What are some good books out there about England during the middle ages? There's so many that it's hard to filter through them all. Also preferably something fun to read, not dry slow information books. Thanks
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https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/books/europe#wiki_middle_ages
https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/books/europe#wiki_britain_and_ireland
One that comes to mind for me (I am not a medievalist, so caveat lector) is Barbara Hanawalt's "The Ties That Bound," which is a great look at peasant families in medieval England. It's a bit older (1986) but my medievalist friends say it holds up.
And I should mention u/sunagainstgold's favorite book, "The Pillars of the Earth," though it's fiction.
You might be interested in Muarice Keen's England in the Later Middle Ages. It very much does what it says on the tin, it's a narrative history of England from about 1290 to 1415. It's a bit old now, it was originally published back in 1973, so it is definitely out of date in certain areas, but Keen was a major scholar who was ahead of his times in a lot of his writing so it's aged better than many books from the same time.
The reason I would recommend Keen's book despite its age is that Keen is an excellent writer, so if you're looking for readability he's definitely your man. The book is a great entry point into the subject as long as you keep in mind that history is an endless conversation and Keen's book is hardly the final word.
If you want to read something fictionalized, but probably fairly accurate (so I’ve heard), it would be Connie Willis’, “Doomsday Book”. About a woman who travels back in time, accidentally right during the plague, and is stuck there. https://www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/Connie-Willis/Doomsday-Book.html