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