20 Best historical books like The Tower by Flora Carr

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The Tower

By: Flora Carr

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots’s darkest hour, when she was held ho…

If you liked the historical plot in The Tower by Flora Carr , here is a list of 20 books like this:

Cover of The Household by Stacey Halls

1. The Household

By: Stacey Halls

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's The Household book and Flora Carr's The Tower

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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2. Butcher

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women’… read more

Similar categories in Joyce Carol Oates's Butcher book and Flora Carr's The Tower

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of House of Shades by Lianne Dillsworth

3. House of Shades

By: Lianne Dillsworth

3.29

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this dark, immersive tale steeped in atmosphere and drama, the author of Theatre of Marvels retu… read more

Similar categories in Lianne Dillsworth's House of Shades book and Flora Carr's The Tower

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. Clear

By: Carys Davies

3.92

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more

Similar categories in Carys Davies's Clear book and Flora Carr's The Tower

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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5. The Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary I

By: Alison Weir

4.02

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series explores the dramatic and poig… read more

Similar categories in Alison Weir's The Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary I book and Flora Carr's The Tower

  • historical
  • tudor period
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
Cover of The Tower by Flora Carr

6. The Tower

By: Flora Carr

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots’s darkest hour, when she was held ho… read more

Similar categories in Flora Carr's The Tower book and Flora Carr's The Tower

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • tudor period
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of All Our Yesterdays: A Novel of Lady Macbeth by Joel H. Morris

7. All Our Yesterdays: A Novel of Lady Macbeth

By: Joel H. Morris

3.72

Format: 363 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and piercing debut, set ten years before the events of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, about th… read more

Similar categories in Joel H. Morris's All Our Yesterdays: A Novel of Lady Macbeth book and Flora Carr's The Tower

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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8. Hera

By: Jennifer Saint

3.75

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Hera, immortal goddess and daughter of the ancient Titan Cronos, helped her brother Zeus to overthr… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Saint's Hera book and Flora Carr's The Tower

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"She has been alone for a very long time."

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"All she knows is that he leaves a trail of broken women in his wake, and she is the most broken of them all."

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"But as he looms over her, blocking out the sky, it seems that he is everything in the world, that he is bigger than that sky. He is too immense and too strong. There is nothing that Hera, the warrior…"

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"She can be anyone. Vengeful Hera, wrathful Hera, the queen of the heavens, most long-suffering of wives and cruellest of punishers, will continue without her. She can slip away from the tethers of wh…"

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

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9. Flight of the Wild Swan

By: Melissa Pritchard

4.10

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

A majestic novel of Florence Nightingale, whose courage, self-confidence, and resilience transforme… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Pritchard's Flight of the Wild Swan book and Flora Carr's The Tower

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. A Sign of Her Own

By: Sarah Marsh

3.37

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing tale of historical fiction that explores the legacy of the telephone centered on a yo… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Marsh's A Sign of Her Own book and Flora Carr's The Tower

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. The Painter's Daughters

By: Emily Howes

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A story of love, madness, sisterly devotion, and control, about the two beloved daughters of renown… read more

Similar categories in Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters book and Flora Carr's The Tower

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance by Ramie Targoff

12. Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance

By: Ramie Targoff

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shak… read more

Similar categories in Ramie Targoff's Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance book and Flora Carr's The Tower

  • historical
Cover of Glorious Exploits by Ferdia  Lennon

13. Glorious Exploits

By: Ferdia Lennon

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more

Similar categories in Ferdia Lennon's Glorious Exploits book and Flora Carr's The Tower

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

Cover of The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins

14. The Silence Factory

By: Bridget Collins

3.55

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of the #1 international bestseller The Binding—a captivating story of got… read more

Similar categories in Bridget Collins's The Silence Factory book and Flora Carr's The Tower

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. The Puzzle Wood

By: Rosie Andrews

3.37

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Deep in the woods, something is stirring. When Miss Catherine Symonds arrives to take up a posit… read more

Similar categories in Rosie Andrews's The Puzzle Wood book and Flora Carr's The Tower

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. The Silence In Between

By: Josie Ferguson

4.48

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that on the other side is your n… read more

Similar categories in Josie Ferguson's The Silence In Between book and Flora Carr's The Tower

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Evil demanded little of me – it merely asked me to stay silent, to do nothing. And I complied."

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

"Mozart said that music is not in the notes but in the silence in between. I think that's where our souls are – hidden in that silence."

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

"These are stories from the past, but they are still echoing now, in the present. As I write this, Russian forces are using rape as a weapon of war against Ukrainian women; deported mothers are being …"

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

Cover of The Swan's Nest by Laura McNeal

17. The Swan's Nest

By: Laura McNeal

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A tender and engrossing historical novel about the unlikely love affair between two great 19th-cent… read more

Similar categories in Laura McNeal's The Swan's Nest book and Flora Carr's The Tower

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The King's Witches by Kate   Foster

18. The King's Witches

By: Kate Foster

4.22

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

The King’s Witches by Kate Foster is a gripping and beautiful historical novel, giving an unforgett… read more

Similar categories in Kate Foster's The King's Witches book and Flora Carr's The Tower

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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19. The King’s Mother

By: Annie Garthwaite

4.49

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

1461. Through blood and battle Edward has gained England’s throne – king by right and conquest – ei… read more

Similar categories in Annie Garthwaite's The King’s Mother book and Flora Carr's The Tower

  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Remember, Remember by Elle Machray

20. Remember, Remember

By: Elle Machray

4.02

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Gunpowder, treason and a plot to destroy the British Empire… 1770. Delphine lives in the shadow… read more

Similar categories in Elle Machray's Remember, Remember book and Flora Carr's The Tower

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
Cover of Costanza by Rachel  Blackmore

21. Costanza

By: Rachel Blackmore

4.29

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Rome, 1636. History calls her a Muse. Temptress. Fallen woman. This is her story. In the scorche… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Blackmore's Costanza book and Flora Carr's The Tower

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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Stacey Halls

3.94

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Joyce Carol Oates

3.81

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Margot Livesey

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