal weddings, from the good to the bad to the downright ugly, and you answered. Here are more than 19 of your favorite books featuring those tales of wedded….well, wedded something.

 

Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones

A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold

Crown Me by Geneva Lee

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

How to Break a Dragon’s Heart (How to Train Your Dragon series) by Cressida Cowell

Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Kate’s Wedding by Chrissie Manby

To Marry a Prince by Sophie Page

Once Upon A Prince (Royal Wedding Series) by Rachel Hauck

The Prisoner Of Zenda by Anthony Hope

Royal Blood by Rhys Bowen

A Royal Match by Tyne O’Connell

The Royal We by Jessica Morgan and Heather Cocks

Royal Wedding Threat by Rachelle McCalla

The Runaway Princess by Hester Browne

Someday My Prince Will Come by Jerramy Fine

Suddenly Royal by Nichole Chase

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

….and for your June radar, there is Royal Wedding by Meg Cabot, the book we’ve been waiting for to round out the Princess Diaries series.