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European Royalty Nominations
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Mar 15 - May 15: Nominating
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My nomination: Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy by Douglas Smith
This book is available on Amazon.
Another option is Courtesan by Diane Haeger. The story of Henri II of France and Diane de Poitiers
Robin wrote: "Shadow on the Crown by Patricia Bracewell"
This sounds really good.
This sounds really good.
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***ANY EUROPEAN COUNTRY, ANY TIME PERIOD, FICTION ONLY***
It may seem like we just did this (we did), but this thread is actually posted on time!
Okay everyone, it's that time of the month - time to nominate! Anyone who would like to nominate one book may do so in this thread.
The theme this month is YOUR CHOICE - EUROPEAN ROYALTY FICTION (any European country, any time period, fiction only). Keeping the theme broad seems to be working fairly well (there has been a decent variety of books selected over the past few months). We've had a lot of non-fiction though, so I thought we'd focus on fiction for the next group read.
Since this group has read SO MANY books together, I'm only going to exclude the last two years of books that this group has read from being nominated (so books we read together more than two years ago are now okay). A list of every book this group has read together in the last two years is at the end of this post (alphabetically by author, then by title if we've read more than one book by that author), so please try not to nominate a book from this list.
Please try to check amazon or some other site to make sure the book is easily available - the last thing we want is to nominate some great book that no one can get! If you nominate more than one book, only the first book listed will make it into the voting poll (so save additional books for the next months!). Also, if the book doesn't fit the theme, I won't add it to this month's voting poll, but I will carry it over to the next theme that it does fit under if you would like.
Feel free to nominate one book of your choice in this thread until I close the thread (scheduled to close January 7th, 9pm Eastern).
At around that time, I'll make a voting poll and list all the nominated books in it, and people can vote in the poll until the poll closes (set to last through January 11th). Discussion will start on March 15th.
Happy Nominating!
BOOKS WE HAVE READ AS A GROUP IN THE LAST TWO YEARS (PLEASE DON'T NOMINATE):
For the King’s Favor (aka The Time of Singing) by Elizabeth Chadwick
Three Maids for a Crown: A Novel of the Grey Sisters by Ella March Chase
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
To Be Queen: A Novel of the Early Life of Eleanor of Aquitaine by Christy English
From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women, 1847-1928 by Julia P. Gelardi
The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily by Nancy Goldstone
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici by C.W. Gortner
Gone with the Windsors by Laurie Graham
The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics by Eleanor Herman
The Queen of Last Hopes: The Story of Margaret of Anjou by Susan Higginbotham
The Forever Queen by Helen Hollick
The Borgia Bride by Jeanne Kalogridis
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert Massie
Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert Massie
Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution by Michelle Moran
Lionheart by Sharon Kay Penman
When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman
The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg by Helen Rappaport
Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch by Sally Bedell Smith
The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great by Eva Stachniak
Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings by Alison Weir
The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir