#103 in Historical fiction
A Column of Fire
- 940
- Pages
- about 17 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 9 weeks on the list, peaked at #1
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Our view
“A Column of Fire” carries the “Kingsbridge” saga into a world of spies, conspiracies and royal courts. Across more than nine hundred pages Follett tells history as adventure, informative and tense by turns, for readers happy to live inside a long book. Some who loved the two earlier novels, “World Without End” and “The Pillars of the Earth”, find this third one worked out to a plan, and say they never grew close to its characters.
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About the book
A Column of Fire is a 2017 novel by British author Ken Follett, first published on 12 September 2017. It is the third book in the Kingsbridge Series, and serves as a sequel to 1989's The Pillars of the Earth and 2007's World Without End.
Reading order · Kingsbridge
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.0 across 183 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 55% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Historical fiction average of 8.0. That is how 8.0 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 6.8 | 12 | 7% |
| Hardcover | 8.1 | 171 | 93% |
Frequently asked
How long is A Column of Fire?
It has 940 pages — longer than 90% of the ranked books in Historical fiction.
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