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The Pillars of the Earth (The Pillars of the Earth, #1)
by
Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 227,355 ratings
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The Name of the Rose
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Umberto Eco
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 103,512 ratings
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The Canterbury Tales
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Geoffrey Chaucer
3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 avg rating — 81,937 ratings
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
by
Unknown
3.35 of 5 stars 3.35 avg rating — 95,945 ratings
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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Barbara W. Tuchman
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 9,614 ratings
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World Without End (The Pillars of the Earth, #2)
by
Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 68,791 ratings
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The Sunne in Splendour
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Sharon Kay Penman (Goodreads Author)
4.39 of 5 stars 4.39 avg rating — 8,619 ratings
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Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
by
Thomas Malory
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 15,629 ratings
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Unknown
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 21,749 ratings
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Ivanhoe
by
Walter Scott
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 35,496 ratings
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Inferno (The Divine Comedy, #1)
by
Dante Alighieri
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 49,864 ratings
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The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-4)
by
T.H. White
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 49,608 ratings
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The Decameron
by
Giovanni Boccaccio
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 11,540 ratings
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Doomsday Book
by
Connie Willis
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 14,799 ratings
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Here be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)
by
Sharon Kay Penman (Goodreads Author)
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 8,951 ratings
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Macbeth
by
William Shakespeare
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 248,994 ratings
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When Christ and His Saints Slept (Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine, #1)
by
Sharon Kay Penman (Goodreads Author)
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 5,554 ratings
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Katherine
by
Anya Seton
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 12,339 ratings
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The Song of Roland
by
Anonymous
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 5,369 ratings
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The Divine Comedy
by
Dante Alighieri
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 41,375 ratings
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The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1)
by
Bernard Cornwell
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 12,579 ratings
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Falls the Shadow (Welsh Princes, #2)
by
Sharon Kay Penman (Goodreads Author)
4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 3,916 ratings
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Mistress of the Art of Death (Mistress of the Art of Death, #1)
by
Ariana Franklin
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 15,980 ratings
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How the Irish Saved Civilization
by
Thomas Cahill
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 13,634 ratings
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
by
Alison Weir
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 6,034 ratings
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Hamlet
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William Shakespeare
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 275,793 ratings
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The Reckoning (Welsh Princes, #3)
by
Sharon Kay Penman (Goodreads Author)
4.41 of 5 stars 4.41 avg rating — 3,586 ratings
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Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction
by
David Macaulay
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 777 ratings
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The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
by
Joseph Bédier
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 2,757 ratings
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Catherine, Called Birdy
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Karen Cushman
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 19,826 ratings
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Time and Chance (Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine, #2)
by
Sharon Kay Penman (Goodreads Author)
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 3,166 ratings
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Timeline
by
Michael Crichton
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 81,923 ratings
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A World Lit Only by Fire
by
William Raymond Manchester
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 4,537 ratings
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Foucault's Pendulum
by
Umberto Eco
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 27,218 ratings
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
by
Mark Twain
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 46,592 ratings
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Baudolino
by
Umberto Eco
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 8,807 ratings
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
by
Ian Mortimer (Goodreads Author)
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 3,039 ratings
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The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
by
Peter Abélard
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 1,594 ratings
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La catedral del mar
by
Ildefonso Falcones
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 7,409 ratings
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In a Dark Wood Wandering: A Novel of the Middle Ages
by
Hella S. Haasse
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 570 ratings
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The Midwife's Apprentice
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Karen Cushman
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 20,399 ratings
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The Prose Edda
by
Snorri Sturluson
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 2,979 ratings
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The Mabinogion
by
Anonymous
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 2,721 ratings
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The History of the Kings of Britain
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Geoffrey of Monmouth
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 2,118 ratings
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Ecclesiastical History of the English People
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Bede
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 1,507 ratings
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The Daughter of Time
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Josephine Tey
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 8,445 ratings
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Devil's Brood (Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine, #3)
by
Sharon Kay Penman (Goodreads Author)
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 2,525 ratings
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The Waning of the Middle Ages
by
Johan Huizinga
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 958 ratings
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The Nibelungenlied
by
Anonymous
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 1,925 ratings
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Castle
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David Macaulay
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 1,600 ratings
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The Lais of Marie de France
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Marie de France
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 2,143 ratings
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The Pale Horseman (The Saxon Stories, #2)
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Bernard Cornwell
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 7,810 ratings
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium
by
Robert Lacey
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 1,871 ratings
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Company Of Liars
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Karen Maitland (Goodreads Author)
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 3,952 ratings
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The Civilization of the Middle Ages
by
Norman F. Cantor
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 804 ratings
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The Physician (Cole Family Trilogy, #1)
by
Noah Gordon
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 7,888 ratings
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The Scarlet Lion (William Marshal, #3)
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Elizabeth Chadwick (Goodreads Author)
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 1,917 ratings
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Les rois maudits Vols 1-7
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Maurice Druon
4.42 of 5 stars 4.42 avg rating — 460 ratings
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The Archer's Tale (The Grail Quest, #1)
by
Bernard Cornwell
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 7,199 ratings
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Azincourt
by
Bernard Cornwell
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 7,251 ratings
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Lords of the North (The Saxon Stories, #3)
by
Bernard Cornwell
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 7,601 ratings
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Lionheart
by
Sharon Kay Penman (Goodreads Author)
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 1,723 ratings
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The Serpent's Tale (Mistress of the Art of Death, #2)
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Ariana Franklin
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 5,902 ratings
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The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
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C.S. Lewis
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 667 ratings
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
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Victor Hugo
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 57,406 ratings
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Njal's Saga
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Anonymous
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 1,404 ratings
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One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
by
Ellis Peters
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 4,269 ratings
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Life in a Medieval City
by
Frances Gies
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 752 ratings
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Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
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Terry Jones
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 532 ratings
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The Monsters and the Critics and other essays
by
J.R.R. Tolkien
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 764 ratings
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1066: The Year of the Conquest
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David Howarth
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1,179 ratings
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Arthurian Romances
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Chrétien de Troyes
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 3,091 ratings
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In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
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Norman F. Cantor
3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 2,116 ratings
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The Mists of Avalon (The Mists of Avalon, #1)
by
Marion Zimmer Bradley
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 90,247 ratings
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Sword Song (The Saxon Stories, #4)
by
Bernard Cornwell
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 6,050 ratings
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The Book of Margery Kempe
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Margery Kempe
3.21 of 5 stars 3.21 avg rating — 1,058 ratings
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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
by
Howard Pyle
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 21,952 ratings
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Eaters of the Dead
by
Michael Crichton
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 16,426 ratings
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The Travels
by
Marco Polo
3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 1,448 ratings
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Inventing the Middle Ages
by
Norman F. Cantor
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 169 ratings
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The Greatest Knight (William Marshal, #2)
by
Elizabeth Chadwick (Goodreads Author)
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 3,138 ratings
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A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)
by
Ellis Peters
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 11,837 ratings
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Vagabond (The Grail Quest, #2)
by
Bernard Cornwell
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 4,578 ratings
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The Return of Martin Guerre
by
Natalie Zemon Davis
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 1,144 ratings
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The Anglo Saxon Chronicle
by
Anonymous
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 166 ratings
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The Owl Killers
by
Karen Maitland (Goodreads Author)
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 1,269 ratings
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The Last Plantagenets (The Plantagenets, #4)
by
Thomas B. Costain
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 451 ratings
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The Virgin in the Ice
by
Ellis Peters
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 2,648 ratings
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Egil's Saga
by
Anonymous
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 698 ratings
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The Three Edwards (The Plantagenets, #3)
by
Thomas B. Costain
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 388 ratings
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A History of the Franks
by
Gregory of Tours
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 437 ratings
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Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles, #3)
by
Bernard Cornwell
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 6,374 ratings
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The Bruce Trilogy: Steps to the Empty Throne, Path of the Hero King & Price of the King's Peace
by
Nigel Tranter
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 299 ratings
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The Long Ships
by
Frans G. Bengtsson
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 1,434 ratings
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Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science & Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe
by
Thomas Cahill
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 1,348 ratings
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The Queen's Man (Justin de Quincy, #1)
by
Sharon Kay Penman (Goodreads Author)
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 2,826 ratings
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Saint Joan
by
George Bernard Shaw
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 2,882 ratings
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Heretic (The Grail Quest, #3)
by
Bernard Cornwell
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 4,353 ratings
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A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
by
E.L. Konigsburg
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 1,448 ratings
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Medieval Reader
by
Norman F. Cantor
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 88 ratings
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