20+ Royal Reads

I’m a sucker for books with royalty in them. If the story takes place in a castle, has a fabulous prince or princess (even in disguise) it’s likely I’m gonna want to read it.

When I heard that the theme for this month’s Owl Crate (bookish subscription box I get) was Royalty I got SUPER excited. My box came in the mail last week but I have been patiently waiting to open it because I want to do an unboxing live on my FB with my sister. So in conjunction with all that we decided it would be a blast to share our favorite Royalty books. You can watch the full video below just remember it was originally a FB live vid.

The royalty in these books are varied, some are main characters, some are formal royals, some are side characters but somewhere in each of these is a prominent prince or princes or queen or king, well you get what I mean. Each title to an Amazon so if you’re interested you can read the official synopses and of course see the title for each of them!

The Opal Mask duology by Jenny Lindquist start with The Princess in the Opal Mask
Defy trilogy by Sara B. Larson
The Selection books by Kiera Cass
The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer start with Cinder
Ruined by Amy Tintera
The Queen of the Tearling series by Erika Johansen*+
His Fair Assassins trilogy by R. L. LaFevers start with Grave Mercy
The Girl of Fire and Thorns trilogy by Rae Carson
Ash by Malinda Lo
Red Queen series by Victoria Aveyard
The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Adieh
Graceling series by Kristin Cashore
Snow Like Ashes series by Sara Raasch
Vampire Academy and Bloodlines by Richelle Mead
Seven realms series
Princess Academy books by Shannon Hale
The Ascendance Trilogy by Jennifer Nielsen start with The False Prince
A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin start with A Song of Ice and Fire*+
The Seven Realms series by Cinda Williams Chima start with The Demon King
The Grisha trilogy by Leigh Bardugo start with Shadow and Bone
The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran
Entwined by Heather Dixon
Throne of Glass and A Court of Thorns and Roses+ series by Sarah J. Mass
The False Princess by Ellis O’Neal

20+ Royalty reads. Lots of awesome YA books with royal characters, castle settings, etc. Some of my all time favs.

My sister and I pretty much agree that all of these books are awesome and have royalty aspects. We each picked our top 3 and I bolded them for you guys. But you’ll have to watch the live or replay video to see who said which ;) There are only a handful I personally haven’t read and I’m staring them (these are ones my sister loves though). Also all of these are YA except for the one’s that I’ve added the + sign too and these are still fun just intended for more mature readers! And make sure to like Rae Gun Ramblings facebook page so you can catch our next live book chat!