9 must-read romance books like The Winter Palace (Catherine #1) by Eva Stachniak

Cover of The Winter Palace (Catherine #1) by Eva Stachniak

The Winter Palace (Catherine #1)

By: Eva Stachniak

3.60

Format: None pages, Audio CD

From award-winning author Eva Stachniak comes this passionate novel that illuminates, as only ficti…

"Where does destiny end and choice begin?"

-Eva Stachniak, The Winter Palace (Catherine #1)

"If you don't love, you cannot be betrayed."

-Eva Stachniak, The Winter Palace (Catherine #1)

"If a tree is bent, every goat will jump on it."

-Eva Stachniak, The Winter Palace (Catherine #1)

"I was a tongue, a gazette. The bearer of "the truth of the whispers." I knew of hollowed books, trunks with false bottoms, and the meanders of secret corridors. I knew how to open hidden drawers in your escritoire, how to unseal your letter and make you think no one had touched it. If I had been in your room, I left the hair around your lock the way you had tied it. If you trusted the silence of the night, I had overheard your secrets."

-Eva Stachniak, The Winter Palace (Catherine #1)

If you liked the romance plot in The Winter Palace (Catherine #1) by Eva Stachniak , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of The Second Empress: A Novel of Napoleon's Court by Michelle    Moran

1. The Second Empress: A Novel of Napoleon's Court

By: Michelle Moran

3.86

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

National bestselling author Michelle Moran returns to Paris, this time under the rule of Emperor Na… read more

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  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The Empress Marie-Louise once asked me if I believed in ghosts. 'I find it hard to believe in something I've never seen,' I told her. But perhaps ghosts aren't meant to be seen. Perhaps they are mean…"

-Michelle Moran, The Second Empress: A Novel of Napoleon's Court

Cover of Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan

2. Under the Wide and Starry Sky

By: Nancy Horan

3.61

Format: 474 pages, Hardcover

The passionate and turbulent story of Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American wife, Fan… read more

Similar categories in Nancy Horan's Under the Wide and Starry Sky book and Eva Stachniak's The Winter Palace (Catherine #1)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Your life doesn't belong to just you."

-Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

"But the stories had made him different, too. They had shaped his appetite, his moral prejudices, who he was."

-Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

"It seemed to me that boys had a lot more fun. It was a relief. I didn't look at myself from the outside. I just lived inside my skin, looking out."

-Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

"Writers should find out where joy resides and give it a voice. Every bright word or picture is a piece of pleasure set afloat. The reader catches it, and he goes on his way rejoicing. It's the busine…"

-Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

Cover of The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. (Josephine Bonaparte, #1) by Sandra Gulland

3. The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. (Josephine Bonaparte, #1)

By: Sandra Gulland

3.00

Format: None pages,

Young Josephine Bonaparte shines at the center of a new, sweeping, romantic work of historical fict… read more

Similar categories in Sandra Gulland's The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. (Josephine Bonaparte, #1) book and Eva Stachniak's The Winter Palace (Catherine #1)

  • romance
  • historical
  • 18th century
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

4. Bright Young Things (Bright Young Things, #1)

By: Anna Godbersen

4.43

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The year is 1929. New York is ruled by the Bright Young Things: Flappers and socialites seeking thr… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

5. Splendor (Luxe, #4)

By: Anna Godbersen

3.45

Format: 105 pages,

New Beginnings. Shocking Revelations. Unexpected Endings. As spring turns into summer, Elizabeth re… read more

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6. The Queen's Vow: A Novel of Isabella of Castile

By: C.W. Gortner

3.67

Format: None pages,

No one believed I was destined for greatness. So begins Isabella's story, in this evocative, vividl… read more

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7. Bitter Greens

By: Kate Forsyth

4.50

Format: 60 pages, Hardcover

A Library Journal Best Book of 2014: Historical Fiction The amazing power and truth of the Rapunzel… read more

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8. Blood & Beauty: The Borgias

By: Sarah Dunant

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Is there a family in history more dazzling, dangerous and notorious than the Borgias? A powerhouse … read more

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9. The Baker's Daughter

By: Sarah McCoy

3.97

Format: 279 pages, Hardcover

In 1945, Elsie Schmidt is a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she is for h… read more

Similar categories in Sarah McCoy's The Baker's Daughter book and Eva Stachniak's The Winter Palace (Catherine #1)

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
"People often miss things that don't exist--miss things that were but are not anymore."

-Sarah McCoy, The Baker's Daughter

"Alors, où aller quand votre maison ne constituait plus un abri - quand le monde n'avait plus aucun sens ? A quel moment prendre la décision de partir ou de rester ?"

-Sarah McCoy, The Baker's Daughter

"We all tell little lies about ourselves, Our past, our presents. We think some of them are minuscule, unimportant, And others, large and incriminating. But they are the same. Only God Has enough of t…"

-Sarah McCoy, The Baker's Daughter

10. Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess, Russia, 1914 (Royal Diaries #5)

By: Carolyn Meyer

3.25

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Carolyn Meyer introduces readers to the unforgettable Anastasia Romanov whose … read more

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11. The Devil's Queen: A Novel of Catherine de Medici

By: Jeanne Kalogridis

3.62

Format: None pages,

From Jeanne Kalogridis, the bestselling author of I, Mona Lisaand The Borgia Bride, comes a new nov… read more

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12. The Aviator's Wife

By: Melanie Benjamin

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For much of her life, Anne Morrow, the shy daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, has stood in … read more

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13. His Forefathers and Mick

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.36

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

"His forefathers and Mick", traces the riveting saga of the Kramer family across three tumultuous g… read more

Similar categories in Michael G. Kramer's His Forefathers and Mick book and Eva Stachniak's The Winter Palace (Catherine #1)

  • drama
"Adrian blew his whistle and shouted, “Attack and put too death all those who oppose the fatherland!"

-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

"Kurt said, “I have always wanted to wipe that self-satisfied smug look from the face of thee Prussian Pickle!"

-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

"Heinrich replied, “The fact that Kramer’s radio station has  been wiped out by the British Navy in now classified information!"

-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

"Fritz Kramer said, “I cannot see why my treatment of my Chinese workers as equals should cause any German, American or British person any concern."

-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

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14. The Virgins of Venice

By: Gina Buonaguro

4.26

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

2023 1st Place Chaucer Award Winner for Best Historical Fiction! In sixteenth-century Venice, on… read more

Similar categories in Gina Buonaguro's The Virgins of Venice book and Eva Stachniak's The Winter Palace (Catherine #1)

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • drama
"Lice breeds lice, and sin breeds sin."

-Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice

"Venetians prefer being merchants to philosophers."

-Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice

"To leave Venice felt as foreign as flying to the stars."

-Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice

"Despite the convent walls, when I was writing, my mind was free."

-Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice

Cover of Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master by K.  Ritz

15. Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

By: K. Ritz

4.33

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

Synopsis: For five years Me’acca Mysuth Sheever has lived among his “sworn enemies,” pretending to … read more

Similar categories in K. Ritz's Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master book and Eva Stachniak's The Winter Palace (Catherine #1)

  • historical
  • drama
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"At what point does faith become insanity?"

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

"Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?"

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

"Mead. O sweet elixir, Ye bless the lips and steal the wits. "

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

"This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it."

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

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16. Isabella Warrior Queen

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.30

Format: None pages, ebook

The complete story of Isabella, her husband King Edward II, their son who was King Edward III and t… read more

Similar categories in Michael G. Kramer's Isabella Warrior Queen book and Eva Stachniak's The Winter Palace (Catherine #1)

  • historical
"Eliza answered, “My Lady, that was Sir Roger Mortimer!"

-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

"Cynthia said, “How are things going for you with this birth?"

-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

"When speaking to her husband, Isabella replied, Mon tresdoutz coer, (My very sweet heart) please do that and perhaps I shall be able to continue to perform official functions on your behalf!"

-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

"On the 16th of Febuary 1312, when Isabella was aged sixteen years, the couple were at their hunting lodge when Edward suddenly took Isabella into his arms and began to kiss her and pay her a lot of a…"

-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

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17. Victor's Blessing

By: Barbara Sontheimer

4.34

Format: 582 pages, Paperback

Victor Gant, a 6'5" half-Osage blacksmith is an unusual hero for a Civil War love story. But Victor… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Sontheimer's Victor's Blessing book and Eva Stachniak's The Winter Palace (Catherine #1)

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • drama
"Then wake up my sweet,  wake up knowing that your future is to be happy, and that your heart will heal."

-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

"Victor's tortured eyes blazed down at her, and for a moment she was afraid.  Then he leaned down and dissolved into tears in the arms of Celena who was only six."

-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

"He turned and smiled resolvedly at her.  He knew no one else would ever understand that for Arvellen, sex only had to do with friendship and of pleasing one another, and nothing at all to do with wha…"

-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

"I'm afraid!" She cried breaking free from his embrace. But this time, he refused to let her go.  "No, no, no, you're not afraid of me!  What am I...a foot and half taller than you and out weigh you b…"

-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

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18. The Tsarina's Daughter

By: Ellen Alpsten

3.92

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Born into the House of Romanov to the all-powerful Peter the Great and his wife, Catherine, a forme… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Alpsten's The Tsarina's Daughter book and Eva Stachniak's The Winter Palace (Catherine #1)

  • romance
  • russia
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 18th century
  • audiobook
"Who only sees what is shown to him, and only hears what is said, misses out on the truth"

-Ellen Alpsten, The Tsarina's Daughter

Cover of The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna by C.W. Gortner

19. The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna

By: C.W. Gortner

4.28

Format: 427 pages, Paperback

Narrated by the mother of Russia's last tsar, this novel brings to life the courageous story of Mar… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • russia
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Winter Palace (Catherine #1) by Eva Stachniak

20. The Winter Palace (Catherine #1)

By: Eva Stachniak

3.60

Format: None pages, Audio CD

From award-winning author Eva Stachniak comes this passionate novel that illuminates, as only ficti… read more

Similar categories in Eva Stachniak's The Winter Palace (Catherine #1) book and Eva Stachniak's The Winter Palace (Catherine #1)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • audiobook
  • russia
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 18th century
  • adult
  • drama
"Where does destiny end and choice begin?"

-Eva Stachniak, The Winter Palace (Catherine #1)

"If you don't love, you cannot be betrayed."

-Eva Stachniak, The Winter Palace (Catherine #1)

"If a tree is bent, every goat will jump on it."

-Eva Stachniak, The Winter Palace (Catherine #1)

"I was a tongue, a gazette. The bearer of "the truth of the whispers." I knew of hollowed books, trunks with false bottoms, and the meanders of secret corridors. I knew how to open hidden drawers in y…"

-Eva Stachniak, The Winter Palace (Catherine #1)

Cover of The Witches of St. Petersburg (Russian Witches, #1) by Imogen Edwards-Jones

21. The Witches of St. Petersburg (Russian Witches, #1)

By: Imogen Edwards-Jones

3.32

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Inspired by real characters, this transporting historical fiction debut spins the fascinating story… read more

Similar categories in Imogen Edwards-Jones's The Witches of St. Petersburg (Russian Witches, #1) book and Eva Stachniak's The Winter Palace (Catherine #1)

  • russia
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook

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3.61

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Sandra Gulland

3.00

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