Based on Arthurian Legends

King Arthur, Merlin, Guinevere, and Lancelot are all familiar characters, inspiring numerous retellings and reimaginings of Camelot and the Knights of the Round Table. These are a few to get you started.
Updated September 19, 2022
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain
Ebook
Over Sea, Under Stone
Susan Cooper
Paper Book
"A perfect coming-of-age story" - The Guardian, praise for The Dark is Rising Three siblings embark on an epic quest for a mythic grail in this first installment of Susan Cooper's award-winning The Dark Is Rising Sequence, now with a brand-new look! All...
The Buried Giant
Kazuo Ishiguro
Paper Book
The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. The Buried Giant begins as a couple, Axl and Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen for years. They expect to face many...
Idylls of the King
Alfred Tennyson
Paper Book
From the influential English poet, a collection of poems featuring the legendary King Arthur, a hero imbued with the values of the Victorian age Alfred Tennyson had a lifelong interest in the legend of King Arthur and after the huge success of his poem "Morte d'Arthur" he built...
Legendborn
Tracy Deonn
Paper Book
SOME LEGACIES ARE MEANT TO BE BROKEN. "I love the feeling of a magical world existing just beneath the surface of our own and this story gave me everything I wanted: incredible characters, ancient lore and secret societies - all grounded in our very real, very flawed world...
The Fall of Arthur
J. R. R. Tolkien
Paper Book
The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the extraordinary story of the final days of England's legendary hero, King Arthur. The Fall of Arthur, the only venture by J.R.R. Tolkien into the legends of Arthur King of Britain, may...
Lancelot
Giles Kristian
Paper Book
Conn Iggulden has called it 'a masterpiece' while The Times has hailed it 'a gorgeous, rich retelling of the Arthurian tale' . . . The legions of Rome are a fading memory. Enemies stalk the fringes of Britain. And Uther Pendragon is dying. Into this fractured and...

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