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24 titles for readers of Warrior King by Wilbur Smith, selected for shared themes: 19th Century, Modern, Action & Adventure, and Historical.

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The Life and Travels of Isabella Bird The Fearless Victorian Adventurer

Jacki Hill-Murphy

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Action & Adventure

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Abundance, A Novel of Marie Antoinette

Sena Jeter Naslund

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Historical

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Mad for the Plaid: Princes of Oxenburg 3

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Historical

Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb — François-René de Chateaubriand

Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb

François-René de Chateaubriand

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Historical

Cannibals and Carnage Thrilling Tales of the Sea (vol. 1) — Graham Faiella

Cannibals and Carnage Thrilling Tales of the Sea (vol. 1)

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Historical

American Progressives and German Social Reform, 1875-1920 Social Ethics, Moral Control, and the Regulatory State in a Transatlantic Context — Axel R. Schäfer

American Progressives and German Social Reform, 1875-1920 Social Ethics, Moral Control, and the Regulatory State in a Transatlantic Context

Axel R. Schäfer

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Historical

Gun Barons The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them — John Bainbridge

Gun Barons The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them

John Bainbridge

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Historical

Skeletons on the Zahara A True Story of Survival — Dean King

Skeletons on the Zahara A True Story of Survival

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Historical

The Secret Art of Poisoning The True Crimes of Martha Needle, the Richmond Poisoner — Samantha Battams

The Secret Art of Poisoning The True Crimes of Martha Needle, the Richmond Poisoner

Samantha Battams

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Historical

Napoleon and His Family, V3 The Story of a Corsican Clan, Moscow-St. Helena, 1813-1821 — Walter Geer

Napoleon and His Family, V3 The Story of a Corsican Clan, Moscow-St. Helena, 1813-1821

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Historical

Abigail and John Portrait of a Marriage — Edith Gelles

Abigail and John Portrait of a Marriage

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Historical

The Berlin Wall A World Divided, 1961-1989 — Frederick Taylor

The Berlin Wall A World Divided, 1961-1989

Frederick Taylor

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Historical

Becoming a Romanov. Grand Duchess Elena of Russia and Her World (1807-1873) — Marina Soroka

Becoming a Romanov. Grand Duchess Elena of Russia and Her World (1807-1873)

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Historical

The Memoirs of Victor Hugo — Victor Hugo

The Memoirs of Victor Hugo

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Historical

Eminent Victorians — Lytton Strachey

Eminent Victorians

Lytton Strachey

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Historical

Napoleon The Visionary Conqueror — Eric Ledru

Napoleon The Visionary Conqueror

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Historical

Chasing Chopin A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions — Annik LaFarge

Chasing Chopin A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Historical

Custer From the Civil War’s Boy General to the Battle of the Little Bighorn — Ted Behncke

Custer From the Civil War’s Boy General to the Battle of the Little Bighorn

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Historical

James Longstreet and the American Civil War The Confederate General Who Fought the Next War — Harold M. Knudsen

James Longstreet and the American Civil War The Confederate General Who Fought the Next War

Harold M. Knudsen

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Historical

The Sea is My Element The Eventful Life of Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm, 1766-1838 — Paul Martinovich

The Sea is My Element The Eventful Life of Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm, 1766-1838

Paul Martinovich

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Historical

Lord Chelmsford and the Zulu War — Gerald French

Lord Chelmsford and the Zulu War

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Historical

“Fire From the Midst of You” A Religious Life of John Brown — Louis A. DeCaro

“Fire From the Midst of You” A Religious Life of John Brown

Louis A. DeCaro

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Historical

Vanderbilt The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty — Anderson Cooper

Vanderbilt The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

Anderson Cooper

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Historical

Napoleon in Captivity — Aleksandr Antonovich Balmain

Napoleon in Captivity

Aleksandr Antonovich Balmain

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Historical

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Warrior King by Wilbur Smith. Connected by 19th Century, Modern, Action & Adventure. Authors featured include Jacki Hill-Murphy, Sena Jeter Naslund, Karen Hawkins, François-René de Chateaubriand, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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