22 must-read nonfiction books like The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England by Joanne Paul

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The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England

By: Joanne Paul

4.17

Format: 506 pages, Hardcover

Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving an…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England by Joanne Paul , here is a list of 22 books like this:

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1. Black Tudors: African Lives in Renaissance England

By: Miranda Kaufmann

2.00

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A black porter publicly whips a white English gentleman in a Gloucestershire manor house. A heavily… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • tudor period
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2. Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey

By: Nicola Tallis

4.53

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

"Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same." These were the hea… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • tudor period

3. Queens of the Conquest: England’s Medieval Queens

By: Alison Weir

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The story of England's medieval queens is vivid and stirring, packed with tragedy, high drama and e… read more

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4. Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII

By: Gareth Russell

4.12

Format: 206 pages, Hardcover

Written with an exciting combination of narrative flair and historical authority, this interpretati… read more

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5. The Lost Tudor Princess: The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas

By: Alison Weir

3.99

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox. Royal Tudor blood ran in her veins. Her mother was a Queen, h… read more

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6. Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford

By: Julia Fox

3.72

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

In a life of extraordinary drama, Jane Boleyn was catapulted from relative obscurity to the inner c… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • tudor period
  • audiobook

7. Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant

By: Tracy Borman

2.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Thomas Cromwell has long been reviled as a Machiavellian schemer who stopped at nothing in his ques… read more

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8. Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter

By: Ian Mortimer

4.00

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Gui… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
  • audiobook
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9. Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe

By: John Guy

4.16

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

“A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . .  Hunting the Falcon  brilliantly shows how time, circumst… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • tudor period
  • audiobook
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10. The King's Pleasure (Tudor Rose, #2)

By: Alison Weir

4.03

Format: 593 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series explores the private side of t… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • tudor period
  • british literature
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11. Queens of the Crusades (England's Medieval Queens, #2)

By: Alison Weir

3.97

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

Packed with incredible true stories and legendary medieval intrigue, this epic narrative history ch… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
  • audiobook
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12. The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

By: Anna Keay

4.39

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

‘The execution of the king took place on a bleak, bitterly cold afternoon in January. As the execut… read more

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  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"This book was born of ignorance."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

"... he was not one to let other people's feelings get in the way when he knew he was right."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

"He warned his pious daughter Bridget of the dangers of self-criticism and the overwhelming importance of love."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

"As in many parts of the country, people's desire for peace and prosperity was stronger than their loyalty to one regime or another."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

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13. Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688

By: Clare Jackson

3.86

Format: 684 pages, Hardcover

This dazzling, original and hugely engaging book tells the story of a nation in a state of near con… read more

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  • history
  • british literature
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • tudor period
  • audiobook
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14. 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
  • tudor period
  • medieval
  • audiobook
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15. 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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  • british literature
  • historical
  • tudor period
  • medieval
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Princes in the Tower: Solving History's Greatest Cold Case by Philippa Langley

16. The Princes in the Tower: Solving History's Greatest Cold Case

By: Philippa Langley

3.67

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1483, Edward V (age twelve) and his brother Richard, Duke of York (age nine), disappeared from t… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • tudor period
  • medieval
  • audiobook
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17. The Tudors in Love: Passion and Politics in the Age of England's Most Famous Dynasty

By: Sarah Gristwood

3.71

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Sarah Gristwood's The Tudors in Love offers a brilliant history of the Tudor dynasty, showing how t… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • tudor period
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. Young Elizabeth: Elizabeth I and Her Perilous Path to the Crown

By: Nicola Tallis

4.36

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive biography of the young Elizabeth I in over twenty years—drawing on a rich vari… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • tudor period
  • audiobook
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19. Blood, Fire and Gold

By: Estelle Paranque

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

'A story told with verve and passion' The Times, Book of the Week'An alternative and engaging biogr… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • tudor period
  • audiobook
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20. The Final Year of Anne Boleyn

By: Natalie Grueninger

4.32

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

There are few women in English history more famous or controversial than Queen Anne Boleyn. She was… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • nonfiction
  • tudor period
  • audiobook
"Try me good king, but let me have a lawful trial, and let not my sworn enemies sit as my accusers and judges… My last and only request shall be, that myself may only bear the burden of your grace’s d…"

-Natalie Grueninger, The Final Year of Anne Boleyn

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21. 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

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  • historical
  • adult
  • tudor period
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22. 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
  • adult
  • audiobook
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23. Queens of the Age of Chivalry (England's Medieval Queens Book 3)

By: Alison Weir

4.22

Format: 478 pages, Kindle Edition

From one of Britain's best selling historians, a sweeping and magisterial history of the extraordin… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
  • audiobook
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24. Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History

By: Tracy Borman

4.26

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

Anne Boleyn is a subject of enduring fascination. By far the most famous of Henry VIII's six wives,… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • tudor period
  • adult
  • audiobook
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25. 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
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen by Leanda de Lisle

26. Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen

By: Leanda de Lisle

4.08

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

***A Best Book of 2022, The Times ******Book of the Year, Spectator ***A myth-busting biography of … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
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27. The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England

By: Joanne Paul

4.17

Format: 506 pages, Hardcover

Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving an… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • tudor period
  • medieval
  • adult
  • audiobook
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28. Uncrowned Queen: The Treacherous Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Rebel

By: Nicola Tallis

4.17

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The first comprehensive biography in three decades on Margaret Beaufort, the mother of the Tudor Dy… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • tudor period
  • medieval
Cover of Uproar!: Satire, Scandal & Printmakers in Georgian London by Alice Loxton

29. Uproar!: Satire, Scandal & Printmakers in Georgian London

By: Alice Loxton

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

London, 1772: a young artist called Thomas Rowlandson is making his way through the grimy backstree… read more

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  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

7 best-selling adult books like The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England by Joanne Paul

Transform Your Habits

The Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary I

Alison Weir

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The Tudors in Love: Passion and Politics in the Age of England's Most Famous Dynasty

Sarah Gristwood

3.71

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The Tower

Flora Carr

3.70

Transform Your Habits

A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

Emma Southon

4.23

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The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

Ian Mortimer

3.87

Marie Antoinette: The Journey

Antonia Fraser

4.07

Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution (The History of England, #3)

Peter Ackroyd

2.64

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Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I

Tracy Borman

3.66

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