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Dark Ages Books
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The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1)
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avg rating 4.27 — 110,259 ratings — published 2004
The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)
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avg rating 4.26 — 54,026 ratings — published 1995
The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge, #0)
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avg rating 4.39 — 130,634 ratings — published 2020
Beowulf (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.50 — 341,081 ratings — published 1000
The Pale Horseman (The Saxon Stories, #2)
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avg rating 4.31 — 60,772 ratings — published 2006
Lords of the North (The Saxon Stories, #3)
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avg rating 4.36 — 52,036 ratings — published 2007
The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England, 400–1066 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 5,675 ratings — published 2021
The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 3,082 ratings — published 2009
The Burning Land (The Saxon Stories, #5)
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avg rating 4.31 — 40,430 ratings — published 2009
In Search of the Dark Ages (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 2,028 ratings — published 1981
The Buried Giant (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.59 — 119,290 ratings — published 2015
The Pagan Lord (The Saxon Stories, #7)
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avg rating 4.36 — 30,324 ratings — published 2013
Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles, #3)
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avg rating 4.44 — 30,543 ratings — published 1997
Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)
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avg rating 4.42 — 28,513 ratings — published 1996
The Empty Throne (The Saxon Stories, #8)
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avg rating 4.38 — 27,563 ratings — published 2014
Death of Kings (The Saxon Stories, #6)
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avg rating 4.31 — 33,523 ratings — published 2011
Pope Joan (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 74,218 ratings — published 1996
Sword Song (The Saxon Stories, #4)
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avg rating 4.32 — 44,803 ratings — published 2007
Dark Earth (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.46 — 2,906 ratings — published 2022
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 9,059 ratings — published 2020
In the Land of Giants: A Journey Through the Dark Ages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 559 ratings — published 2015
The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 211,903 ratings — published 1982
The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-5)
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avg rating 4.07 — 116,990 ratings — published 1958
The Lost Queen (The Lost Queen, #1)
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avg rating 4.16 — 15,890 ratings — published 2018
The Flame Bearer (The Saxon Stories, #10)
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avg rating 4.43 — 23,781 ratings — published 2016
The King in the North: The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 3.79 — 977 ratings — published 2005
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 3.81 — 46,566 ratings — published 1995
Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 4,420 ratings — published 2008
The Road to Avalon (Dark Ages of Britain, #1)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,854 ratings — published 1988
The First Kingdom: Britain in the Age of Arthur (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.76 — 667 ratings — published 2021
The Abbot's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 4,955 ratings — published 2017
Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 3.98 — 991 ratings — published 2009
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 817,143 ratings — published 1989
The Barbarian West 400-1000 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.58 — 112 ratings — published 1952
The History of the Franks (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 1,570 ratings — published 590
Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.41 — 495 ratings — published 2008
Avalon (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 4,491 ratings — published 1965
The Vikings (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 140 ratings — published 1985
Anglo-Saxon Thegn AD 449–1066 (Warrior, 5)
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avg rating 4.00 — 83 ratings — published 1993
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 9,670 ratings — published 2021
The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 4,946 ratings — published 2022
Sword of Kings (The Saxon Stories, #12)
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avg rating 4.42 — 16,844 ratings — published 2019
Blood Feud (The Warrior Brothers of Skye #1)
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avg rating 4.12 — 727 ratings — published 2017
Ælfred’s Britain: War and Peace in the Viking Age (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.70 — 564 ratings — published 2017
The Half-Drowned King (The Half-Drowned King, #1)
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avg rating 3.74 — 5,249 ratings — published 2017
The Franks (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 104 ratings — published 1988
The Serpent Sword (The Bernicia Chronicles, #1)
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avg rating 4.16 — 3,778 ratings — published 2015
Warriors of the Storm (The Saxon Stories, #9)
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avg rating 4.42 — 25,148 ratings — published 2015
The Vikings: A History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 1,711 ratings — published 2009
“The problem with Gildas is that he was a moaner, obsessed with a golden past that never existed and whingeing about the current state of affairs at the time of his writing. He is not, of course, an historian in the modern sense but he is one of a long line of chroniclers who is over-pessimistic about their own times and bewails the loss of a better past.”
― Arthur: Shadow of a God (the untold mythical roots of King Arthur)
― Arthur: Shadow of a God (the untold mythical roots of King Arthur)
“With all the fucked up things going on in the world, just the fact that we can wake up in the morning is kind of a miracle.”
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