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Ken Follett
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The Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth builds an entire twelfth-century world around the construction of a single cathedral, and somehow makes laying stone the most gripping thing imaginable. It's a massive, propulsive medieval epic of ambition, faith, war, and revenge that earns every one of its thousand pages.