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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorI Am the Chosen King
Helen Hollick · 592 pages
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
The Last Kingdom
Bernard Cornwell · 474 pages
Desert God
Wilbur Smith · 583 pages
Taita the fusspot slave, spiritual wiseman and advisor to the Pharaoh is caught in a maelstrom of passion and danger in his efforts to destroy the Hyksos army by forming a dubious alliance with Crete.
The Bruce Trilogy: The Steps to the Empty Throne / The Path of the Hero King / The Price of the King's Peace
Nigel Tranter · 1,047 pages
Alexander: Child of a Dream
Valerio Massimo Manfredi · 408 pages
Fire from Heaven
Mary Renault · 383 pages
Fire from Heaven is a 1969 historical novel by Mary Renault about the childhood and youth of Alexander the Great. It reportedly was a major inspiration for the Oliver Stone film Alexander.
Honor Bound
W.E.B. Griffin · 550 pages
Insurrection
Robyn Young · 586 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
Shōgun
James Clavell · 979 pages
After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen--Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and free
Soul of the World
David Mealing · 656 pages
With Fire and Sword
Henryk Sienkiewicz · 745 pages
Dune
Frank Herbert · 541 pages
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the "spice" melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for... When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul's famil
Fire in the East
Harry Sidebottom · 518 pages
The year is AD 255. The Roman Imperium is stretched to breaking point, its authority and might challenged along every border. The greatest threat lies in Persia to the east, where the massing forces of the Sassanid Empire loom with fiery menace. There the isolated Roman citadel of Arete awaits inevitable invasion. One man is sent to marshal the defences and shore up the crumbling walls. A man whos
The Half-Drowned King
Linnea Hartsuyker · 464 pages
"The first installment in a debut trilogy, THE HALF-DROWNED KING tells the compelling story of the political intrigues, battles, and struggles for power that led to the rise of King Harald the Fair-Haired, first king of Norway, seen through the eyes of the young man who became his most trusted warrior and advisor. Conjuring a bloodthirsty, superstitious, and thrilling ancient world (9th century),
Cursor's Fury
Jim Butcher · 448 pages
When the High Lord of Kalare enters into a dangerous alliance with the Canim, and treachery destroys the Aleran army's command structure, an inexperienced, young Tavi of Calderon leads a poorly equipped legion against the Canim horde.
The Crown in the Heather
N. Gemini Sasson · 302 pages
The Black Prism
Brent Weeks · 628 pages
Gavin Guile is the Prism, the most powerful man in the world. He is high priest and emperor, a man whose power, wit, and charm are all that preserves a tenuous peace. But Prisms never last, and Guile knows exactly how long he has left to live: Five years to achieve five impossible goals. But when Guile discovers he has a son, born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power, he must deci
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.
The Gates of Rome
Conn Iggulden · 452 pages