Arthurian Legend
The Matter of Britain has been retold for a thousand years and refuses to die: the sword in the stone, the round table and its fracture, Camelot rising and falling in the same breath. This shelf collects the fantasy and retellings that keep returning to it, whether that's Arthur reimagined, Merlin's long game, Guinevere and Lancelot's ruinous love, or Morgan le Fay given her due. The once and future king, as many times over as you like.
How we picked these
A hand-chosen theme and criteria — then every match ranked by our weighted rating, top 24 shown:
- Theme → Arthurian Legend
Excalibur
by Bernard Cornwell
Legendborn
by Tracy Deonn
Bloodmarked
by Tracy Deonn
Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy
by Mary Stewart
The Winter King
by Bernard Cornwell
The Forgotten Kingdom: A Novel
by Signe Pike
The Lost Queen
by Signe Pike
The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf
by Gerald Morris
Warlock
by Oakley Hall
A Hard Day's Knight
by Simon R. Green
Lancelot
by Giles Kristian
The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady
by Gerald Morris
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
by Roger Lancelyn Green
Grave Goods
by Ariana Franklin
Gwen and Art Are Not in Love
by Lex Croucher
Origins of The Wheel of Time: The Legends and Mythologies that Inspired Robert Jordan
by Michael Livingston
The Singing Sword
by Jack Whyte
Christmas in Camelot
by Mary Pope Osborne
The Saga of the Witcher: Blood of Elves, Time of Contempt, Baptism of Fire, The Tower of the Swallow and The Lady of the Lake
by Andrzej Sapkowski
The Mirror of Beasts
by Alexandra Bracken
The Once and Future Queen
by Paula Lafferty
Horseman
by Shayne Silvers
Franklin's Flying Bookshop
by Jen Campbell
The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion: The All-Purpose Baking Cookbook
by King Arthur Flour