9 best-selling history books like Adventures in Time: The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Dominic Sandbrook

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Adventures in Time: The Six Wives of Henry VIII

By: Dominic Sandbrook

4.36

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Take a journey to a vanished world with the ADVENTURES IN TIME* series - stories so exciting you wo…

If you liked the history plot in Adventures in Time: The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Dominic Sandbrook , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn

By: Eric Ives

4.20

Format: 458 pages, Paperback

This definitive full biography of Anne Boleyn, based on the latest scholarly research, focusses on … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. The Mysterious Howling (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, #1)

By: Jon Klassen , Maryrose Wood

3.94

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place are no ordinary children, Miss Penelope Lumley is no ordi… read more

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  • childrens
  • audiobook
"All books are judged by their covers until they are read."

-Jon Klassen, The Mysterious Howling (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, #1)

"I will have the children read Hamlet as soon as it is practical. There are some useful cautions against eavesdropping to be gleaned from that."

-Jon Klassen, The Mysterious Howling (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, #1)

"It makes no difference what you wear, really. I'll put you in a dark grey. I believe I have some left over from a funeral." says the dressmaker."

-Jon Klassen, The Mysterious Howling (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, #1)

"If you have ever opened a can of worms, boxed yourself into a corner, ended up in hot water, or found yourself in a pretty pickle, you already know that life is rarely (if ever) just a bowl of cherri…"

-Jon Klassen, The Mysterious Howling (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, #1)

3. The Bone Sparrow

By: Zana Fraillon

3.82

Format: 4 pages, Hardcover

Subhi is a refugee. Born in an Australian permanent detention center after his mother and sister fl… read more

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4. The Lost Library

By: Rebecca Stead

4.14

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

A little free library guarded by a cat and a boy who takes on the mystery it keeps. When a myst… read more

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  • childrens
  • audiobook
"But aren’t “parents"

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"That delicious book smell, his heart said."

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"Being a Great Reader means feeling something about books."

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"Head high, my dear! Eyes up! Take your place in the world!"

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

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5. The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

By: Hilary Mantel

4.39

Format: 759 pages, Paperback

With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with … read more

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  • audiobook
"Everybody wants something, if only for the pain to stop."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

"Those who think a heart cannot break have led blessed and sheltered lives."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

"It was not by a serpent, but by paper and ink that evil came into the world."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

"You can persuade the quick to think again, but you cannot remake your reputation with the dead."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

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6. The Boy Lost in the Maze

By: Joseph Coelho

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In his new verse novel, Joseph Coelho brilliantly blends Greek myth with a 21st century quest. In … read more

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  • audiobook
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7. Love After Love

By: Ingrid Persaud

4.07

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

Meet the Ramdin-Chetan family: forged through loneliness, broken by secrets, saved by love. Irre… read more

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  • audiobook
"Miss Betty, relaxing is not a crime. Live a little. Best to do things while you still have your own teeth in your mouth."

-Ingrid Persaud, Love After Love

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8. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

By: Judi Dench

4.56

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."

-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"

-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

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9. Das letzte Dornröschen (Märchenfluch, #1)

By: Claudia Siegmann

3.98

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

In dieser Märchenprinzessin schlummert dunkle Magie Flora Anthea Allenstein, genannt Flo, fällt aus… read more

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  • audiobook
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10. The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou

By: Eleni Kyriacou

4.18

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club 2023** THEY HAVE TOLD SO MANY LIES ABOUT ME. … read more

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  • audiobook
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11. Runt

By: Craig Silvey

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A heart-warming, funny, beautifully told story for readers of all ages from the bestselling author … read more

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  • childrens
  • audiobook
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12. Suddenly a Murder

By: Lauren Muñoz

3.65

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Seven friends throw a 1920s-themed party, where it's all pretend--until one of them is murdered. On… read more

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  • audiobook
"He’s a Darcy in the streets but a Wickham in the sheets."

-Lauren Muñoz, Suddenly a Murder

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13. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

By: Emma Southon

4.23

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes a wildly entertai… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Rest is History: The Official Book from the Makers of the Hit Podcast

By: Tom Holland

3.85

Format: 522 pages, Kindle Edition

Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys... there's a new history book in town. Fro… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story.

By: Robert Hardman

3.92

Format: 456 pages, Kindle Edition

The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller‘Fascinating . . . The book everyone is talking about’ – Daily Mai… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"He's a very charming person - very warm and very friendly...I admire the way he interacts with people. That, to me, speaks to the measure of our King."

-Robert Hardman, Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story.

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16. I Spy

By: Rhian Tracey

3.74

Format: None pages, None

Twelve-year-old Robyn has grown up in Bletchley Park, where her father works as a driver. When she'… read more

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17. Bitterthorn

By: Kat Dunn

3.92

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Blumwald is a town overshadowed by an ancient curse: in a sinister castle in the depths of the wild… read more

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"She was lost to me in a hundred little griefs I found anew each year"

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

"Loneliness can be something other people do to us, and something we do to ourselves."

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

"The hurtful truth of death was that it was as mundane as a meal uneaten, a cup knocked over."

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

"My mother was tidied away into her grave and my stepmother unpacked her things into her place. I found myself far from home without having travelled a metre."

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

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18. Echo Mountain

By: Lauren Wolk

4.26

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A young heroine in Depression-era Maine is navigating the rocky terrain of her new life on Echo Mou… read more

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  • childrens
  • audiobook
"You want to know?"

-Lauren Wolk, Echo Mountain

"Blame comes from the Greek for “curse"

-Lauren Wolk, Echo Mountain

"The things we need to learn to do, we learn to do by doing."

-Lauren Wolk, Echo Mountain

"Maybe she’ll wake up soon and come back to what she used to be...or what she’ll be next"

-Lauren Wolk, Echo Mountain

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19. The Earl and the Pharaoh

By: Countess of Carnarvon

3.50

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Lady Fiona Carnarvon tells the thrilling behind-the-scenes story of the discover… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Rivals (Belladaire Academy of Athletes #2)

By: Maren Vivien Haase

3.72

Format: 443 pages, Kindle Edition

Lova & Lois: Was, wenn aus Konkurrenzkampf Liebe wird? Als Lova Sandberg erfährt, dass auch Luis F… read more

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21. Yours from the Tower

By: Sally Nicholls

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Bridgerton fans rejoice! This epistolary confection—told in letters among three school friends—is p… read more

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  • audiobook
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22. Fake History

By: Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse

3.64

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Fake news about the past is fake history. Did Hugo Boss design the Nazi uniforms? Did medieval peop… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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23. Dark Peak

By: Marcus Sedgwick

3.79

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

We all went in together – not everyone made it out… One long, hot summer, two children disappear… read more

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24. Rare Singles

By: Benjamin Myers

4.09

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A warm, tender and funny story about unlikely friendships, second chances, and the magic of soul mu… read more

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25. What Fresh Hell

By: Lucy Vine

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Have you ever spent a weekend with strangers you hate for a friend's hen party? Had to pay hundred… read more

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26. D-Day Dog (Conkers)

By: Tom Palmer

4.09

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Jack can't wait for the school trip to the D-Day landing beaches. It's his chance to learn more abo… read more

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  • childrens
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27. Adventures in Time: The Six Wives of Henry VIII

By: Dominic Sandbrook

4.36

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Take a journey to a vanished world with the ADVENTURES IN TIME* series - stories so exciting you wo… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • childrens
  • audiobook
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28. Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

By: Katherine Rundell

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.… read more

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  • childrens
  • audiobook
"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"Nighthand grunted, and signalled for another bottle of wine. "Are you sure?" said Irian. "Shouldn't we keep our wits about us?" "I see no reason to. I prefer the world drunk. It disappoints me less."…"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

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29. The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

By: Manu Larcenet

4.49

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize–winning postapocalyptic… read more

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30. Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany

By: Harald Jähner

4.36

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Deutschland, 1918. Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs, Revolution, Sieg der Demokratie. Zugleich beginnt ei… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

19 must-read audiobook books like Adventures in Time: The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Dominic Sandbrook

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Jon Klassen , Maryrose Wood

3.94

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The Lost Library

Rebecca Stead

4.14

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The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

Hilary Mantel

4.39

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Ramayana: Divine Loophole

Sanjay Patel

4.16

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Pam Muñoz Ryan

3.95

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Kate Albus

4.57

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