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Books like Unfinished Tales

12 books with a reading profile close to Unfinished Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien. Deep; a moderate read.

1

Beren and Lúthien

by J.R.R. Tolkien

Also deep · dense, classic literature

Tolkien wrote the story of Beren and Lúthien around 1917, and it lies at the center of his mythology.
2

The Silmarillion

by J.R.R. Tolkien

Also deep · dense, classic literature

The Silmarillion chronicles the history of Middle-earth from its creation through a divine song to the end of the Third Age.
3

Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table

by Thomas Malory

Also deep · dense, classic literature

Thomas Malory compiled and reimagined disparate French and English sources to create this definitive narrative of the Arthurian cycle.
4

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

by Gawain Poet

Also deep · dense, 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.
5

Chroniques

by Jean Froissart

Also deep · dense, classic literature

Jean Froissart’s Chroniques provides a detailed eyewitness and hearsay account of the Hundred Years' War, spanning from 1326 to 1400.
6

The God is Not Willing

by Steven Erikson

dense, fantasy

Set ten years after the Malazan Book of the Fallen, this novel follows a company of Malazan Marines stationed in the silver-mining region of Northern Genabackis.
7

Deadhouse Gates (The Malazan Book of the Fallen, Book 2)

by Steven Erikson

dense, fantasy

In the Seven Cities subcontinent, a prophetic wildfire known as the Dryjhna Whirlwind ignites a continent-wide rebellion against Malazan imperial rule.
8

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

by Mark Twain

classic literature, fantasy

Hank Morgan, a pragmatic 19th-century factory superintendent from Hartford, survives a blow to the head only to wake up in Camelot during the year 528.
9

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

by Burton Raffel

Also deep · classic literature, fantasy

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.
10

Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare

Also deep · dense, classic literature

After a shipwrecks near the coast of Illyria, Viola believes her twin brother Sebastian is dead.
11

Babel

by R.F. Kuang

Also deep · dense, fantasy

Set in 1830s Oxford, the story follows Robin Swift, a Cantonese orphan trained to work within Babel, the university’s prestigious Institute of Translation.
12

Boxen

by C. S. Lewis

classic literature, fantasy

Boxen preserves the childhood writings and drawings of C.

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