Arthurian cycle

The Arthurian cycle is loosely those works centered around King Arthur, Guinevere (of many spellings), and so on. The classic works were written over the last few centuries, but Marion Zimmer Bradley inaugurated a spate of modern retellings, often from the perspective of female characters, with The Mists of Avalon.

Works

• T. A. Barron, The Lost Years of Merlin
• Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon and sequels
• Gillian Bradshaw, Hawk of May, Kingdom of Summer, In Winter's Shadow
• Catherine Christian, The Pendragon
• Susan Cooper, Dark Is Rising
• Janice Elliott, The King Awakes and The Empty Throne (post-nuclear war reawakening of King Arthur)
• Courtway Jones, Dragon's Heirs
• Anne McCaffrey, Black Horses for the King
• Patricia Kenneally Morrison's Keltiad series (King Arthur sort of in space)
• Sharan Newman's Guinevere trilogy: Guinevere, The Chessboard Queen, Guinevere Evermore
• Susan Shwartz, The Grail of Hearts
• Mary Stewart series
• Rosemary Sutcliff, Sword at Sunset
• Jo Walton, The King's Name and The King's Peace
• Elizabeth Wein, The Winter Prince
• Joan Wolf, The Road to Avalon
• Jane Yolen, "Evian Steel"
• "King Arthur" (2004 film)

Further reading

• From Avalon to Tir Na Nog discussion group at LibraryThing