Does anyone know of any good books about the Tudor dynasty?

Question

I have been reading books on this era and would like more if anyone knows of any, can be fiction or non it doesn't matter to me as long as it is good!!

Answer 1

Patience, Princess Catherine by Carolyn Meyer
Mary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn Meyer
Beware, Princess Elizabeth by Carolyn Meyer
Doomed Queen Anne by Carolyn Meyer

Answer 2

Fiction - Margaret George. great historical fiction books (meaty and exciting!) including "the Autobiography of Henry VIII" and "Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles" (lots of elizabeth stuff in there.) the Henry VIII is as if he's telling it to his fool, and it's very juicy, especially as his life progresses and he becomes fatter and crazier...

non fiction: try David Starkey - "Elizabeth" and "six wives: the queens of henry VIII."

Alison Weir - Six wives of Henry VIII, Children of Henry VIII, the life of Elizabeth I. Check out the amazon link because the page will link to tons of other tudor books. I like (don't love) the Alison Weir stuff.

The one I really love is "Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A feminist reinterpretation of the wives of Henry VIII" by Karen Lindsey. I thought it was very strongly written and groundbreaking in its theories, especially how it debunked the negative mythology surrounding Anne Boleyn.

Antonia Fraser is one of the best-known british royal history writers and has written a wives of Henry VIII book as well as others that cover the tudor dynasty and elizabeth. (Her Marie Antoinette Bio was the basis for the recent movie.) I personally find her writing a little dry, but she's very thorough and her books are all bestsellers, so it could just be me.


I love reading about the tudor dynasty... so saucy!

Answer 3

There's a book called "Mary, Bloody Mary" that is about Mary Tudor. It's part fiction and part fact. There are other books on the Tudor women by this author, but I can't remeber their names or the author's name. To warn you, this book made me cry! It's that good at describing emotions.

Answer 4

"The Other Boleyn Girl" is awesome. It's written from the perspective of Anne's sister. Although it is Historical fiction, almost everything is based on actual events and real people. There are also a few more books that follow, but I never read them.

Answer 5

Try Phillipa Gregory's 'The Other Bolyn Girl'. Bertrice Small also wrote several books that either started with Henry VIII or Elizabeth I. Can't give you the titles to those because I don't have one of her books handy.