I was wondering what King Arthur recommendations people have!? I just watched Excalibur for the first time and it has me in the mood to dive back into that mythos!
I just finished The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman. It was really good.
My favorite is The Once and Future King by T. H. White.
THEN0RSEMAN on
The Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell
Critical_Crow_3770 on
I second the Mary Stewart books. Also:
The Dark Is Rising series by Susan Cooper.
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
tomjbarker on
a really good recent one i just read and loved was nicola griffith’s spear
tomjbarker on
oh no one has suggested thomas malory, tennyson, or chritien de troy yet – those are the core cannon, certainly start there
Smileyfacedchiller on
A Dream of Eagles series by Jack Whyte are amazing. It is really about Merlyn and the events that lead up to Arthur, but Arthur is central to the whole story. This is really a plausible historical fiction telling of the tale starting with the late Roman Empire in England.
I almost forgot this one so I had to edit: The Pendragon Cycle by Stephen Lawhead is also amazing. It is easier to read than the Jack Whyte books, but no less entertaining.
wreade1872 on
I mostly dislike Arthurian legend and also poetry.. and yet Tennyson’s **Idylls of the King** was really good.
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Hands down Mary Stewart’s Merlin books.
The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, The Last Enchantment and The Wicked Day.
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/831
The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman
I just finished The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman. It was really good.
My favorite is The Once and Future King by T. H. White.
The Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell
I second the Mary Stewart books. Also:
The Dark Is Rising series by Susan Cooper.
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
a really good recent one i just read and loved was nicola griffith’s spear
oh no one has suggested thomas malory, tennyson, or chritien de troy yet – those are the core cannon, certainly start there
A Dream of Eagles series by Jack Whyte are amazing. It is really about Merlyn and the events that lead up to Arthur, but Arthur is central to the whole story. This is really a plausible historical fiction telling of the tale starting with the late Roman Empire in England.
I almost forgot this one so I had to edit: The Pendragon Cycle by Stephen Lawhead is also amazing. It is easier to read than the Jack Whyte books, but no less entertaining.
I mostly dislike Arthurian legend and also poetry.. and yet Tennyson’s **Idylls of the King** was really good.