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I'm never sure if nobility counts as royalty?The Scarlet Contessa
If not, I'll go with The Queen's Dollmaker
Robin wrote: "I'm never sure if nobility counts as royalty?The Scarlet Contessa
If not, I'll go with The Queen's Dollmaker
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Nobility is fine! It's a good way to expand the book choices.
I'll throw this one out there - I'm curious since I've been watching The Borgias on showtime. Sins of the House of Borgia
MichelleCH wrote: "I'd like to nominate Pope Joan - it's been a TBR of mine for a while now.."I heard that Pope Joan is a great book - great idea!
So far I want to read all of the ones nominated! It will be hard to choose when the time comes to vote!
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***ANY TIME PERIOD, FICTION OR NON-FICTION***
Many apologies with the delay on this (getting ready to move) - time to nominate! Anyone who would like to nominate one book may do so in this thread.
The theme this month is CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN ROYALTY (NO ENGLAND!!!) (any time period, fiction or non-fiction). We're flexible! Feel free to nominate books about Italian nobility or Popes or the like as a way to expand beyond traditional "royalty". Just no English monarchs this time around!
A list of every book this group has read together 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 we've already read together (the European Royalty read will revisit past reads every now and then, so if you missed a great book the first time around, we may get to it again sometime).
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 May 20th, 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 May 24th). Discussion will start on June 15th.
Happy Nominating!
BOOKS WE HAVE READ AS A GROUP (PLEASE DON'T NOMINATE):
The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
by Veronica Buckley
The Greatest Knight: The Story of William Marshal by Elizabeth Chadwick
The Scarlet Lion by Elizabeth Chadwick
A Venetian Affair: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in the 18th Century by Andrea Di Robilant
The Glass-Blowers by Daphne du Maurier
The 19th Wife: A Novel by David Ebershoff
Stealing Athena by Karen Essex
A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors by Michael Farquhar
Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser
Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III by Flora Fraser
Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron by Nicholas Fraser
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Mary, Called Magdalene by Margaret George
The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George
We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals by Gillian Gill
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici by C.W. Gortner
The Last Queen: A Novel of Juana la Loca by C.W. Gortner
The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
The White Queen: A Novel by Philippa Gregory
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
Courtesan: A Novel by Diane Haeger
Mistress of the Vatican: The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini: The Secret Female Pope by Eleanor Herman
Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics by Eleanor Herman
The Conqueror by Georgette Heyer
The Traitor’s Wife by Susan Higginbotham
A Hollow Crown: The Story of Emma, Queen of Saxon England by Helen Hollick
The Devil's Queen: A Novel of Catherine de Medici by Jeanne Kalogridis
The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye
Through a Glass Darkly by Karleen Koen
The Concubine: A Novel by Norah Lofts
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert Massie
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Murder of a Medici Princess by Caroline P. Murphy
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
Harriet and Isabella by Patricia O’Brien
Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman
The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman
When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman
The Queen's Secret by Jean Plaidy
Victoria Victorious: The Story of Queen Victoria by Jean Plaidy
Catherine the Great: Love Sex and Power by Virginia Rounding
The Princes of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd
Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd
Avalon: A Novel by Anya Seton
Devil Water by Anya Seton
Katherine by Anya Seton
The Winthrop Woman by Anya Seton
Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey by Alison Weir
The Lady Elizabeth: A Novel by Alison Weir
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn by Alison Weir
Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor
The Rose of York: Love and War by Sandra Worth