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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
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Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
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I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
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The Sunne in Splendour
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Conceit
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
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Katherine
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Muse
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
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Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles
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The Other Boleyn Girl
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The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
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Time and Chance (Plantagenets #2; Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine #2)
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Burr
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Devil's Brood (Plantagenets #3; Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine, #3)
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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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Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
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3.95 avg rating — 21,197 ratings
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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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Queen Margot (The Last Valois, #1)
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Ragtime
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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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4.05 avg rating — 3,166 ratings
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The Lady in the Tower (Queens of England #4)
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3.97 avg rating — 4,475 ratings
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Burial Rites
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4.02 avg rating — 101,851 ratings
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Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great, #1)
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Hammer of the Scots (Plantagenet Saga, #7)
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3.90 avg rating — 582 ratings
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The Plantagenet Prelude (Plantagenet Saga, #1)
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3.87 avg rating — 1,579 ratings
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The Revolt of the Eaglets (Plantagenet Saga, #2)
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3.94 avg rating — 939 ratings
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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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4.12 avg rating — 8,749 ratings
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The Sun in Splendour (Plantagenet Saga, #14)
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Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina (Claudius, #2)
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Blonde
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Lincoln
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Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)
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Falls the Shadow (Welsh Princes, #2)
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True History of the Kelly Gang
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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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Alexander
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Fever
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The Forever Queen (Saxon #2)
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Lady Macbeth
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Alice I Have Been
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Gone with the Windsors
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Beware, Princess Elizabeth (Young Royals, #2)
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The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great, #2)
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Mary, Bloody Mary (Young Royals, #1)
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City of Darkness, City of Light
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The Borgias
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The Sixth Wife (Tudor Saga, #7)
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The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers
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The Sealed Letter
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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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Queen of This Realm (Queens of England, #2)
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The Accidental Empress (Sisi, #1)
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The Royal Road to Fotheringhay (Stuart Saga, #1; Mary Stuart, #1)
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The Captive Queen of Scots (Stuart Saga, #2; Mary Stuart, #2)
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Slammerkin
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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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Jew Süss
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The Queen's Secret: A Novel of England's World War II Queen
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Joan of Arc
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Isabella and Ferdinand 1-3 (Isabella and Ferdinand #1-3)
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And They Called It Camelot: A Novel of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
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Catherine de Medici 1-3: Madame Serpent/The Italian Woman/Queen Jezebel
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In a Dark Wood Wandering: A Novel of the Middle Ages
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Rasputin's Daughter
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
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The Birthday Boys
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The Volcano Lover
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Confederates
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Naguib Mahfouz: Three Novels of Ancient Egypt
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Lucretia
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Peter: The Untold True Story
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Little Woman in Blue
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The Magic of Youth: The Mystique of Howard Chandler Christy (An Affair with Beauty, #1)
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Duchessina: A Novel of Catherine de' Medici (Young Royals, #5)
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I, Cleopatra
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Freedom: A Novel of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War
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The Serpent and the Moon: Two Rivals for the Love of a Renaissance King
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Dragon Lady
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Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth
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The Bad Queen: Rules and Instructions for Marie-Antoinette (Young Royals, #6)
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Heren van de thee
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Graffiti Stories
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Panther in the Sky: A Novel Based on the Life of Tecumseh
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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.")
