Books like Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings
12 books with a reading profile close to Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings by Alison Weir. Clear-cut; a moderate read.
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Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
by Bill Dedman
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Huguette Clark was the daughter of copper magnate W.A.
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Also clear-cut · history, biography
In 1879, James Murray began the monumental task of compiling the first Oxford English Dictionary, a project requiring the categorization of every word in the language alongside its chronological history.
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Seabiscuit
Also clear-cut · history, biography
In the depths of the Great Depression, an undersized, crooked-legged horse named Seabiscuit became an unlikely racing icon.
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The Wright Brothers
Also clear-cut · history, biography
David McCullough recounts the lives of Wilbur and Orville Wright, focusing on the five-year period between 1903 and 1908.
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Alexander the Great
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Philip Freeman traces the trajectory of the Macedonian king from his tutelage under Aristotle to his sudden death at age thirty-two.
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A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Also clear-cut · history, biography
In 1973, Maurice and Maralyn Bailey departed England on a small yacht, seeking an alternative to the stagnant routines of suburban life.
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Refugee
by Alan Gratz
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Three children, in three different decades, are forced to flee their homes.
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The Personal Librarian
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In the early twentieth century, Belle da Costa Greene serves as the personal librarian to financier J.P.
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The Briar Club
by Kate Quinn
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1950s Washington, D.C., Grace March moves into Briarwood House, a female-only boarding establishment during the height of the Red Scare.
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The First Ladies
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
This historical novel centers on the real-world partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune.
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Following a stinging electoral defeat in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt headed into the Amazon basin to map an unchartered tributary alongside Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon.
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder
history, biography
Tracy Kidder follows the life and medical philosophy of Dr.
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