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The Other Boleyn Girl

Philippa Gregory · 664 pages

When Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of Henry VIII. Dazzled, Mary falls in love with both her golden prince and her growing role as unofficial queen. However, she soon realizes just how much she is a pawn in her family's ambitious plots as the king's interest begins to wane and she is forced to step aside for her best friend and rival: her powerfully

Tudor EnglandForbidden LoveTragicReligious Identity
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Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn

Nell Gavin · 355 pages

In 1536, Henry and Anne are at the mercy of influences outside their control, explosively incompatible, and caught in a marriage that ends in betrayal so shocking that Anne requires lifetimes to recover. Henry, seemingly in defense of Anne (but more likely acting out of "stubborn perverseness", she observes), terrorizes England and decrees widespread political murder in order to protect her. Ul

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Lady of Hay

Barbara Erskine · 760 pages

"Joanna Clifford, a tough and independent reporter, is all set to debunk the idea of past-life regression in her next magazine series. But when she submits herself to a simple hypnotic session, she suddenly finds herself transported to the 12th century, reliving the experiences of Matilda, Lady of Hay, the wife of a baron at the time of King John."--Back cover.

ReincarnationDual TimelineSprawling EpicHistorical Fiction
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The Thorn Birds

Colleen McCullough · 573 pages

The Thorn Birds is a 1977 best-selling novel by Australian author Colleen McCullough. Set primarily on Drogheda – a fictional sheep station in the Australian Outback named after Drogheda, Ireland – the story focuses on the Cleary family and spans the years 1915 to 1969.

Forbidden LoveTragicSprawling EpicReligious Identity
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Mariana

Susanna Kearsley

ReincarnationDual TimelineForbidden LoveHistorical Fiction
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My Name Is Memory

Ann Brashares · 324 pages

Daniel has spent centuries falling in love with the same girl. Life after life, crossing continents and dynasties, he and Sophia (despite her changing name and form) have been drawn together-and he remembers it all. Daniel has "the memory", the ability to recall past lives and recognize souls of those he's previously known. It is a gift and a curse. For all the times that he and Sophia have been d

ReincarnationDual TimelineForbidden LoveRomance
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Victor Hugo · 443 pages

In fifteenth-century Paris, a disfigured man named Quasimodo, who was abandoned as an infant in the cathedral of Notre-Dame and now lives in its bell tower, must come to the aid of a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda after she repels the advances of the cruel archdeacon Don Claude Frollo.

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In the Garden of Iden

Kage Baker · 320 pages

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The Queen's Mistake

Diane Haeger · 400 pages

From the author of The Secret Bride, the tragic tale of the fifth wife of Henry VIII. When the young and beautiful Catherine Howard becomes the fifth wife of the fifty-year-old King Henry VIII, she seems to be on top of the world. Yet her reign is destined to be brief and heartbreaking, as she is forced to do battle with enemies far more powerful and calculating than she could have ever anticip

Tudor EnglandTragicForbidden LoveHistorical Fiction
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The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn

Robin Maxwell · 288 pages

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Manacled

SenLinYu · 1,613 pages

Dual TimelineTragicForbidden LoveSprawling Epic
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The Concubine

Norah Lofts · 358 pages

A vulnerable lady-in-waiting to Queen Catherine, Anne Boleyn is heartbroken by the end of her love affair with the son of the Earl of Northumberland--smashed by the king and his advisor, Cardinal Woolsey--until Henry VIII begins the process of royal seduction, an affair that will change the course of history and lead Anne to the height of power, and to her death.

Tudor EnglandTragicForbidden LoveHistorical Fiction
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The Mists of Avalon

Marion Zimmer Bradley · 876 pages

When Morgan le Fay (Morgaine) has to sacrifice her virginity during fertility rites, the man who impregnates her is her younger brother Arthur, who she turns against when she thinks he has betrayed the old religion of Avalon.

TragicForbidden LoveSprawling EpicReligious Identity
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Dreams of Gods & Monsters

Laini Taylor · 624 pages

From the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond, humans, chimaera, and seraphim will fight, strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy.

ReincarnationForbidden LoveTragicSprawling Epic
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The King's Rose

Alisa M. Libby

Life in the court of King Henry VIII is a complex game. When fifteen-year-old Catherine Howard catches the king’s eye, she quickly transforms from pawn to queen. But even luxury beyond imagination loses its luster as young Catherine finds her life—and her heart—threatened by the needs of an aging king and a family hungry for power. Will their agendas deliver Catherine to the same fate as her infam

Tudor EnglandTragicForbidden LoveHistorical Fiction
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Passion

Lauren Kate · 432 pages

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The Echo of Old Books

Barbara Davis

A novel about the magical lure of books and summoning the courage to rewrite our stories by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Keeper of Happy Endings and The Last of the Moon Girls. Rare-book dealer Ashlyn Greer's affinity for books extends beyond the intoxicating scent of old paper, ink, and leather. She can feel the echoes of the books' previous owners--an emotional fingerprint only sh

Dual TimelineForbidden LoveTragicHistorical Fiction
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Plain Bad Heroines

Emily M. Danforth · 640 pages

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The Tudor Throne

Brandy Purdy · 382 pages

"In the wake of King Henry VIII's death, England's throne is left in a precarious state - as is the peculiar relationship between his two daughters. Mary, the elder, once treasured, had been declared a bastard in favour of her flame-haired half-sister, Elizabeth, born of the doomed Anne Boleyn. Yet the bond between the sisters was palpable from the start. Now reinstated, Mary eventually assumes he

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A Man for All Seasons

Robert Bolt · 147 pages

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Noli Me Tángere

Jose Rizal · 406 pages

The book revolves on the struggles of young Crisostomo Ibarra: how he humbly fights for his childhood sweetheart Maria Clara, for himself and for his fellowmen against the Spanish priest Padre Damaso and the Spanish Government who were then conquerors of San Diego, his native hometown. Coming home to San Diego from Spain to mourn for his father's death, he learned how his father, a rich illustrado

TragicReligious IdentitySprawling EpicForbidden Love
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The House at Riverton

Kate Morton · 192 pages

Summer 1924. On the eve of a glittering society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter 1999. Grace Bradley, ninety-eight, one-time housemaid at Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghost awaken and old me

Dual TimelineTragicForbidden LoveHistorical Fiction

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