SonjaMarie
09-18-2008, 01:55 AM
I had a thread like this on the previous forum so I thought I'd do one here, but this one is much more organized than before and I hope to update when I add more books or remove books, or read books. I have to break it up in to two posts because as one it's too long:
Historical Fiction
The Fall of Troy by Peter Ackroyd
Duchess of Aquitaine by Margaret Ball
The Royal Physician's Visit by Per Olov Enquist
The Secret Life of Josephine: Napoleon's Bird of Paradise by Carolly Erickson
When We Were Gods of Cleopatra by Colin Falconer
Unicorn's Blood by Patricia Finney
Courtesan by Diane Haeger
The Canterbury Papers by Judith Koll Healey
The Sleeper in the Sands by Tom Holland
A Question of Guilt of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Death of Henry Darnley by Julianne Lee
The Confession of Piers Gaveston by Brandy Purdy
Duchess of Sarah Churchill by Susan Holloway Scott
The King's Favorite of Nell Gwyn and King Charles II by Susan Holloway Scott
The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir
Total: 14
General Fiction
Rembrandt's Ghost by Paul Christopher
The Lost Tomb by David Gibbins
The Dead Room by Heather Graham
The Atlantis Prophecy by Thomas Greanias
Arthurian Omen by G. G. Vandagriff
Dourado by David Wood
The Magdalene Chronicles - Book One: The Followers of the Magdalene (The Magdalene Chronicles) by Suzen Wuerth
Total: 7
Nonfiction - Royalty or Connected
Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France by Christine Pevitt Algrant
A Brief History of British Kings and Queens: British Royal History from Alfred the Great to the Present by Michael Ashley
Lives of the Greatest Monarchs of History by Mohsin Ashraf
The Lost King of France: How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette by Deborah Cadbury
Royal Affairs: A Lusty Romp Through the Extramarital Adventures That Rocked the British Monarchy by Leslie Carroll
Sex Lives of the Kings & Queens by Nigel Cawthorne
Two Pharoahs: Hatshepsut and Tuthmose III by Philip R. Clark
Royal Panoply: Brief Lives of the English Monarchs by Carolly Erickson
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France by Leonie Frieda
Catherine the Great: A Short History by Isabel De Madariage
Privilege and Scandal: The Remarkable Life of Harriet Spencer, Sister of Georgiana by Janet Gleeson
Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe by Nancy Goldstone
Cupid and the King: Five Royal Paramours by Princess Michael of Kent
Crown of Venus: A Guide to Royal Women Around the World by Jeffrey Lee
Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of the Troubadours by Jean Markale
The First Lady Diana: Lady Diana Spencer 1710-1735 by Victoria Massey
Queen Emma: A History of Power, Love, and Greed in 11th-Century England by Harriet O'Brien
Victoria's Daughters by Jerrold M. Packard
The Sisters of Henry VIII: The Tumultuous Lives of Margaret of Scotland and Mary of France by Maria Perry
Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power by Virginia Rounding
Nefertiti: Unlocking the Mystery Surrounding Egypt's Most Famous and Beautiful Queen by Joyce A. Tyldesley
Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di by Kris Waldherr
Ungrateful Daughters: The Stuart Princesses Who Stole Their Father's Crown by Maureen Waller
Total: 23
Nonfiction
Unsolved Mysteries of American History: An Eye-Opening Journey through 500 Years of Discoveries, Disappearances, and Baffling Events by Paul Aron
Unsinkable': The Full Story of the RMS Titanic by Daniel Allen Butler
Sex Lives of the Famous Gays by Nigel Cawthorne
Sex Lives of the Hollywood Goddesses 2 by Nigel Cawthorne
Sex Lives of the Popes by Nigel Cawthorne
History's Shocking Secrets: A Twist in Time Book by Bill Coate
Conan Doyle, Detective: The True Crimes Investigated by the Creator of Sherlock Holmes by Peter Costello
Titanic: Destination Disaster : The Legends and the Reality by John P. Eaton
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850 by Brian M. Fagan
Tell Me How You Love the Picture: A Hollywood Producer's Hilarious Take on Life Among the Stars by Edward S. Feldman
A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans: Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History by Michael Farquhar
Cartoon History of the United States by Larry Gonick
The Hollywood Book of Death: The Bizarre, Often Sordid, Passings of More than 125 American Movie and TV Idols by James Robert Parish
The Hollywood Book of Extravagance: The Totally Infamous, Mostly Disastrous, and Always Compelling Excesses of America's Film and TV Idols by James Robert Parish
Celebrity Secrets: Official Government Files on the Rich and Famous by Nick Redfern
One-Night Stands with American History: Odd, Amusing, and Little-Known Incidents by Richard Shenkman
Vive la Revolution: A Stand-up History of the French Revolution by Mark Steel
The Awful Truths: Famous Myths, Hilariously Debunked by Brian M. Thomsen
The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities-- From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums by Peter Watson
Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern by Joshua Zeitz
Total: 20
Biographies:
Edith Head: The Life and Times of Hollywood's Celebrated Costume Designer by David Chierichetti
Dead Move: Kate Morgan and the Haunting Mystery of Coronado by John T. Cullen
Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn by William J. Mann
It's Good to Be the King: The Seriously Funny Life of Mel Brooks by James Robert Parish
The Bloody Countess: Atrocities of Erzsebet Bathory by Valentine Penrose
Ginger: My Story by Ginger Rogers
Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis by Ed Sikov
Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age by Amanda MacKenzie Stuart
Total: 8
Murder Mysteries
Pride and Prescience: Or, A Truth Universally Acknowledged by Carrie Bebris
Questionable Remains by Beverly Connor
Artifacts by Mary Anna Evans
An Ice Cold Grave by Charlaine Harris
The Beekeeper's Apprentice: Or On the Segregation of the Queen/A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes by Laurie R. King
Silent In The Grave by Deanna Raybourn
Total: 6
Pride & Prejudice Sequels
The Darcys & the Bingleys: A Tale of Two Gentlemen's Marriages to Two Most Devoted Sisters by Marsha Altman
Darcy & Elizabeth: Nights and Days at Pemberley by Linda Berdoll
Pemberley Shades by Dorothy Bonavia-Hunt
The Pemberley Chronicles by Rebecca Collins
More Letters from Pemberley by Jane Dawkins
Mr. Darcy's Diary by Amanda Grange
Mistress of Pemberley by Isobel Scott Moffat
And This Our Life: Chronicles of the Darcy Family: Book 1 by C. Allyn Pierson
Impulse & Initiative (A Pride & Prejudice Variation) by Abigail Reynolds
Mr. Darcy's Decision: A Sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice by Juliette Shapiro
Total: 10
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Historical Fiction
The Fall of Troy by Peter Ackroyd
Duchess of Aquitaine by Margaret Ball
The Royal Physician's Visit by Per Olov Enquist
The Secret Life of Josephine: Napoleon's Bird of Paradise by Carolly Erickson
When We Were Gods of Cleopatra by Colin Falconer
Unicorn's Blood by Patricia Finney
Courtesan by Diane Haeger
The Canterbury Papers by Judith Koll Healey
The Sleeper in the Sands by Tom Holland
A Question of Guilt of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Death of Henry Darnley by Julianne Lee
The Confession of Piers Gaveston by Brandy Purdy
Duchess of Sarah Churchill by Susan Holloway Scott
The King's Favorite of Nell Gwyn and King Charles II by Susan Holloway Scott
The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir
Total: 14
General Fiction
Rembrandt's Ghost by Paul Christopher
The Lost Tomb by David Gibbins
The Dead Room by Heather Graham
The Atlantis Prophecy by Thomas Greanias
Arthurian Omen by G. G. Vandagriff
Dourado by David Wood
The Magdalene Chronicles - Book One: The Followers of the Magdalene (The Magdalene Chronicles) by Suzen Wuerth
Total: 7
Nonfiction - Royalty or Connected
Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France by Christine Pevitt Algrant
A Brief History of British Kings and Queens: British Royal History from Alfred the Great to the Present by Michael Ashley
Lives of the Greatest Monarchs of History by Mohsin Ashraf
The Lost King of France: How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette by Deborah Cadbury
Royal Affairs: A Lusty Romp Through the Extramarital Adventures That Rocked the British Monarchy by Leslie Carroll
Sex Lives of the Kings & Queens by Nigel Cawthorne
Two Pharoahs: Hatshepsut and Tuthmose III by Philip R. Clark
Royal Panoply: Brief Lives of the English Monarchs by Carolly Erickson
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France by Leonie Frieda
Catherine the Great: A Short History by Isabel De Madariage
Privilege and Scandal: The Remarkable Life of Harriet Spencer, Sister of Georgiana by Janet Gleeson
Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe by Nancy Goldstone
Cupid and the King: Five Royal Paramours by Princess Michael of Kent
Crown of Venus: A Guide to Royal Women Around the World by Jeffrey Lee
Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of the Troubadours by Jean Markale
The First Lady Diana: Lady Diana Spencer 1710-1735 by Victoria Massey
Queen Emma: A History of Power, Love, and Greed in 11th-Century England by Harriet O'Brien
Victoria's Daughters by Jerrold M. Packard
The Sisters of Henry VIII: The Tumultuous Lives of Margaret of Scotland and Mary of France by Maria Perry
Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power by Virginia Rounding
Nefertiti: Unlocking the Mystery Surrounding Egypt's Most Famous and Beautiful Queen by Joyce A. Tyldesley
Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di by Kris Waldherr
Ungrateful Daughters: The Stuart Princesses Who Stole Their Father's Crown by Maureen Waller
Total: 23
Nonfiction
Unsolved Mysteries of American History: An Eye-Opening Journey through 500 Years of Discoveries, Disappearances, and Baffling Events by Paul Aron
Unsinkable': The Full Story of the RMS Titanic by Daniel Allen Butler
Sex Lives of the Famous Gays by Nigel Cawthorne
Sex Lives of the Hollywood Goddesses 2 by Nigel Cawthorne
Sex Lives of the Popes by Nigel Cawthorne
History's Shocking Secrets: A Twist in Time Book by Bill Coate
Conan Doyle, Detective: The True Crimes Investigated by the Creator of Sherlock Holmes by Peter Costello
Titanic: Destination Disaster : The Legends and the Reality by John P. Eaton
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850 by Brian M. Fagan
Tell Me How You Love the Picture: A Hollywood Producer's Hilarious Take on Life Among the Stars by Edward S. Feldman
A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans: Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History by Michael Farquhar
Cartoon History of the United States by Larry Gonick
The Hollywood Book of Death: The Bizarre, Often Sordid, Passings of More than 125 American Movie and TV Idols by James Robert Parish
The Hollywood Book of Extravagance: The Totally Infamous, Mostly Disastrous, and Always Compelling Excesses of America's Film and TV Idols by James Robert Parish
Celebrity Secrets: Official Government Files on the Rich and Famous by Nick Redfern
One-Night Stands with American History: Odd, Amusing, and Little-Known Incidents by Richard Shenkman
Vive la Revolution: A Stand-up History of the French Revolution by Mark Steel
The Awful Truths: Famous Myths, Hilariously Debunked by Brian M. Thomsen
The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities-- From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums by Peter Watson
Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern by Joshua Zeitz
Total: 20
Biographies:
Edith Head: The Life and Times of Hollywood's Celebrated Costume Designer by David Chierichetti
Dead Move: Kate Morgan and the Haunting Mystery of Coronado by John T. Cullen
Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn by William J. Mann
It's Good to Be the King: The Seriously Funny Life of Mel Brooks by James Robert Parish
The Bloody Countess: Atrocities of Erzsebet Bathory by Valentine Penrose
Ginger: My Story by Ginger Rogers
Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis by Ed Sikov
Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age by Amanda MacKenzie Stuart
Total: 8
Murder Mysteries
Pride and Prescience: Or, A Truth Universally Acknowledged by Carrie Bebris
Questionable Remains by Beverly Connor
Artifacts by Mary Anna Evans
An Ice Cold Grave by Charlaine Harris
The Beekeeper's Apprentice: Or On the Segregation of the Queen/A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes by Laurie R. King
Silent In The Grave by Deanna Raybourn
Total: 6
Pride & Prejudice Sequels
The Darcys & the Bingleys: A Tale of Two Gentlemen's Marriages to Two Most Devoted Sisters by Marsha Altman
Darcy & Elizabeth: Nights and Days at Pemberley by Linda Berdoll
Pemberley Shades by Dorothy Bonavia-Hunt
The Pemberley Chronicles by Rebecca Collins
More Letters from Pemberley by Jane Dawkins
Mr. Darcy's Diary by Amanda Grange
Mistress of Pemberley by Isobel Scott Moffat
And This Our Life: Chronicles of the Darcy Family: Book 1 by C. Allyn Pierson
Impulse & Initiative (A Pride & Prejudice Variation) by Abigail Reynolds
Mr. Darcy's Decision: A Sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice by Juliette Shapiro
Total: 10
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