If your a fan of chatting about royals than look no further! Our booklists below  feautre some of our favorite books featuring real and fictional families.

While there are many genres that can fall into this topic, our lists just scratch the surface on many historical characters. If you are just starting out reading biographies or history books we recommend starting with a video overview on the person before jumping in. There are many video resources available at the library and online to help!

Nonfiction

Here are some great nonfiction books about some of the important women rulers.

High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly by Donald Spoto

The Search for Nefertiti: the true story of a remarkable discovery by Joann Fletcher

When Women Ruledthe World: The Six Queesn of Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney

Cleopatra: The Last Queen of Egypt by Joyce A. Tyldesley 

Young Queens: three renaissance women and the price of power by Leah Redmond  Chang

Catherine de’ Medici: The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen by Mary Hollingsworth

The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown

Victoria: the queen by Julia Baird

Queen of Our Times the Life of Queen Elizabeth II by Robert Hardman

Elizabeth and Margaret by Andrew Morton

Fiction

Check out these fiction and historical fiction books!

American Royals series by Katherine McGee

Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory

The Royal We by Heather Cocks

Read White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Queen Charlotte: a Bridgerton novel by Julia Quinn and Shonda Rhimes

Wolf Hall and Bringing Up the Bodies by Hiliary Mantel

Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean

Accidential Empress and Sisi by Allison Pataki

Queen Bee by Amalie Howard

Violet Made of Thorns by Gina Chen

River of Royal Blood by Amanda Joy

Sisters of Versailles by Sally Christie

Architect’s Apprentice by Elif Shafak