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by Hilary Mantel

🌶️ 1/5 TensePoliticalMasterful

The Bring Up the Bodies book hangover is real, and scrolling through "readers also enjoyed" lists isn't going to cut it. We read Bring Up the Bodies, tagged every mood and trope that made it click, and hunted down books that match on the things you actually cared about — not just "it's also fiction." Tense energy? Check. Anne Boleyn's Fall? Check. That can't-stop-reading pacing? We've got you.

YOUR MATCHES

12 Books Matched to Bring Up the Bodies

Grouped by the elements that made Bring Up the Bodies unforgettable.

More dark energy

97%
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A Crown of Swords
by Robert Jordan
🌶️ 1/5 · 856p
The book that Bring Up the Bodies fans keep recommending to each other at 2 AM.
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94%
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The Path of Daggers
by Robert Jordan
🌶️ 1/5 · 672p
Robert Jordan writes like Hilary Mantel's cooler cousin. Same energy, fresh take.
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91%
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King of Scars
by Leigh Bardugo
🌶️ 1/5 · 510p
The book equivalent of finding someone who also cried at Bring Up the Bodies.
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Compatible reads for tense lovers

89%
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Witch King
by Martha Wells
🌶️ 1/5 · 432p
Your TBR just found its soulmate.
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86%
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The Shadow Rising
by Robert Jordan
🌶️ 1/5 · 1007p
1007 pages of exactly what you're craving right now.
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84%
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Son of the Storm
by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
🌶️ 1/5 · 496p
If Bring Up the Bodies was your type, Son of the Storm is its hot friend.
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Your #1 Match — We'd swipe right for you

Based on mood alignment, spice compatibility, and trope DNA.

A Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan — 🌶️ 1/5 spice, 856 pages

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BEFORE YOU COMMIT

Quick answers before your next match

Based on mood, trope, and pacing analysis, the most similar books to Bring Up the Bodies include A Crown of Swords, The Path of Daggers, King of Scars. Each matches on specific elements like tense and political that made Bring Up the Bodies resonate with readers.

We recommend starting with A Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan — it shares Bring Up the Bodies's core Tense energy while bringing something fresh to the table.

Bring Up the Bodies is a standalone novel. You can jump right in without reading anything else first.

Bring Up the Bodies has a spice level of 1/5. The recommendations on this page range across spice levels — each one is labeled so you can find your comfort zone.

Bring Up the Bodies is already a low-spice read (1/5). Most similar books on this page have comparable heat levels.

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