List of Books About King Arthur - 20th Century

20th Century

• King Arthur and his Knights (1903) by Maude Radford
• Howard Pyle - In a four volume set including:
  • "The Story of King Arthur and His Knights" (1903)
  • "The Story of the Champions of the Round Table" (1905)
  • "The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions" (1907)
  • "The Story of the Grail and the Passing of King Arthur" (1910)
• Kairo-kō (1905) by Natsume Sōseki
• War in Heaven (1930) by Charles W. S. Williams, a "modern-day" (20th century) quest for the Holy Grail
• The Little Wench (1935) by Philip Lindsay
• Merlin's Godson by H. Warner Munn
  • King of the World's Edge (1936)
  • The Ship from Atlantis (1967)
  • Merlin's Ring (1974)
• Taliessin through Logres (1938) and The Region of the Summer Stars (1944) by Charles W. S. Williams (poem cycles)
• The Once and Future King by T. H. White including
  • The Sword in the Stone (1938)
  • The Queen of Air and Darkness (or The Witch in the Wood) (1939)
  • The Ill-Made Knight (1940)
  • The Candle in the Wind (1958)
  • The Book of Merlyn (1958)
• That Hideous Strength (1945) by C. S. Lewis
• Porius (1951) by John Cowper Powys
• King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (1953) by Roger Lancelyn Green
• The Great Captains (1956) by Henry Treece
• Sword at Sunset (1963) and The Sword and the Circle (1981, juvenile) by Rosemary Sutcliff
• The Merlin series by Mary Stewart
  • The Crystal Cave (1970)
  • The Hollow Hills (1973)
  • The Last Enchantment (1979)
  • The Wicked Day (1983)
  • The Prince and the Pilgrim (1995)
• The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1975) by John Steinbeck
• Arthur Rex: A Legendary Novel by Thomas Berger (1978)
• The Three Damosels (1978) and The Enchantresses (1998) by Vera Chapman (the latter with Mike Ashley)
• The Mists of Avalon (1983) by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• The Pendragon Cycle by Stephen Lawhead
  • Taliesin (1987)
  • Merlin (1988)
  • Arthur (1989)
  • Pendragon (1994)
  • Grail (1997)
  • Avalon (1999)
• The Guinevere trilogy by Persia Woolley
  • Child of the Northern Spring (1987)
  • Queen of the Summer Stars (1991)
  • Guinevere: The Legend in Autumn (1993)
• Knight Life (1987), One Knight Only (2004) and Fall of Knight (2007) by Peter David
• The Road to Avalon (1988) by Joan Wolf
• The Last Pendragon by Robert Rice (1991)
• The Arthor series by A. A. Attanasio
  • The Dragon and the Unicorn (1994)
  • The Eagle and the Sword (1997)
  • The Wolf and the Crown (1998)
  • The Serpent and the Grail (1999)
• The Child Queen (1994), The High Queen (1995), (collected in Queen of Camelot(2002)), Prince of Dreams (2004), and Grail Prince (2003) by Nancy McKenzie
• Arthur, King (1995) by Dennis Lee Anderson
• I am Mordred (1998) and I am Morgan le Fay (2001) by Nancy Springer
• Hallowed Isle by Diana L. Paxson: The Book of the Sword (1999), The Book of the Spear (1999), The Book of the Cauldron (1999), The Book of the Stone (2000).
• The Guenevere novels by Rosalind Miles
  • Guenevere, Queen of the Summer Country (1999)
  • The Knight of the Sacred Lake (2000)
  • Child of the Holy Grail (2000)

• The Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell
  • The Winter King
  • Enemy of God
  • Excalibur
• By Jane Yolen:
  • Sword of the Rightful King
  • The Young Merlin Trilogy
• By Gerald Morris:
  • The Squire's Tale
  • The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady
  • The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf
  • Parsifal's Page
  • The Ballad of Sir Dinadan
  • The Princess, the Crone, and the Dung-Cart Knight
  • The Lioness and her Knight
  • The Quest of the Fair Unknown
  • Squire's Quest
  • The Adventures of Sir Givret the Short
  • The Adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great
• By Molly Cochran and Warren Murphy
  • The Forever King
  • The Broken Sword
  • The Third Magic

• The Quest for Merlin by Nikolai Tolstoy Non-fiction (1985)
• The Coming of the King: The First Book of Merlin by Nikolai Tolstoy (1988)
• Stones of Power by David Gemmell
  • Ghost King (1988)
  • Last Sword of Power (1988)
• By Anonymous
  • King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (Illustrated Junior Library, Deluxe edition, September 1, 1950)
• To the Chapel Perilous Naomi Mitchison (1955)
• Our Man in Camelot by Anthony Price (1975) (The sixth book in the Dr David Audley series uses the Arthur myth as a MacGuffin in a modern spy thriller.)
• By Parke Godwin
  • Firelord (1980)
  • Beloved Exile (1984)
  • The Last Rainbow (1985)
• The Tales of Arthur, books of The Keltiad, by Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
  • The Hawk's Grey Feather (1991)
  • The Oak Above the Kings (1994)
  • The Hedge of Mist (1996)
• A Dream of Eagles (Camulod Chronicles) by Jack Whyte
  • The Sky Stone (1992)
  • The Singing Sword (1993)
  • The Eagles' Brood (1994)
  • The Saxon Shore (1998)
  • The Sorcerer Part 1: The Fort at River's Bend (1997)
  • The Sorcerer Part 2: The Sorcerer: Metamorphosis (1999)
  • Uther (2001)
  • Clothar the Frank (titled The Lance Thrower outside of Canada) (2004)
  • The Eagle (2006)
• The Lost Years of Merlin Epic, by T.A. Barron
  • The Lost Years of Merlin (1996)
  • The Seven Songs of Merlin (1997)
  • The Fires of Merlin (1998)
  • The Mirror of Merlin (1999)
  • The Wings of Merlin (2000)
• Albion, a trilogy of historical novels by British author Patrick McCormack (1997, 2000, 2007)
• The King Awakes and The Empty Throne by Janice Elliott, set in a Medieval-style society several generations after a nuclear war. Both novels deal with the return of King Arthur and his friendship with a youth from the post-holocaust world
• Merlin's Bones by Fred Saberhagen
• The Idylls of the Queen by Phyllis Ann Karr
• Eagle in the Snow by Wallace Breem; the coming of Arthur is foreseen by the chief of Segontium in the last page of the book
• The Winter Prince by Elizabeth Wein
• The Dragon Lord by David Drake
• Merlin's Mirror (1975) by Andre Norton
• The Return of Merlin (1995) by Deepak Chopra
• Camelot 3000, a comic book series that reincarnates Arthur and his knights in the far future
• The Dark Is Rising, a series written for older children and young adults, by Susan Cooper
• The Fionavar Tapestry, a fantasy trilogy by Canadian author Guy Gavriel Kay
• The Merlin Mystery, A puzzlehunt book which focused heavily on Merlin and Nimue having a love after Arthur has been entombed; it offered a cash prize as well as a gold, silver, bronze and crystal wand. However, the puzzle went unsolved and the prize unclaimed.
• The Down the Long Wind series by Gillian Bradshaw (1980–82)
  • Hawk of May
  • Kingdom of Summer
  • In Winter's Shadow
• The Little Wench by Philip Lindsay
• Merlin (1978) by Robert Nye