English Historical Fiction: Reading List

A reading list of historical fiction novels about English history and court life. This reading list is part of my PhD Project.

Tudor Novels by Alison Weir

  • The Last White Rose

  • Mary I: Queen of Sorrow

  • The Passionate Tudor: a novel of Queen Mary I

  • Innocent Traitor

  • The Lady Elizabeth

  • The Cardinal

Six Queens series by Alison Weir

  • Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen

  • Anne Boleyn: A King’s Obsession

  • Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen

  • Katheryn Howard: The Tainted Queen

  • Katherine Parr: The Sixth Wife

Wolf Hall series by Hilary Mantel

  • Wolf Hall

  • Bring Up the Bodies

  • The Mirror and the Light

The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels by Phillipa Gregory

  • The Lady of the Rivers

  • The White Queen

  • The Red Queen

  • The Kingmaker’s Daughter

  • The White Princess

  • The Constant Princess

  • The King’s Curse

  • Three Sisters, Three Queens

  • The Other Boleyn Girl

  • The Boleyn Inheritance

  • The Taming of the Queen

  • The Queen’s Fool

  • The Virgin’s Lover

  • The Last Tudor

  • The Other Queen

The Frances George Trilogy by Tracy Borman

  • The King’s Witch

  • The Devil’s Slave

  • The Fallen Angel

Syllabus Materials, English HistoryKathryn Barber