Queen Regnant
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Victoria The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
by:
Julia Baird
4.11 avg rating — 11,958 ratings 6. 
The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna
by:
C.W. Gortner
4.29 avg rating — 8,746 ratings 
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Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204
by:
Lynda Garland
3.98 avg rating — 51 ratings 
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The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
by:
Kara Cooney
3.65 avg rating — 7,514 ratings 11. 
Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
by:
Veronica Buckley
3.45 avg rating — 502 ratings 
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Ungrateful Daughters: The Stuart Princesses Who Stole Their Father's Crown
by:
Maureen Waller
3.85 avg rating — 635 ratings 
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Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
by:
Nancy Goldstone
3.89 avg rating — 4,568 ratings 17. 
Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession (Six Tudor Queens #2)
by:
Alison Weir
4.14 avg rating — 12,110 ratings 
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The Creation of Anne Boleyn: In Search of the Tudors' Most Notorious Queen
by:
Susan Bordo
3.86 avg rating — 3,033 ratings 29. 
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The Real Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II
by:
Andrew Marr
3.86 avg rating — 1,538 ratings 36. 
Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII
by:
Gareth Russell
4.15 avg rating — 2,238 ratings 
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Katheryn Howard: The Scandalous Queen (Six Tudor Queens, #5)
by:
Alison Weir
4.10 avg rating — 6,882 ratings 
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Wu: The Chinese Empress Who Schemed, Seduced and Murdered Her Way to Become a Living God 3.79 avg rating — 342 ratings
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The Moon in the Palace (Empress of Bright Moon, #1)
by:
Weina Dai Randel
4.01 avg rating — 7,970 ratings 47. 
The Rani of Jhansi: Gender, History, and Fable in India
by:
Harleen Singh
3.84 avg rating — 32 ratings 
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Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom: The Sultanahs of Aceh, 1641–1699 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Queens Regnant of Navarre: Succession, Politics, and Partnership, 1274-1512
by:
Elena Woodacre
4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings 53. 
Elizabeth and Catherine: Empresses of All the Russias
by:
Robert Coughlan
3.96 avg rating — 95 ratings 
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Daughter of Venice: Caterina Corner, Queen of Cyprus and Woman of the Renaissance 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother and Lady of the English 3.93 avg rating — 135 ratings
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The Warrior Queen: The Life and Legend of Aethelflaed, Daughter of Alfred the Great
by:
Joanna Arman
3.72 avg rating — 208 ratings 
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Crown of Thistles: The Fatal Inheritance of Mary Queen of Scots
by:
Linda Porter
4.12 avg rating — 346 ratings 78. 
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The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily
by:
Nancy Goldstone
3.92 avg rating — 1,815 ratings