7 Best retellings books like Blood Queen (Shakespeare’s Queens #1) by Joanna Courtney

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Blood Queen (Shakespeare’s Queens #1)

By: Joanna Courtney

3.74

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

Cold. Ruthless. Deadly. The myth of Lady Macbeth looms large. But behind the villainous portrait st…

If you liked the retellings plot in Blood Queen (Shakespeare’s Queens #1) by Joanna Courtney , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Katherine of Aragón, The True Queen (Six Tudor Queens, #1) by Alison Weir

1. Katherine of Aragón, The True Queen (Six Tudor Queens, #1)

By: Alison Weir

3.60

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir takes on what no fiction writer has done bef… read more

Similar categories in Alison Weir's Katherine of Aragón, The True Queen (Six Tudor Queens, #1) book and Joanna Courtney's Blood Queen (Shakespeare’s Queens #1)

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
Cover of Stormbird (Wars of the Roses, #1) by Conn Iggulden

2. Stormbird (Wars of the Roses, #1)

By: Conn Iggulden

4.33

Format: 25 pages, Hardcover

King Henry V - the great Lion of England - is long dead. In 1437, after years of regency, the pious… read more

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  • historical
  • medieval
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

3. Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen (Six Tudor Queens, #3)

By: Alison Weir

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Acclaimed author and historian Alison Weir continues her epic Six Tudor Queens series with this thi… read more

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4. The Furies

By: Natalie Haynes

4.40

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

When you open up, who will you let in? When Alex Morris loses her fiance in dreadful circumstances,… read more

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5. The Forgotten Palace

By: Alexandra Walsh

4.19

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

In an underground labyrinth a lost soul wanders, waiting for revenge, waiting for love…  London … read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The King's Pleasure (Tudor Rose, #2) by Alison Weir

6. 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

Similar categories in Alison Weir's The King's Pleasure (Tudor Rose, #2) book and Joanna Courtney's Blood Queen (Shakespeare’s Queens #1)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. The Household

By: Stacey Halls

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. The Maiden

By: Kate Foster

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's T… read more

Similar categories in Kate Foster's The Maiden book and Joanna Courtney's Blood Queen (Shakespeare’s Queens #1)

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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9. The Lady of the Loch

By: Elena Collins

4.41

Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Although I believe I will die here in this castle, my spirit will never be silent.’ Ravenscraig C… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Last White Rose (Tudor Rose #1) by Alison Weir

10. 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

Similar categories in Alison Weir's The Last White Rose (Tudor Rose #1) book and Joanna Courtney's Blood Queen (Shakespeare’s Queens #1)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • medieval
  • adult
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11. 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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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • medieval
  • adult
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12. Fair Rosaline

By: Natasha Solomons

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Was the greatest ever love story a lie? The first time Romeo Montague sees young Rosaline Capule… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Solomons's Fair Rosaline book and Joanna Courtney's Blood Queen (Shakespeare’s Queens #1)

  • romance
  • retellings
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
Cover of The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara  Collins

13. The Confessions of Frannie Langton

By: Sara Collins

3.57

Format: 384 pages, ebook

A servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this astonishing hi… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"What did Shakespeare know? Love must alter, or it can't survive."

-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton

"there were two things I loved: all those books I read, and all the people who wrote them."

-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton

"A man writes to separate himself from the common history. A woman writes to try to join it."

-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton

"Only two types of white people in this world, chile, the ones doing shit to you and the ones wanting you to tell them ’bout the shit them other ones did."

-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton

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14. The Burnings

By: Naomi Kelsey

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Nothing scares men like witchcraft . . . 1589. Scottish housemaid Geillis and Danish courtier Ma… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Kelsey's The Burnings book and Joanna Courtney's Blood Queen (Shakespeare’s Queens #1)

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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15. Girl, Goddess, Queen

By: Bea Fitzgerald

4.03

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

To hell with love, this goddess has other plans... Thousands of years ago, the gods told a lie: … read more

Similar categories in Bea Fitzgerald's Girl, Goddess, Queen book and Joanna Courtney's Blood Queen (Shakespeare’s Queens #1)

  • romance
  • retellings
  • fiction
"Gone is little girl. Kore. I am chaos bringer. Persephone."

-Bea Fitzgerald, Girl, Goddess, Queen

"You once asked for the world, Persephone. Congratulations, you just created one."

-Bea Fitzgerald, Girl, Goddess, Queen

"I was pretty, always pretty. It’s what they told me again and again until the very word came to mean pain. And still I went on, tearing and pulling and hurting until I was prettier still."

-Bea Fitzgerald, Girl, Goddess, Queen

"An artist raised to slaughter. I want to hurt everyone involved in that decision. I would too, I think, if I could. Maybe I am too vengeful. But then I look at him laughing and I don't care. I'd do i…"

-Bea Fitzgerald, Girl, Goddess, Queen

Cover of Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge by Lizzie Pook

16. Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge

By: Lizzie Pook

3.59

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

An Arctic expedition. A mysterious death. And the lengths to which one woman will go to avenge her … read more

Similar categories in Lizzie Pook's Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge book and Joanna Courtney's Blood Queen (Shakespeare’s Queens #1)

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. Hera

By: Jennifer Saint

3.75

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Hera, immortal goddess and daughter of the ancient Titan Cronos, helped her brother Zeus to overthr… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Saint's Hera book and Joanna Courtney's Blood Queen (Shakespeare’s Queens #1)

  • retellings
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
"She has been alone for a very long time."

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"All she knows is that he leaves a trail of broken women in his wake, and she is the most broken of them all."

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"But as he looms over her, blocking out the sky, it seems that he is everything in the world, that he is bigger than that sky. He is too immense and too strong. There is nothing that Hera, the warrior…"

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"She can be anyone. Vengeful Hera, wrathful Hera, the queen of the heavens, most long-suffering of wives and cruellest of punishers, will continue without her. She can slip away from the tethers of wh…"

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

Cover of The Vanished Bride (Brontë Sisters Mystery, #1) by Bella Ellis

18. The Vanished Bride (Brontë Sisters Mystery, #1)

By: Bella Ellis

3.77

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Before they became legendary writers, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and Anne Brontë were detector… read more

Similar categories in Bella Ellis's The Vanished Bride (Brontë Sisters Mystery, #1) book and Joanna Courtney's Blood Queen (Shakespeare’s Queens #1)

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Puzzle of Blackstone Lodge (Rachel Savernake #3) by Martin Edwards

19. The Puzzle of Blackstone Lodge (Rachel Savernake #3)

By: Martin Edwards

3.64

Format: 390 pages, Kindle Edition

The Puzzle of Blackstone Lodge is a complexly layered mystery perfect for fans of impossible myster… read more

Similar categories in Martin Edwards's The Puzzle of Blackstone Lodge (Rachel Savernake #3) book and Joanna Courtney's Blood Queen (Shakespeare’s Queens #1)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. Queen Hereafter

By: Isabelle Schuler

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

“Suspenseful, atmospheric and full of twists and turns, I loved the brutal, backstabbing world that… read more

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  • retellings
  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • medieval
  • adult
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21. Rizzio

By: Denise Mina

3.87

Format: 118 pages, Hardcover

From the multi-award-winning master of crime, Denise Mina delivers a radical new take on one of the… read more

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  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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22. I, Mona Lisa

By: Natasha Solomons

3.87

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Listen to my history. My adventures are worth hearing. I have lived many lifetimes and been loved b… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of People of Abandoned Character by Clare Whitfield

23. People of Abandoned Character

By: Clare Whitfield

3.76

Format: 421 pages, Kindle Edition

Marry in haste . . . Murder at leisure? London, 1888: Susannah rushes into marriage to a young a… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Argo (Blades of Bronze, #1) by Mark  Knowles

24. Argo (Blades of Bronze, #1)

By: Mark Knowles

3.38

Format: 629 pages, Paperback

An action-filled retelling of the famous Greek myth, Jason and the Golden Fleece, brilliantly reima… read more

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  • retellings
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
Cover of The Scandalous Life of Ruby Devereaux by Mandy  Robotham

25. The Scandalous Life of Ruby Devereaux

By: Mandy Robotham

3.78

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

Everyone knows Ruby Devereaux's books. But no one knows her story… until now. From a teenager in… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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26. The King's Witches

By: Kate Foster

4.22

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

The King’s Witches by Kate Foster is a gripping and beautiful historical novel, giving an unforgett… read more

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  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
Cover of The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens by Nicola Clark

27. The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens

By: Nicola Clark

4.18

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

Who taught Catherine of Aragon English, helped Anne Boleyn get dressed in the morning, discussed se… read more

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28. Psykhe

By: Kate Forsyth

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Kate Forsyth gives voice, power and agency to Psykhe telling this much loved myth from the perspect… read more

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  • romance
  • retellings
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
Cover of Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5) by Juno  Dawson

29. Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5)

By: Juno Dawson

3.76

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The next enchanting instalment of the sensational #1 SUNDAY TIMES bestselling HER MAJESTY’S ROYAL C… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Blood Queen (Shakespeare’s Queens #1) by Joanna Courtney

30. Blood Queen (Shakespeare’s Queens #1)

By: Joanna Courtney

3.74

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

Cold. Ruthless. Deadly. The myth of Lady Macbeth looms large. But behind the villainous portrait st… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Courtney's Blood Queen (Shakespeare’s Queens #1) book and Joanna Courtney's Blood Queen (Shakespeare’s Queens #1)

  • romance
  • retellings
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • medieval
  • adult
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31. What a Way to Go

By: Bella Mackie

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

One wealth-obsessed man – who is also dead. One status-obsessed woman – who is the perfect acces… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction

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Alexandra Walsh

4.19

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Robyn Young

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Giles Kristian

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