Books like The Buried Giant
An elderly British couple leave their village in post-Arthurian England to find a son they barely remember, crossing a land where a dragon's breath has made everyone forget.
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The Once and Future King
The boy Arthur is tutored into kingship by a backwards-living Merlin and then must watch, across four linked books, the round table he built collapse into civil war.
The Bright Sword
A young swordsman arrives at Camelot to join the Round Table just after King Arthur has died, and falls in with the misfit knights who remain, trying to hold Britain together.
Le Morte d'Arthur
Malory's compilation of the Arthurian legends, from Arthur's birth and the sword in the stone through the quest for the Grail and Lancelot and Guinevere's love to the last battle.
The Mists of Avalon
The Arthur cycle retold from Morgan le Fay and the women of Avalon, as Christianity closes in on the old Britain of the Goddess and the mists behind the barge to the island begin to thin.
A Wizard of Earthsea
A young wizard on an island archipelago unleashes a shadow from the land of the dead and must chase it across the world to make himself whole.
The Crystal Cave
Merlin, the unwanted bastard son of a Welsh princess, tells of his childhood in fifth-century Britain, his gift of sight and the events that lead to the conception of Arthur.
Beowulf: A New Translation
Seamus Heaney's muscular, luminous translation of the oldest great English epic, in which the hero Beowulf fights Grendel, Grendel's mother and, in old age, a dragon.
Assassin's Apprentice
A six-year-old royal bastard left at Buckkeep Castle is raised in the stables and secretly trained by the king's assassin while he discovers two forbidden magics, the Skill and the Wit.
Never Let Me Go
Students at an idyllic English boarding school discover they were created for a terrifying purpose, and the quiet horror is that they accept it.
The Unicorn Hunters
In 1490 Anne, the young duchess of Brittany, is under pressure to make a marriage that will hand her duchy to its enemies, and to buy time she lures the French envoy into a hunt for a unicorn in the enchanted forest of Brocéliande.
Watership Down
A small band of rabbits leaves a condemned warren in the English downs and walks across a country of foxes, farms, and fascist warrens to found a new home with a mythology of its own.
The Remains of the Day
An ageing English butler reflects on a lifetime of service, repressed love, and the moral compromises of loyalty to a flawed master.