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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.20 avg rating — 4,202,096 ratings
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The Wives of Henry VIII
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4.11 avg rating — 19,143 ratings
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
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3.94 avg rating — 108,337 ratings
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Cleopatra: A Life
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3.73 avg rating — 123,360 ratings
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
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3.93 avg rating — 16,699 ratings
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
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3.94 avg rating — 38,494 ratings
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
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4.12 avg rating — 73,006 ratings
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The Life of Elizabeth I
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4.03 avg rating — 32,808 ratings
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Nicholas And Alexandra
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4.23 avg rating — 29,835 ratings
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Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
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4.13 avg rating — 10,187 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 806,439 ratings
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Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
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3.78 avg rating — 20,269 ratings
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Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
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4.07 avg rating — 12,213 ratings
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Mary Queen of Scots
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3.99 avg rating — 17,484 ratings
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The Story of My Life
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4.07 avg rating — 151,359 ratings
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Let the People In: The Life and Times of Ann Richards
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3.96 avg rating — 391 ratings
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Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
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3.77 avg rating — 7,911 ratings
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Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile
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3.81 avg rating — 3,519 ratings
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Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
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3.90 avg rating — 4,633 ratings
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Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France
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3.96 avg rating — 8,574 ratings
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Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547-1558
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4.01 avg rating — 15,495 ratings
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An Uncommon Woman - The Empress Frederick: Daughter of Queen Victoria, Wife of the Crown Prince of Prussia, Mother of Kaiser Wilhelm
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4.18 avg rating — 1,122 ratings
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Becoming Queen
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3.95 avg rating — 3,707 ratings
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
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3.87 avg rating — 8,064 ratings
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Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne
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4.02 avg rating — 15,743 ratings
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The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
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3.98 avg rating — 14,381 ratings
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Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
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4.08 avg rating — 3,373 ratings
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Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor Dynasty
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3.93 avg rating — 583 ratings
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Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth
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4.12 avg rating — 3,485 ratings
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The Warrior Queens
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3.71 avg rating — 2,799 ratings
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Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
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4.17 avg rating — 3,588 ratings
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Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings
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3.77 avg rating — 10,500 ratings
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Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America
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3.71 avg rating — 169 ratings
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Infidel
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4.20 avg rating — 92,711 ratings
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Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings
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3.94 avg rating — 973 ratings
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1: The Early Years, 1884-1933
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4.01 avg rating — 6,755 ratings
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Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria
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4.06 avg rating — 2,632 ratings
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë
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3.85 avg rating — 9,023 ratings
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Becoming
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4.43 avg rating — 1,201,005 ratings
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Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man
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4.21 avg rating — 928 ratings
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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
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3.91 avg rating — 10,733 ratings
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Sexuality and Its Impact on History: The British Stripped Bare
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4.17 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Joan of Arc
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4.13 avg rating — 10,138 ratings
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Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
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3.81 avg rating — 6,167 ratings
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Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch
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3.88 avg rating — 29,202 ratings
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The Wars of the Roses: Through the Lives of Five Men and Women of the Fifteenth Century
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3.79 avg rating — 601 ratings
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The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici
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4.07 avg rating — 2,884 ratings
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West with the Night
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4.15 avg rating — 41,075 ratings
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Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832
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4.10 avg rating — 1,961 ratings
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The Virgin Queen: Elizabeth I, Genius of the Golden Age
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4.12 avg rating — 1,673 ratings
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Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III
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3.89 avg rating — 2,549 ratings
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The Queen Mother: The Official Biography
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,276 ratings
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The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family
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3.92 avg rating — 14,355 ratings
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The Sisters Who Would Be Queen
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3.90 avg rating — 5,774 ratings
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See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure During the Interwar Era
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4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Letters, 1925-1975
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3.92 avg rating — 415 ratings
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
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4.23 avg rating — 7,526 ratings
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Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
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3.73 avg rating — 4,693 ratings
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My Story
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4.06 avg rating — 6,313 ratings
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The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
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4.22 avg rating — 2,594 ratings
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Queen Victoria: A Personal History
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4.02 avg rating — 1,228 ratings
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Blood Sisters: The Women Behind The Wars Of The Roses
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3.96 avg rating — 2,275 ratings
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Madam Secretary
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4.11 avg rating — 9,163 ratings
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The First Woman Doctor
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3.94 avg rating — 340 ratings
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Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
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3.45 avg rating — 510 ratings
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Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart
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3.94 avg rating — 5,490 ratings
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Her Own Woman: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
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3.64 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Eleanor de Montfort: A Rebel Countess in Medieval England
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Frida
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3.82 avg rating — 4,359 ratings
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Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics
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3.89 avg rating — 5,206 ratings
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Unnatural Murder: Poison at the Court of James l
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3.71 avg rating — 346 ratings
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Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
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3.70 avg rating — 8,337 ratings
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East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart
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3.93 avg rating — 1,113 ratings
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Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford
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3.72 avg rating — 4,293 ratings
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Florence Nightingale
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3.93 avg rating — 368 ratings
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Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
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4.31 avg rating — 66,458 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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4.16 avg rating — 186,869 ratings
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Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery
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4.04 avg rating — 2,840 ratings
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The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn
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4.20 avg rating — 10,617 ratings
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Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
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4.03 avg rating — 8,396 ratings
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The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
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3.97 avg rating — 9,852 ratings
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Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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4.18 avg rating — 63,667 ratings
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Bessie Blount: Mistress to Henry VIII
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3.62 avg rating — 112 ratings
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The Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother and Lady of the English
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3.92 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Abigail Adams
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3.92 avg rating — 2,774 ratings
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
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3.86 avg rating — 218 ratings
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My Beloved World
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4.09 avg rating — 33,942 ratings
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Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured
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3.45 avg rating — 1,146 ratings
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Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor
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4.22 avg rating — 3,023 ratings
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The First Queen of England: The Myth of "Bloody Mary"
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4.04 avg rating — 3,432 ratings
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Elizabeth and Essex
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3.74 avg rating — 574 ratings
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Elizabeth of York: The Forgotten Tudor Queen
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3.98 avg rating — 330 ratings
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Queen Anne
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3.92 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Zelda
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3.82 avg rating — 10,436 ratings
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Elizabeth & Georgiana: The Duke of Devonshire and His Two Duchesses
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3.63 avg rating — 79 ratings
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The Creation of Anne Boleyn: In Search of the Tudors' Most Notorious Queen
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3.86 avg rating — 3,072 ratings
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Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen
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4.03 avg rating — 3,108 ratings
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Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
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4.39 avg rating — 9,637 ratings
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Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
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3.83 avg rating — 267 ratings
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First Women
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3.71 avg rating — 9,475 ratings
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"Queen's Confession: A FICTIONAL Autobiography" by Victoria Holt
"Wife to the Bastard" by Hilda Lewis
"What the Lady Wants" by Renee Rosen
"Loving Frank" by Nancy Horan
"Blonde" by Joyce Carol Oates
Really, not bad for such a long list.