For those of us that love to dive into history, the following is a list of my personal library and favourites. My passion for 'All Things Regal' started in Grade 6 when I bought the book "Legacy" by Susan Kay for $0.25 cents at a local library book sale. Since then, some 20+ years later, I have read that book, cover to cover over a dozen times. Knowing that this book opened the doors to a whole new world and appreciation for history means more to me than I can ever say! If you love Elizabeth I or the Tudor Period as much as I do, this is a must read! I've indicated below if a book is not yet in my library so that my family/friends know what to get me for my birthday... just kidding... kind of! Otherwise, if you find it on my list below, I've read it, own it, and highly recommend it! Enjoy!
MY FAVOURITE BOOK
Legacy
by Susan Kay
CURRENTLY ON MY NIGHTSTAND
The Secret Keeper
by Sandra Byrd
NEXT ON MY LIST TO READ
The Secret Bride
by Diane Haeger
JUST FINISHED
I, Jane
by Diane Haeger
FAVOURITE AUTHORS
BARBARA KYLE
The Queen's Captive
The King's Daughter
The Queen's Lady
The Queen's Gamble
Book #5 ~ Blood Between Cousisn - coming 2013!
BRANDY PURDY
The Boleyn Wife
The Tudor Throne
The Queen's Pleasure
PHILIPPA GREGORY
15th Century Plantagenet (The Cousin's War)
The Kingmaker's Daughter
The Lady of the Rivers
The Red Queen
The White Queen
History
The Women of the Cousin's War: The Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother
The Tudor Court Novels
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Boleyn Inheritance
The Virgin's Lover
The Queen's Fool
The Other Queen
The Constant Princess
Historical Novels
The Wise Woman A Respectable Trade
Fallen Skies - do not have
Earthy Joys - do not have
Virgin Earth - do not have
The Wideacre Trilogy
Wideacre
The Favored Child
Meridon
20th Century
Alice Hartley's Happiness
Zeldas Cut - do not have
The Little House - do not have
Perfectly Correct - do not have
Bread & Chocolate (short story collection) - do not have
ANNE EASTER SMITH
The King's Grace
A Rose for the Crown
Daughter of
Queen by Right
SUSAN WIGGS
The Tudor Rose Trilogy Including:
At the Kings Command
The Mainden's Hand
At the Queen's Summons
DIANE HAEGER
The Queen's Mistake: In the Court of Henry VIII
The Queen's Rival
The Secret Bride
I, Jane
The Perfect Royal Mistress - do not have
The Secret Wife of King George IV - do not have
ALISON WEIR
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Elizabeth the Queen/The Life of Elizabeth I
Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings
The Lady in the Tower/The Fall of Anne Boleyn - do not have
The Children of Henry VIII - do not have
The Ring and the Crown: A History of Royal Weddings - do not have
Mary Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley - do not have
Traitors of the Tower - do not have
The Princes in the Tower - do not have
The Wars of the Roses - do not have
Henry VIII - do not have
Eleanor of Aquitaine - do not have
Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England - do not have
Katherine Swynford/Mistress of the Monarchy - do not have
Britain's Royal Families - do not have
Historical Fiction
A Dangerous Inheriance - do not have
The Lady Elizabeth - do not have
Innocent Traitor - do not have
Captive Queen - do not have
OTHER FAVOURITES
ELIZABETH I
Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters
by Felix Pryor
All the Queen's Players
by Jane Feather
Elizabeth the Great
by Elizabeth Jenkins
Danger to
by Alison Plowden
The Virgin's Daughters: In the Court of Elizabeth I
by Jeane Westin
Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne
by David Starkey
The Virgin Queen's Daughter
by Ella March Chase
Virgin: Prelude to the Throne
by Robin Maxwell
Elizabeth, Captive Princess ~ Two Sisters, One Throne
by Margaret Irwin
The First Elizabeth
by Carolly Erickson
Elizabeth I
by Neville Williams
Elizabethan England
by Peter Brimacombe
Queen Elizabeth I
by A Pitkin Guide
TUDOR TIMES
The Other Tudors: Henry VIII's Mistresses and Bastards
by Philippa Jones
A Brief History of King Henry VIII
by Derek Wilson
The Sisters who would be Queen: The Tragedy of Mary, Katherine & Lady Jane Grey
by Leanda De Lisle
My Lady of Cleves: A Novel of Henry VIII and Anne of
by Margaret Campbell Barnes
Her Mother's Daughter: A Novel of Queen Mary Tudor
by Julianne Lee
A Brief History of the Tudor Age
by Jasper Ridley
Mary Tudor: The Spanish Tudor
by H.F.M. Prescott
Fatal Majesty: A Novel of Mary, Queen of Scots
by Reay Tannahill
Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford
by Julia Fox
How Fat Was Henry VIII?: And 101 Other Questions on Royal History
by Raymond Lamont-Brown
The Devil's Queen: A Novel of Catherine de Medici
by Jeanne Kalogridis
To Die For
by Sandra Byrd
The Memoirs of Mary Queen of Scots
by Carolly Erickson
The Tudor Chronicles: 1485-1603
by Susan Gordon
Tudor England
by Peter Brimacombe
OTHER/GENERAL
Celebrate
by Pippa Middleton
A Year in the Life of a Duchess
by Ian Lloyd
The Crown
by Nancy Bilyeau (her next book The Chalice coming in 2013!)
Death Comes to Pemberley
by P.D. James
London
by Robert Franklin
Royal London
by Gordon Winter
Queen and Consort
by Bell, Bousfield & Toffoli
A Year with the Queen
by Robert Hardman
Diana Woman of Style
by Jackie Modlinger
William & Harry
by Ingrid Seward
Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett
The Peoples of the
by Thomas William Heyck, Stanford E. Lehmberg
