
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Reading Order
3 series · 106 books · Born ~1991
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is an acclaimed American author known for his thought-provoking speculative fiction. Over his prolific career, which spans from 1133 to 2024, he has penned 106 works, including three series and a variety of standalone novels and short story collections. His most notable contribution, "The New Middle Ages," showcases his unique storytelling style and imaginative concepts.
Short Story Collections Series
Complete1 book (2018–2018)
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| 1 | Friday Black 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
Standalone Novels Series
Complete1 book (2023–2023)
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| 1 | Chain-Gang All-Stars 2023Buy 🇺🇸 |
The New Middle Ages Series
Ongoing104 books (1133–2024)
Start with The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse(By: Betty Radice,Héloïse d'Argenteuil,Pierre Abélard,M.T. Clanchy), the first of 104 books in the The New Middle Ages series.
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| 1 | The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse(By: Betty Radice,Héloïse d'Argenteuil,Pierre Abélard,M.T. Clanchy) 1133Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 2 | Women in the Medieval Islamic World(By: Gavin R.G. Hambly) 1998Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 3 | Presence and Presentation: Women in the Chinese Literati Tradition(By: Sherry J. Mou) 1999Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 4 | The Ethics of Nature in the Middle Ages: On Boccaccio's Poetaphysics(By: Gregory B. Stone) 1999Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 5 | The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France(By: Héloïse d'Argenteuil,Pierre Abélard,Constant J. Mews,Neville Chiavaroli) 1999Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 6 | Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory: Bodies of Discourse 2000Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 7 | Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writers(By: Barbara Stevenson,Cynthia Ho,T. Takamiya) 2000Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 8 | Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England(By: Mary Dockray-Miller) 2000Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 9 | Robes and Honor: The Medieval World of Investiture(By: Stewart Gordon) 2001Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 10 | Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages(By: Pamela Sheingorn) 2001Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 11 | Eloquent Virgins: From Thecla to Joan of Arc(By: Maud Burnett McInerney) 2002Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 12 | Engaging Words: The Culture of Reading in the Later Middle Ages(By: Laurel Amtower) 2002Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 13 | Capetian Women(By: Kathleen D. Nolan) 2004Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 14 | Chaucer's Jobs(By: David R. Carlson) 2004Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 15 | Joan of Arc and Spirituality(By: Ann W. Astell,Bonnie Wheeler) 2004Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 16 | Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality and Sight in Medieval Text and Image(By: Emma Campbell,Robert Mills) 2004Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 17 | Ecstatic Transformation: On the Uses of Alterity in the Middle Ages(By: Michael Uebel) 2005Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 18 | False Fables and Exemplary Truth: Poetics and Reception of Medieval Mode(By: Elizabeth Allen) 2005Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 19 | Medieval Paradigms: 2 Volume Set: Essays in Honor of Jeremy duQuesnay Adams(By: Stephanie Hayes-Healy) 2005Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 20 | Medievalism and Orientalism: Three Essays on Literature, Architecture and Cultural Identity(By: John M. Ganim) 2005Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 21 | Necessary Conjunctions: The Social Self in Medieval England(By: David Gary Shaw) 2005Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 22 | Performing Women in the Middle Ages: Sex, Gender, and the Medieval Iberian Lyric(By: Denise K. Filios) 2005Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 23 | Queer Love in the Middle Ages(By: Anna Klosowska) 2005Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 24 | Queering Medieval Genres(By: Tison Pugh) 2005Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 25 | Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages(By: John R. Holmes,Jane Chance,Alfred Siewers) 2005Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 26 | Medieval Theology of Work: Peter Damian and the Medieval Religious Renewal Movement(By: Patricia Ranft) 2006Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 27 | My Quest for the Middle Ages(By: Jacques Le Goff) 2006Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 28 | On Farting: Bodily Wind in the Middle Ages(By: Valerie Allen) 2006Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 29 | Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures: New Essays(By: Lawrence L. Besserman) 2006Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 30 | Women, Power, and Religious Patronage in the Middle Ages(By: Erin L. Jordan) 2006Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 31 | Allegory and Sexual Ethics in the High Middle Ages(By: Noah D. Guynn) 2007Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 32 | Claustrophilia: The Erotics of Enclosure in Medieval Literature(By: Cary Howie) 2007Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 33 | England and Iberia in the Middle Ages, 12th-15th Century: Cultural, Literary, and Political Exchanges(By: Marìa Bullòn-Fernandez) 2007Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 34 | Hildegard of Bingen's Unknown Language: An Edition, Translation, and Discussion(By: Hildegard of Bingen,Sarah L. Higley) 2007Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 35 | Hybridity, Identity, and Monstrosity in Medieval Britain: On Difficult Middles(By: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen) 2007Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 36 | Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature(By: Scott Lightsey) 2007Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 37 | Medieval Go-betweens and Chaucer's Pandarus(By: Gretchen Mieszkowski) 2007Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 38 | Race, Class, and Gender in "Medieval" Cinema(By: Lynn T. Ramey,T. Pugh) 2007Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 39 | Representing Others in Medieval Iberian Literature(By: Michelle M. Hamilton) 2007Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 40 | The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women(By: Jane Chance) 2007Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 41 | The Surgeon in Medieval English Literature(By: Jeremy J. Citrome) 2007Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 42 | Women and the Medieval Epic: Gender, Genre, and the Limits of Epic Masculinity(By: Sarah S. Poor,Jana K. Schulman) 2007Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 43 | Battlefronts Real and Imagined: War, Border, and Identity in the Chinese Middle Period(By: Don J. Wyatt) 2008Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 44 | Chaucer’s Visions of Manhood(By: Holly A. Crocker) 2008Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 45 | Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England(By: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen) 2008Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 46 | Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages(By: Eileen A. Joy,Myra J. Seaman,Kimberly K. Bell,Mary K. Ramsey) 2008Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 47 | Excrement in the Late Middle Ages: Sacred Filth and Chaucer’s Fecopoetics(By: Susan Signe Morrison) 2008Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 48 | From the New Middle Ages to a New Dark Age: The Decline of the State and U.S. St(By: Phil Williams) 2008Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 49 | Imaginary Worlds in Medieval Books: Exploring the Manuscript Matrix(By: Martha Dana Rust) 2008Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 50 | In the Light of Medieval Spain: Islam, the West, and the Relevance of the Past(By: Giles Tremlett,David Coleman,Simon R. Doubleday) 2008Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 51 | Langland's Early Modern Identities(By: Sarah A. Kelen) 2008Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 52 | Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century(By: Lisa H. Cooper,A. Denny-Brown) 2008Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 53 | Paradigms and Methods in Early Medieval Studies(By: Celia Chazelle,Felice Lifshitz) 2008Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 54 | Sexuality and its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature(By: Tison Pugh) 2008Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 55 | The Flight from Desire: Augustine and Ovid to Chaucer(By: Robert R. Edwards) 2008Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 56 | The King and the Whore: King Roderick and La Cava(By: Elizabeth Anne Drayson) 2008Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 57 | The Legend of Charlemagne in the Middle Ages: Power, Faith, and Crusade(By: Matthew Gabriele,J. Stuckey) 2008Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 58 | The Medieval Chastity Belt: A Myth-Making Process(By: Albrecht Classen) 2008Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 59 | Wisdom and Her Lovers in Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic Literature(By: Emily C. Francomano) 2008Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 60 | Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval English Literature(By: Kathleen E. Kennedy) 2009Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 61 | Storytelling in Organizations: From Theory to Empirical Research(By: Kenneth A. Loparo) 2009Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 62 | Antimercantilism in Late Medieval English Literature(By: Roger A. Ladd) 2010Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 63 | Gender and Power in Medieval Exegesis(By: Theresa Tinkle) 2010Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 64 | Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog: Medieval Studies and New Media(By: Brantley L. Bryant) 2010Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 65 | Margaret Paston’s Piety(By: Joel T. Rosenthal) 2010Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 66 | Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer(By: Mary Catherine Davidson) 2010Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 67 | The Letters of Heloise and Abelard: A Translation of Their Collected Correspondence and Related Writings(By: Héloïse d'Argenteuil,Bonnie Wheeler,Mary Martin McLaughlin) 2010Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 68 | Contextualizing the Muslim Other in Medieval Christian Discourse(By: Jerold C. Frakes) 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 69 | Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England: Legally Absent, Virtually Present(By: Miriamne Ara Krummel) 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 70 | Divine Ventriloquism in Medieval English Literature: Power, Anxiety, Subversion(By: Mary Hayes) 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 71 | Ecofeminist Subjectivities: Chaucer’s Talking Birds(By: Lesley Kordecki) 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 72 | Ekphrastic Medieval Visions: A New Discussion in Interarts Theory(By: Claire Barbetti) 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 73 | Fairies in Medieval Romance(By: James Wade) 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 74 | Language as the Site of Revolt in Medieval and Early Modern England: Speaking as a Woman(By: M.C. Bodden) 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 75 | Outlawry in Medieval Literature(By: Timothy Scott Jones) 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 76 | Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England: Collected Essays(By: Raeleen Chai-Elsholz,Leo Carruthers,Tatjana Silec) 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 77 | Reason and Imagination in Chaucer, the Perle-Poet, and the Cloud-Author: Seeing from the Center(By: Linda Tarte Holley) 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 78 | Street Scenes: Late Medieval Acting and Performance(By: Sharon Aronson-Lehavi) 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 79 | The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature: Grief, Guilt, and Hypocrisy(By: Jeff Rider,Jamie Friedman) 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 80 | The Lesbian Premodern(By: Diane Watt,Noreen Giffney,Michelle M. Sauer) 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 81 | Vernacular and Latin Literary Discourses of the Muslim Other in Medieval Germany(By: Jerold C. Frakes) 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 82 | Women and Disability in Medieval Literature(By: Tory Vandeventer Pearman) 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 83 | Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent(By: Shennan Hutton) 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 84 | Boccaccio’s Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance(By: Robert Grudin,Michaela Paasche Grudin) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 85 | Chaucer's Feminine Subjects: Figures of Desire in The Canterbury Tales(By: John A. Pitcher) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 86 | Icons of Irishness from the Middle Ages to the Modern World(By: Maggie M. Williams) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 87 | Market Power: Lordship, Society, and Economy in Medieval Catalonia(By: Gregory B. Milton) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 88 | Marriage, Property, and Women's Narratives(By: Sally A. Livingston) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 89 | Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture(By: Gail Ashton,Daniel T. Kline) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 90 | Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative: Gender and Fictions of Literary Creation(By: Brooke Heidenreich Findley) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 91 | Reading Memory and Identity in the Texts of Medieval European Holy Women(By: Margaret Cotter-Lynch,B. Herzog) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 92 | Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts(By: Kenneth A. Loparo) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 93 | Shame and Guilt in Chaucer(By: Anne McTaggart) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 94 | Studies in the Medieval Atlantic(By: Benjamin Hudson) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 95 | The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1300 - 1600(By: Katherine H. Terrell,Joanna M. Martin,Mark Paul Bruce) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 96 | The Disney Middle Ages: A Fairy-Tale and Fantasy Past(By: Tison Pugh,Susan Aronstein) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 97 | The Genre of Medieval Patience Literature: Development, Duplication, and Gender(By: Robin Waugh) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 98 | The Medieval Python: The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry Jones(By: Robert F. Yeager,Toshiyuki Takamiya) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 99 | The Medieval Wild Man(By: Stock Lorraine Kochanske) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 100 | The Mediterranean World of Alfonso II and Peter II of Aragon(By: Ernest E. Jenkins) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 101 | The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture: Ninth-Twelfth Century AD(By: Nizar F. Hermes) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 102 | Women in the Military Orders of the Crusades(By: Myra Miranda Bom) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 103 | Word and Image in Medieval Kabbalah(By: Marla Segol) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 104 | The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise(By: Héloïse d'Argenteuil,Pierre Abélard) 2024Buy 🇺🇸 |
Frequently Asked Questions
- How many books has Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah written?
- Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah has written 106 books across 3 series. Their published works span from 1133 to 2024.
- What is the first book in each Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah series?
- Here are the first books in Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's series: The New Middle Ages: The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse(By: Betty Radice,Héloïse d'Argenteuil,Pierre Abélard,M.T. Clanchy).
- What order should I read Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's books?
- We recommend reading Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's series in publication order. Each series can be read independently.
- Is Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah still writing new books?
- Yes, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah has 1 ongoing series: The New Middle Ages.

