Read-alikes and related books

Books like The Queen

24 books recommended for fans of The Queen by Matthew Dennison, tied together by themes of 21st Century, Royalty, Social History, and Modern.

21st Century Royalty Social History Modern Great Britain 20th Century Women Europe Historical Biography & Autobiography History

Top related books to The Queen

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of The Queen.

The Project

David Souden

Themes: 21st Century • Royalty • Modern

Prince Albert The Man Who Saved the Monarchy

A. N. Wilson

Themes: 21st Century • Royalty • Social History

Endgame Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival

Omid Scobie

Themes: 21st Century • Royalty • Modern

Elizabeth An Intimate Portrait from the Writer Who Knew Her and Her Family for Over Fifty Years

Gyles Brandreth

Themes: 21st Century • Royalty • Modern

Rebel King The Making of a Monarch

Tom Bower

Themes: 21st Century • Royalty • Modern

Entitled The Rise and Fall of the House of York

Andrew Lownie

Themes: 21st Century • Royalty • Modern

The Palace Papers Inside the House of Windsor – the Truth and the Turmoil

Tina Brown

Themes: 21st Century • Royalty • Modern

Sisterhood and After An Oral History of the UK Women’s Liberation Movement, 1968-Present

Margaretta Jolly

Themes: 21st Century • Social History • Modern

Coronation A History of the British Monarchy

Roy Strong

Themes: Royalty • Social History • Modern

#10

Devices and Desires Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England

Kate Hubbard

Themes: 21st Century • Royalty • Great Britain

#11

George V Never a Dull Moment

Jane Ridley

Themes: 21st Century • Royalty • Great Britain

#12

King Leopold’s Ghost A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

Adam Hochschild

Themes: 21st Century • Social History • Modern

#13

Mad World Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead

Paula Byrne

Themes: 21st Century • Modern • Great Britain

#14

The Woman Who Saved the Children A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb: Founder of Save the Children

Clare Mulley

Themes: Social History • Modern • Great Britain

#15

The Viceroy’s Daughters The Lives of the Curzon Sisters

Anne de Courcy

Themes: Social History • Modern • Great Britain

#16

Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age

Amanda Mackenzie Stuart

Themes: Royalty • Social History • Modern

#17

A House in the Mountains The Women who Liberated Italy from Fascism

Caroline Moorehead

Themes: 21st Century • Social History • Modern

#18

Kings of Georgian Britain

Catherine Curzon

Themes: Royalty • Social History • Modern

#19

The Oxford History of Britain

Kenneth O. Morgan

Themes: 21st Century • Social History • Modern

#20

The Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia

Tobias Becker

Themes: 21st Century • Social History • Modern

#21

The Conservative Party and the Destruction of Selective Education in Post-War Britain The Great Evasion

Piers Legh

Themes: 21st Century • Social History • Modern

#22

Black Ghost of Empire The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation

Kris Manjapra

Themes: 21st Century • Social History • Modern

#23

In Search of a Kingdom Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire

Laurence Bergreen

Themes: 21st Century • Royalty • Great Britain

#24

Power and the Palace: The Intimate Story of the Royal Family and 10 Downing Street

Valentine Low

Themes: 21st Century • Royalty • Social History

If The Queen by Matthew Dennison is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by 21st Century, Royalty, Social History and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by David Souden, A. N. Wilson, Omid Scobie, Gyles Brandreth, and others.