20 Top history books like Queen Katherine Parr (Uncovering the Tudors) by Anthony K. Martienssen

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Queen Katherine Parr (Uncovering the Tudors)

By: Anthony K. Martienssen

3.92

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

Queen Katherine Parr presents a detailed and impressive portrait, not only of Katherine, but of the…

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1. Great Ladies: The Forgotten Witnesses to the Lives of Tudor Queens

By: Sylvia Barbara Soberton

3.82

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

There has been a great deal written about Tudor queens, but less so about those women who surrounde… read more

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  • history
  • biography
Cover of Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun and be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes

2. Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun and be Your Own Person

By: Shonda Rhimes

5.00

Format: 64 pages,

In this poignant, hilarious and deeply intimate call to arms, Hollywood's most powerful woman, the … read more

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  • biography
Cover of Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe by John Julius Norwich

3. Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe

By: John Julius Norwich

3.62

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

In Europe, 1491 to 1500 was an exciting time to be alive. The entire continent was overshadowed by … read more

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  • history
  • biography
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4. Why Not Me?

By: Mindy Kaling

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the author of the beloved New York Timesbestselling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? a… read more

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  • biography
Cover of Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1) by Connie Willis

5. Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

By: Connie Willis

4.03

Format: 578 pages, Mass Market Paperback

For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as si… read more

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"It is the end of the world. Surely you could be allowed a few carnal thoughts."

-Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

"None of the things one frets about ever happen. Something one's never thought of does."

-Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

"Kivrin reached out for Dunworthy's hand and clasped it tightly in her own. "I knew you'd come," she said, and the net opened."

-Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

"No," she said. "No. It's only a bad time. A terrible time, but not everyone will die. And there will be wonderful times after this. The Renaissance and class reforms and music. Wonderful times. There…"

-Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

6. She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth

By: Helen Castor

3.80

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

When Edward VI - Henry VIII's longed-for son - died in 1553, extraordinarily, there was no one left… read more

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7. Wintersong (Wintersong, #1)

By: S. Jae-Jones

4.00

Format: None pages,

Beware the goblin men and the wares they sell. All her life, nineteen-year-old Liesl has heard tale… read more

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Cover of Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe by John Guy

8. 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
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9. The Secret Lives of Color

By: Kassia St. Clair

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hu… read more

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  • history
"Van Gogh's sunflowers, it seems, are wilting, just like their real-life counterparts did."

-Kassia St. Clair, The Secret Lives of Color

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10. The Stroke of Winter

By: Wendy Webb

3.99

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

In the tourist town of Wharton, on the coast of Lake Superior, Tess Bell is renovating her old fami… read more

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"It was all too easy to take a thing for granted, even something beautiful, when you lived with it every day, she thought. The extraordinary faded into ordinary, even mundane."

-Wendy Webb, The Stroke of Winter

"It was almost as if, the nearer people are to the other side, whether they've just come into the world or are close to leaving it, the more sleep they need. And she wondered, too, if it was really sl…"

-Wendy Webb, The Stroke of Winter

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11. The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World

By: Shelley Puhak

4.09

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded i… read more

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  • history
  • biography
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12. Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

By: Alan Rickman

3.58

Format: 469 pages, Hardcover

Madly Deeply is a rare invitation into the mind of Alan Rickman—one of the most magnetic, beloved … read more

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  • biography
"The trouble with death is that there is no next."

-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

"Why was I dreaming about having got myself a Saturday job at Woolworth's??"

-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

"The walls we are surrounded by, the objects we fill the spaces with, the lives they all describe."

-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

"Savoy Grill with Emma[Thompson]. A very easy, enjoyable meal with an easy enjoyable person. She says 'fuck' a lot. Much laughter."

-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

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13. 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
  • biography
"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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14. Cleopatra's Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen

By: Jane Draycott

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The first modern biography of one of the most influential yet long-neglected rulers of the ancient … read more

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  • history
  • biography
Cover of The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court by Gareth Russell

15. The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court

By: Gareth Russell

4.21

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The popular and “scrupulous historian” (Daily Mail , London) Gareth Russell presents five hundred y… read more

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  • history
  • biography
Cover of The Tudors in Love: Passion and Politics in the Age of England's Most Famous Dynasty by Sarah Gristwood

16. The Tudors in Love: Passion and Politics in the Age of England's Most Famous Dynasty

By: Sarah Gristwood

3.71

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Sarah Gristwood's The Tudors in Love offers a brilliant history of the Tudor dynasty, showing how t… read more

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  • history
  • biography
Cover of The Final Year of Anne Boleyn by Natalie Grueninger

17. The Final Year of Anne Boleyn

By: Natalie Grueninger

4.32

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

There are few women in English history more famous or controversial than Queen Anne Boleyn. She was… read more

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  • history
  • biography
"Try me good king, but let me have a lawful trial, and let not my sworn enemies sit as my accusers and judges… My last and only request shall be, that myself may only bear the burden of your grace’s d…"

-Natalie Grueninger, The Final Year of Anne Boleyn

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18. The Tower

By: Flora Carr

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots’s darkest hour, when she was held ho… read more

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19. Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History

By: Tracy Borman

4.26

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

Anne Boleyn is a subject of enduring fascination. By far the most famous of Henry VIII's six wives,… read more

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  • history
  • biography
Cover of Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power by Leah Redmond Chang

20. Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power

By: Leah Redmond Chang

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and M… read more

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  • history
  • biography
Cover of The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster by Helen  Carr

21. The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster

By: Helen Carr

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Gaunt was son of Edward III, brother to the Black Prince, father to Henry IV and the sire of all th… read more

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  • history
  • biography
Cover of Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us about Our Past and Future by James Shapiro

22. Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us about Our Past and Future

By: James Shapiro

4.10

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

From leading scholar James Shapiro, a timely exploration of what Shakespeare's plays reveal about o… read more

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  • history
Cover of Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance by Ramie Targoff

23. Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance

By: Ramie Targoff

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shak… read more

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  • history
  • biography
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24. The Year of the Witching (Bethel, #1)

By: Alexis Henderson

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A young woman living in a rigid, puritanical society discovers dark powers within herself in this s… read more

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"Her sin had saved her."

-Alexis Henderson, The Year of the Witching (Bethel, #1)

"To be woman is to be a sacrifice."

-Alexis Henderson, The Year of the Witching (Bethel, #1)

"Sometimes I think we share a soul. His pain has become mine. And mine his."

-Alexis Henderson, The Year of the Witching (Bethel, #1)

"The way she saw it, sin wasn't a plague you could catch if you ventured too close."

-Alexis Henderson, The Year of the Witching (Bethel, #1)

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25. All the Queen's Jewels, 1445-1548: Power, Majesty and Display

By: Nicola Tallis

4.31

Format: 342 pages, ebook

From Margaret of Anjou to Katherine Parr, All the Queen's Jewels examines the jewellery collections… read more

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  • history
Cover of Scourge of Henry VIII: The Life of Marie de Guise by Melanie Clegg

26. Scourge of Henry VIII: The Life of Marie de Guise

By: Melanie Clegg

3.96

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

The little-known story of the mother of Mary, Queen of Scots and her feud with the “Will fascinate… read more

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  • history
  • biography
Cover of Anne Boleyn, An Illustrated Life of Henry VIII's Queen by Roland Hui

27. Anne Boleyn, An Illustrated Life of Henry VIII's Queen

By: Roland Hui

4.06

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Written by King Henry VIII to his sweetheart, the seductive and vivacious Anne Boleyn, his passion … read more

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  • history
  • biography
Cover of Catherine and Anne: Rivals, Queens, Mothers by Owen Emmerson

28. Catherine and Anne: Rivals, Queens, Mothers

By: Owen Emmerson

4.69

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

History has delighted in their famed rivalry, but these queens may have shared more than tradition … read more

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Cover of Henry VIII’s True Daughter: Catherine Carey, A Tudor Life by Wendy J. Dunn

29. Henry VIII’s True Daughter: Catherine Carey, A Tudor Life

By: Wendy J. Dunn

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The lives of Tudor women often offer faint but fascinating footnotes on the pages of history. The l… read more

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  • history
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30. Queen Katherine Parr (Uncovering the Tudors)

By: Anthony K. Martienssen

3.92

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

Queen Katherine Parr presents a detailed and impressive portrait, not only of Katherine, but of the… read more

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  • history
  • biography

19 Best biography books like Queen Katherine Parr (Uncovering the Tudors) by Anthony K. Martienssen

Transform Your Habits

Great Ladies: The Forgotten Witnesses to the Lives of Tudor Queens

Sylvia Barbara Soberton

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun and be Your Own Person

Shonda Rhimes

5.00

Transform Your Habits

Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe

John Julius Norwich

3.62

Transform Your Habits

Why Not Me?

Mindy Kaling

3.67

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21 Top audiobook books like Cleopatra's Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen by Jane Draycott

Transform Your Habits

Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe

John Guy

4.16

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Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

Jenni Nuttall

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Scotland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Mislaid, Misplaced and Misunderstood

Alistair Moffat

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

Mary Beard

4.11

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