Ultimate Guide to Bridgerverse & How to Read Julia Quinn's Novels in Order

Has Netflix's romantic series Bridgerton taken your heart by storm and now you don't know how you'll survive until Season 3 premieres? The captivating Regency London atmosphere and the loveable Bridgerton siblings do that to people.

Well, we have two pieces of news for you. As usual, one is bad and one is good. The bad news is that the premiere date for Season 3 is still up in the air, leading many fans to believe that the new chapter will not arrive until 2024 at the earliest. The good news is that there is a great way to fill your Netflix-Bridgerton-less time.

Bridgerverse Dive

You probably already know that the Netflix show is based on the bestselling romance series by Julia Quinn. The series consists of nine books: one for each Bridgerton sibling, from A to H, and Happily Ever After, a collection of epilogues for each story, describing the future of beloved characters.

But the Bridgerverse doesn't end there. In fact, all of Julia Quinn's books exist in the same universe. An attentive reader will stumble upon Bridgerton secondary characters in other novels. For example, Lady Danbury originated in How to Marry a Marquis (the Agents of the Crown series) and was so unique that the author brought her back in the Bridgerton series.

In addition to the main series, there are two prequels to the Bridgerton novels: the recent adaptation of Shonda Rhimes' Queen Charlotte, written in collaboration with the iconic screenwriter, and the Rokesby series, which follows the Bridgertons and their country neighbors, the Rokesbys, during the time when Edmund and Violet were just starting a family.

If you are crazy about Lady Whistledown and her notorious gossip column, you’ll enjoy the Lady Whistledown series written by Quinn in collaboration with three other great romance authors. The series consists of two books of interconnected stories and The Wit and Wisdom of Bridgerton, which is basically a collection of memorable quotes from the original novels and the Netflix show.

Then there is the Smythe-Smith Quartet series, which focuses on the minor characters mentioned several times in the Bridgerton novels and in the Netflix miniseries Queen Charlotte. Who knows, we might even get a Bridgerton spinoff about the Smythe-Smith family in the future.

Timeline Follow-through

Are you ready to start exploring Quinn's Bridgerverse? We suggest that you spice things up and do it in chronological order. That way, you will be able to cover the entire timeline from the Georgian to the Regency era and catch every little detail.

Here's how to read all the Bridgerverse novels in chronological order:

• Adaptation: Queen Charlotte, 1761
• Rokesby: Because of Miss Bridgerton, 1779
• Rokesby: The Girl with the Make Believe Husband, June 1779
• Rokesby: The Other Miss Bridgerton, Early Summer 1786
• Rokesby: First Comes Scandal, 1791
• Bridgerton: The Duke and I, 28 June 1813
• Lady Whistledown: The Further Observations of Lady Whistledown, 26 January 1814
• Bridgerton: The Viscount Who Loved Me, 20 April 1814
• Agents of the Crown: How to Marry a Marquis, July 1815
• Lady Whistledown: Lady Whistledown Strikes Back, 27 May 1816
• Bridgerton: An Offer From a Gentleman, 31 May 1815-1817
• Smythe-Smith: Just Like Heaven, March 1824
• Smythe-Smith: A Night Like This, March 1824
• Bridgerton: Romancing Mr Bridgerton, 2 April 1824
• Bridgerton: To Sir Philip With Love, May 1824
• Bridgerton: When He Was Wicked, 1820-1824
• Smythe-Smith: The Sum of All Kisses, Autumn 1824
• Smythe-Smith: The Secrets of Sir Richard Kenworthy, Spring 1825
• Bridgerton: It's In His Kiss, 1825
• Bridgerton: On the Way to the Wedding, 1827
• Bridgerton: Happily Ever After, 1827+
• Lady Whistledown: The Wit and Wisdom of Bridgerton, 1813-1827