11 Best nonfiction books like Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me by Matthew Lewis

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Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me

By: Matthew Lewis

4.58

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

King Richard III remains one of the most controversial figures in English history. Matthew Lewis’s…

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1. Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)

By: Hilary Mantel

3.98

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has fai… read more

Similar categories in Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2) book and Matthew Lewis's Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me

  • historical
  • british literature
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2. The Sunne in Splendour

By: Sharon Kay Penman

3.65

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

A glorious novel of the controversial Richard III - a monarch betrayed in life by his allies and be… read more

Similar categories in Sharon Kay Penman's The Sunne in Splendour book and Matthew Lewis's Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me

  • historical
  • medieval
  • 15th century
  • british literature
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3. The King's Grave: The Discovery of Richard III’s Lost Burial Place and the Clues It Holds

By: None , Philippa Langley

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The first full-length book about the discover of Richard III's remains by the person who led the ar… read more

Similar categories in None's The King's Grave: The Discovery of Richard III’s Lost Burial Place and the Clues It Holds book and Matthew Lewis's Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me

  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
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4. The White Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #2)

By: Philippa Gregory

4.42

Format: 718 pages,

Philippa Gregory presents the first of a new series set amid the deadly feuds of England known as t… read more

Similar categories in Philippa Gregory's The White Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #2) book and Matthew Lewis's Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me

  • historical
  • british literature
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5. The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5)

By: Josephine Tey

3.95

Format: None pages,

Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant is intrigued by a portrait of Richard III. Could such a sensitiv… read more

Similar categories in Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5) book and Matthew Lewis's Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me

  • historical

6. 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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7. The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, The Power Behind Five English Thrones

By: Thomas Asbridge

3.00

Format: 146 pages, Hardcover

A thrillingly intimate portrait of one of history's most illustrious knights - William Marshal - th… read more

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8. Richard III: The Maligned King

By: Annette Carson

3.15

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

In 2012 Annette Carson formed part of the team that discovered King Richard III's mortal remains, v… read more

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9. Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen

By: Anna Whitelock

3.67

Format: 220 pages,

This is a page-turning, revisionist history of the villainised and misunderstood Mary Tudor, the fi… read more

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10. 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

Similar categories in John Guy's Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe book and Matthew Lewis's Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me

  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • tudor period
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11. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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12. 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 Matthew Lewis's Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me

  • historical
  • medieval
  • tudor period
  • british literature
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13. 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

Similar categories in Philippa Langley's The Princes in the Tower: Solving History's Greatest Cold Case book and Matthew Lewis's Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me

  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • tudor period
  • medieval
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14. 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

Similar categories in Nicola Tallis's Young Elizabeth: Elizabeth I and Her Perilous Path to the Crown book and Matthew Lewis's Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me

  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • tudor period
Cover of The Final Year of Anne Boleyn by Natalie Grueninger

15. 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

Similar categories in Natalie Grueninger's The Final Year of Anne Boleyn book and Matthew Lewis's Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me

  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • nonfiction
  • tudor period
"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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16. 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

Similar categories in Tracy Borman's Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History book and Matthew Lewis's Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me

  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • tudor period
Cover of Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World by Honor Cargill-Martin

17. Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World

By: Honor Cargill-Martin

4.06

Format: 432 pages, ebook

The shocking and scandalous story of Messalina—the third wife of Emperor Claudius—one of the most c… read more

Similar categories in Honor Cargill-Martin's Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World book and Matthew Lewis's Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me

  • historical
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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18. 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

Similar categories in Nicola Tallis's Uncrowned Queen: The Treacherous Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Rebel book and Matthew Lewis's Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me

  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • tudor period
  • medieval
  • 15th century
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19. Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me

By: Matthew Lewis

4.58

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

King Richard III remains one of the most controversial figures in English history. Matthew Lewis’s… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Lewis's Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me book and Matthew Lewis's Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me

  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • tudor period
  • medieval
  • 15th century
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20. Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders: Simnel, Warbeck, and Warwick

By: Nathen Amin

4.37

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

On 22 August 1485, Henry Tudor emerged from the Battle of Bosworth victorious, his disparate army v… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • tudor period
  • british literature
Cover of Gilgamesh (Sumerians #2) by Emily H. Wilson

21. Gilgamesh (Sumerians #2)

By: Emily H. Wilson

4.39

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The second book in the enthralling and lyrical Sumerians trilogy, retelling the Epic of Gigamesh, p… read more

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  • historical

11 best-selling history books like Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me by Matthew Lewis

Transform Your Habits

The King's Grave: The Discovery of Richard III’s Lost Burial Place and the Clues It Holds

None , Philippa Langley

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe

John Guy

4.16

Transform Your Habits

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

David Mitchell

4.16

Transform Your Habits

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

Philippa Langley

3.67

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The Children of Jocasta

Natalie Haynes

3.91

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Medea

Eilish Quin

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Temple of Fortuna (Wolf Den Trilogy #3)

Elodie Harper

4.39

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Nikki Marmery

3.61

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