Books like The Mabinogion
12 books with a reading profile close to The Mabinogion by Unknown. Deep and outward-looking; a moderate read.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Also deep · literary, classic literature
At a New Year’s feast in Camelot, a giant green stranger interrupts the festivities to challenge King Arthur’s knights to a lethal exchange of blows.
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2
The Lord of the Rings
Also deep · literary, classic literature
In the fictional realm of Middle-earth, an ancient malevolence returns through the discovery of a gold ring that holds the soul of the Dark Lord Sauron.
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Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
Also deep and outward-looking · literary, classic literature
Thomas Malory compiled and reimagined disparate French and English sources to create this definitive narrative of the Arthurian cycle.
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The Silmarillion
Also deep · literary, classic literature
The Silmarillion chronicles the history of Middle-earth from its creation through a divine song to the end of the Third Age.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
by Gawain Poet
Also deep · literary, classic literature
At Camelot's New Year feast, a huge green knight rides in and offers a challenge: anyone may strike him with an axe, if he can return the blow in a year and a day.
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6
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat
Also deep · literary, classic literature
Set in ancient Athens and an adjacent enchanted forest, this comedy follows four young lovers—Hermia, Lysander, Helena, and Demetrius—whose romantic entanglements spiral into chaos due to the interference of the fairy k…
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7
Something Wicked This Way Comes
by Ray Bradbury
literary, classic literature
Jim Nightshade and Will Halloway are thirteen-year-old neighbors in Green Town, Illinois, when Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show arrives by train at three in the morning.
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8
Earthsea
literary, classic literature
In the archipelago of Earthsea, magic functions through the knowledge of True Names, which grant a sorcerer command over objects and living things.
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9
Lost Horizon
by James Hilton
literary, classic literature
During the chaos of a 1930s rebellion in British India, veteran diplomat Hugh Conway and three companions are kidnapped when their plane is diverted deep into the Kunlun Mountains of Tibet.
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10
Watership Down
literary, classic literature
Hazel leads a small group of rabbits away from their home burrow after his brother Fiver experiences a psychic premonition of its total destruction.
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11
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
by Henry Fielding, Alice Wakely
literary, classic literature
Squire Allworthy discovers an infant, Tom Jones, in his bed and decides to raise the foundling alongside his nephew, the spiteful Master Blifil.
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12
Titus Andronicus
literary, classic literature
Titus Andronicus returns to Rome after a decade of war against the Goths, bringing Queen Tamora and her sons as prisoners.
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