13 must-read historical books like The World of Wolf Hall by Sam Binnie

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The World of Wolf Hall

By: Sam Binnie

3.76

Format: 53 pages, None

A reading guide to Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies.

If you liked the historical plot in The World of Wolf Hall by Sam Binnie , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)

By: Philippa Gregory

4.05

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, was mar… read more

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  • historical
"A wise woman curses very sparingly."

-Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)

"He is fragile, like a prince of ice, of glass."

-Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)

"All that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing."

-Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)

"Every woman is a mad ugly bad old witch somewhere in her heart."

-Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)

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2. Robots and Empire (Robot, #4)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.22

Format: 512 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Long after his humiliating defeat at the hands of Earthman Elijah Baley, Keldon Amadiro embarked on… read more

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"I am a creature of dreams as well as of reason."

-Isaac Asimov, Robots and Empire (Robot, #4)

"If you have the courage to ask the question, you should have the courage to ask it openly."

-Isaac Asimov, Robots and Empire (Robot, #4)

"Yet weren't all human beings simply human beings no matter what name you applied to them[?]"

-Isaac Asimov, Robots and Empire (Robot, #4)

"It lasted for a long time, I believe." "A very long time. It was a great success, but even great successes come to a natural end."

-Isaac Asimov, Robots and Empire (Robot, #4)

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3. Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)

By: Hilary Mantel

3.98

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has fai… read more

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  • historical
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4. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)

By: Hilary Mantel

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more

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  • historical
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5. The Naked Sun (Robot #2)

By: Isaac Asimov

3.69

Format: 88 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the coloni… read more

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6. Father Christmas and Me

By: Matt Haig

3.88

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It isn't always easy, growing up as a human in Elfhelm, even if your adoptive parents are the newly… read more

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7. The Robots of Dawn (Robot #3)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.15

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

A millennium into the future two advances have altered the course of human history: the colonizatio… read more

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8. Jamaica Inn

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.89

Format: 320 pages, ebook

The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coas… read more

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  • historical
"For the sake of your bright eyes, Jem Merlyn."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

"I like the look of you and the feel of you, and that's enough for any man. It ought to be enough for a woman too."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

"Roads? Who spoke of roads? We go by the moor and the hills, and tread granite and heather as the Druids did before us."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

"She was a woman, and for no reason in heaven or earth she loved him. He had kissed her, and she was bound to him for ever."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

9. Pebble in the Sky (Galactic Empire #3)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.33

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in Chicago, 1949. The next he's a helpless s… read more

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10. Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)

By: C.J. Sansom

3.71

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

It is 1537, a time of revolution that sees the greatest changes in England since 1066. Henry VIII h… read more

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11. Act of Oblivion

By: Robert Harris

4.07

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more

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  • historical
"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"

-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion

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12. The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

By: Hilary Mantel

4.39

Format: 759 pages, Paperback

With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with … read more

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  • historical
  • tudor period
"Everybody wants something, if only for the pain to stop."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

"Those who think a heart cannot break have led blessed and sheltered lives."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

"It was not by a serpent, but by paper and ink that evil came into the world."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

"You can persuade the quick to think again, but you cannot remake your reputation with the dead."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

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13. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

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"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

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14. The Other Side of Mrs. Wood

By: Lucy Barker

3.55

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A historical novel about the rivalry between two female mediums during Victorian London’s obsession… read more

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  • historical
"I want your reputation... I want everything you have."

-Lucy Barker, The Other Side of Mrs. Wood

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15. Shy

By: Max Porter

3.63

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more

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"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."

-Max Porter, Shy

"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."

-Max Porter, Shy

"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"

-Max Porter, Shy

"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"

-Max Porter, Shy

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16. The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

By: Imogen Hermes Gowar

3.55

Format: 487 pages, Hardcover

One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock finds one of his captains waiting eagerly… read more

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  • historical
"A whore is a whore is a whore."

-Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

"I cry out and there is a dull nothing."

-Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

"For what is she, but a spare daughter?"

-Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

"All cats are grey with the candles out."

-Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

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17. The Sealwoman's Gift

By: Sally Magnusson

4.15

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

In 1627 Barbary pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted some 400 of its people, including … read more

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  • historical
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18. L'Iris blanc (Astérix, #40)

By: Fabcaro

3.83

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

« Pour éclairer la forêt, la floraison d’un seul iris suffit » L’Iris blanc est le nom d’une nouvel… read more

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19. Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

By: Mick Herron

4.13

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

At last in one volume: the collected Slough House spy novellas, including the never-before-publishe… read more

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"Well don't talk to me when I'm not listening. It's a waste of everyone's time."

-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

"Shut up. Now, ordinarily the reason I make you run up those stairs is I don't like you and I want you to die. But today, as it happens, I've a job for you."

-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

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20. The World of Wolf Hall

By: Sam Binnie

3.76

Format: 53 pages, None

A reading guide to Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • tudor period
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21. The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights

By: Bridget Collins

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Winter, with its unsettling blend of the cosy and the sinister, has long been a popular time for ga… read more

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  • historical
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22. Machines like Me

By: Ian McEwan

3.59

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing a… read more

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"Caen las hojas. Llega la primavera, y tu caída."

-Ian McEwan, Machines like Me

"could tell you similar stories of machine sadness."

-Ian McEwan, Machines like Me

"Nel suo sguardo, c'è un mondo d'amore. Amo il mondo!"

-Ian McEwan, Machines like Me

"But when you’ve lost a fortune, you don’t clean up the kitchen."

-Ian McEwan, Machines like Me

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23. The Sad Ghost Club

By: Lize Meddings

3.99

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Ever felt anxious or alone? Like you don't belong anywhere? Like you're almost... invisible? Find y… read more

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24. The House of Mirrors

By: Erin Kelly

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

One of them has killed before. One of them will kill again. In the sweltering summer of 1997, s… read more

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25. The Woman on the Ledge

By: Ruth Mancini

3.93

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

A woman falls to her death from a London bank's twenty-fifth-floor roof terrace. You're arreste… read more

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26. The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober

By: Catherine Gray

4.33

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

Ever sworn off alcohol for a month and found yourself drinking by the 7th? Think there's 'no point'… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I'm free from all of that "where's the next drink coming from?" stress. At one point I mislay my water. So what? If that had been wine, I would have been crushed, and annoyed for the next hour. I pro…"

-Catherine Gray, The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober

"He gave me so many anti-anxiety techniques. Reciting the alphabet backwards if I'm walking to a boozy party and feel my heart start to jackhammer. Tapping along to a song, which does something fancy …"

-Catherine Gray, The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober

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27. Ask a Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know

By: Greg Jenner

4.11

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

Why is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? Which people from history would best pull off a casino… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
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28. You Exist Too Much

By: Zaina Arafat

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men o… read more

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"When you don’t want to lose someone, it’s so tempting to deceive them."

-Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much

"Appetite is embarrassing enough; visibly trying to satiate it, utterly mortifying."

-Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much

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29. Conviction

By: Jack Jordan

4.01

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

TO STEAL A MAN'S FREEDOM ALL IT TAKES IS . . . CONVICTION Wade Darling stands accused of killing hi… read more

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30. The Black Bird Oracle (All Souls, #5)

By: Deborah Harkness

4.18

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herself—and her family history—in the highly ant… read more

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"Kümmere dich um deine eignen Wünsche und Bedürfnisse." S. 222"

-Deborah Harkness, The Black Bird Oracle (All Souls, #5)

"Sehnsucht spornt mich an, Furcht bremst mich ... Was für ein Weg, gerade oder krumm, wird mir Frieden geben und mich erlösen?" S 414 f"

-Deborah Harkness, The Black Bird Oracle (All Souls, #5)

"Du musst ihr [der Dunkelheit] die Stirn bieten ... Schau ihr ins Auge, ohne mit der Wimper zu zucken. Die Dunkelheit ist von einer verschlagenen Tücke und du darfst nicht zulassen, dass sie deine Sch…"

-Deborah Harkness, The Black Bird Oracle (All Souls, #5)

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31. Wolf Hall / Bring Up the Bodies / The Mirror and the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #1-3)

By: Hilary Mantel

4.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall Trilogy is the magnificent, riveting hi… read more

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  • historical

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Transform Your Habits

Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Transform Your Habits

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Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Transform Your Habits

You Are Here

David Nicholls

4.08

Transform Your Habits

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John Boyne

4.34

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