17 best-selling history books like The Earl and the Pharaoh by Countess of Carnarvon

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The Earl and the Pharaoh

By: Countess of Carnarvon

3.50

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Lady Fiona Carnarvon tells the thrilling behind-the-scenes story of the discover…

If you liked the history plot in The Earl and the Pharaoh by Countess of Carnarvon , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle

By: Fiona Carnarvon

4.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbeytells the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspir… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

2. The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

By: Kara Cooney

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of he… read more

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3. The Private Lives of the Tudors

By: Tracy Borman

4.11

Format: 70 pages, Hardcover

'I do not live in a corner. A thousand eyes see all I do.' Elizabeth I The Tudor monarchs were cons… read more

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4. Lady Catherine, the Earl, and the Real Downton Abbey

By: Fiona Carnarvon

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Highclere Castle has a new resident, the daughter-in-law of Lady Almina, an American beauty from Ne… read more

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5. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman

By: Lucy Worsley

4.20

Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition

A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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6. The Pirate's Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd

By: Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos

3.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The dramatic and deliciously swashbuckling story of Sarah Kidd, the wife of the famous pirate Capta… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction

By: Lynne Olson

4.26

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

In the 1960s, the world’s attention was focused on a nail-biting race against the international ca… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • egypt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • archaeology
  • audiobook
"He demonstrated a feminism very unusual for his time by encouraging her in all her undertakings and helping her overcome the obstacles that arose with her projects,"

-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction

"Above all, she talked about the great debt she owned her parents for encouraging her to do what she wanted and for providing her with unstinting support, not to mention stellar education, that enable…"

-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction

"My parents were humanists,“ Desroches later told an interviewer. “They taught me humanist values such as respect for one another, for your neighbors, for people in general, respect for civilizations.…"

-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction

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8. The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone

By: Edward Dolnick

4.19

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Un apasionante thriller cultural. Un fascinante retrato de imperios antiguos y modernos, una mirada… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • egypt
  • nonfiction
  • archaeology
  • audiobook
"The cliché has it that an unknown subject is a closed book, but Egypt was different. Egypt was an open book, with illustrations on every page, that no one knew how to read."

-Edward Dolnick, The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone

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9. The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court

By: Gareth Russell

4.21

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The popular and “scrupulous historian” (Daily Mail , London) Gareth Russell presents five hundred y… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. 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

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • british literature
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11. Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York

By: Barbara Weisberg

3.43

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Shocking revelations of a wife’s adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposi… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

By: Emma Southon

4.23

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes a wildly entertai… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Murder at Holly House (Frank Grasby Mystery, #1)

By: Denzil Meyrick

3.64

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

A village of secrets It's December 1952, and a dead stranger has been found lodged up the chimney … read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • audiobook
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14. Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power

By: Leah Redmond Chang

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and M… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Whatever Next?: Lessons from an Unexpected Life

By: Anne Glenconner

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

**Instant Sunday Times Bestseller** Bracing honesty, rare insight, and more revelations: theNew Yor… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Sex with Presidents: The Ins and Outs of Love and Lust in the White House

By: Eleanor Herman

3.78

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this fascinating work of popular history, the New York Times bestselling author of Sex with King… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Why can't he make it easier for us?" the staff asked, cursing under their breath as sifted the covers and floors on their hands and knees. "Why do we always have to be searching for blonde hair and b…"

-Eleanor Herman, Sex with Presidents: The Ins and Outs of Love and Lust in the White House

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17. The Earl and the Pharaoh

By: Countess of Carnarvon

3.50

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Lady Fiona Carnarvon tells the thrilling behind-the-scenes story of the discover… read more

Similar categories in Countess of Carnarvon's The Earl and the Pharaoh book and Countess of Carnarvon's The Earl and the Pharaoh

  • biography
  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • egypt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • archaeology
  • audiobook
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18. Coffin Cove (Coffin Cove Mysteries #1)

By: Jackie Elliott

4.14

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

A new life. A new town. A dead body. Andrea “Andi” Silvers needs a fresh start. Once a sta… read more

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  • mystery
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19. Oregon

By: Don Winslow

3.43

Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio

It was 1970 in a defeated Rhode Island fishing town. Vietnam and Nixon dominated the national news.… read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
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20. Maxwell's House (Peter Maxwell Mystery #1)

By: M.J. Trow

4.06

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

Peter Maxwell is perfectly content with his routine; by day, inspire students and, if lucky, annoy … read more

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  • mystery
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21. Fake History

By: Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse

3.64

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Fake news about the past is fake history. Did Hugo Boss design the Nazi uniforms? Did medieval peop… read more

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  • historical
  • history
  • nonfiction
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22. The Windsors at War: The King, His Brother, and a Family Divided

By: Alexander Larman

3.95

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The next volume in Alexander Larman's biographical chronicle of the Windsor family, as they go to w… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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23. The Valkyrie

By: Kate Heartfield

3.46

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

Brynhild is a Valkyrie: shieldmaiden of the All-Father, chooser of the slain. But now she too has f… read more

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  • historical
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24. Playing Under the Piano: From Downton to Darkest Peru

By: Hugh Bonneville

3.97

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A The Times (UK) and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year A moving, laugh-out-loud memoir from one o… read more

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  • biography
  • british literature
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries

By: Kate Mosse

3.71

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries brings together Kate’s rich and detailed knowledge of unhear… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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26. Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived

By: Tim Flannery

3.78

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Internationally bestselling author and renowned scientist Tim Flannery and his daughter, scientist … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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27. Dead On Arrival (DCI James Craig Book 3)

By: John Carson

4.46

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

The Burntisland carnival pulses with life as people of all ages revel in the festivities, unaware o… read more

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28. The Last Throw: A Black Beacons Murder Mystery (DCI Evan Warlow Crime Thriller Book 13)

By: Rhys Dylan

4.66

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

This time, it's more than personal. Within the tranquil confines of a west Wales village, peace gi… read more

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  • mystery
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29. Adventures in Time: The Six Wives of Henry VIII

By: Dominic Sandbrook

4.36

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Take a journey to a vanished world with the ADVENTURES IN TIME* series - stories so exciting you wo… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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30. Hell's Half Acre (Coffin Cove Mysteries #2)

By: Jackie Elliott

4.43

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

One betrayal. Two suspects. Three murders. Andrea “Andi” Silvers thought moving to the tiny fi… read more

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  • mystery
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31. Fossil Thief: A Henrietta Ballantine Adventure (Fossil Woman Series Book 2)

By: Sharon Lyon

4.57

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

Frozen landscapes, hidden truths... In a world of isolation and deception, fossils reveal untold st… read more

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19 Top audiobook books like The Earl and the Pharaoh by Countess of Carnarvon

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Lucy Worsley

4.20

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Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos

3.29

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Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction

Lynne Olson

4.26

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The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone

Edward Dolnick

4.19

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Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

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The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets

Dawn French

3.87

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Stacey Halls

3.94

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Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

Natalie Haynes

4.05

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