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Miss del Río: A Novel of Dolores del Río, the First Major Latina Star in Hollywood – A Biographical Historical Epic of the 20th Century
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3.67 avg rating — 1,128 ratings
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Frida
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3.83 avg rating — 4,449 ratings
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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 240,493 ratings
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Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
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4.31 avg rating — 107,789 ratings
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My Life and Times: A Novel of Helen of Troy, In Her Own Words (The Ancient World Book 4)
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4.48 avg rating — 66 ratings
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I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 75,285 ratings
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
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3.93 avg rating — 795,738 ratings
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The Sunne in Splendour
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4.41 avg rating — 23,043 ratings
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Katherine
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4.21 avg rating — 36,881 ratings
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Conceit
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3.42 avg rating — 356 ratings
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
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4.09 avg rating — 99,474 ratings
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The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 94,265 ratings
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Burr
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4.09 avg rating — 10,914 ratings
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Muse
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3.50 avg rating — 313 ratings
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Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles
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4.09 avg rating — 15,177 ratings
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The Other Boleyn Girl
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4.09 avg rating — 518,876 ratings
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Queen Margot (The Valois Trilogy #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 15,029 ratings
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Time and Chance (Plantagenets #2; Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine #2)
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4.29 avg rating — 9,621 ratings
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Devil's Brood (Plantagenets #3; Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 8,373 ratings
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True History of the Kelly Gang
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3.83 avg rating — 24,761 ratings
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Ragtime
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3.90 avg rating — 48,157 ratings
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When Christ and His Saints Slept (Plantagenets #1; Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 17,748 ratings
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The Thistle and the Rose (Tudor Saga, #8)
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3.79 avg rating — 2,960 ratings
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The Aviator's Wife
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3.91 avg rating — 77,733 ratings
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The Rose Without a Thorn (Queens of England, #11)
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3.88 avg rating — 3,293 ratings
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Burial Rites
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4.04 avg rating — 129,431 ratings
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Madame Tussaud
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3.97 avg rating — 22,678 ratings
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Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great, #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 10,700 ratings
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The Queen from Provence (Plantagenet Saga, #6)
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3.90 avg rating — 745 ratings
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Nefertiti
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4.09 avg rating — 41,784 ratings
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The Queen's Vow: A Novel of Isabella of Castile
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3.91 avg rating — 9,490 ratings
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Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey
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3.98 avg rating — 35,379 ratings
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Gods and Generals (The Civil War Trilogy, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 38,112 ratings
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The Boleyn Inheritance
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3.92 avg rating — 96,558 ratings
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Lincoln
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4.25 avg rating — 10,007 ratings
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Lionheart (Plantagenets #4; Richard the Lionheart #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 8,055 ratings
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The Courts of Love (Queens of England, #5)
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3.93 avg rating — 1,941 ratings
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Katharine of Aragon: The Wives of Henry VIII (Tudor Saga, #2-4)
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4.05 avg rating — 3,167 ratings
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The Lady in the Tower (Queens of England, #4)
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3.97 avg rating — 4,785 ratings
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Hamnet
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4.20 avg rating — 510,079 ratings
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The Marriage Portrait
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4.01 avg rating — 220,892 ratings
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Fever
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3.73 avg rating — 16,782 ratings
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Hild (The Hild Sequence, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 13,212 ratings
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Hammer of the Scots (Plantagenet Saga, #7)
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3.92 avg rating — 674 ratings
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The Plantagenet Prelude (Plantagenet Saga, #1)
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3.88 avg rating — 1,890 ratings
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The Revolt of the Eaglets (Plantagenet Saga, #2)
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3.95 avg rating — 1,081 ratings
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The Heart of the Lion (Plantagenet Saga, #3)
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3.90 avg rating — 1,013 ratings
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The Greatest Knight (William Marshal, #2)
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4.14 avg rating — 10,038 ratings
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The Sun in Splendour (Plantagenet Saga, #14)
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4.06 avg rating — 766 ratings
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The Name of the Rose
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4.14 avg rating — 406,462 ratings
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Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina (Claudius, #2)
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4.19 avg rating — 17,287 ratings
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The Sealed Letter
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3.37 avg rating — 6,920 ratings
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Lust for Life
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4.28 avg rating — 32,545 ratings
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Slammerkin: Mary Saunders trades rags for a red ribbon and sells her body in Hogarth's London―a gripping tale of freedom, silk, and survival
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3.76 avg rating — 17,590 ratings
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Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 25,412 ratings
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Falls the Shadow (Welsh Princes, #2)
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4.40 avg rating — 10,995 ratings
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The Reckoning (Welsh Princes, #3)
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4.45 avg rating — 9,922 ratings
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The Reluctant Queen: The Story of Anne of York (Queens of England, #8)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,594 ratings
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Traces of My Love: The Secrets of Heart
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4.97 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth
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3.78 avg rating — 4,681 ratings
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Alexander. Roman der Utopie.
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3.54 avg rating — 163 ratings
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The Princes in the Tower
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3.87 avg rating — 7,844 ratings
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Doc
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17,852 ratings
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The Forever Queen (Saxon #2)
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3.74 avg rating — 4,118 ratings
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Lady Macbeth
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3.80 avg rating — 2,724 ratings
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Alice I Have Been
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3.65 avg rating — 15,535 ratings
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Romancing Miss Brontë
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3.86 avg rating — 2,083 ratings
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Fools and Mortals
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3.79 avg rating — 7,564 ratings
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Memoirs of Hadrian
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4.21 avg rating — 38,317 ratings
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Gone with the Windsors
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3.80 avg rating — 994 ratings
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Beware, Princess Elizabeth (Young Royals, #2)
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3.90 avg rating — 5,388 ratings
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The Executioner's Song
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4.05 avg rating — 24,302 ratings
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The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great, #2)
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4.18 avg rating — 11,721 ratings
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Mary, Bloody Mary (Young Royals, #1)
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3.82 avg rating — 8,172 ratings
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City of Darkness, City of Light
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3.95 avg rating — 1,360 ratings
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The Borgias
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3.89 avg rating — 1,121 ratings
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The Sixth Wife (Tudor Saga, #7)
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3.94 avg rating — 2,973 ratings
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Girl in a Blue Dress
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3.57 avg rating — 2,556 ratings
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The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers
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4.26 avg rating — 29,117 ratings
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The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar
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3.92 avg rating — 16,120 ratings
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The King's Confidante (Tudor Saga, #6)
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3.96 avg rating — 996 ratings
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A Place of Greater Safety
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4.01 avg rating — 12,685 ratings
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Queen of This Realm (Queens of England, #2)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,924 ratings
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The Accidental Empress (Sisi, #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 23,251 ratings
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The Royal Road to Fotheringhay (Stuart Saga, #1; Mary Stuart, #1)
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3.78 avg rating — 1,936 ratings
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Remarkable Creatures
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3.90 avg rating — 57,249 ratings
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The Captive Queen of Scots (Stuart Saga, #2; Mary Stuart, #2)
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3.89 avg rating — 1,210 ratings
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When We Were Gods: A Novel of Cleopatra
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4.08 avg rating — 5,025 ratings
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The Other Windsor Girl: A Novel of Princess Margaret, Royal Rebel
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3.64 avg rating — 5,940 ratings
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Jew Süss
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4.29 avg rating — 731 ratings
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The Queen's Secret
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3.47 avg rating — 8,909 ratings
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Joan of Arc
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4.13 avg rating — 10,622 ratings
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Isabella and Ferdinand 1-3 (Isabella and Ferdinand #1-3)
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4.12 avg rating — 100 ratings
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And They Called It Camelot: A Novel of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
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4.18 avg rating — 6,034 ratings
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Blonde
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3.92 avg rating — 17,813 ratings
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Catherine de Medici 1-3: Madame Serpent/The Italian Woman/Queen Jezebel
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4.30 avg rating — 129 ratings
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In a Dark Wood Wandering: A Novel of the Middle Ages
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4.10 avg rating — 2,792 ratings
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Arthur & George
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3.73 avg rating — 19,258 ratings
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Rasputin's Daughter
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3.48 avg rating — 3,867 ratings
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
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4.45 avg rating — 166,390 ratings
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And just like that I've a dozen more additions to the list with every article I come across. I gotta go on a vacation to keep up the pace now haha. Although I'm amazed Joseph Woodward didn't make the list, he's an award winning author and rightly deserved I must say. You gotta check out his biographical fiction stories.
You could add them; these lists are (mostly) crowd-sourced by the people who vote on them. (It's easy to add books to lists; at the top of the list, at the tab next to "all votes.")
