Eugénie: The Empress and Her Empire
By: Desmond Seward
3.79
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
From 1853 to 1870 Eugenie de Montijo was the world's most powerful woman. Empress of the French, sh…
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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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- historical
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
2. Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
By: Amanda Foreman
4.18
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
The winner of Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize and a bestseller there for months, this wonderf… read more
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3. 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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4. 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
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
5. 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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- historical
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"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
6. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
By: Patrick Bringley
4.07
Format: 240 pages, ebook
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
7. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
By: Michael Schulman
4.09
Format: 589 pages, Hardcover
The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively histor… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
8. Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies
By: Laura Thompson
3.21
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Thompson returns with Heiresses , a fascinating look at the… read more
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- biography
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
9. 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
- nonfiction
10. Francis I: The Maker of Modern France
By: Leonie Frieda
3.77
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Catherine de Medici returns to sixteenth-century Europe in this evocative… read more
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- france
- european history
11. 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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12. The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom
By: Nancy Goldstone
3.93
Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition
The riveting true story of mother-and-daughter queens Catherine de' Medici and Marguerite de Valois… read more
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- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- france
- european history
13. 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
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- history
- biography
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
14. Domitian (The Damned Emperors, #3)
By: S.J.A. Turney
4.48
Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition
Rome, AD 52. The Julio-Claudian dynasty is in its death throes. Over the next twenty years, chaos d… read more
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- historical
15. Mommy Deadliest (Pinnacle True Crime)
By: Michael Benson
3.96
Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition
It looked like a suicide. A man's corpse on the bathroom floor—next to a half-empty glass of anti-f… read more
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- biography
16. American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden
By: Katie Rogers
3.62
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive exploration of the changing role of the twenty-first-century First Lady, paint… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
17. A Royal Life
By: HRH The Duke of Kent
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
HRH The Duke of Kent has been at the heart of the British Royal Family throughout his life. As a wo… read more
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- biography
18. Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood
By: Hilary A. Hallett
3.77
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Unlike typical romances, which end with wedding bells, Elinor Glyn’s (1864–1943) story really began… read more
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19. Eugénie: The Empress and Her Empire
By: Desmond Seward
3.79
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
From 1853 to 1870 Eugenie de Montijo was the world's most powerful woman. Empress of the French, sh… read more
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- 19th century
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- france
- european history
20. The Lost Queen: The Surprising Life of Catherine of Braganza, Britain's Forgotten Monarch
By: Sophie Shorland
3.88
Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition
'A splendidly sympathetic and sparky portrait... Wittily written and rich in detail' Miranda Seymou… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
21. Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country
By: Juliet Nicolson
3.44
Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition
On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not st… read more
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