Kyle Harrison
to-read
The Last Kingdom
The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, Book 1)
- Author
- Bernard Cornwell
- Published
- 2004
- Pages
- 474
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Book one of Cornwell’s Saxon Stories — Alfred’s Wessex against the Danes, told through a Saxon raised by Vikings. Recommended in the thread as a series.
Recommended as a series; this card stands for the whole Saxon Stories sequence, which runs to thirteen volumes.
Where I saw it: In the reply thread to @moseskagan’s question, “What historical fiction should I read next? (Bonus points for something involving building or trade, rather than violence)” (April 13, 2025) — a crowd-sourced list Kyle recovered by hand and saved to his Apple Note “Books To Read”; the full set of replies lives on What historical fiction should I… (tweet). It was listed there as “The Last Kingdom series by Bernard Cornwell”.
Connections
- Historical Fiction — The genre the thread was asking about.
- War — The register of the series.
- What historical fiction should I… (tweet) — the thread this recommendation came from.