Books like Rebel Queen
12 books with a reading profile close to Rebel Queen by Michelle Moran. Practical, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
by Legs McNeil
Also clear-cut · history, entertainment
This book documents the rise and eventual dissolution of the American punk rock movement from the late 1960s through the 1980s.
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Small Sacrifices
by Ann Rule
Also clear-cut · history, entertainment
Ann Rule chronicles the 1983 shooting of the three children of Diane Downs on a rural Oregon road.
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300
by Frank Miller
Also clear-cut and escapist · history, entertainment
In 480 B.C., King Leonidas leads three hundred Spartan warriors to the narrow coastal pass of Thermopylae to block the invading Persian army commanded by the self-proclaimed god-king Xerxes.
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Paris
Also clear-cut · history, entertainment
Edward Rutherfurd’s narrative follows several families—the aristocratic de Cygnes, the rebellious Le Sourds, and the Jewish Rochens—across centuries of French history.
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Gates of Fire
Also clear-cut · history, entertainment
Steven Pressfield’s historical novel reconstructs the Battle of Thermopylae through the eyes of Xeones, a squire and the sole survivor of the Spartan defense.
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A Place Called Freedom
by Ken Follett
Also practical and clear-cut · history, entertainment
In 1767, Mack McAsh is a young coal miner in a Scottish mining community where workers are legally bound to their employer for life.
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Cleopatra's Daughter
Also practical and clear-cut · history, entertainment
Following the suicide of Cleopatra VII and Mark Antony, their daughter Selene and her surviving brothers are taken from Egypt to Rome as captives.
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The American Heiress
Also practical and clear-cut · history, entertainment
Set in the 1890s, the story follows Cora Cash, a wealthy American socialite whose mother orchestrates a marriage into the British aristocracy to secure a title.
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The Diamond Eye
by Kate Quinn
Also clear-cut and escapist · history, entertainment
In 1937 Kiev, Lyudmila Pavlichenko is a quiet history student and single mother who finds her life upended by the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
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Belgravia
Also practical and clear-cut · history, entertainment
On the eve of the Battle of Waterloo, the Trenchard family attends a legendary ball hosted by the Duchess of Richmond.
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Captain Alatriste
Also practical and clear-cut · history, entertainment
In seventeenth-century Madrid, Diego Alatriste lives as a sword for hire, sustaining himself on dangerous commissions while recovering from war wounds.
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Nefertiti
Also clear-cut and escapist · history, entertainment
The story follows Nefertiti and her younger sister, Mutnodjmet, as they navigate the dangerous court of the Eighteenth Dynasty.
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