14 must-read historical books like Botticelli's Muse by Dorah Blume

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Botticelli's Muse

By: Dorah Blume

3.92

Format: 531 pages, Kindle Edition

A provocative historical fiction about Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli, his conflicts …

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Cover of The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick

1. The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

By: Phaedra Patrick

3.93

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

In this poignant and sparkling debut, a lovable widower embarks on a life-changing adventure Si… read more

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  • fiction
"Sometimes you hold on to things, not because you want to keep them, but because they are difficult to let go."

-Phaedra Patrick, The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

"The thing is these days there is too much choice. When I was younger, you were grateful with what you were given."

-Phaedra Patrick, The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

"It had all happened so quickly. The innocence of being young and thinking that your parents would last for ever had been broken."

-Phaedra Patrick, The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

"He always felt embarrassed opening gifts in front of others, having to act out delight or surprise. He liked to peel off the paper slowly and consider the contents."

-Phaedra Patrick, The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

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2. A Letter From America

By: None , Geraldine O'Neill

4.57

Format: None pages,

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo by Stephanie Storey

3. Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

By: Stephanie Storey

4.37

Format: None pages,

From 1501--1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. L… read more

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  • italy
  • art
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Buried (Twisted Cedar Mysteries, #1) by C.J. Carmichael

4. Buried (Twisted Cedar Mysteries, #1)

By: C.J. Carmichael

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Justice is overdue in the coastal town of Twisted Cedars where two unsolved mysteries lay buried in… read more

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  • fiction

5. Hickory Dickory Dead (Maisie Fezziwig Book 1)

By: Cheryl Bradshaw

4.26

Format: 91 pages,

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6. Mask of Duplicity (The Jacobite Chronicles #1)

By: Julia Brannan

4.10

Format: 9 pages,

Following the death of their father, Beth's brother Richard returns from the army to claim his shar… read more

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7. Murder in Mind (Sloane Monroe, #2)

By: Cheryl Bradshaw

4.05

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Librarian's note: This is an alternate cover edition for Kindle ASIN: B005ORQRBK From a New York Ti… read more

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8. The Rowan Tree

By: Robert W. Fuller

4.89

Format: 78 pages,

Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book . Rowan Ellway… read more

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9. The Gilded Lily

By: Deborah Swift

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

A spellbinding historical novel of beauty and greed and surprising redemption England, 1660. Ella A… read more

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10. Something Blue (Lord and Lady Hetheridge, #3)

By: Emma Jameson

2.88

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

Anthony Hetheridge, ninth baron of Wellegrave and chief superintendent for New Scotland Yard, will … read more

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11. Bloody Lessons (A Victorian San Francisco Mystery #3)

By: M. Louisa Locke

4.28

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

In Bloody Lessons, it's the winter of 1880, and the teachers of San Francisco are under attack: the… read more

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Cover of Daughters of the Winter Queen: Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots by Nancy  Goldstone

12. Daughters of the Winter Queen: Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots

By: Nancy Goldstone

4.07

Format: 481 pages, Hardcover

De dochters van de Winterkoningin van Nancy Goldstone is een prachtig geschiedenisverhaal met een l… read more

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  • historical
"Philosophy is one of those subjects, like astrophysics and neurosurgery, that are not for the fainthearted. To delve into the absolutes of the human experience, to seek to advance the progress of enl…"

-Nancy Goldstone, Daughters of the Winter Queen: Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots

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13. The Trackers

By: Charles Frazier

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and Varina, a stunning new novel that p… read more

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  • art
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Wiltson, every time you open your mouth, it's like you're competing against yourself to say something stupider than yesterday. And you always win."

-Charles Frazier, The Trackers

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14. The Library Book

By: Susan Orlean

3.89

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the mo… read more

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  • historical
"You read and read and read and read," she said, "and then what?"

-Susan Orlean, The Library Book

"German poet Heinrich Heine [warned], 'There where one burns books, one in the end burns men."

-Susan Orlean, The Library Book

"Writing a book, just like building a library, is an act of sheer defiance. It is a declaration that you believe in the persistence of memory."

-Susan Orlean, The Library Book

"The water dumped on the fire was now as much a problem as a solution. The librarians always worried more about floods than fire, and now they had both."

-Susan Orlean, The Library Book

Cover of The House of Closed Doors (The House of Closed Doors, #1) by Jane Steen

15. The House of Closed Doors (The House of Closed Doors, #1)

By: Jane Steen

4.07

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

Librarian Note: There is an alternate cover edition here In Nell Lillington's small Midwestern … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Even a lie told for a good purpose has a way of perpetuating itself, doesn't it? Look at all the trouble I caused by refusing to tell the truth about Sarah's father." - Nell"

-Jane Steen, The House of Closed Doors (The House of Closed Doors, #1)

Cover of The Weaver Takes a Wife (Weaver, #1) by Sheri Cobb South

16. The Weaver Takes a Wife (Weaver, #1)

By: Sheri Cobb South

4.15

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

Haughty Lady Helen Radney is one of London's most beautiful women and the daughter of a duke, but h… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Tell me, Theodore, were you playing against orphans, by any chance?"

-Sheri Cobb South, The Weaver Takes a Wife (Weaver, #1)

"If your brother can't 'old 'is own against a bunch of orphans, 'e'd best leave off playing 'azard altogether!"

-Sheri Cobb South, The Weaver Takes a Wife (Weaver, #1)

"Take it!" he snarled, hurling the diamond necklace across the table at his opponent. "And may you rot in hell with it!" "I should not dream of intruding upon you there," replied Mr Brundy, bowing dee…"

-Sheri Cobb South, The Weaver Takes a Wife (Weaver, #1)

"Mr. Brundy," she said with a nod, making the most perfunctory of curtsies to her father's guest. He made no move to take her hand, but merely bowed and responded in kind. "Lady 'elen." "My name is He…"

-Sheri Cobb South, The Weaver Takes a Wife (Weaver, #1)

Cover of Snowfall in Virginia (Chris Hamilton #2) by Jim         Davidson

17. Snowfall in Virginia (Chris Hamilton #2)

By: Jim Davidson

4.19

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

Chris Hamilton's life was perfect...for a while. He has a magnificent home in the country, his own … read more

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Cover of Tomb of the First Priest (Lost Origins #1) by A.D. Davies

18. Tomb of the First Priest (Lost Origins #1)

By: A.D. Davies

4.13

Format: 566 pages, Kindle Edition

The ancient world is not what we thought. In the city of Prague, freelance treasure hunter Jules h… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Discerning Grace (White Sails #1) by Emma Lombard

19. Discerning Grace (White Sails #1)

By: Emma Lombard

4.18

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

As the first full-length novel in The White Sails Series, DISCERNING GRACE captures the spirit of a… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Alchemist of Paris by M.C. Dulac

20. The Alchemist of Paris

By: M.C. Dulac

4.17

Format: 289 pages, ebook

‘I remembered a word I had heard the monks say, a word spoken with disapproval, a word as bad as a … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Murder Code (Remi Laurent #2) by Ava Strong

21. The Murder Code (Remi Laurent #2)

By: Ava Strong

4.09

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

THE MURDER CODE (A Remi Laurent FBI Suspense Thriller) is book #2 in a new series by mystery and su… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Lies She Never Told Me (Michael Gresham, #1) by John Ellsworth

22. Lies She Never Told Me (Michael Gresham, #1)

By: John Ellsworth

4.06

Format: 203 pages, Kindle Edition

Michael Gresham is the lawyer you’d want to call if you were accused of a crime. Especially if you … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Rock Child: An Adventure of the Heart (Epic Adventures Book 10) by Win Blevins

23. The Rock Child: An Adventure of the Heart (Epic Adventures Book 10)

By: Win Blevins

4.08

Format: 521 pages, Kindle Edition

“Win Blevins, that master yarn-spinner, has done it again with ‘The Rock Child.’ A wonderfully wild… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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24. Fierce Dreamer

By: Linda Lafferty

4.28

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of The Bloodletter’s Daughter comes a historical novel about a defiant … read more

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  • italy
  • art
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of By Royal Appointment: The Love Affair That Almost Destroyed The Monarchy by A. O'Connor

25. By Royal Appointment: The Love Affair That Almost Destroyed The Monarchy

By: A. O'Connor

4.17

Format: 450 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1861 nineteen-year-old Bertie, Prince of Wales, began an affair with the Irish actress Nellie Cl… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Vermeer Deception (Zelda Richardson Mystery #4) by Jennifer S. Alderson

26. The Vermeer Deception (Zelda Richardson Mystery #4)

By: Jennifer S. Alderson

3.82

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

An art historian finds – then loses – a portrait by Johannes Vermeer in this thrilling art mystery … read more

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  • art
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Blue Blooded (Lord & Lady Hetheridge #5) by Emma Jameson

27. Blue Blooded (Lord & Lady Hetheridge #5)

By: Emma Jameson

4.38

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

Tony Hetheridge is stepping into a new career—private detective. As a Chief Superintendent for New … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of What We Carry With Us (New Hope, #1) by Karen J. Hasley

28. What We Carry With Us (New Hope, #1)

By: Karen J. Hasley

4.43

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

The inhabitants of New Hope, Nebraska, have done their best to put the Civil War with all its turmo… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Botticelli's Muse by Dorah Blume

29. Botticelli's Muse

By: Dorah Blume

3.92

Format: 531 pages, Kindle Edition

A provocative historical fiction about Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli, his conflicts … read more

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  • italy
  • art
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Tampa Two (Burnside Series #8) by David Chill

30. Tampa Two (Burnside Series #8)

By: David Chill

4.31

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

Tampa Two marks the return of Judy Atkin, the teenage runaway who P.I. Burnside arrested a decade e… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Antonia of Venice: A Novel Of The 18th Century Venetian Empire by Ellyn Peirson

31. Antonia of Venice: A Novel Of The 18th Century Venetian Empire

By: Ellyn Peirson

3.78

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

Very few people knew Antonia, despite her eventual fame as “La Stella di Venezia”. Antonia of Venic… read more

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  • italy
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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Phaedra Patrick

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Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

Stephanie Storey

4.37

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Fiona Grace

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David Stuart Davies

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Mark deMeza

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Shirley Karr

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