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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.20 avg rating — 4,116,985 ratings
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The Wives of Henry VIII
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4.11 avg rating — 19,082 ratings
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
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3.94 avg rating — 107,855 ratings
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Cleopatra: A Life
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3.73 avg rating — 122,273 ratings
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
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3.93 avg rating — 16,618 ratings
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
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3.94 avg rating — 38,250 ratings
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
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4.12 avg rating — 72,476 ratings
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The Life of Elizabeth I
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4.03 avg rating — 32,729 ratings
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Nicholas And Alexandra
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4.23 avg rating — 29,656 ratings
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Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
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4.13 avg rating — 10,125 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 793,809 ratings
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Mary Queen of Scots
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3.99 avg rating — 17,388 ratings
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Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
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3.78 avg rating — 20,221 ratings
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Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
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4.07 avg rating — 12,178 ratings
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Let the People In: The Life and Times of Ann Richards
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3.96 avg rating — 390 ratings
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Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
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3.77 avg rating — 7,877 ratings
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The Story of My Life
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4.08 avg rating — 150,527 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 — 3,500 ratings
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Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
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3.89 avg rating — 4,593 ratings
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Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France
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3.96 avg rating — 8,470 ratings
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Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547-1558
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4.01 avg rating — 15,422 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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4.19 avg rating — 1,115 ratings
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Becoming Queen
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3.95 avg rating — 3,693 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 — 8,035 ratings
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The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
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3.98 avg rating — 14,275 ratings
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Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
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4.08 avg rating — 3,322 ratings
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Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor Dynasty
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3.93 avg rating — 577 ratings
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The Warrior Queens
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3.71 avg rating — 2,793 ratings
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Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
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4.17 avg rating — 3,573 ratings
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Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne
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4.01 avg rating — 15,720 ratings
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Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth
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4.12 avg rating — 3,448 ratings
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Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America
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3.72 avg rating — 169 ratings
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Infidel
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4.20 avg rating — 92,260 ratings
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Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings
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3.94 avg rating — 971 ratings
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Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings
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3.77 avg rating — 10,470 ratings
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1: The Early Years, 1884-1933
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4.01 avg rating — 6,736 ratings
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Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria
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4.06 avg rating — 2,623 ratings
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë
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3.85 avg rating — 8,966 ratings
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Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man
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4.20 avg rating — 912 ratings
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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
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3.91 avg rating — 10,578 ratings
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Sexuality and Its Impact on History: The British Stripped Bare
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4.16 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Joan of Arc
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4.12 avg rating — 9,884 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 — 6,122 ratings
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Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch
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3.88 avg rating — 29,139 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 — 596 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 — 2,857 ratings
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West with the Night
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4.15 avg rating — 40,559 ratings
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Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832
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4.10 avg rating — 1,960 ratings
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Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III
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3.89 avg rating — 2,545 ratings
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The Sisters Who Would Be Queen
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3.90 avg rating — 5,771 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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3.93 avg rating — 409 ratings
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Becoming
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4.44 avg rating — 1,173,845 ratings
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Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
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3.72 avg rating — 4,684 ratings
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My Story
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4.06 avg rating — 6,211 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 — 2,523 ratings
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Blood Sisters: The Women Behind The Wars Of The Roses
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3.96 avg rating — 2,247 ratings
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Madam Secretary
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4.11 avg rating — 9,111 ratings
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The First Woman Doctor
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3.93 avg rating — 336 ratings
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The Virgin Queen: Elizabeth I, Genius of the Golden Age
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4.12 avg rating — 1,665 ratings
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Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
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3.45 avg rating — 505 ratings
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Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart
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3.94 avg rating — 5,311 ratings
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Her Own Woman: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
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3.63 avg rating — 46 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 — 4,319 ratings
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The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family
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3.92 avg rating — 14,122 ratings
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The Queen Mother: The Official Biography
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,259 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 — 5,187 ratings
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Unnatural Murder: Poison at the Court of James l
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3.70 avg rating — 332 ratings
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Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
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3.70 avg rating — 8,291 ratings
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East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart
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3.92 avg rating — 1,090 ratings
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Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford
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3.72 avg rating — 4,248 ratings
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Florence Nightingale
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3.92 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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4.30 avg rating — 66,299 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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4.16 avg rating — 180,224 ratings
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Theodora: Empress of Byzantium
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3.75 avg rating — 160 ratings
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
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4.22 avg rating — 7,330 ratings
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Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery
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4.05 avg rating — 2,836 ratings
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The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn
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4.20 avg rating — 10,591 ratings
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Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
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4.03 avg rating — 8,326 ratings
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Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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4.18 avg rating — 63,251 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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Queen Victoria: A Personal History
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4.02 avg rating — 1,228 ratings
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The Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother and Lady of the English
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3.93 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Abigail Adams
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3.91 avg rating — 2,729 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 — 33,673 ratings
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Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured
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3.46 avg rating — 1,124 ratings
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The First Queen of England: The Myth of "Bloody Mary"
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4.04 avg rating — 3,421 ratings
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Elizabeth and Essex
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3.74 avg rating — 568 ratings
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Elizabeth of York: The Forgotten Tudor Queen
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3.98 avg rating — 326 ratings
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Queen Anne
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3.94 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Zelda
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3.82 avg rating — 10,423 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 — 3,055 ratings
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Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen
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4.03 avg rating — 3,104 ratings
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Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
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4.39 avg rating — 9,223 ratings
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Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
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3.83 avg rating — 261 ratings
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Anne Sexton: A Biography
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4.17 avg rating — 4,059 ratings
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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
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4.13 avg rating — 18,057 ratings
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Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore
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4.18 avg rating — 1,454 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.