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- Shards of Empire
series2 books1996
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- The Radiant Emperor
series2 books2021
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The Radiant Emperor reimagines the rise of the founder of a Chinese dynasty as a peasant girl who takes on her dead brother's identity and destiny to survive famine and war, rising through ambition and deception toward the throne. Shelley Parker-Chan's duology, beginning with She Who Became the Sun, follows her against a rival commander on the opposing side of a civil war, concluding in He Who Drowned the World.
- Chronicles of the Deryni
series4 books1970
part of Deryni
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Katherine Kurtz's Chronicles of the Deryni trilogy (Deryni Rising, Deryni Checkmate, High Deryni, 1970-1973) follows the young King Kelson Haldane defending his throne in Gwynedd, a kingdom modeled on 10th-to-12th-century Britain, against ecclesiastical opposition and foreign invasion. Central to the conflict is the Deryni, a persecuted human-like people with inherited psychic and magical powers, whose presence in and around the crown makes Kelson's reign a lightning rod for religious and political tension.
- Trylogia husycka
series3 books2002
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The Hussite Trilogy is a historical fantasy series of novels by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. It consists of three books: The Tower of Fools, Warriors of God and Light Perpetual. It is set in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown during the Hussite Wars (1419–1434).
- Bridei Chronicles
series3 books2004
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Juliet Marillier's Bridei Chronicles trace the sixth-century rise of King Bridei I of the Picts, from his childhood tutelage under the druid Broichan through his ascent to power and his reign, blending Pictish history with fantasy. The trilogy — The Dark Mirror, Blade of Fortriu, and The Well of Shades (2004–2006) — is Marillier's third historical fantasy series.
- The Angel and the Sword
Cecelia Hollandstandalone novel2000
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"It is the waning days of the ninth century. The vast dominion won by the great Emperor Charlemagne has been torn apart by his heirs and successors. In Paris, once the heart of that realm, the Emperor's irresolute grandson, Charles the Bald, battles desperately to preserve his kingdom from the ravages of Viking raiders. If the city falls, its people will perish, and along with them the precious remnants of culture and learning rescued from the ashes of Rome." -- Jacket.
- Heirs of the Demon King
series1 book2014
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- The Sorceress of Rome
Nathan Gallizierstandalone novel1907
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"Following his death, the Roman people suggested that Stefania, the widow of Crescentius II, had made Otto III fall in love with her and then poisoned him." --Wikipedia, "Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor" (980–1002) (as of 2018-02-09) The Sorceress of Rome opens in the year 999 and concludes with the deaths of both Otto and Stephania.
- The Grail Quest (Bernard Cornwell)
series3 books2000
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The Grail Quest is a historical fiction novel series written by Bernard Cornwell dealing with a 14th-century search for the Holy Grail, set during the opening stage of the Hundred Years' War.
- The Warlord Chronicles
series3 books1995
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The Warlord Chronicles or The Warlord Trilogy is a series of three novels about Arthurian Britain written by Bernard Cornwell. The story is written as a mixture of historical fiction and Arthurian legend. The books were originally published between 1995 and 1997 by Penguin and Michael Joseph in the United Kingdom and by St. Martin's Press in the United States. It has been adapted for television as The Winter King.
- The Devil's Diadem
Sara Douglassstandalone novel2011
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While attending to Lady Adelie, wife to the Earl of Pengraic, as a terrible plague sweeps across Europe, young noblewoman Maeb Langtofte discovers that the walls of Pengraic castle are no longer safe after stumbling upon the Earl's dark secret.
- The Crucible
series3 books2000
completed
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Sara Douglass' The Crucible trilogy follows an English friar and nobleman, Thomas Neville, drawn into a war between heavenly and infernal forces across England and Europe during the late Middle Ages. It comprises The Nameless Day, The Wounded Hawk, and The Crippled Angel.
- Arcanum
Simon Mordenstandalone novel2014
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Rome was the center of the most powerful empire the world had ever seen, but that didn't stop it falling to Alaric the Goth, his horde of barbarian tribesmen and their wild spell-casting shamans. Having split the walls with their sorcery and slaughtered the inhabitants with their axes, the victors carved up the empire into a series of bickering states which were never more than an insult away from war. A thousand years later, and Europe has become an almost civilized place. The rulers of the old Roman palatinates confine their warfare to the short summer months, trade flourishes along the rivers and roads, and farming has become less back-breaking, all due to the magic, bestowed by gods, that infuses daily life. Even the barbarians' gods have been tamed: where once human sacrifices poured their blood onto the ground, there are parties and picnics, drinking and singing, fit for decent people and their children. But it looks like the gods are going to have the last laugh before they slip quietly into ill-remembered obscurity.
- Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
series26 books1991
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Outlander is a series of historical fantasy novels by American author Diana Gabaldon. Gabaldon began the first volume of the series, Outlander, in the late 1980s; it was published in 1991. She has published nine out of a planned ten volumes. The ninth novel in the series, Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone, was released on November 23, 2021.
- Barney Custer
series3 books1914
completed
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Barney Custer is an American farmer from Nebraska who travels to the small European kingdom of Lutha only to discover he's the spitting image of its unstable ruler, King Leopold. Edgar Rice Burroughs's The Mad King drops him into court intrigue on the eve of World War I, as a scheming uncle's plot for the throne and a budding romance with a princess force Barney to impersonate the king he resembles. It's a standalone Ruritanian adventure rather than an ongoing series.
- Daniel Quare / The Productions of Time
series2 books2013
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