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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
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Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
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My Life and Times: The True Story of Helen of Troy, In Her Own Words (The Ancient World Book 4)
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I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
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The Sunne in Splendour
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Katherine
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Conceit
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
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The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
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Burr
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Muse
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The Other Boleyn Girl
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Ragtime
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When Christ and His Saints Slept (Plantagenets #1; Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, #1)
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The Thistle and the Rose (Tudor Saga, #8)
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The Aviator's Wife
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The Rose Without a Thorn (Queens of England, #11)
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Burial Rites
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Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
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Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great, #1)
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The Queen from Provence (Plantagenet Saga, #6)
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Nefertiti
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The Queen's Vow: A Novel of Isabella of Castile
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Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey
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Gods and Generals (The Civil War Trilogy, #1)
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The Boleyn Inheritance
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Lincoln
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True History of the Kelly Gang
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Lionheart (Plantagenets #4; Richard the Lionheart #1)
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The Courts of Love (Queens of England, #5)
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Katharine of Aragon: The Wives of Henry VIII (Tudor Saga, #2-4)
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The Lady in the Tower (Queens of England, #4)
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Fever
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Hild (The Hild Sequence, #1)
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Hammer of the Scots (Plantagenet Saga, #7)
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The Plantagenet Prelude (Plantagenet Saga, #1)
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The Revolt of the Eaglets (Plantagenet Saga, #2)
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The Heart of the Lion (Plantagenet Saga, #3)
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The Greatest Knight (William Marshal, #2)
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The Sun in Splendour (Plantagenet Saga, #14)
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The Sealed Letter
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Lust for Life
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Slammerkin
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Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)
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Falls the Shadow (Welsh Princes, #2)
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The Reckoning (Welsh Princes, #3)
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The Reluctant Queen: The Story of Anne of York (Queens of England, #8)
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Traces of My Love: The Secrets of Heart
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Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth
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Alexander. Roman der Utopie.
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The Forever Queen (Saxon #2)
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Lady Macbeth
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Hamnet
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The Marriage Portrait
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Alice I Have Been
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Fools and Mortals
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Memoirs of Hadrian
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Gone with the Windsors
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Beware, Princess Elizabeth (Young Royals, #2)
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The Executioner's Song
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The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great, #2)
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The Borgias
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Girl in a Blue Dress
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The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers
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The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar
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The King's Confidante (Tudor Saga, #6)
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A Place of Greater Safety
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The Name of the Rose
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The Royal Road to Fotheringhay (Stuart Saga, #1; Mary Stuart, #1)
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Remarkable Creatures
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The Captive Queen of Scots (Stuart Saga, #2; Mary Stuart, #2)
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When We Were Gods: A Novel of Cleopatra
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The Other Windsor Girl: A Novel of Princess Margaret, Royal Rebel
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The Queen's Secret
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Blonde
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Arthur & George
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
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The Winthrop Woman
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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.")
