Recommended reading on Mary I:
- Mary Tudor: England's First Queen, Anna Whitelock
- Mary I: England's Catholic Queen, John Edwards
- Mary I: Gender, Power, and Ceremony in the Reign of England's First Queen (Queenship and Power), Sarah Duncan
- The Myth of "Bloody Mary": A Biography of Queen Mary I of England (also sold as Mary Tudor: The First Queen), Linda Porter
- The Reign of Mary I, Robert Tittler
- Mary Tudor: Old and New Perspectives, Dr Susan Doran and Dr Thomas Freeman
- Mary Tudor, David Loades
- Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor, Eamon Duffy
- Mary Tudor, Judith M. Richards
- Tudor Queenship: The Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth (Queenship and Power), Alice Hunt and Anna Whitelock
- Bloody Mary, Carolly Erickson.