Kyle Harrison
to-read
Between Two Fires
- Author
- Christopher Buehlman
- Published
- 2012
- Pages
- 456
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Christopher Buehlman’s novel of a disgraced knight and an orphaned girl crossing plague-year France in 1348, taking the medieval supernatural literally — the Black Death reconstructed from inside the belief system of the people living through it.
Where I heard about it
- A crowd-sourced X thread — in the replies to @moseskagan asking “What historical fiction should I read next? (Bonus points for something involving building or trade, rather than violence)” (the thread, April 2025); the full list is on What historical fiction should I… (tweet).
About this edition
The recommendation was the bare title “Between Two Fires.” I’ve read it as Buehlman’s 2012 medieval novel rather than Joshua Yaffa’s 2020 book on Putin’s Russia, since the thread asked for historical fiction.
Connections
- What historical fiction should I… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.