Books set in the Middle Ages
Books set in the medieval world, or in fantasy worlds modelled on it: castles, cathedrals, plague and feudal loyalties. Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth raises a cathedral across decades of war, Guy Gavriel Kay's The Lions of Al-Rassan draws on Moorish Spain, and George R. R. Martin's A Storm of Swords shows how brutal an imagined Middle Ages can be.
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- 1A Game of Thrones
8.78.7 / 10 - 2Tales of Dunk and Egg
8.48.4 / 10 - 3The Devils
8.28.2 / 10 - 4Between Two Fires
8.28.2 / 10 - 5The Last Kingdom
8.28.2 / 10 - 6Mouse Guard Fall 1152
8.28.2 / 10 - 7The Lions of Al-Rassan
8.28.2 / 10 - 8Halt's Peril (Ranger's Apprentice Book 9)
8.18.1 / 10 - 9The Evening and the Morning
8.18.1 / 10 - 10The Winter King
8.18.1 / 10 - 11Inferno
8.08.0 / 10 - 12The Hollow Hills
8.08.0 / 10 - 13The Sword in the Stone
7.97.9 / 10 - 14Grendel
7.87.8 / 10 - 15Dissolution
7.87.8 / 10 - 16Richard III
7.77.7 / 10 - 17She Who Became the Sun
7.67.6 / 10 - 18Henry IV, Part 1
7.67.6 / 10 - 19Mister B. Gone
7.67.6 / 10 - 20A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
7.67.6 / 10 - 21Le Morte d'Arthur
7.67.6 / 10 - 22Ivanhoe
7.67.6 / 10 - 23The Daughter of Time
7.67.6 / 10 - 24The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
7.57.5 / 10 - 25The Canterbury Tales
7.57.5 / 10 - 26Eaters of the Dead
7.57.5 / 10 - 27The Starving Saints
7.57.5 / 10 - 28The Buried Giant
7.57.5 / 10 - 29Timeline
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