23 best-selling history books like Tudor England: A History by Lucy Wooding

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Tudor England: A History

By: Lucy Wooding

4.17

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

A compelling, authoritative account of the brilliant, conflicted, visionary world of Tudor England …

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1. The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

By: Ian Mortimer

3.87

Format: 172 pages,

The past is a foreign country - this is your guide. We think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-160… read more

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  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • tudor period
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2. Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings

By: Alison Weir

3.32

Format: None pages,

Mary Boleyn (c.1500-1543) was no less fascinating than her ill-fated queen consort sister Anne. In … read more

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

3. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England

By: Dan Jones

3.25

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it int… read more

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4. The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

By: Ian Mortimer

4.01

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

Imagine you could get into a time machine and travel back to the 14th century. This text sets out t… read more

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  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception."

-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

"You might find it alarming to think that your doctor will not actually need to see you in person but might make a diagnosis based on the position of the stars, the colour and smell of your urine, and…"

-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

"So, as long as you can get enough to eat, and can avoid all the various lethal infections, the dangers of childbirth, lead poisoning, and the extreme violence, you should live a long time. All you ha…"

-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

"Collectively they remind us that history is much more than an education process. Understanding the past is a matter of experience as well as knowledge, a striving to make spiritual, emotional, poetic…"

-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

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5. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

By: Dan Jones

4.41

Format: 636 pages, Hardcover

An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the ri… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history
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6. 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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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history
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7. 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
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • tudor period
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8. Henry Henry

By: Allen Bratton

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Henry Henry is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad, transposing the legend of Henry V's wa… read more

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"Make life, make life, make life. What sort of life? We can prune and water and weed ourselves, but we can't stop the rot once it gets in."

-Allen Bratton, Henry Henry

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9. The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066

By: Marc Morris

4.34

Format: 508 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. … read more

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  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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10. 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
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"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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11. Enter Ghost

By: Isabella Hammad

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more

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12. Brotherless Night

By: V.V. Ganeshananthan

4.46

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more

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  • historical
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13. Service Model

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more

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14. Alien Clay

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more

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15. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

By: Adam Higginbotham

4.60

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

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16. 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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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • british literature
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17. The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World

By: Malcolm Gaskill

3.72

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils,… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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18. The Ratline: Love, Lies, and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive

By: Philippe Sands

4.18

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadeführer Otto Freiherr von Wächter presided over an authority on wh… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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19. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

By: Fareed Zakaria

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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20. African Europeans: An Untold History

By: Olivette Otélé

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Africans or African Europeans are widely believed to be only a recent presence in Europe, a feature… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history
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21. 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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  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • tudor period
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22. The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689

By: Jonathan Healey

4.20

Format: 492 pages, Hardcover

A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative ” history ( The New York Times ) of seventeenth-centur… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history
  • british literature
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23. The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium

By: Anthony Kaldellis

4.61

Format: 1160 pages, Hardcover

A major new history of the eastern Roman Empire, from Constantine to 1453. In recent decades, the s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history
Cover of Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das

24. Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire

By: Nandini Das

3.94

Format: 580 pages, ebook

A profound and ground-breaking approach to one of the most important encounters in the history of … read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • british literature
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25. How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History

By: Josephine Quinn

4.12

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning Oxford history professor overturns the way the West thinks about itself, tracing i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history
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26. Tudor England: A History

By: Lucy Wooding

4.17

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

A compelling, authoritative account of the brilliant, conflicted, visionary world of Tudor England … read more

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  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • tudor period
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27. Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic

By: Tabitha Stanmore

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A spritely and deeply researched history of magical problem-solving in a distant, unsettled, and st… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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28. The Medici

By: Mary Hollingsworth

3.79

Format: 665 pages, ebook

Wealthy bankers, wise politicians, patrons of the arts, glittering dukes... so runs the traditional… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • european history

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The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

Ian Mortimer

3.87

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Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings

Alison Weir

3.32

Transform Your Habits

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

Ian Mortimer

4.01

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India: A History

John Keay

5.00

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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

4.37

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Laura Cumming

4.19

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Rory Stewart

4.36

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