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- Marcus
series4 books1954
completed
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Rosemary Sutcliff's linked Roman Britain novels follow several generations of one family across centuries of the Roman occupation and its aftermath, opening with The Eagle of the Ninth, in which the young centurion Marcus Aquila sets out to recover his lost father's legion standard. Later books, including The Silver Branch and The Lantern Bearers, follow his descendants through Britain's slow slide out of the Empire.
- Black Horses for the King
Anne McCaffreystandalone novel1996
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Galwyn, son of a Roman Celt, escapes from his tyrannical uncle and joins Lord Artos, later know as King Arthur, using his talent with languages and way with horses to help secure and care for the Libyan horses that Artos hopes to use in battle against the Saxons.
- The Hound of Ulster
Rosemary Sutcliffstandalone novel1963
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- Boudica
series4 books2003
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Manda Scott's Boudica novels reimagine the Iceni queen's life and rebellion against Roman occupation, opening with Dreaming the Eagle's account of her childhood and rise among rival British tribes before following her through the war that made her legend across three further novels.
- The Camulod Chronicles
series9 books1992
completed
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Published in North America as the Camulod Chronicles (and elsewhere as A Dream of Eagles), Jack Whyte's series retells the Arthurian legend as grounded historical fiction, stripping away magic in favor of a plausible post-Roman Britain. Uther, the volume tracked here, centers on Uther Pendragon himself, one of the saga's recurring figures on the road to Arthur's own generation.
- Red Branch
Morgan Llywelynstandalone novel1989
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Red Branch, by the Irish-American author Morgan Llywelyn, is a novel about the life of the Irish hero Cú Chulainn. Red Branch novelizes several stories from the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, including the well-known Táin Bó Cúailnge, and Deirdre.
- Five Children Universe
series27 books1902
completed
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Two separate modern continuations of E. Nesbit's Psammead stories were written decades apart by different authors: Helen Cresswell's The Return of the Psammead (1992) brings the wish-granting sand fairy back for a new set of children, while Kate Saunders's Five Children on the Western Front (2014) follows the now-grown Lamb and his siblings as the First World War arrives, in a more somber sequel to Nesbit's original trilogy. Neither book is by Nesbit herself, and the two have no direct connection to each other beyond both drawing on her creation. Later writers have kept returning to Nesbit's premise long after her own trilogy ended.
- H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds
universe65 books1898
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No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space. And then the cylinders fell. H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds opens in the quiet of the Surrey commons, where a falling star proves to be the first Martian craft — and from the pit rise the towering tripods, the Heat-Ray, the choking Black Smoke and the creeping red weed, wielded by minds that regard mankind much as we regard the creatures we boil for supper. This is invasion rendered as natural disaster: cold, methodical, and vast beyond argument. Wells' 1898 novel is the seed; everything else grows from that Martian soil. The catalogue gathers direct sequels and continuations alongside a wide field of other hands. In War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches the invasion is retold across the whole planet through the eyes of Twain, Verne, Tolstoy, Lowell and Kipling; in the Manly Wade and Wade Wellman crossover, Sherlock Holmes, Watson and Professor Challenger take the field against the machines; and Scott Washburn's Great Martian War stretches the fighting into a decades-long alternate history of steam, artillery and grinding attrition. It is a loose shared world — no single decreed sequence, many voices answering one calamity. What sets this world apart is its refusal of heroics: the invaders fall not to generals but to the smallest things of Earth, humbling and indifferent. Begin, always, with Wells' original novel — it is short, and it is the ground every later book stands upon. From there follow your appetite: Global Dispatches for the panorama, the Holmes campaign for adventure, Washburn for the long 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.
- Narnia
series26 books1950
part of Narnia Universe
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The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven portal fantasy novels by British author C. S. Lewis. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes and originally published between 1950 and 1956, the series is set in the fictional realm of Narnia, a fantasy world of magic, mythical beasts, and talking animals. It narrates the adventures of various children who play central roles in the unfolding history of the Narnian world. Except in The Horse and His Boy, the protagonists are all children from the real world who are magically transported to Narnia, where they are sometimes called upon by the lion Aslan to protect Narnia from evil. The books span the entire history of Narnia, from its creation in The Magician's Nephew to its eventual destruction in The Last Battle.
- Arthor
series4 books1994
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A. A. Attanasio's Arthor tetralogy retells the Arthurian legend against a post-Roman Britain torn between warring Celts, Saxons, and supernatural forces, continuing the cosmic fantasy world he began in The Dragon and the Unicorn. The sequence runs from The Dragon and the Unicorn (1994) through Arthor, The Wolf and the Crown, and The Serpent and the Grail (1999).
- 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.
- Goddess of Yesterday
Caroline B. Cooneystandalone novel2002
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Goddess of Yesterday is a 2002 novel by Caroline B. Cooney based on the Trojan War from Greek mythology. The book was nominated for the South Carolina Junior Book Award, and was a 2003 ALA Notable Children's Book for Older Readers
- Mabinogi
series4 books1936
completed
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Evangeline Walton's four novels retell the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, the core cycle of medieval Welsh myth compiled from oral tradition in the 12th-13th centuries, following its original figures through their original stories rather than an invented plot. Walton's reinterpretation began in 1936 with what became Prince of Annwn, decades before the rest of the cycle followed; all four were eventually gathered together as one series. Her retellings are considered an early, influential modern engagement with the Mabinogion, alongside later ones by other writers.
- The Raven Queen
Jules Watsonstandalone novel2011
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The Celtic queen, Maeve, determined to save her homeland after the death of her father, triggers a terrible war and is elevated to a position of leadership as she allies herself with Ruan, a wandering druid with a mysterious connection to the spirit world.
- Time's Tapestry
series4 books2006
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Stephen Baxter's Time's Tapestry sequence imagines a version of history repeatedly altered by messages sent back through time by a sect trying to change Rome's fate, with each novel following the ripple effects across a different era of British and world history. Emperor opens the sequence in Roman-era Britain, and the alternate timeline compounds across the following three novels before a concluding volume gathers the whole arc. It was published across the mid-to-late 2000s as one continuous four-book story.
- The Bright Sword
Lev Grossmanstandalone novel2024
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The Bright Sword is a fantasy novel written by American author Lev Grossman, published in 2024 by Viking Press. The novel takes place within the King Arthur mythology, and follows a talented young knight named Collum who travels from his backwater home to Camelot, expecting to meet King Arthur and join the Round Table. Collum finds that Arthur and most of the knights of the Round Table died weeks before Collum arrived, in the battle against Mordred, leaving only a handful of leaderless knights to defend Camelot and the throne of Britain from competing warlords, rivals, and the magical forces of Morgan le Fay.
- King Raven
series3 books2006
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The King Raven Trilogy is a series of historical novels by American writer Stephen R. Lawhead, based on the Robin Hood legend. Lawhead relocates Robin Hood from Sherwood Forest in Nottingham to Wales, and sets the story in the late eleventh century, after the Battle of Hastings and to coincide with the Norman invasion of Wales and the struggles the Cymry (Welsh) people against the Normans, and the political intrigue of medieval Britain. The trilogy consists of three books named Hood, Scarlet, and Tuck. The King Raven series continued his themes of reimagining popular mythology into more authentic and gritty settings, which began with his Pendragon Cycle.
