Historical Mistresses: Books about the "Other Woman"
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Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
by:
Eleanor Herman
3.69 avg rating — 8,259 ratings 2. 
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
by:
Antonia Fraser
3.87 avg rating — 7,980 ratings 
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Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster
by:
Alison Weir
3.86 avg rating — 5,711 ratings 
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The Serpent and the Moon: Two Rivals for the Love of a Renaissance King 3.75 avg rating — 522 ratings
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Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century
by:
Katie Hickman
3.74 avg rating — 1,124 ratings 18. 
The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis
by:
Julie Kavanagh
3.41 avg rating — 369 ratings 19. 
England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton
by:
Kate Williams
3.89 avg rating — 1,048 ratings 20. 
Scarlet Women: The Scandalous Lives of Courtesans, Concubines, and Royal Mistresses
by:
Ian Graham
3.26 avg rating — 323 ratings 21. 
Royal Affairs: A Lusty Romp Through the Extramarital Adventures That Rocked the British Monarchy
by:
Leslie Carroll
3.89 avg rating — 899 ratings 22. 
The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal
by:
Nick Bryant
4.27 avg rating — 794 ratings 23. 
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The Woman Before Wallis: Prince Edward, the Parisian Courtesan, and the Perfect Murder
by:
Andrew Rose
3.15 avg rating — 620 ratings 27. 
A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer
by:
Nina Burleigh
3.55 avg rating — 582 ratings 28. 
The Milesian Mistress. The Autobiography of Aspasia of Miletus
by:
Aspasia
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 29. 
Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II
by:
Linda Porter
3.82 avg rating — 285 ratings 30. 
Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took on Washington
by:
Patricia Miller
4.02 avg rating — 705 ratings 
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Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath
by:
Mimi Alford
3.60 avg rating — 11,556 ratings 
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Mafia Moll: The Judith Exner Story, The Life of the Mistress of John F. Kennedy 3.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Emperor & the Actress: The Love Story of Emperor Franz Josef & Katharina Schratt
by:
Joan Haslip
3.96 avg rating — 26 ratings 
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The Pink Lady: The Many Lives of Helen Gahagan Douglas
by:
Sally Denton
3.62 avg rating — 48 ratings 42. 
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Etiquette for Mistresses...and What Wives Can Learn from Them
by:
Jullie Yap Daza
3.67 avg rating — 267 ratings 
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Gloria and Joe: The Star-Crossed Love Affair of Gloria Swanson and Joe Kennedy
by:
Axel Madsen
3.54 avg rating — 48 ratings 52. 
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Trying Neaira: The True Story Of A Courtesan's Scandalous Life In Ancient Greece
by:
Debra Hamel
3.65 avg rating — 104 ratings 54. 
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 
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Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
by:
Karen Abbott
3.63 avg rating — 13,089 ratings 57. 
Golden Age Ladies: Women Who Shaped the Courts of Francis I and Henry VIII really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 180 ratings
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Mistresses: True Stories of Seduction, Power And Ambition
by:
Leigh Eduardo
3.59 avg rating — 54 ratings 
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A Greater Love: Prince Charles's Twenty-Year Affair With Camilla Parker Bowles 3.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Royal Sex: Mistresses & Lovers of the British Royal Family
by:
Roger Powell
2.39 avg rating — 59 ratings 63. 
Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century
by:
Katie Hickman
3.74 avg rating — 1,124 ratings 
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King's Mistress: The True and Scandalous Story of the Woman Who Stole the Heart of George I
by:
Claudia Gold
3.54 avg rating — 59 ratings 66. 
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In bed with the Sun King: mademoiselles, mistresses and wives of Louis XIV
by:
Aurora Von Goeth
3.68 avg rating — 28 ratings 
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The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power and Intrigue in an English Stately Home 3.69 avg rating — 1,169 ratings
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The Death-bed Confessions of the Late Countess of Guernsey, to Lady Anne Hamilton
by:
Frances Villiers
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 84. 
Women of the Pleasure Quarters: The Secret History of the Geisha
by:
Lesley Downer
3.89 avg rating — 1,535 ratings 
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TRICKY DICK AND THE PINK LADY: Richard Nixon vs. Helen Gahagan Douglas, 1950
by:
Greg Mitchell
3.89 avg rating — 71 ratings 88. 
A Guide to Scandalous Royal Affairs: From Rosamund Clifford to Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
by:
Ray Cole
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 88. 
Sex with Presidents: The Ins and Outs of Love and Lust in the White House
by:
Eleanor Herman
3.79 avg rating — 1,761 ratings 90. 
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The Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward: Sex, Scandal and Deadly Secrets in the Profumo Affair
by:
Anthony Summers
4.05 avg rating — 121 ratings 91. 
The Secret Wife of Louis XIV: Françoise d'Aubigné, Madame de Maintenon
by:
Veronica Buckley
3.84 avg rating — 395 ratings 93. 
Lady Katherine Knollys: The Unacknowledged Daughter of King Henry VIII 3.48 avg rating — 408 ratings
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The Purple Diaries: Mary Astor and the Most Sensational Hollywood Scandal of the 1930s
by:
Joseph Egan
3.77 avg rating — 1,289 ratings 
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Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess
by:
Alison Weir
3.86 avg rating — 5,711 ratings