🧲 Books like this
The Bruce Trilogy: The Steps to the Empty Throne / The Path of the Hero King / The Price of the King's Peace
Nigel Tranter · back to the book
What’s in it
Tap a tag: ❤ = this matters to me · tap again ✕ = don’t care · again to reset. The list below updates each time.
24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Last Kingdom
Bernard Cornwell · 474 pages
The Forest Laird: A Tale of William Wallace
Jack Whyte · 483 pages
In the pre-dawn hours of August 24, 1305 A.D., in London's Smithfield Prison, the outlaw William Wallace, who is to be executed at dawn, is visited by a Scottish priest who has come to hear his last Confession. So begins The Forest Laird, the first book in Jack Whyte's masterful new trilogy. Wallace's story leads the reader through his many lives - as an outlaw and a fugitive, a hero and a patriot
Insurrection
Robyn Young · 586 pages
When Christ and His Saints Slept
Sharon Kay Penman · 759 pages
In the 12th Century, a king's daughter and her cousin fight for the crown of England. She is Maude, the only legitimate daughter of 23 children sired by Henry I. He is Stephen of Blois, who in a daring move seizes the crown. The people accept him, but Maude will obtain revenge through her son, the future Henry II.
The Crown in the Heather
N. Gemini Sasson · 302 pages
Dragonfly in Amber
Diana Gabaldon · 947 pages
From the author of Outlander... a magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century Scotland...For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an anc
Stormlight Archive Series. 4 Books Collection Set. the Way of Kings, Words of Radiance, Oathbringer, Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson
The North and South Trilogy: North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell
John Jakes · 2,751 pages
A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin · 801 pages
***A Game of Thrones*** is the inaugural novel in ***A Song of Ice and Fire***, an epic series of fantasy novels crafted by the American author **George R. R. Martin**. Published on August 1, 1996, this novel introduces readers to the richly detailed world of Westeros and Essos, where political intrigue, power struggles, and magical elements intertwine. The story unfolds through multiple perspe
I Am the Chosen King
Helen Hollick · 592 pages
The Civil War Trilogy: Gods and Generals / The Killer Angels / The Last Full Measure
Michael Shaara, Jeff Shaara
The Brothers of Gwynedd
Edith Pargeter · 821 pages
In these four books, the fictionalized life of Llewelyn, first Prince of Wales, is retold through the eyes of his lifelong servant Samson. Samson and Llewelyn struggle in court and in war against Llewelyn's brother David to bring Wales into peace with the English.
A Place Beyond Courage
Elizabeth Chadwick · 544 pages
The early twelfth century is a time for ambitious men to prosper, and royal servant John FitzGilbert Marshal is one of them. Raised high, as the kin of the deceased King Henry battle each other for England's throne, John reaps rich rewards but pays a terrible price for the choices he makes - as do his family. His wife, fragile, naive Aline is hopelessly unequipped to cope with the demands of a lif
Ash: A Secret History
Mary Gentle · 1,113 pages
Probably the biggest fantasy novel ever published in a single volume, Mary Gentle's magnificent tale of the gutsy and beautiful mercenary leader Ash will take you on an unforgettable ride through medieval Europe as it never quite was: For Ash, life has always been arquebuses and artillery, swords and armor, and the true horrors of hand-to-hand combat. War is her job. But she doesn't realize tha
Master Of War: The Blooding
David Gilman · 496 pages
Fall of Giants
Ken Follett · 892 pages
It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and to two orphaned Russian b
Return Engagement
Harry Turtledove · 639 pages
Magician
Raymond E. Feist · 681 pages
At Crydee, a frontier outpost in the tranquil Kingdom of the Isles, an orphan boy, Pug, is apprenticed to a master Magician – and the destinies of two worlds are changed forever. Suddenly the peace of the Kingdom is destroyed as mysterious alien invaders swarm the land. Pug is swept up into the conflict but for him and his warrior friend, Tomas, an odyssey into the unknown has only just begun.
Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy
Mary Stewart · 923 pages
A trilogy plus one. Book One: The Crystal Cave, Book Two: The Hollow Hills, Book Three: The Last Enchantment, Book Four: The Wicked Day. Book One: The Crystal Cave. From a young child, a bastard with an unknown father, we watch Merlin grow from a shy child to a young man who discovers and claims his power as the close council to Kings of Britain. From the dust jacket, "Into this strange world
The Disorderly Knights
Dorothy Dunnett · 503 pages
Back in Scotland, Crawford establishes a trained force of mercenaries and encounters Joleta Malett, a beautiful and wilful teenager. Through her brother, Graham Reid Malett, a knight of St John of Jerusalem, (who will also be a central figure in the next book of the series, Pawn in Frankincense), Crawford is enticed to Malta to help the Order's defence against the Turkish forces of Suleiman. This
Furies of Calderon
Jim Butcher · 512 pages
Bloodline
Conn Iggulden · 480 pages
"The third beautifully written novel in the War of the Roses series by bestselling author Conn Iggulden. 'Superbly plotted and paced' The Times *** - Winter 1461 - Richard Duke of York is dead, his ambitions in ruins, his head spiked on the walls of the city. King Henry VI is still held prisoner. His Lancastrian Queen rides south with an army of victorious northerners, accompanied by painted warri