12 must-read historical fiction books like The Valiant (The Valiant, #1) by Lesley Livingston

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The Valiant (The Valiant, #1)

By: Lesley Livingston

4.16

Format: 76 pages, Hardcover

Princess. Captive. Gladiator. Fallon is the daughter of a proud Celtic king, the sister of the lege…

If you liked the historical fiction plot in The Valiant (The Valiant, #1) by Lesley Livingston , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. City of Women

By: David R. Gillham

3.79

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

It is 1943 - the height of the Second World War - and Berlin has essentially become a city of women… read more

Similar categories in David R. Gillham's City of Women book and Lesley Livingston's The Valiant (The Valiant, #1)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"So you mean to say that you’ve become an accomplished thief."

-David R. Gillham, City of Women

"I saw your face, and I knew that I simply had to hear the sound of your voice."

-David R. Gillham, City of Women

"Thin and threadbare as a ghost, she wears only mourning black. Looking into her eyes is like staring through the windows of a bombed-out building."

-David R. Gillham, City of Women

"She has given him her breath and the pulse of her body. Given him her passion, her hatred, and her love, her past and future. Given him all that is essential in her, so that she will never be whole w…"

-David R. Gillham, City of Women

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2. The Masque of the Black Tulip (Pink Carnation, #2)

By: Lauren Willig

3.92

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Modern-day graduate student Eloise achieved the academic coup of the century when she unmasked one … read more

Similar categories in Lauren Willig's The Masque of the Black Tulip (Pink Carnation, #2) book and Lesley Livingston's The Valiant (The Valiant, #1)

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for."

-Lauren Willig, The Masque of the Black Tulip (Pink Carnation, #2)

"Right now, I couldn't have cared less if someone had waltzed across the room in a large flower costume with a sign saying GET YOUR BLACK TULIPS HERE. Every nerve in my body was on man-alert, screamin…"

-Lauren Willig, The Masque of the Black Tulip (Pink Carnation, #2)

"Miles was still mourning the loss of his Romantic Plan. 'There was going to be champagne, and oysters, and you' -- he held out both hands as though shifting a piece of furniture -- 'were going to be …"

-Lauren Willig, The Masque of the Black Tulip (Pink Carnation, #2)

Cover of Envy (Luxe, #3) by Anna Godbersen

3. Envy (Luxe, #3)

By: Anna Godbersen

3.90

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

Gossip Girl meets the Gilded Age in this delicious and compelling novel, the third in the New York … read more

Similar categories in Anna Godbersen's Envy (Luxe, #3) book and Lesley Livingston's The Valiant (The Valiant, #1)

  • romance
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"One did not win by throwing temper tantrums."

-Anna Godbersen, Envy (Luxe, #3)

"Henry wondered not for the first time if her blood ran red or black."

-Anna Godbersen, Envy (Luxe, #3)

"The best heroines, she'd always believed, took their fate into their own hands."

-Anna Godbersen, Envy (Luxe, #3)

"To look in the face of hard things and keep moving forward - that's what one has to do."

-Anna Godbersen, Envy (Luxe, #3)

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4. Pirates!

By: Celia Rees

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

Nancy Kington, daughter of a rich merchant, suddenly orphaned when her father dies, is sent to live… read more

Similar categories in Celia Rees's Pirates! book and Lesley Livingston's The Valiant (The Valiant, #1)

  • romance
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Reckoning  (Welsh Princes, #3) by Sharon Kay Penman

5. The Reckoning (Welsh Princes, #3)

By: Sharon Kay Penman

3.65

Format: 135 pages,

read more

Similar categories in Sharon Kay Penman's The Reckoning (Welsh Princes, #3) book and Lesley Livingston's The Valiant (The Valiant, #1)

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. The Valiant (The Valiant, #1)

By: Lesley Livingston

4.16

Format: 76 pages, Hardcover

Princess. Captive. Gladiator. Fallon is the daughter of a proud Celtic king, the sister of the lege… read more

Similar categories in Lesley Livingston's The Valiant (The Valiant, #1) book and Lesley Livingston's The Valiant (The Valiant, #1)

  • romance
  • historical
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis

7. A Madness So Discreet

By: Mindy McGinnis

3.85

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Grace Mae knows madness. She keeps it locked away, along with her voice, trapped deep inside a bril… read more

Similar categories in Mindy McGinnis's A Madness So Discreet book and Lesley Livingston's The Valiant (The Valiant, #1)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis

8. The Mighty Miss Malone

By: Christopher Paul Curtis

4.22

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"We are a family on a journey to a place called wonderful" is the motto of Deza Malone's family. De… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Paul Curtis's The Mighty Miss Malone book and Lesley Livingston's The Valiant (The Valiant, #1)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
Cover of Through a Glass Darkly (Tamworth Saga #2) by Karleen Koen

9. Through a Glass Darkly (Tamworth Saga #2)

By: Karleen Koen

3.43

Format: 375 pages,

Karleen Koen's sweeping saga contains unforgettable characters consumed with passion: the extraordi… read more

Similar categories in Karleen Koen's Through a Glass Darkly (Tamworth Saga #2) book and Lesley Livingston's The Valiant (The Valiant, #1)

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. Gunslinger Girl

By: James Patterson , Lyndsay Ely

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

James Patterson presents a bold new heroine--a cross between Katniss Everdeen and Annie Oakley: Ser… read more

Similar categories in James Patterson's Gunslinger Girl book and Lesley Livingston's The Valiant (The Valiant, #1)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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11. Storm Siren (Storm Siren, #1)

By: Mary Weber

3.50

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

"I raise my chin as the buyers stare. Yes. Look. You don't want me. Because, eventually, accidental… read more

Similar categories in Mary Weber's Storm Siren (Storm Siren, #1) book and Lesley Livingston's The Valiant (The Valiant, #1)

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • young adult fantasy
  • young adult

12. 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

Similar categories in Anna Godbersen's Splendor (Luxe, #4) book and Lesley Livingston's The Valiant (The Valiant, #1)

13. Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria - France, 1769 (Royal Diaries #4)

By: Kathryn Lasky

4.12

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

"I look up now into the oval mirror and see barely a trace of the mud-splattered girl tearing throu… read more

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14. Stonehenge

By: Bernard Cornwell

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Four thousand years ago, a stranger's death at the Old Temple of Ratharryn-and his ominous "gift" o… read more

Similar categories in Bernard Cornwell's Stonehenge book and Lesley Livingston's The Valiant (The Valiant, #1)

15. 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

Similar categories in Jeanne Kalogridis's The Devil's Queen: A Novel of Catherine de Medici book and Lesley Livingston's The Valiant (The Valiant, #1)

16. Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina (Claudius, #2)

By: Robert Graves , Seneca , Suetonius

4.30

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Robert Graves begins anew the tumultuous life of the Roman who became emperor in spite of himself. … read more

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17. Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

By: Yvonne Korshak

4.29

Format: 557 pages, Kindle Edition

STEP ASIDE, ANTONY AND PERICLES AND ASPASIA —THE LOVE STORY THAT SHAPED HISTORY Two lovers cres… read more

Similar categories in Yvonne Korshak's Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece book and Lesley Livingston's The Valiant (The Valiant, #1)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Temples are for the gods,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"Do you know the song Violet Crowned Athens?"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"The softness, warmth and weight of her breast filled his palm. “I’ve imagined this for weeks,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"But  Phidias was better than most men since he made beautiful sculptures. He was even making one of her—well, he called it “Athena,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

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18. 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 Lesley Livingston's The Valiant (The Valiant, #1)

"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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19. 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 Lesley Livingston's The Valiant (The Valiant, #1)

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • 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

Cover of Isabella Warrior Queen by Michael G. Kramer

20. 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 Lesley Livingston's The Valiant (The Valiant, #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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21. 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 Lesley Livingston's The Valiant (The Valiant, #1)

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"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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