19 best-selling history books like The Prince Who Would Be King by Sarah Fraser

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The Prince Who Would Be King

By: Sarah Fraser

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Henry Stuart’s life is the last great forgotten Jacobean tale. Shadowed by the gravity of the Thirt…

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1. Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile

By: Julia Fox

3.80

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

The history books have cast Katherine of Aragon, the first queen of King Henry VIII of England, as … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
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2. The King's Bed: Ambition and Intimacy in the Court of Charles II

By: Don Jordan , None

3.00

Format: 508 pages, Hardcover

To refer to the private life of Charles II is to abuse the adjective. His personal life was anythin… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. Can You Forgive Her? (Palliser, #1)

By: Anthony Trollope , Stephen Wall

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright… read more

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  • british literature
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4. Lady of the English

By: Elizabeth Chadwick

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Two very different women are linked by destiny and the struggle for the English crown. Matilda, dau… read more

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  • historical
  • british literature
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5. 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

6. Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII's Discarded Bride

By: Elizabeth Norton

4.30

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

I like her not! was the verdict of Henry VIII on meeting his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, for the f… read more

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7. A Place Beyond Courage (William Marshal, #1)

By: Elizabeth Chadwick

4.22

Format: 206 pages,

The early twelfth century is a time for ambitious men to prosper, and royal servant John FitzGilber… read more

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8. The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily

By: Nancy Goldstone

3.80

Format: 275 pages,

The riveting history of a beautiful queen, a shocking murder, a papal trial - and a reign as triump… read more

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9. Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916

By: Anne de Courcy

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British hist… read more

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10. The Conquering Family (The Plantagenets, #1)

By: Thomas B. Costain

4.43

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

Thomas B. Costain's four-volume history of the Plantagenets begins with THE CONQUERING FAMILY and t… read more

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11. The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici

By: Elizabeth Lev

3.67

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

The astonishing life of a long-misunderstood Renaissance virago. Wife, mother, leader, warrior. Cat… read more

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12. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream

By: Charles Spencer

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The sinking of the White Ship is one of the greatest disasters in English history. Here, Sunday Tim… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. De Bourgondiërs: aartsvaders van de Lage Landen

By: Bart Van Loo

4.31

Format: 607 pages, Hardcover

Meesterverteller Bart Van Loo neemt de lezer op sleeptouw langs duizend jaar Europese geschiedenis.… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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15. The Other Gwyn Girl

By: Nicola Cornick

4.30

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

1671 – London The Civil War is over and Charles II, the ‘Merry Monarch’, is revelling in the thr… read more

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  • historical
  • british literature
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16. The Last White Rose (Tudor Rose #1)

By: Alison Weir

4.09

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Alison Weir explores the life of Henry VIII's mother, Elizabeth, … read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • british literature
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17. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • 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
  • audiobook
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19. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Elizabeth's Rival

By: Nicola Tallis

4.12

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A kinswoman to Elizabeth I, Lettice Knollys had begun the Queen’s glittering reign basking in favor… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
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21. Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor

By: Andrew Lownie

3.82

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Traitor King, by Sunday Times bestselling author Andrew Lownie, looks at the years following the ab… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The problem was that the Duke wanted status not a job, to be recognised rather than to contribute."

-Andrew Lownie, Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor

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22. Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Children of Edward I

By: Kelcey Wilson-Lee

4.13

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Virginal, chaste, humble, patiently waiting for rescue by brave knights and handsome princes: this … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
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23. 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
  • stuart
  • historical
  • nonfiction
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24. On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

By: Caroline Dodds Pennock

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Ag… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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25. The House of Lincoln

By: Nancy Horan

3.73

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Nancy Horan, author of the million-copy New York Times bestseller Loving Frank, returns with The Ho… read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
"Some day she [Ana Ferreira Evans] would write what she had learned about love in her widowhood. Love needs a place to go. Your heart doesn't stop making it when you lose the single adored person of y…"

-Nancy Horan, The House of Lincoln

"She [Ana Ferreira Evans] remembered a remark [Mrs.] Alsop had once made. Some people are willfully ignorant. They aren't stupid--they simply choose to be oblivious. That way they aren't responsible f…"

-Nancy Horan, The House of Lincoln

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26. The Dying of the Year (DCI Tom Raven, #3)

By: M.S. Morris

4.47

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

A hit and run. A suspicious death. A vendetta. Sam Earnshaw’s recovery from a year-long coma sho… read more

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27. Emperor: A New Life of Charles V

By: Geoffrey Parker

4.13

Format: 737 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on vital new evidence, a top historian dramatically reinterprets the ruler of the world’s f… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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28. Two Houses, Two Kingdoms: A History of France and England, 1100–1300

By: Catherine Hanley

4.20

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a time of personal monarchy, when the close friendship or… read more

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  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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29. The Families of Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Female Network of Power in the Middle Ages

By: J.F. Andrews

4.13

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

The lives of the sons of Eleanor of Aquitaine are the stuff of legend. Her daughters, however, are … read more

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  • historical
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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30. The Prince Who Would Be King

By: Sarah Fraser

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Henry Stuart’s life is the last great forgotten Jacobean tale. Shadowed by the gravity of the Thirt… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • stuart
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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31. The Queen's Sisters: The Lives of the Sisters of Elizabeth Woodville

By: Sarah J. Hodder

3.49

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

Whether Queen or commoner, the lives of women throughout history is a fascinating study. Elizabeth … read more

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  • biography
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction

13 must-read audiobook books like The Prince Who Would Be King by Sarah Fraser

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Don Jordan , None

3.00

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John Guy

4.16

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The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream

Charles Spencer

4.06

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Alison Weir

4.09

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Sharon Kay Penman

4.29

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Philippa Gregory

3.96

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Sharon Kay Penman

3.87

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Anne O'Brien

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