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Simon Vance narrates Hilary Mantel's Man Booker winner with the measured authority the Tudor court requires — his voice gives Cromwell's cold efficiency a legible interior life, and the 15-hour runtime allows the political orchestration of Anne Boleyn's fall to unfold with the deliberateness of real history. Nine picks share a similar length and two feature Vance's , with the list leaning toward literary historical fiction where the moral complexity of power is the real subject.

10 books for fans of Bring Up The Bodies

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    The Miniaturist

    The Miniaturist • Book 1

    by Jessie Burton, Unknown Author

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    Burton weaves a tale of prophetic miniatures and Dutch Golden Age secrets as young Nella discovers her dollhouse predicts—or controls—her family's fate. The mystery deepens with every tiny, impossible detail.

    ★ 3.62 Goodreads (153.6K ratings)
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    A Place of Greater Safety

    by Hilary Mantel

    ★ 4.01 Goodreads (12.2K ratings)
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    The Distant Hours

    by Kate Morton, Unknown Author

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    Morton constructs an atmospheric Gothic mystery around three elderly sisters, their decaying castle, and secrets from World War II. The layered narrative explores how wartime trauma echoes through generations.

    ★ 3.89 Goodreads (85.3K ratings)
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    The Face of Battle

    Six of Crows series

    by John Keegan

    ★ 4.12 Goodreads (8.7K ratings)
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    The Stockholm Octavo

    by Karen Engelmann

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    Emil Larsson's comfortable bachelor existence in 1791 Stockholm unravels when a fortune-teller's card reading sets him on a path toward love and conspiracy. Engelmann builds an intricate web where tarot predictions drive both romance and revolution.

    ★ 3.44 Goodreads (4.0K ratings)
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    The Chosen: Come and See

    The Chosen • Book 2

    by Jerry B. Jenkins

    ★ 4.78 Goodreads (624 ratings)
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    The Things We Cannot Say

    by Kelly Rimmer

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    Rimmer weaves together a Polish woman's wartime survival story with her granddaughter's modern family struggles, including caring for an autistic child. The parallel narratives explore how family secrets across generations can both wound and ultimately heal.

    ★ 4.54 Goodreads (284.0K ratings)
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    A Land Remembered

    by Patrick D. Smith

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    Smith chronicles three generations of a Florida family's rise from poverty to wealth, capturing the state's transformation from untamed wilderness to developed paradise across a century.

    ★ 4.48 Goodreads (14.8K ratings)
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    Homegoing

    by Yaa Gyasi

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    Two family branches—one sold into slavery, one complicit in selling—unfold across three centuries from 18th-century Ghana to contemporary America.

    ★ 4.47 Goodreads (410.6K ratings)
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    Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure

    Constable Evan Mystery

    by Rhys Bowen

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    After thirty years of marriage, Ellie Endicott's husband demands a divorce in 1938 England—giving her the perfect excuse to finally live for herself.

    ★ 4.46 Goodreads (25.5K ratings)
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