Adult & Teen Summer Reading Challenge 2026

Week Four — The Middle Ages

Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell
The Moon in the Palace by Wina Dai Randel
Matrix by Lauren Groff
The Architect's Apprentice by Elif Shafak
A Burnable Book by Bruce Holsinger
The Half-Drowned King by Linnea Hartsuyker
The Buried Giant by Kazou Ishiguro
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Nicked by M.T. Anderson
Flame in the Mist by Renee Ahdieh

Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones
The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization by Jonathan Lyons
The Medieval Cook by Bridget Ann Henisch
What Life Was Like Among Samurai and Shoguns: Japan, AD 1000-1700 by Time-Life Books
Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi by Timothy Pauketat
Queens of the Age of Chivalry, 1299-1409 by Alison Weir

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