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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorTrail of Fate
Michael P. Spradlin · 240 pages
In the Middle Ages, young squire Tristan of the Knights Templar, King's Archer Robard, and Muslim assassin Maryam work together to protect the Holy Grail as they travel across France toward England, a journey that takes them to the Cathar fortress of Montségur.
Vagabond
Bernard Cornwell · 460 pages
From internationally bestselling author Bernard Cornwell comes the eagerly anticipated sequel to The Archer's Tale, in his acclaimed Grail Quest series, in which a young archer sets out to avenge his family's honor on the battlefields of the Hundred Years' War and winds up on a quest for the Holy Grail. 1347: a year of war and unrest. England's army is fighting in France, and its absence encourage
The Tower of Fools
Andrzej Sapkowski · 549 pages
Viking Warrior
Judson Roberts · 360 pages
Despite being the son of a chieftain and a princess, fourteen-year-old Halfdan lives as a slave in Denmark in A.D. 845 but through a tragic bargain he gains his freedom and sets out to claim his birthright.
Winning His Spurs: A Tale of the Crusades
G.A. Henty · 278 pages
Men of Iron
Howard Pyle · 328 pages
In seeking to avenge his unjustly accused father, young Myles Falworth is knighted and wins the friendship of King Henry IV.
The Amber Treasure
Richard Denning · 336 pages
The Lost Stories
John Flanagan · 500 pages
Unconfirmed accounts of a group of Araluen warriors - tales of adventure, battle, and triumph over evil -- have spread for centuries throughout the known world. Most notable is a clan shrouded in mystery, phantom warriors known as the Rangers. Two names pass the lips of every storyteller: Halt, and his apprentice, Will. They and their comrades in arms are said to have traveled throughout the ki
Brother Cadfael's Penance
Ellis Peters · 294 pages
In the fall of 1145, the younger son of Robert of Gloucester switches sides, abandoning his father and the cause of his aunt, the Empress Maud. Philip FitzRobert will not only fight on King Stephen's side, but he has turned over a chain of key garrisons, including the newly built castle at Faringdon, and its clever and unscrupulous castellan Brian de Soulis. Not all the men in that castle agree to
Menewood
Nicola Griffith · 720 pages
Forge
Laurie Halse Anderson · 320 pages
Separated from his friend Isabel after their daring escape from slavery, fifteen-year-old Curzon serves as a free man in the Continental Army at Valley Forge until he and Isabel are thrown together again, as slaves once more.
Under a War-Torn Sky
L.M. Elliott · 288 pages
Midshipman Bolitho
Alexander Kent · 303 pages
Pagan's Crusade
Catherine Jinks · 246 pages
Pagan's Crusade is the first of five books in the Pagan Chronicles. ;'Humour, romance, adventure, violence - who would have thought Medieval Jerusalem could be so much fun?'- Lili Wilkinson, Centre for Youth LiteratureWham! So here I am, standing in a sea of dirt, with a big mad Templarlobbing rocks at my head. Wham! Like some kind of martyr. Wham! He throws like a catapult.'All right, Pagan, that
The Black Arrow
Robert Louis Stevenson · 298 pages
The Forgotten Kingdom
Signe Pike · 475 pages
Between Two Fires
Christopher Buehlman · 456 pages
And Lucifer said: “Let us rise against Him now in all our numbers, and pull the walls of heaven down…” The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm—that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
C.S. Forester · 258 pages
1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command... As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of seasickness, young Horatio Hornblower hardly cuts a dash in His Majesty's Navy, Yet from the moment he is ordered to board a French merchant ship in the Bay of Biscay and take command of crew and cargo, he proves his seafaring mettle on the waves. With a
The Blue Sword
Robin McKinley · 272 pages
This is the story of Corlath, golden-eyed king of the Free Hillfolk, son of the sons of the Lady Aerin. And this is the story of Harry Crewe, the Homelander orphan girl who became Harimad-sol, King's Rider, and heir to the Blue Sword, Gonturan, that no woman had wielded since the Lady Aerin herself bore it into battle. And this is the song of the kelar of the Hillfolk, the magic of the blood
Midshipman Bolitho and the Avenger
Alexander Kent, Douglas Reeman · 144 pages
Home from the sea on leave in Cornwall, a 17-year-old midshipman becomes involved with smuggling, murder, and "wrecking."
The Eagle of the Ninth
Rosemary Sutcliff · 256 pages
A young centurion ventures among the hostile tribes beyond the Roman Wall to recover the eagle standard of the Ninth, a legion which mysteriously disappeared under his father's command.
The Long Sword
Christian Cameron · 425 pages
Pisa, May 1364. Sir William Gold - newly knighted on the battlefield outside the gates of Florence - can look forward to a lucrative career as a sword for hire in the endless warring between Italy's wealthy city states. But when a message comes from Father Pierre de Thomas, Grand Master of the Order of St John - better known as the Hospitallers - Sir William knows he has no choice but to leave his
The Cross of Lead
Avi · 272 pages
Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.