The new film, The Green Knight, starring Dev Patel has highlighted a mini-trend of recent retellings of Arthurian legends and lore. If you've seen the film or are looking forward to it, you might also be interested in some of these books written in the last few years with new takes on various Arthurian tales. We also have the Tolkien translation of the Green Knight tale as well as a poetic translation from 2007 if you want to check out the original story.
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Yvain : the knight of the lion
by M. T Anderson TEEN GRAPHIC NOVEL. A first graphic novel by the National Book Award-winning author of Symphony for the City of the Dead captures the romantic and perilous quest of the Arthurian knight in a vibrant visual interpretation of Chrétien de Troyes' 12th-century epic poem. |
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Once & future
by Amy Rose Capetta TEEN FICTION. Resets the Arthurian legend in outer space, with King Arthur reincarnated as seventeen-year-old Ari, a female king whose quest is to stop a tyrranical corporate government, aided by a teenaged Merlin. |
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Legendborn
by Tracy Deonn TEEN FICTION. Wanting to escape her previous life after the accidental death of her mother, 16-year-old Bree enrolls in a program for high school students at the local university before her witness to a magical attack reveals her undiscovered powers as well as sinister truths about her mother’s death. |
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The buried giant
by Kazuo Ishiguro ADULT FICTION. A tale of lost memories, vengeance and war by the award-winning author of The Remains of the Day follows the experiences of a couple who journeys across a troubled land of mist and rain the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years. |
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Sword stone table : old legends, new voices
by Swapna Krishna ADULT FICTION. Featuring stories by bestselling, cross-genre writers, this anthology of gender-bent, queered, race-bent, and inclusive retellings from the vast lore surrounding King Arthur, Camelot, and the Knights of the Round Table breathes new life into beloved myths. |
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Misfits of Avalon : The Queen of Air and Delinquency
by Kel McDonald TEEN GRAPHIC NOVEL.Four modern-day misfit teens are reluctant recruits to save the mystical isle of Avalon. Magically empowered (and chained to the task) by a set of rings, and directed in their mission by a tight-lipped talking dog, they must stop the rise of King Arthur.But as they struggle to get used to their powers and each other, they're faced with an even greater challenge: the discovery that they may not be the good guys in this story. But does that really matter, anyway? |
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Kingfisher
by Patricia A McKillip ADULT FICTION. After the son of a sorceress discovers the truth about his father, a knight in the court of King Arden, who had a destructive infatuation with the queen, he sets out towards Severluna to help restore the kingdom to its former glory. |
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The left-handed booksellers of London
by Garth Nix TEEN FICTION. Searching for the father she has never met in an alternate-world 1983 London, Susan is drawn into an extended family of magical, left-handed, fighting booksellers who police intruders from the mythical Old World of England. |
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Sweet black waves
by Kristina Pérez TEEN FICTION. When she unwittingly saves the life of an enemy, lady-in-waiting Branwen awakens an ancient healing magic within herself, warming her heart to her enemy's cause and setting herself at odds with her best friend, the princess |
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The lost queen : a novel
by Signe Pike ADULT FICTION. The twin sister of the sixth-century druid warrior who would inspire the Merlin legend navigates the violent forces of Christianity and Anglo-Saxon colonization to preserve the Old Ways and fight for her kingdom's survival. |
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The other Merlin
by Robyn Schneider TEEN FICTION. Emry, the daughter of the famed wizard Merlin, must disguise herself as her twin brother to learn magic in Prince Arthur's court, where she finds scandal, danger, and romance. |
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By force alone
by Lavie Tidhar ADULT FICTION. A satirical retelling of the Arthurian myth, inspired by the age of Brexit and Trump, depicts an Arthur and Merlin who are anything but the heroes of legend. |
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Seven endless forests
by April Genevieve Tucholke TEEN FICTION. Sisters Torvi and Morgunn, surviving on their own after a plague, decide to search for a mythical sword in a stone tree in the Green Wild Forest, but when Morgunn is captured, Torvi must do whatever it takes to rescue her sister. |
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Cursed
by Thomas Wheeler TEEN FICTION. The Harvey and Eisner Award-winning creator of 300 presents the graphic novel tale of a dark magic outcast who endeavors to reunite an ancient weapon with a legendary sorcerer in the wake of her village’s massacre. |
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The Guinevere deception
by Kiersten White TEEN FICTION. Sent by a banished Merlin to protect King Arthur, a sixteen-year-old impersonating the deceased Guinevere struggles to fit in at Camelot where the magic she practices is banished. |