Thank you so much to those of you who completed our recent survey about Tudor books.
We already have recommended reading lists for Tudor monarchs and various Tudor topics - see the Recommended Reading category, but I thought it would be good to make a list of books that Tudor Society members would recommend, and here it is. Please do leave a comment if you'd like to recommend some books and I can then add them to the list - thank you!
Non-fiction
- The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn by Eric Ives
- The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
- Henry VIII: King and Court by Alison Weir
- Henry VIII and His Court by Neville Williams
- In the Footsteps of the Six Wives of Henry VIII by Natalie Grueninger and Sarah Morris
- Anne Boleyn by Marie Louis Bruce
- Elizabeth I by Anne Somerset
- England under the Tudors by G.R. Elton
- God's Secret Agents by Alice Hogge
- Jane Boleyn: The Infamous Lady Rochford by Julia Fox
- God's Traitors by Jessie Childs
- The Stripping of the Altars by Eamon Duffy
- Edward VI: The Lost King of England by Chris Skidmore
- The Turbulent Crown: The Story of the Tudor Queens by Roland Hui
- Six Wives by David Starkey
- Henry VIII by J.J. Scarisbrick
- Catherine of Aragon by Giles Tremlett
- Anne Boleyn by P. Friedmann
- Anne Boleyn by Joanna Denny
- Jane Seymour: Henry VIII's True Love by Elizabeth Norton
- Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII's Discarded Bride by Elizabeth Norton
- Katherine Howard by Joanna Denny
- Catherine Parr by Elizabeth Norton
- Elizabeth I by Alison Weir
- The Lady in the Tower by Alison Weir
- The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown by Claire Ridgway
- The Anne Boleyn Collection and The Anne Boleyn Collection II by Claire Ridgway
- Katherine Howard: A New History by Conor Byrne
- Young and Damned and Fair by Gareth Russell
- Catherine of Aragon by Garrett Mattingly
- Dark History of the Tudors: Murder, Adultery, Incest, Witchcraft, Wars, Religious Persection, Piracy by Judith John
- The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser
- Henry VIII by Lacey Baldwin-Smith
- Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens by Jane Dunn
- Elizabeth: Apprenticeship (or Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne) by David Starkey
- The Life and Times series edited by Antonia Fraser, e.g. The Life and Times of Elizabeth I by Neville Williams.
- Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr, the Last Wife of Henry VIII by Linda Porter
- Ordeal by Ambition: An English Family in the Shadow of the Tudors by William Seymour
- Henry VIII: Virtuous Prince by David Starkey
- Kateryn Parr by Susan E James
- Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery by Eric Ives
- The Sisters Who Would by Queen by Leanda de Lisle
- The First Queen of England: The Myth of Bloody Mary by Linda Porter
- The Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn
- Elizabeth of York by Amy Licence
- Tudor: A Family Story by Leanda de Lisle
- George Boleyn: Tudor Poet, Courtier and Diplomat by Clare Cherry and Claire Ridgway
- Anything by Diarmaid MacCulloch (e.g. Thomas Cranmer, Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700)
- Children Of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547-1558 by Alison Weir
- Bess of Hardwick: Empire Builder by Mary S. Lovell
- Thomas Wyatt: The Heart's Forest by Susan Brigden
- The Lisle Letters
- The Pilgrimage of Grace 1536-1537 and the Exeter Conspiracy 1538 by Madeline Hope Dodds and Ruth Dodds
- The Exhibition catalogue by David Starkey of Henry VIII: Man and Monarch
- The King's Reformation by G.W. Bernard
- The Books of Henry VIII and His Wives by James Carley
- The Divorce of Henry VIII by Catherine Fletcher
- Anne Boleyn's Letter from the Tower by Sandra Vasoli
- Elizabeth & Leicester by Sarah Gristwood
- My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary, Queen of Scots by John Guy
- Crown of Blood by Nicola Tallis
- Mary Boleyn by Alison Weir
Tudor Life
- The Tudor Housewife by Alison Simm
- How to be a Tudor: A Dawn to Dusk Guide to Everyday Life by Ruth Goodman
- The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer
- Tudor Costume and Fashion by Herbert Norris
- Everyday Life in Medieval London: From the Anglo-Saxons to the Tudors by Toni Mount
- Simon Thurley's books on buildings, e.g. The Royal Palaces of Tudor England: Architecture and Court Life, 1460-1547
- The Tudor Tailor by Jane Malcolm-Davies
- The Englishman's Food by J.C. Drummond
- Terrible Tudors from the Horrible Histories series by Terry Deary
Tudor novels
- The Shardlake Series by C J Sansom
- The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
- Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir
- Jean Plaidy's Tudor series
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
- The King's Curse by Philippa Gregory
- Le Temps Viendra by Sarah Morris
- Falling Pomegranate Seeds by Wendy J. Dunn
- Margaret Irwin's trilogy of Elizabeth - Young Bess, Elizabeth Captive Prisoner and Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain
- Brief Gaudy Hour by Margaret Campbell Barnes
- The Morland Family Saga by Cynthia Harrod Eagles
- Legacy by Susan Kay
- Cor Rotto: A Novel of Catherine Carey by Adrienne Dillard
- At the Mercy of the Queen by Anne Clinard Barnhill
- Green Darkness by Anya Seton
- Margaret George's Tudor novels
- Falcon's Rise by Natalia Richards
- Conn Iggulden's Wars of the Roses trilogy
- The Boleyn Trilogy by Laura Anderson
- Sandra Vasoli's Je Anne Boleyn novels
- Her Highness The Traitor by Susan Higginbotham
- Phoenix Rising by Hunter S Jones
- The Merry Wives of Henry VIII by Ann Nonny
- My Lady of Cleves by Margaret Campbell Barnes
- The Sutton Place trilogy (Sutton Place/To Sleep No More/The Silver Swan) by Dinah Lampitt
- The King's Deception by Steve Berry
- Six Tudor Queens: Katherine of Aragon, The True Queen by Alison Weir
- Philippa Wiat's novels
- The Raven's Widow: A Novel of Jane Boleyn by Adrienne Dillard
- Crown in Candelight by Rosemary Hawley Jarman
- Elizabeth Chadwick's novels of William Marshall
- Sharon Kay Penman's novels, although they are set earlier than the Tudor period.
