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Gone with the Wind
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The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)
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Philippa Gregory (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 510,876 ratings
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Billy Gogan Gone fer Soldier
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Roger Higgins (Goodreads Author)
4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Kingmaker's Daughter (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #4; Cousins War, #4)
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Philippa Gregory (Goodreads Author)
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When We Were Gods: A Novel of Cleopatra
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Colin Falconer (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 4,602 ratings
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The Memoirs of Cleopatra
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Margaret George (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 21,416 ratings
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The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers
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Margaret George (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 28,781 ratings
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The Sultan's Harem
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Colin Falconer (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 6,795 ratings
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The Accidental Empress (Sisi, #1)
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Allison Pataki (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 21,794 ratings
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The Midnight Watch
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David Dyer (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 4,562 ratings
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Mademoiselle Chanel
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C.W. Gortner (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 12,585 ratings
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Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession (Six Tudor Queens #2)
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Regeneration (Regeneration, #1)
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OSS: Dirty Tricks
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Gunner's Run
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Rick Barry (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Atlantis: On the Shores of Forever (Atlantis: The Antediluvian Chronicles, #1)
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Jennifer McKeithen (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 72 ratings
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The Mauricewood Devils
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4.03 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The 7th Wife of Henry the 8th (Royal Sagas #1)
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Betty Younis (Goodreads Author)
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Billy Gogan, American
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Roger Higgins (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Tsarina
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Ellen Alpsten (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 6,363 ratings
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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4.10 avg rating — 1,465,455 ratings
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Lucretia
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David Krae (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Red Rider
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Randall Allen Dunn (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 125 ratings
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The Other Elizabeth (Royal Sagas #2)
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Betty Younis (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 330 ratings
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Torso
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3.88 avg rating — 2,229 ratings
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Feathered Serpent: A Novel of the Mexican Conquest
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Colin Falconer (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 2,610 ratings
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Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
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Michelle Moran (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 22,366 ratings
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High Adventure: The Solomon Ring of Kilimanjaro
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Randall Allen Dunn (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Jonestown: A Novel
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Ryan Roy (Goodreads Author)
2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Tudor Rose
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3.84 avg rating — 3,333 ratings
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Catch-22
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3.99 avg rating — 879,495 ratings
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The Trees
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4.02 avg rating — 4,301 ratings
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The Unfaithful Queen: A Novel of Henry VIII's Fifth Wife
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3.41 avg rating — 1,314 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 800,962 ratings
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Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey
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3.98 avg rating — 34,841 ratings
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The Queen of Subtleties: A Novel of Anne Boleyn
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3.33 avg rating — 2,201 ratings
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Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912
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Adora
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4.06 avg rating — 1,987 ratings
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The House of Special Purpose
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John Boyne (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 16,220 ratings
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The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar
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Robert Alexander (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 15,755 ratings
score: 92,
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The Life of Objects
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3.35 avg rating — 1,321 ratings
score: 91,
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Remarkable Creatures
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Tracy Chevalier (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 55,059 ratings
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Pope Joan
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Donna Woolfolk Cross (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 74,281 ratings
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Temple of a Thousand Faces
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John Shors (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 1,439 ratings
score: 89,
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The Queen's Promise
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3.70 avg rating — 415 ratings
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Empress
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3.70 avg rating — 6,419 ratings
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At the Mercy of the Queen
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3.91 avg rating — 2,573 ratings
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The Kadin (Kadin, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 3,413 ratings
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In the Shadow of Lady Jane
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3.84 avg rating — 237 ratings
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The Blood Countess
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3.49 avg rating — 1,919 ratings
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The Countess
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Rebecca Johns (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 2,568 ratings
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Mademoiselle Boleyn
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Robin Maxwell (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 6,111 ratings
score: 84,
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Above All Things
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Tanis Rideout (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 3,921 ratings
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Fever
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Mary Beth Keane (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 16,189 ratings
score: 82,
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The Romanov Bride
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Robert Alexander (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 2,529 ratings
score: 81,
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Rasputin's Daughter
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Robert Alexander (Goodreads Author)
3.48 avg rating — 3,810 ratings
score: 80,
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The Tsarina's Daughter
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3.39 avg rating — 2,630 ratings
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The Mistress of Nothing
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Kate Pullinger (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 4,219 ratings
score: 78,
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The Summer Day is Done
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3.96 avg rating — 171 ratings
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The Girl Who Came Home
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Hazel Gaynor (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 25,473 ratings
score: 76,
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Seasons Of War
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4.45 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Bell of the Desert: A Novel
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4.01 avg rating — 345 ratings
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The Master's Tale, A Titanic Ghost Story
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Ann Victoria Roberts (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 41 ratings
score: 71,
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Endurance
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3.97 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Three Maids for a Crown
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Ella March Chase (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 2,852 ratings
score: 67,
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Flight of Dreams
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Ariel Lawhon (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 9,855 ratings
score: 66,
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The Spy
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3.38 avg rating — 44,178 ratings
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Seven Days in May
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Kim Izzo (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 1,805 ratings
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The Last Tudor (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #14)
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Philippa Gregory (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 25,324 ratings
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I Was Anastasia
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Ariel Lawhon (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 35,369 ratings
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The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna
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C.W. Gortner (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 8,930 ratings
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The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
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Hazel Gaynor (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 19,542 ratings
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The Kennedy Debutante
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Kerri Maher (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 7,376 ratings
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Meet Me in Monaco
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Hazel Gaynor (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 11,948 ratings
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Katheryn Howard: The Scandalous Queen (Six Tudor Queens, #5)
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4.10 avg rating — 7,046 ratings
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And They Called It Camelot: A Novel of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
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Stephanie Marie Thornton (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 5,698 ratings
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The Girl in White Gloves
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Kerri Maher (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 2,887 ratings
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Sisi: Empress on Her Own
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Allison Pataki (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11,631 ratings
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The Queen's Secret
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3.46 avg rating — 8,356 ratings
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That Churchill Woman
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The Queen of Paris: A Novel of Coco Chanel
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Pamela Binnings Ewen (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 6,065 ratings
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Lady Clementine
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Marie Benedict (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 32,941 ratings
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A Most English Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria's Daughter
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Clare McHugh (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 2,266 ratings
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The Traitor
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4.09 avg rating — 2,332 ratings
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The Second Mrs. Astor
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Shana Abe (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 70,996 ratings
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The Personal Librarian
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Marie Benedict (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 219,338 ratings
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The Last Grand Duchess
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Bryn Turnbull (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 3,240 ratings
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A Brilliant Night of Stars and Ice
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Rebecca Connolly (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 5,117 ratings
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The Blue Butterfly: A Novel of Marion Davies
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Leslie Johansen Nack (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 1,069 ratings
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The Mitford Affair
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Marie Benedict (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 18,109 ratings
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The Good Servant
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4.27 avg rating — 1,704 ratings
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Such Good Friends: A Novel of Truman Capote & Lee Radziwill
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Stephen Greco (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 1,262 ratings
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A Beautiful Rival
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Gill Paul (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 4,209 ratings
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Diva
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Daisy Goodwin (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 6,955 ratings
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How to Vote
To vote on existing books from the list, beside each book there is a link vote for this book clicking it will add that book to your votes.
To vote on books not in the list or books you couldn't find in the list, you can click on the tab add books to this list and then choose from your books, or simply search.
