Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pleasures & Treasures: Dolls | 1967 | Antonia Fraser | Buy |
| 2 | A History of Toys | 1972 | Antonia Fraser | Buy |
| 3 | Dolls | 1973 | Antonia Fraser | Buy |
| 4 | Cromwell | 1973 | Antonia Fraser | Buy |
| 5 | Mary Queen of Scots and the Historians | 1974 | Antonia Fraser | Buy |
| 6 | King James, VI of Scotland, I of England | 1974 | Antonia Fraser | Buy |
| 7 | The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England | 1975 | Antonia Fraser | Buy |
| 8 | Royal Charles | 1979 | Antonia Fraser | Buy |
| 9 | King Charles II | 1979 | Antonia Fraser | Buy |
| 10 | Heroes and Heroines | 1980 | Antonia Fraser | Buy |
| 11 | The Six Wives of Henry VIII | 1995 | Antonia Fraser | Buy |
| 12 | Faith and Treason / The Gunpowder Plot | 1996 | Antonia Fraser | Buy |
| 13 | Marie Antoinette | 2001 | Antonia Fraser | Buy |
| 14 | Love and Louis XIV | 2006 | Antonia Fraser | Buy |
| 15 | Must You Go? | 2010 | Antonia Fraser | Buy |
| 16 | Perilous Question | 2013 | Antonia Fraser | Buy |
| 17 | My History: A Memoir of Growing Up | 2015 | Antonia Fraser | Buy |
| 18 | Our Israeli Diary - Of That Time, Of That Place | 2017 | Antonia Fraser | Buy |
| 19 | The King and the Catholics | 2018 | Antonia Fraser | Buy |
| 20 | The Case of the Married Woman | 2022 | Antonia Fraser | Buy |
| 21 | Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit | 2023 | Antonia Fraser | Buy |
Antonia Fraser’s non-fiction output is remarkable for both its range and its consistency. Her early books on dolls and toys gave way to major historical biographies that brought figures like Cromwell, Charles II, and Marie Antoinette to life for popular audiences. She has a talent for making historical research feel like storytelling without cutting corners on accuracy.
Her later non-fiction includes Perilous Question (2013) on the Great Reform Bill, The King and the Catholics (2018) on Catholic emancipation, and The Case of the Married Woman (2022) about Caroline Norton. She also wrote Must You Go?, a personal memoir about her marriage to Harold Pinter. Each book shows Fraser’s ability to find the human story inside the history.