Arthur the King

10 best books like Arthur the King (Allan Massie): Sourcery, Pyramids, Soul Music, The River of No Return, The Winter of the Witch, The Once and Future King, We Hunt the Flame, When I Arrived at the Castle, Bright Burns the Night, Dark Breaks the Dawn

Sourcery
AuthorTerry Pratchett
ISBN0061020672
When last seen, the singularly inept wizard Rincewind had fallen off the edge of the world. Now magically, he's turned up again, and this time he's brought the Luggage.

But that's not all....

Once upon a time, there was an eighth son of an eighth son who was, of course, a wizard. As if that...
Pyramids
AuthorTerry Pratchett
ISBN0061020656
It's bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn't a clue as to what a pharaoh is supposed to do. After all, he's been trained at Ankh-Morpork's famed assassins' school, across the sea from the Kingdom of the Sun. First, there's the monumental task of building a suitable resting place for Dad -- a pyramid...
Soul Music
AuthorTerry Pratchett
Other children get given xylophones. Susan just had to ask her grandfather to take his vest off.
Yes. There's a Death in the family.

It's hard to grow up normally when Grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe – especially when you have to take over the family business, and everyone...
The River of No Return
AuthorBee Ridgway
ISBN0142180831
Two hundred years after he was about to die on a Napoleonic battlefield, Lord Nicholas Falcott wakes up in twenty-first-century London. The Guild, a secretive fraternity of time travelers, informs him that there is no return. But Nick yearns for the beautiful Julia Percy, who remains in 1815. As fate...
The Winter of the Witch
AuthorKatherine Arden
ISBN1101886005
Following their adventures in The Bear and the Nightingale and The Girl in the Tower, Vasya and Morozko return in this stunning conclusion to the bestselling Winternight Trilogy, battling enemies mortal and magical to save both Russias, the seen and the unseen.


Now Moscow has been struck...
The Once and Future King
AuthorT.H. White
ISBN0441627404
This book terrified me, on many levels. It's 667 pages long, to begin with. It's been a while since I read a serious chunkster like that (besides Harry Potter, which somehow in my mind doesn't really count...).

Besides that, I am just not a fan of "Authur" stories, despite my deep love of the Disney...
We Hunt the Flame
AuthorHafsah Faizal
ISBN0374311544
People lived because she killed.
People died because he lived.

Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the king. If Zafira...
When I Arrived at the Castle
AuthorEmily Carroll
"A castle, a killer, and prey all bound and blurred by lust and blood."

Like many before her that have never come back, she's made it to the Countess' castle determined to snuff out the horror, but she could never be prepared for what hides within its turrets; what unfurls under its fluttering...
Bright Burns the Night
AuthorSara B. Larson
ISBN1338068784
Ten years ago, King Lorcan of the Dark Kingdom Dorjhalon defeated Queen Evelayn and cut her conduit stone from her. Since then, he has kept her trapped in her swan form. With the loss of balance between Dark and Light, winter has descended and the Draíolon of Éadrolan lose more power every day. But once...
Dark Breaks the Dawn
AuthorSara B. Larson
On her eighteenth birthday, Princess Evelayn of Eadrolan, the Light Kingdom, can finally access the full range of her magical powers. The light looks brighter, the air is sharper, and the energy she can draw when fighting feels almost limitless.

But while her mother, the queen, remains busy...
This Census-Taker
AuthorChina Miéville
ISBN1101967323
For readers of George Saunders, Kelly Link, and Karen Russell, This Census Taker is the poignant and uncanny new novella from award-winning and bestselling author China Miéville. After witnessing a profoundly traumatic event, a boy is left alone in a remote house on a hilltop with his increasingly...
The Shadow Queen
AuthorC.J. Redwine
ISBN0062360248
Lorelai Diederich, crown princess and fugitive at large, has one mission: kill the wicked queen who took both the Ravenspire throne and the life of her father. To do that, Lorelai needs to use the one weapon she and Queen Irina have in common—magic. She’ll have to be stronger, faster, and more powerful...
Chrzest ognia
AuthorAndrzej Sapkowski
The Wizards Guild has been shattered by a coup and, in the uproar, Geralt was seriously injured. The Witcher is supposed to be a guardian of the innocent, a protector of those in need, a defender against powerful and dangerous monsters that prey on men in dark times.
But now that dark times have fallen...
The Memory of Fire
AuthorCallie Bates
ISBN0399177418
2.5 of 5 stars at The BiblioSanctum https://bibliosanctum.com/2018/06/04/...

Writing a negative is never easy, and there are certain books that make me feel extra crummy about it because I know the problem lies solely within me and not in the book itself. The Memory of Fire is a perfect example....
The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel
AuthorGareth Hinds
If you want a beautifully illustrated, graphic novel retelling Homer’s Odyssey, read this!

I read this with my almost 11 year old twins, and we loved it. There were a few panels that had some partial nudity and some blood and gore, so be aware of that if you were going to show this to younger children....
Poe: Stories and Poems: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
AuthorGareth Hinds
ISBN0763681121
In a thrilling adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe s best-known works, acclaimed artist-adapter Gareth Hinds translates Poe's dark genius into graphic-novel format.
It is true that I am nervous. But why will you say that I am mad?
In "The Cask of Amontillado," a man exacts revenge on a disloyal friend...
Arm of the Sphinx
AuthorJosiah Bancroft
The second book in the word-of-mouth phenomenon fantasy series about one man's dangerous journey through a labyrinthine world.

The Tower of Babel is proving to be as difficult to reenter as it was to break out of. Forced into a life of piracy, Senlin and his eclectic crew are struggling to survive...
Angus: O Guerreiro de Deus (Angus, #2)
AuthorOrlando Paes Filho
ISBN8589885992
No ano de Nosso Senhor de 1147, Angus MacLachlan partiu da Escócia e rumou com seus irmãos e compatriotas em direção à Terra Santa. No Oriente, grandes tragédias os aguardam. O socorro dos templários será suficiente? Tem início a Segunda Cruzada e as injustiças mais graves não surgirão...
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