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Not just Rowling's Beedle or even Shakespeare, Bards are Celtic lore-keepers, poets, musicians, wizards etc., sometimes possessing powers from and/or threatening to the gods themselves! Minstrels/skalds etc. are ok if the flavor is highly European or ancient-Biblical. But even books w/o bards should mention/allude to the classic gods or some of the monsters/archetypes from Atlantis/Europe/Near East myth. (Please save strictly Greek, Norse, or witch/new age/religious stuff for a separate list.)
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
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Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)
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Taliesin (The Pendragon Cycle #1)
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The Dark Is Rising (The Dark is Rising, #2)
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Bard 2
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A Poem for Britain (Bards of Fantasia #1)
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S.W. Wilcox (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Torc of Tethera (Chronicles of Tethera #2)
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Michael Laird (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Heart of the Earth: A Fantastic Mythical Adventure of Courage and Hope, Bound by a Shared Destiny
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Robin Craig Clark (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish (Celtic World of Morgan Llywelyn #2)
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The Queen of Deceit (Chronicles of Tethera #3)
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Michael Laird (Goodreads Author)
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Drink Down the Moon (Jack of Kinrowan, #2)
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Charles de Lint (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 717 ratings
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The Forged Prince (Chronicles of Tethera #1)
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Michael Laird (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Good Fairies of New York
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Martin Millar (Goodreads Author)
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Three Hearts and Three Lions
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The Complete Compleat Enchanter
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Players Handbook (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 1st Edition)
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Player's Handbook (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 2nd Edition)
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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Druids, Gods & Heroes from Celtic Mythology (World Mythology Series)
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3.80 avg rating — 87 ratings
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The Chronicles of Corum (Corum, #4-6)
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The Books of Magic
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 17,886 ratings
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Spellsinger (Spellsinger, #1)
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A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
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The Infinity Concerto
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The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1)
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Terry Brooks (Goodreads Author)
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Lord Foul's Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, #1)
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The Silver Hand (The Song of Albion, #2)
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Champions of the Sidhe
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Kenneth C. Flint (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 252 ratings
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Tales From the Vulgar Unicorn (Thieves' World, #2)
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Robert Lynn Asprin (Editor)
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Borderland (Borderland, #1)
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Terri Windling (editor)
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The Bard of Sorcery
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Gerard Houarner (Goodreads Author)
2.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Deryni Rising (The Chronicles of the Deryni, #1)
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The Chronicles of Amber: Volume I
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Thomas the Rhymer
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Ellen Kushner (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 3,816 ratings
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The Riddle-Master of Hed (Riddle-Master, #1)
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Inharmonic (The Music Maker, #1)
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A.K.R. Scott (Goodreads Author)
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Hellboy II: The Art of the Movie
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Labyrinth: The Movie #2
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Sid Jacobson (writer)
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Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film
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The Fiddler's Talisman: Book One of The Fairy Godmother Diaries
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Izolda Trakhtenberg (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Moon Stealers and The Quest for the Silver Bough
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Tim Flanagan (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 640 ratings
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A String in the Harp
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Blood of the Fey (Morgana Trilogy, #1)
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Alessa Ellefson (Goodreads Author)
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Lord Darcy (Lord Darcy, #1-3)
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Atlantis: On the Shores of Forever (Atlantis: The Antediluvian Chronicles, #1)
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Jennifer McKeithen (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Glastonbury and the Grail: Did Joseph of Arimathea Bring the Sacred Relic to Britain?
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London: A Spiritual History
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Edoardo Albert (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Illustrating Camelot
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Of Gods and Mortals CELTS: Expanded Rules for Celts in Of Gods and Mortals
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Graeme Davis (Goodreads Author)
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The Dragon Bard (Dragon of the Island, #4)
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Mary Gillgannon (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Celtic Fire and Roman Rule
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The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries
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4.09 avg rating — 1,587 ratings
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Treasures of Albion I
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Brave: The Junior Novelization
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4.02 avg rating — 416 ratings
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The Sidhe: Wisdom from the Celtic Otherworld
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3.78 avg rating — 272 ratings
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Classic Celtic Fairy Tales
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John Matthews (Editor)
3.95 avg rating — 131 ratings
score: 52,
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Dream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams
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Alexander McCall Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.28 avg rating — 2,700 ratings
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Adapting the Arthurian Legends for Children: Essays on Arthurian Juvenalia (Arthurian Studies (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)), 1,)
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Barbara Tepa Lupack (Editor)
3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Song of the Sirin (Raven Son, #1)
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Nicholas Kotar (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 620 ratings
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The Bard's Gift
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Meredith Mansfield (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Theoclea (The Delphic Oracle) and Pythagoras in Eleusis and Atlantis
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PanOrpheus (Goodreads Author)
4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Notes of Magic (The Bohemians, #1)
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Jessica Bucher (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Seeing: The Morrigan
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Steve Peek (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Dream of Aengus
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Saving Tir na nOg (The Chosen Ones, #1)
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Kimberly S. Ruff (Goodreads Author)
4.57 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Enchanted Swans
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Christy Nicholas (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Call of the Morrigú
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Christy Nicholas (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Renegades (The Bard from Barliona, #1)
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Eugenia Dmitrieva (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 388 ratings
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