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Cleopatra: A Life

If you loved Cleopatra: A Life

Books like Cleopatra: A Life

If you loved Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

No. 1

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

Robert K. Massie

No. 2

John Adams

David McCullough

No. 3

Marie Antoinette: The Journey

Antonia Fraser

No. 4

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

No. 5

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Suzanne Toren

No. 6

Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)

Hilary Mantel

No. 7

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Alison Weir

No. 8

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

Erik Larson

No. 9

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Simon Winchester

No. 10

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Laura Hillenbrand

No. 11

Truman

David McCullough

No. 12

Benjamin Franklin

Walter Isaacson

No. 13

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Jon Meacham

No. 14

Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)

Hilary Mantel

No. 15

Einstein

Walter Isaacson

No. 16

The Red Tent

Anita Diamant

No. 17

The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank, Eleanor Roosevelt, B.M. Mooyaart-Doubleday

No. 18

His Excellency: George Washington

Joseph J. Ellis

No. 19

The Life of Elizabeth I

Alison Weir

No. 20

Lincoln

David Herbert Donald

No. 21

Seabiscuit: An American Legend

Laura Hillenbrand

No. 22

The Wives of Henry VIII

Antonia Fraser

No. 23

I, Elizabeth

Rosalind Miles

No. 24

The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver