I've looked over the book list but I thought i'd ask for a more specific time period.
I am going to be doing an independent study on medieval eastern European history and I need to read and write on eight different books. Any country, or topic goes so long as it can fit into medieval eastern European history. I am interested in Medieval Russian history but I'm down for reading anything so long as it is interesting.
If you guys could recommend any good books and why I'd really appreciate it.
I think you should think carefully about your project, what topic you are interested in, and why it is relevant to yourself and your course rather than asking to be handed a topic and a bibliography for pursuing it. While our rule does not discourage asking about homework/research assignments it does encourage you to have put the effort in and think long and hard about what you're interested in - if you do your prep. and then come to ask you'll likely get a much richer response.
You're making a good start, but people such as myself will be much more happy to help (I think it would actually be harming you to just hand you sources and a project) if you have demonstrated some more preparation and demonstrated that you are genuinely interested rather than passingly interested - ie. that you are excited by the topic of your choice.
Finally, you haven't actually asked for a more specific time period - medieval Eastern European history does follow the same broad strokes as medieval European history (c.500-c.1500). This isn't true if one focuses on the Byzantine Empire where there is immense continuity with the Roman Empire and which many of the Western-centric chronologies fail to really account for.