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Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)
by (shelved 21 times as queens)
avg rating 4.43 — 120,291 ratings — published 2008
The White Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #2)
by (shelved 21 times as queens)
avg rating 3.96 — 185,592 ratings — published 2009
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as queens)
avg rating 3.74 — 126,083 ratings — published 2010
Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as queens)
avg rating 3.78 — 120,051 ratings — published 2016
The Life of Elizabeth I (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as queens)
avg rating 4.03 — 33,057 ratings — published 1998
The Last Queen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as queens)
avg rating 4.07 — 12,145 ratings — published 2006
Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as queens)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,800,161 ratings — published 2014
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as queens)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,862 ratings — published 2010
Queens of the Conquest (England’s Medieval Queens, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as queens)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,295 ratings — published 2017
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as queens)
avg rating 3.98 — 14,617 ratings — published 2009
Nefertiti (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as queens)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,939 ratings — published 2007
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life (World Leaders Past & Present)
by (shelved 10 times as queens)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,961 ratings — published 1999
Marie Antoinette: The Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as queens)
avg rating 3.94 — 39,088 ratings — published 2001
The Boleyn Inheritance (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #10)
by (shelved 10 times as queens)
avg rating 3.92 — 96,800 ratings — published 2006
Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass, #4)
by (shelved 9 times as queens)
avg rating 4.62 — 1,630,011 ratings — published 2015
Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as queens)
avg rating 3.77 — 7,990 ratings — published 2005
The Constant Princess (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #6)
by (shelved 9 times as queens)
avg rating 3.93 — 168,763 ratings — published 2005
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as queens)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,828,642 ratings — published 1996
Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass, #5)
by (shelved 8 times as queens)
avg rating 4.63 — 1,432,465 ratings — published 2016
Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4)
by (shelved 8 times as queens)
avg rating 4.41 — 321,841 ratings — published 2015
Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as queens)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,228,246 ratings — published 2015
The Queen's Vow: A Novel of Isabella of Castile (ebook)
by (shelved 8 times as queens)
avg rating 3.91 — 9,562 ratings — published 2012
Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as queens)
avg rating 3.83 — 5,294 ratings — published 2013
The White Princess (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #5)
by (shelved 8 times as queens)
avg rating 3.95 — 50,396 ratings — published 2013
The Kingmaker's Daughter (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #4)
by (shelved 8 times as queens)
avg rating 4.00 — 51,910 ratings — published 2012
The Other Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #16)
by (shelved 8 times as queens)
avg rating 3.71 — 50,446 ratings — published 2008
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as queens)
avg rating 3.99 — 11,257 ratings — published 2010
Captive Queen: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as queens)
avg rating 3.79 — 10,517 ratings — published 2010
Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as queens)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,716 ratings — published 2007
The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as queens)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,491 ratings — published 2022
The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as queens)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,054,721 ratings — published 2019
Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass, #7)
by (shelved 7 times as queens)
avg rating 4.71 — 1,280,110 ratings — published 2018
The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as queens)
avg rating 3.98 — 99,930 ratings — published 2014
Rebel Queen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as queens)
avg rating 4.05 — 12,148 ratings — published 2015
The Heretic Queen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as queens)
avg rating 4.21 — 27,244 ratings — published 2008
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as queens)
avg rating 3.95 — 109,542 ratings — published 2011
Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as queens)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,328 ratings — published 2009
The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)
by (shelved 7 times as queens)
avg rating 4.09 — 519,922 ratings — published 2001
The Queen's Fool (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #13)
by (shelved 7 times as queens)
avg rating 3.89 — 101,868 ratings — published 2003
Mary Queen of Scots (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as queens)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,721 ratings — published 1969
The Devil's Queen: A Novel of Catherine de Medici (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as queens)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,585 ratings — published 2009
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as queens)
avg rating 3.75 — 10,663 ratings — published 2006
The Memoirs of Cleopatra (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as queens)
avg rating 4.20 — 21,879 ratings — published 1997
Queens of the Crusades (England's Medieval Queens, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as queens)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,975 ratings — published 2021
The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as queens)
avg rating 4.16 — 303,978 ratings — published 2019
The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as queens)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,169,973 ratings — published 2019
One Dark Throne (Three Dark Crowns, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as queens)
avg rating 4.02 — 65,355 ratings — published 2017
A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as queens)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,987,177 ratings — published 2017
Three Sisters, Three Queens (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #8)
by (shelved 6 times as queens)
avg rating 3.82 — 35,599 ratings — published 2016
Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as queens)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,020,117 ratings — published 2013
“ In the privacy of my dreams, I'm a warrior.”
― The Essence
― The Essence
“(Response to King Erik XIV of Sweden's proposal of marriage:)
"[W]hile we perceive ... the zeal and love of your mind towards us is not diminished, yet in part we are grieved that we cannot gratify your Serene Highness with the same kind of affection. And that indeed does not happen because we doubt in any way of your love and honour, but, as often we have testified both in words and writing, that we have never yet conceived a feeling of that kind of affection towards anyone.
We therefore beg your Serene Highness again and again that you be pleased to set a limit to your love, that it advance not beyond the laws of friendship for the present nor disregard them in the future. ...
We certainly think that if God ever direct our hearts to consideration of marriage we shall never accept or choose any absent husband how powerful and wealthy a Prince soever. But that we are not to give you an answer until we have seen your person is so far from the thing itself that we never even considered such a thing. I have always given both to your brother ... and also to your ambassador likewise the same answer with scarcely any variation of the words, that we do not conceive in our heart to take a husband but highly commend this single life, and hope that your Serene Highness will no longer spend time in waiting for us.”
― Collected Works
"[W]hile we perceive ... the zeal and love of your mind towards us is not diminished, yet in part we are grieved that we cannot gratify your Serene Highness with the same kind of affection. And that indeed does not happen because we doubt in any way of your love and honour, but, as often we have testified both in words and writing, that we have never yet conceived a feeling of that kind of affection towards anyone.
We therefore beg your Serene Highness again and again that you be pleased to set a limit to your love, that it advance not beyond the laws of friendship for the present nor disregard them in the future. ...
We certainly think that if God ever direct our hearts to consideration of marriage we shall never accept or choose any absent husband how powerful and wealthy a Prince soever. But that we are not to give you an answer until we have seen your person is so far from the thing itself that we never even considered such a thing. I have always given both to your brother ... and also to your ambassador likewise the same answer with scarcely any variation of the words, that we do not conceive in our heart to take a husband but highly commend this single life, and hope that your Serene Highness will no longer spend time in waiting for us.”
― Collected Works
