Set in the Middle Ages

1
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
22,108 members
169 reviews
½ 3.7
6 Members
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2
Beowulf
by Beowulf Poet
25,565 members
334 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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3
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
19,613 members
315 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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4
Doomsday Book
by Connie Willis
8,001 members
376 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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5
The Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett
27,401 members
755 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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Grendel
by John Gardner
6,069 members
108 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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7
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by Victor Hugo
14,264 members
179 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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8
Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott
13,110 members
121 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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9
The Decameron
by Giovanni Boccaccio
10,065 members
120 reviews
4
2 Members
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10
Kristin Lavransdatter
by Sigrid Undset
3,042 members
75 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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11
Eifelheim
by Michael Flynn
1,112 members
68 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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12
The Knight at Dawn
by Mary Pope Osborne
8,752 members
61 reviews
½ 3.7
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13
Baudolino
by Umberto Eco
7,850 members
102 reviews
½ 3.5
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14
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
by Howard Pyle
5,738 members
54 reviews
3.9
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15
The Bear and the Nightingale
by Katherine Arden
4,965 members
294 reviews
4
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16
The Midwife's Apprentice
by Karen Cushman
4,450 members
113 reviews
½ 3.7
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17
A Morbid Taste for Bones
by Ellis Peters
3,953 members
105 reviews
3.8
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18
One Corpse Too Many
by Ellis Peters
2,766 members
65 reviews
3.9
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19
Monk's Hood
by Ellis Peters
2,344 members
51 reviews
3.8
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20
When Christ and His Saints Slept
by Sharon Kay Penman
2,081 members
62 reviews
4.2
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21
The Virgin in the Ice
by Ellis Peters
2,079 members
48 reviews
4
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22
Saint Peter's Fair
by Ellis Peters
2,066 members
48 reviews
3.8
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23
The Long Ships
by Frans G. Bengtsson
1,992 members
73 reviews
4.2
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24
The Leper of Saint Giles
by Ellis Peters
1,970 members
48 reviews
3.9
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25
The Sanctuary Sparrow
by Ellis Peters
1,930 members
35 reviews
3.9
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26
A Rare Benedictine
by Ellis Peters
1,781 members
31 reviews
3.9
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27
The Devil's Novice
by Ellis Peters
1,756 members
36 reviews
3.9
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28
Piers Plowman
by William Langland
1,754 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
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29
Dead Man's Ransom
by Ellis Peters
1,725 members
35 reviews
3.9
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30
Parzival
by Wolfram von Eschenbach
1,686 members
11 reviews
3.8
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31
The Heretic's Apprentice
by Ellis Peters
1,646 members
28 reviews
3.8
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32
Hild
by Nicola Griffith
1,585 members
96 reviews
4
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33
The Greenlanders
by Jane Smiley
1,143 members
33 reviews
3.8
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34
The Quest of the Holy Grail
by Anonymous
1,116 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
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35
Beowulf: A Verse Translation [Norton Critical Edition]
by Daniel Donoghue
891 members
9 reviews
4.1
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36
Medieval Romances
by Roger Sherman Loomis
459 members
1 review
3.9
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37
The Lute Player
by Norah Lofts
256 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
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38
Private Renaissance
by Maria Bellonci
199 members
4 reviews
3.9
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39
A Search for the King
by Gore Vidal
194 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
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40
Magnus
by George Mackay Brown
149 members
1 review
½ 3.5
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41
Good King Harry
by Denise Giardina
124 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
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