Tudor non-fiction
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The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty
by:
G.J. Meyer
4.02 avg rating — 9,084 ratings 
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Catherine of Aragon: The Spanish Queen of Henry VIII
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Giles Tremlett
4.13 avg rating — 4,394 ratings 
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Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford
by:
Julia Fox
3.72 avg rating — 4,235 ratings 11. 
Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England
by:
Thomas Penn
3.83 avg rating — 4,168 ratings 
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Elizabeth & Leicester: Power, Passion, Politics
by:
Sarah Gristwood
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,944 ratings 15. 
The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen
by:
Susan Bordo
3.86 avg rating — 3,033 ratings 16. 
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Elizabeth's Women: Friends, Rivals, and Foes Who Shaped the Virgin Queen
by:
Tracy Borman
4.03 avg rating — 2,774 ratings 
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The Sisters of Henry VIII: The Tumultuous Lives of Margaret of Scotland and Mary of France
by:
Maria Perry
3.92 avg rating — 2,693 ratings 20. 
Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII
by:
Karen Lindsey
4.07 avg rating — 1,399 ratings 
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Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
by:
Liza Picard
3.97 avg rating — 1,037 ratings 
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Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr
by:
Linda Porter
4.03 avg rating — 1,610 ratings 32. 
The Six Wives and Many Mistresses of Henry VIII: the Women's Stories
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Amy Licence
4.06 avg rating — 346 ratings 
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Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage 3.85 avg rating — 1,296 ratings
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Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII
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Gareth Russell
4.15 avg rating — 2,238 ratings 37. 
The Burning Time: Henry VIII, Bloody Mary, and the Protestant Martyrs of London 3.69 avg rating — 112 ratings
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The Elizabethan World Picture: A Study of the Idea of Order in the Age of Shakespeare, Donne and Milton
by:
E.M.W. Tillyard
3.81 avg rating — 825 ratings 39. 
The Lost Tudor Princess: The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas
by:
Alison Weir
3.69 avg rating — 2,642 ratings 40. 
Daughters of the Winter Queen: Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
by:
Nancy Goldstone
4.08 avg rating — 2,446 ratings 41. 
Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant
by:
Tracy Borman
4.20 avg rating — 2,581 ratings 42. 
The Anne Boleyn Collection: The Real Truth about the Tudors
by:
Claire Ridgway
3.85 avg rating — 1,339 ratings 
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The Divorce of Henry VIII: The Untold Story from Inside the Vatican 3.78 avg rating — 224 ratings
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Death and the Virgin: Elizabeth, Dudley and the Mysterious Fate of Amy Robsart
by:
Chris Skidmore
3.60 avg rating — 499 ratings 
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Sallets, Humbles & Shrewsbery Cakes: A Collection of Elizabethan Recipes Adapted for the Modern Kitchen
by:
Ruth Anne Beebe
3.96 avg rating — 25 ratings 50. 
Two Queens in One Isle: The Deadly Relationship of Elizabeth I & Mary Queen of Scots
by:
Alison Plowden
3.81 avg rating — 183 ratings 51. 
Sexuality and Its Impact on History: The British Stripped Bare
by:
Hunter S. Jones
4.16 avg rating — 87 ratings 52. 
The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam
by:
Jerry Brotton
3.81 avg rating — 612 ratings 53. 
The Queen's Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Advisor to Queen Elizabeth I
by:
Benjamin Woolley
3.83 avg rating — 812 ratings 54. 
So Great a Prince: The Accession of Henry VIII - 1509
by:
Lauren Johnson
3.85 avg rating — 114 ratings 55. 
The Other Tudors: Henry VIII's Mistresses and Bastards
by:
Philippa Jones
3.73 avg rating — 2,761 ratings 56. 
Henry VIII's Last Love: The Extraordinary Life of Katherine Willoughby, Lady-in-Waiting to the Tudors
by:
David Baldwin
3.50 avg rating — 113 ratings 57. 
Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America
by:
Giles Milton
4.03 avg rating — 1,039 ratings 58. 
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The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain’s Greatest Dynasty
by:
Tracy Borman
4.20 avg rating — 3,570 ratings 60. 
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The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
by:
Dan Jones
4.26 avg rating — 14,102 ratings 
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Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors (The History of England, #1)
by:
Peter Ackroyd
4.05 avg rating — 5,425 ratings 
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Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle that Gave Birth to the Globe
by:
Chris Laoutaris
3.34 avg rating — 83 ratings 65. 
Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe
by:
John Guy
4.11 avg rating — 1,728 ratings 
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Artists of the Tudor Court: the Portrait Miniature Rediscovered 1520 - 1620
by:
Roy Strong
3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings 68. 
Splendor at Court: Renaissance Spectacle and the Theater of Power
by:
Roy Strong
3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings 68. 
The Rise of Thomas Cromwell: Power and Politics in the Reign of Henry VIII, 1485-1534
by:
Michael Everett
3.56 avg rating — 32 ratings 68. 
The Life and Career of William Paulet (c.1475-1572): Lord Treasurer and First Marquis of Winchester
by:
David Loades
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 68. 
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How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
by:
Ruth Goodman
4.06 avg rating — 4,692 ratings 
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The Privy Purse Expenses Of King Henry The Eighth, From November 1529, To December 1532: With Introductory Remarks And Illustrative Notes (1827) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Queen's Servants: Gentlewomen's Dress at the Accession of Henry VIII
by:
Caroline Johnson
4.58 avg rating — 43 ratings 
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Mary Tudor: The Tragical History of the First Queen of England
by:
David Loades
3.80 avg rating — 60 ratings 
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Heretic Queen: Queen Elizabeth I and the Wars of Religion
by:
Susan Ronald
3.54 avg rating — 495 ratings 82. 
The Cult of Elizabeth: Elizabethan Portraiture and Pageantry
by:
Roy Strong
3.95 avg rating — 38 ratings 
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Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth 3.63 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Bad Queen Bess?: Libels, Secret Histories and the Politics of Publicity in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I
by:
Peter Lake
3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings 95. 
To the Queen's Taste: Elizabethan Feasts and Recipes Adapted for Modern Cooking
by:
Lorna J. Sass
4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings 95. 
The King's Servants: Men's Dress At The Accession Of Henry VIII
by:
Caroline Johnson
4.54 avg rating — 28 ratings 
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The Confident Hope of a Miracle: The True History of the Spanish Armada
by:
Neil Hanson
4.19 avg rating — 207 ratings 100. 
Patterns of Fashion 3: The Cut and Construction of Clothes for Men and Women, C.1560-1620
by:
Janet Arnold
4.59 avg rating — 468 ratings