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To celebrate today being April Fool’s Day, this week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Books You’d be a Fool Not to Read. I could have made it easy for myself by highlighting the best books I’ve read recently but I decided to create a list of novels featuring fools of all kinds or the day itself.

Links from each title will take you to the book description on Goodreads.

1. The Autobiography of Henry VIII, With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers by Margaret George – fictional story featuring the real life court jester to King Henry VIII of England
2. King’s Fool by Margaret Campbell Barnes – Will Somers again
3. The Last of Days by Paul Doherty – Will’s back once more
4. The Queen’s Fool by Philippa Gregory – Hannah Green, fictional ‘holy fool’ to Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth I
5. Chicot the Jester by Alexandre Dumas – fictional story about the real life court jester to King Henry III of France
6. A Little Trickerie by Rosanna Pike – the adventures of fictional vagabond and trickster, Tibb Ingleby
7. Fool by Christopher Moore – featuring Pocket, fool of Shakespeare’s King Lear
8. Twelfth Night by Wiliam Shakespeare – featuring royal jester Feste and Viola, a young woman who disguises herself as a page
9. April Fool’s Day (Nancy Drew #19) by Carolyn Keene – gadgets go missing at an April Fool’s Day party
10. The Jester by James Patterson & Andrew Gross – a soldier returned from the Crusades adopts the guise of jester in order to rescue his wife