Set in the Middle Ages

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The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
24,989 members
185 reviews
½ 3.7
6 Members
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2
Beowulf
by Beowulf Poet
29,140 members
362 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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3
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
21,725 members
335 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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4
Doomsday Book
by Connie Willis
8,747 members
397 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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5
The Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett
30,298 members
804 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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Grendel
by John Gardner
6,683 members
118 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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7
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
by Victor Hugo
16,380 members
204 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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8
Ivanhoe
by Walter Scott
14,952 members
138 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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9
The Decameron
by Giovanni Boccaccio
11,361 members
133 reviews
4
2 Members
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10
Kristin Lavransdatter
by Sigrid Undset
3,432 members
79 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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11
Eifelheim
by Michael Flynn
1,208 members
74 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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12
The Knight at Dawn
by Mary Pope Osborne
11,882 members
66 reviews
3.8
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13
Baudolino
by Umberto Eco
8,571 members
105 reviews
½ 3.6
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14
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
by Howard Pyle
6,755 members
62 reviews
3.9
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15
The Bear and the Nightingale
by Katherine Arden
6,439 members
320 reviews
4
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16
The Midwife's Apprentice
by Karen Cushman
4,925 members
121 reviews
½ 3.7
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17
A Morbid Taste for Bones
by Ellis Peters
4,420 members
117 reviews
3.8
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18
One Corpse Too Many
by Ellis Peters
3,046 members
71 reviews
3.9
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19
Monk's Hood
by Ellis Peters
2,599 members
57 reviews
3.8
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20
The Virgin in the Ice
by Ellis Peters
2,296 members
55 reviews
4
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21
The Long Ships
by Frans G. Bengtsson
2,279 members
78 reviews
4.2
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22
Saint Peter's Fair
by Ellis Peters
2,277 members
56 reviews
3.8
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23
When Christ and His Saints Slept
by Sharon Kay Penman
2,222 members
64 reviews
4.2
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24
The Leper of Saint Giles
by Ellis Peters
2,161 members
52 reviews
3.9
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25
The Sanctuary Sparrow
by Ellis Peters
2,151 members
39 reviews
3.9
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26
A Rare Benedictine
by Ellis Peters
1,971 members
33 reviews
3.9
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27
The Devil's Novice
by Ellis Peters
1,945 members
41 reviews
3.9
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28
Piers Plowman
by William Langland
1,933 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
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29
Hild
by Nicola Griffith
1,909 members
105 reviews
4
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30
Dead Man's Ransom
by Ellis Peters
1,891 members
38 reviews
3.9
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31
Parzival
by Wolfram von Eschenbach
1,868 members
12 reviews
3.9
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32
The Heretic's Apprentice
by Ellis Peters
1,813 members
30 reviews
3.8
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33
The Quest of the Holy Grail
by Anonymous
1,263 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
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34
The Greenlanders
by Jane Smiley
1,229 members
36 reviews
3.9
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35
Beowulf: A Verse Translation [Norton Critical Edition]
by Daniel Donoghue
1,032 members
9 reviews
4.1
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36
Medieval Romances
by Roger Sherman Loomis
494 members
2 reviews
3.9
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37
The Lute Player
by Norah Lofts
278 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
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38
Private Renaissance
by Maria Bellonci
226 members
5 reviews
3.9
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39
A Search for the King
by Gore Vidal
217 members
4 reviews
½ 3.4
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40
Magnus
by George Mackay Brown
160 members
1 review
½ 3.5
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41
Good King Harry
by Denise Giardina
133 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
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