24 best-selling historical fiction books like The Queen Dowager by M.J. Porter

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The Queen Dowager

By: M.J. Porter

4.34

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

No woman had ever held so much power and lost it on the whim of her son, the king. Six years of po…

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1. The Winter Mantle

By: Elizabeth Chadwick

4.06

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Normandy 1067---William may have conquered England, but it is a conquest of a different kind that o… read more

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2. Queen Hereafter: A Novel of Margaret of Scotland

By: Susan Fraser King

3.22

Format: 402 pages, Hardcover

Refugee. Queen. Saint. In eleventh-century Scotland, a young woman strives to fulfill her destiny d… read more

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3. The Scarlet Lion (William Marshal, #3)

By: Elizabeth Chadwick

4.01

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Following early beginnings as a knight in the English royal household and a champion of the tourney… read more

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4. The Marsh King's Daughter

By: Karen Dionne

5.00

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

I was born two years into my mother's captivity. She was three weeks shy of seventeen. If I had kno… read more

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5. Cometh the Hour (Tales of the Iclingas Book 1)

By: Annie Whitehead

3.94

Format: 313 pages,

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6. Warrior and Protector (The Saxon Warrior, #1)

By: Peter Gibbons

4.36

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

989 AD. Alfred the Great’s dream of a united England has been forged by his daughter Aethelfaed … read more

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  • historical fiction
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7. Brothers of the Sword (The Saxon Warrior, #3)

By: Peter Gibbons

4.53

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

An epic battle where heroes fight and die to protect a Kingdom from Viking invasion.. . 991AD King … read more

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  • historical fiction
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8. Storm of War (The Saxon Warrior, #2)

By: Peter Gibbons

4.45

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

The fight for a torn Kingdom rests in the hands of a few brave men… 990AD. King Aethelred II, w… read more

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  • historical fiction
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9. Axes for Valhalla (The Viking Blood and Blade Saga, #3)

By: Peter Gibbons

4.45

Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition

If you like Bernard Cornwell, Giles Kristian, David Gemmell and Simon Scarrow you will love this Vi… read more

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  • historical fiction
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10. The Wrath of Ivar (The Viking Blood and Blade Saga, #2)

By: Peter Gibbons

4.43

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

866 AD. Saxon England burns under attack from the Great Heathen Army . Vicious Viking adventurers l… read more

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  • historical fiction
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11. Valkyrie Rising (The Viking Blood and Blade Saga, #5)

By: Peter Gibbons

4.54

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

878 AD, Norway. The fight to secure Harald Fairhair’s throne is over, but one last battle sends a c… read more

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  • historical fiction
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12. King of War (The Viking Blood and Blade Saga, #4)

By: Peter Gibbons

4.50

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

874 AD, Norway. A brutal place, home of warriors where Odin holds sway. King Harald Fairhair fights… read more

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  • historical fiction
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13. The Saxon Princess (Ladies of Valor, #1)

By: Anne R. Bailey

4.39

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

1093, ScotlandThe unexpected death of the king, her father, brings chaos to the Kingdom of Scotland… read more

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  • historical fiction
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14. Viking Blood and Blade (The Viking Blood and Blade Saga, #1)

By: Peter Gibbons

4.37

Format: 487 pages, Kindle Edition

If you like Bernard Cornwell, Conn Iggulden, Simon Scarrow, David Gemmell and Giles Kristian, you w… read more

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  • historical fiction
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15. The Stolen Crown: The brilliant historical novel of an Empress fighting for her destiny

By: Carol McGrath

4.17

Format: 436 pages, Kindle Edition

' A superb book , illuminating a fascinating and turbulent era . It is the figure of Matilda who ri… read more

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  • historical fiction
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16. Penelope - Tudor Baroness (Elizabethan, #4)

By: Tony Riches

4.42

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

A Life of Love and ScandalLady Penelope is one of the most beautiful and sought-after women in Eliz… read more

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  • historical fiction
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17. THE GOOD QUEEN: MATILDA OF SCOTLAND, WIFE OF HENRY I (Medieval Babes: Tales of Little-Known Ladies Book 11)

By: J.P. Reedman

4.31

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

Daughter of a Scottish king and an Anglo-Saxon princess, Edith is sent to her Aunt Cristina, the Ab… read more

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  • historical fiction
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18. The Raven and the Nine (The Viking Blood and Blade Saga, #6)

By: Peter Gibbons

4.49

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

879 AD, Norway. Halvdan , son of Ragnar Lothbrok and King of Dublin, is locked in a savage war with… read more

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  • historical fiction
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19. The Northman (The Bloody Hand Saga #1)

By: David Pilling

3.90

Format: 92 pages, Kindle Edition

“William came over the sea, with bloody hand came he...” 1069 AD. Three years after the Battle o… read more

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20. The Outlaw (The Bloody Hand Saga #2)

By: David Pilling

4.25

Format: 139 pages, Kindle Edition

"The Normans called them wild men..." 1070 The English rebels in the north have sacked Jorvik a… read more

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21. The King's Jewel

By: Elizabeth Chadwick

4.39

Format: 456 pages, Kindle Edition

The warm, comfortable family life of young Nesta, daughter of Prince Rhys of Deheubarth is destroye… read more

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  • historical fiction
"He needed to feel God in the great sweep of nature unfettered by the cathedral's solid walls, and he wanted to share it with his wife and make her understand his love for Wales."

-Elizabeth Chadwick, The King's Jewel

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22. Caligula (The Damned Emperors, #1)

By: Simon Turney

3.98

Format: 360 pages, ebook

Caligula: loving brother, reluctant ruler and tortured soul. The five children of Germanicus are… read more

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  • historical fiction
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23. My Father, My Enemy: Juliane, Daughter of Henry I (Medieval Babes: Tales of Little-Known Ladies Book 6)

By: J.P. Reedman

4.26

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

Juliane Fitzroy is the illegitimate daughter of Henry I--one of his twenty-two bastards. When her f… read more

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  • historical fiction
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24. Twice Royal Lady

By: Hilary Green

3.99

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “A very good read with a lot of historical detail. A very touching story of one person’s stru… read more

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25. Daughter of the Sun: Story of the Young Eleanor of Aquitaine

By: G. Lawrence

4.38

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

Countess, Duchess, twice a Queen, ruler of vast lands, crusader, mother and politician, this is the… read more

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  • historical fiction
Cover of Poisoned Chalice: Mabel de Belleme Normandy's Wicked Lady (Medieval Babes: Tales of Little-Known Ladies Book 8) by J.P. Reedman

26. Poisoned Chalice: Mabel de Belleme Normandy's Wicked Lady (Medieval Babes: Tales of Little-Known Ladies Book 8)

By: J.P. Reedman

4.15

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Small, very talkative, ready enough to do evil, shrewd and jocular, extremely cruel and daring.’ O… read more

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27. Nest of the Gyrfalcon: Book Two of the Story of Eleanor of Aquitaine (The Heirs of Anarchy 6)

By: G. Lawrence

4.52

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

Spring 1152.Once she was a Queen, and will become so again...Eleanor of Aquitaine has escaped her m… read more

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28. Child of Water (The Heirs of Anarchy, #1)

By: G. Lawrence

4.19

Format: 446 pages, Kindle Edition

Winter, 1110, England On a beach, standing in the snow, a girl of eight winters waits for a ship t… read more

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29. Melusine (The Heirs of Anarchy, #2)

By: G. Lawrence

4.10

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

Summer 1128 Matilda, once Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, daughter and heir to the King of Eng… read more

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30. The Queen Dowager

By: M.J. Porter

4.34

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

No woman had ever held so much power and lost it on the whim of her son, the king. Six years of po… read more

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31. The Sins of the Father (Tales of the Iclingas #2)

By: Annie Whitehead

4.60

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

A father's legacy can be a blessing or a curse... The sons of Penda of Mercia have come of age. Et… read more

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8 Top historical books like Melusine (The Heirs of Anarchy, #2) by G. Lawrence

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The Lady's Defiance

Anne R. Bailey

4.13

Transform Your Habits

The First Queen of England (The First Queen of England, #1)

M.J. Porter

3.70

Transform Your Habits

The First Queen of England Part 2 (The First Queen of England, #2)

M.J. Porter

4.15

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The Silken Rose (She-Wolves Trilogy, #1)

Carol McGrath

3.90

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