9 best-selling romance books like Kleopatra (Kleopatra, #1) by Karen Essex

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Kleopatra (Kleopatra, #1)

By: Karen Essex

3.70

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

High drama and ancient history combine in this novel of the early life of Egypt's infamous queen, a…

If you liked the romance plot in Kleopatra (Kleopatra, #1) by Karen Essex , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds (Malayan #1)

By: Selina Siak Chin Yoke

4.15

Format: 466 pages, Kindle Edition

Facing challenges in an increasingly colonial world, Chye Hoon, a rebellious young girl, must learn… read more

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  • cultural
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Her ancestors would fight for her spirit, but so too would the white devils who had come to rule. They had taken first our land and then our souls."

-Selina Siak Chin Yoke, The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds (Malayan #1)

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2. The Memoirs of Cleopatra

By: Margaret George

4.19

Format: 1139 pages, Paperback

Bestselling novelist Margaret George brings to life the glittering kingdom of Cleopatra, Queen of t… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • egypt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
"I will suffocate, drugged by elixir of roses."

-Margaret George, The Memoirs of Cleopatra

"Los fuertes buscarán fuerza, los débiles buscan excusas"

-Margaret George, The Memoirs of Cleopatra

"So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it."

-Margaret George, The Memoirs of Cleopatra

"Poetry consoles me at the same time it inflames me, I said. 'You should know better,' he sniffed. 'It's poison for the soul!"

-Margaret George, The Memoirs of Cleopatra

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3. A Day of Fire: A Novel of Pompeii

By: Michelle Moran , Vicky Alvear Shecter , Ben Kane , Kate Quinn , Stephanie Dray , E. Knight , Sophie Perinot

4.07

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

From six bestselling authors, including New York Times bestseller Kate Quinn, comes a vividly imagi… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. Kleopatra (Kleopatra, #1)

By: Karen Essex

3.70

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

High drama and ancient history combine in this novel of the early life of Egypt's infamous queen, a… read more

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  • romance
  • cultural
  • historical
  • egypt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult

5. Daughters of the Dragon

By: William Andrews

4.12

Format: 206 pages,

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6. Rebel Queen

By: Michelle Moran

4.48

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

When the British Empire sets its sights on India in the 1850s, it expects a quick and easy conquest… read more

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7. The Queen's Fool (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #13)

By: Philippa Gregory

3.89

Format: 440 pages,

A young woman caught in the rivalry between Queen Mary and her half sister, Elizabeth, must find he… read more

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8. Nefertiti

By: Michelle Moran

4.00

Format: 212 pages,

Nefertiti and her younger sister, Mutnodjmet, have been raised in a powerful family that has provid… read more

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9. The Serpent and the Pearl (The Borgias, #1)

By: Kate Quinn

3.92

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

One powerful family holds a city, a faith, and a woman in its grasp--from the national bestselling … read more

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10. The White Princess (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #5)

By: Philippa Gregory

3.90

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Caught between loyalties, the mother of the Tudors must choose between the red rose and the white. … read more

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11. The Swans of Fifth Avenue

By: Melanie Benjamin

1.00

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife comes an enthralling new novel abo… read more

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12. The Secret History: A Novel of Empress Theodora

By: Stephanie Marie Thornton

3.50

Format: None pages,

Where Theodora went, trouble followed... In sixth century Constantinople, one woman, Theodora, defi… read more

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13. The Birth of Venus

By: Sarah Dunant

4.32

Format: 80 pages,

Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young… read more

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14. Mata Hari's Last Dance

By: Michelle Moran

4.00

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

From the international bestselling author of Rebel Queen and Nefertiti comes a captivating novel ab… read more

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15. The Golden Doves

By: Martha Hall Kelly

4.18

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Two former female spies, bound together by their past, risk everything to hunt down an infamous Naz… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World by Shelley Puhak

16. 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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  • historical
Cover of The Temple of Fortuna (Wolf Den Trilogy #3) by Elodie Harper

17. The Temple of Fortuna (Wolf Den Trilogy #3)

By: Elodie Harper

4.39

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The final instalment in Elodie Harper's Sunday Times bestselling Wolf Den Trilogy Amara's journe… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
Cover of Anna of Kleve: The Princess in the Portrait (Six Tudor Queens, #4) by Alison Weir

18. Anna of Kleve: The Princess in the Portrait (Six Tudor Queens, #4)

By: Alison Weir

4.05

Format: 499 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the little-known story of Henry VIII’s… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
"Never reveal your hand, Anna," he advised. "If my cap knew my mind, I would throw it into the fire." It was one of the most revealing things he had ever said to her."

-Alison Weir, Anna of Kleve: The Princess in the Portrait (Six Tudor Queens, #4)

Cover of The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1) by Marion Zimmer Bradley

19. The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)

By: Marion Zimmer Bradley

4.13

Format: 1009 pages, Kindle Edition

Here is the magical legend of King Arthur, vividly retold through the eyes and lives of the women w… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"All gods are one god."

-Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)

"Love is the only prayer I know."

-Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)

"They have not forgotten the Mysteries,"

-Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)

"And as men believe, so their world goes." - Merlin"

-Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)

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20. Mistress of Rome (The Empress of Rome, #1)

By: Kate Quinn

4.02

Format: 470 pages, Paperback

The first in an unforgettable historical saga from the New York Times and USA Today bestselling aut… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
"What kind of moron wants to be a gladiator?"

-Kate Quinn, Mistress of Rome (The Empress of Rome, #1)

"Nadie escucha la verdad cuando las mentiras son más interesantes."

-Kate Quinn, Mistress of Rome (The Empress of Rome, #1)

"Paulinus, everyone knows. Say the word, and I'll run the bitch over with my chariot"

-Kate Quinn, Mistress of Rome (The Empress of Rome, #1)

"Los dioses nos dan a los enanos unos centímetros de más aquí abajo para compensar los que nos quitan de altura."

-Kate Quinn, Mistress of Rome (The Empress of Rome, #1)

Cover of Snehild (Vølvens vej, #1) by Anne-Marie Vedsø Olesen

21. Snehild (Vølvens vej, #1)

By: Anne-Marie Vedsø Olesen

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Snehild kommer til verden midt under en blodig krig. Hendes mor flygter gennem skovene og videre ti… read more

Similar categories in Anne-Marie Vedsø Olesen's Snehild (Vølvens vej, #1) book and Karen Essex's Kleopatra (Kleopatra, #1)

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The House with the Golden Door (Wolf Den Trilogy, #2) by Elodie Harper

22. The House with the Golden Door (Wolf Den Trilogy, #2)

By: Elodie Harper

4.22

Format: 472 pages, Kindle Edition

The life of a courtesan in Pompeii is glittering, yet precarious... Amara has escaped her life as … read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
Cover of The Dragon Queen (The Dragon #2) by William  Andrews

23. The Dragon Queen (The Dragon #2)

By: William Andrews

4.25

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of Daughters of the Dragon comes the story of one of the most extraordi… read more

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  • cultural
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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24. Phaedra

By: Laura Shepperson

3.32

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Debut novelist Laura Shepperson offers a powerful feminist retelling of Phaedra and her unyielding … read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Wolf Den (Wolf Den Trilogy, #1) by Elodie Harper

25. The Wolf Den (Wolf Den Trilogy, #1)

By: Elodie Harper

4.05

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Sold by her mother. Enslaved in Pompeii's brothel. Determined to survive. Her name is Amara. Welcom… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Amara looks at Dido, at the joy on her face, and realises there is nobody she loves more. Warmth spreads through her. She has never had a friend like Dido. She is the light in the darkness of her lif…"

-Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den (Wolf Den Trilogy, #1)

"Amara thinks of her time as a slave in Chremes' household. It does not cheer her up to see parallels between her past and that of the destitute old woman beside her. "You didn't start life as a slave…"

-Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den (Wolf Den Trilogy, #1)

Cover of American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt by Karen Harper

26. American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt

By: Karen Harper

3.66

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Before Meghan and Harry, another American ‘princess’ captured the hand of an English aristocrat. N… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
Cover of Brides of Rome (The Vesta Shadows Trilogy #1) by Debra May Macleod

27. Brides of Rome (The Vesta Shadows Trilogy #1)

By: Debra May Macleod

3.88

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

It is a world of power and privilege, secrets and sacred duty. It is the world of ancient Rome. And… read more

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  • historical
  • egypt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
Cover of The Silkworm Keeper (Tofana, #2) by Deborah Swift

28. The Silkworm Keeper (Tofana, #2)

By: Deborah Swift

4.35

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

Rome 1638 Old sins have long shadows ~ Italian Proverb Giulia Tofana never wanted to be a nun… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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29. Elsewhere

By: Alexis Schaitkin

3.82

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and the ima… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
"Difficult, but comforting, the way I suppose one's own life always feels."

-Alexis Schaitkin, Elsewhere

"He didn't understand that a mother and daughter cannot be protected from one another, that the harms that pass between them cannot be mitigated because they are also expressions of love."

-Alexis Schaitkin, Elsewhere

"I saw then that he was drawn not just to me, but also to the dark potential all women in our town carried inside us, and I was startled to realize he feared me a little. I began to know what women he…"

-Alexis Schaitkin, Elsewhere

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30. Jezebel

By: Megan Barnard

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

With a bold voice reminiscent of Madeline Miller’s Circe, a stunning reimagining of the story of a … read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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31. The Castle Keepers

By: Aimie K. Runyan

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Leedswick Castle has housed the Alnwick family in the English countryside for generations, despite … read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult

20 must-read fiction books like Kleopatra (Kleopatra, #1) by Karen Essex

Transform Your Habits

The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds (Malayan #1)

Selina Siak Chin Yoke

4.15

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The Memoirs of Cleopatra

Margaret George

4.19

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A Day of Fire: A Novel of Pompeii

Michelle Moran , Vicky Alvear Shecter , Ben Kane , Kate Quinn , Stephanie Dray , E. Knight , Sophie Perinot

4.07

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Kleopatra (Kleopatra, #1)

Karen Essex

3.70

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15 Top fiction books like Mistress of Rome (The Empress of Rome, #1) by Kate Quinn

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A Year of Ravens

Ruth Downie , Russell Whitfield , Vicky Alvear Shecter , Kate Quinn , Stephanie Dray , S.J.A. Turney , E. Knight

4.15

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Song of the Nile (Cleopatra's Daughter, #2)

Stephanie Dray

3.99

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The Daughters of Palatine Hill

Phyllis T. Smith

3.68

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Daughters of the Nile (Cleopatra's Daughter, #3)

Stephanie Dray

3.79

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