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post #1 of 11
4/29/12 at 10:40am
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I'm in the mood to read some historical fiction.  Books I've enjoyed in this genre:

 

Memoirs of a Geisha

The Other Boleyn Girl

Girl with the Pearl Earring

Bonesetter's Daughter

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Year of Wonders

 

Any others you can recommend?

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post #2 of 11
4/29/12 at 11:34am
Anything by Matthew Pearl.
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post #3 of 11
4/29/12 at 12:07pm
If you liked the Other Boleyn Girl, there is a whole series by that author with the other queens highlighted in a book each. They're very interesting too!
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post #4 of 11
4/29/12 at 4:12pm

 

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If you liked the Other Boleyn Girl, there is a whole series by that author with the other queens highlighted in a book each. They're very interesting too!

 

Phillipa Gregory, she is my favorite author! I love all her books! I might have messed up the spelling of her first name.

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post #5 of 11
4/29/12 at 4:15pm
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Phillipa Gregory, she is my favorite author! I love all her books! I might have messed up the spelling of her first name.

 

Do you have a favorite title?  

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post #6 of 11
4/29/12 at 4:35pm
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Phillipa Gregory, she is my favorite author! I love all her books! I might have messed up the spelling of her first name.

It's Philippa Gregory.

Kim, the Other Boleyn Girl is in her Tudor series. They were not necessarily written in order nor do they have to be read in order, but here is how Gregory puts them in order:

On her website, Philippa Gregory says she does not write her Tudor series books in order. Read chronologically:

The Constant Princess (Katherine of Aragon)
The Other Boleyn Girl (Mary and Anne Boleyn)
The Wise Woman (A young girl forced out of her nunnery and into the real world during the reformation during Anne Boleyn's time of being queen)
The Boleyn Inheritance (Jane Boleyn, Anne of Cleves and Katherine Howard)
The Queen's Fool (A young Jewish girl's story of her service in the court of Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I)
The Virgin’s Lover (Elizabeth I, Robert Dudley and Amy Robsart)
The Other Queen (Mary, Queen of Scots, George Talbot and Bess of Hardwick)


The Constant Princess is about Katherine that Henry was married to before he dumped her for Anne (& then a slew of others LOL). It's good but hard to get into at the beginning I thought. She also wrote a series before the Tudor series called the Wideacre series and the first book is also called Wideacre. They're pretty good too and are just fiction set in 17th or 18th century but purely fictional I believe and not based on real people as the Tudor series is. I think the Wideacre might be a bit easier to read too. The Tudor books took me foreverm but I'm a slow reader.
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post #7 of 11
4/29/12 at 6:01pm

 

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Do you have a favorite title?  

 

You already read my favorite, but the whole Tudor series is great. I love reading about that time in history. 

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post #8 of 11
5/2/12 at 8:55am

I read Surrender the Heart by MaryLu Tyndall Takes place in 1812. 

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post #9 of 11
5/2/12 at 2:40pm

Have you read "A Tainted Dawn" by BN Peacock? It's one of my absolute favorites. It's set in 1789 Europe, when England and Spain are on the cusp of war. I don't know that much about the era, so it's really interesting! Great characters and storyline, too.

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post #10 of 11
5/2/12 at 2:57pm
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The Constant Princess is about Katherine that Henry was married to before he dumped her for Anne (& then a slew of others LOL). It's good but hard to get into at the beginning I thought. She also wrote a series before the Tudor series called the Wideacre series and the first book is also called Wideacre. They're pretty good too and are just fiction set in 17th or 18th century but purely fictional I believe and not based on real people as the Tudor series is. I think the Wideacre might be a bit easier to read too. The Tudor books took me foreverm but I'm a slow reader.

 

I just picked up this one at the library. 

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