Madeline Miller 2018
- What it is
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A myth or a classic told anew
- Genre
- Fantasy Classics Historical fiction
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
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Grouped with yours in Greek myth retellings told by the side characters
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Readers put them together in Greek myth retellings told by the side characters
Thousand Ships
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Grouped with yours in Greek myth retellings told by the side characters
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In common with yours: retelling · a world to get lost in
Lavinia
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Like yours: retelling · one to read slowly
Daughter of the forest
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Like yours: retelling · it's hiding a secret
Spear
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In common with yours: retelling · love in the middle of danger
Kaikeyi
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In common with yours: retelling · a big story that sweeps you along
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Like yours: retelling · a mystery you want to solve
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Only defiant
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Love hurts sometimes · love in the thick of the adventure
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Love hurts sometimes · it leaves you with a warm feeling
Like Water for Chocolate
Laura Esquivel 1992
It raises the temperature · love hurts sometimes
Cold mountain
Charles Frazier 1997
It stays with you · tender and sad at once
The Group
Mary McCarthy 1968
Funny and sad at once · a small, intimate story
The Lifecycle of Software Objects
Ted Chiang 2010
Tender and sad at once, but in science fiction
Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles 2016
Odd and endearing · funny and sad at once
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes 1966
It makes you cry, in a good way · a farewell that moves you
Great Circle
Maggie Shipstead 2021
As atmospheric and bittersweet as yours, only more mysterious and reflective
Carrie Soto Is Back
Taylor Jenkins Reid 2022
As bittersweet and defiant as yours, only more reflective and tense
Between two fires
Christopher Buehlman 2012
It ties your stomach in a knot · a long road where every step counts
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury 1953
You'll keep turning it over for days · full of big ideas
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood 1986
It gets under your skin · a society that controls everything
First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Claire North 2014
Full of big ideas · travelling in time
The summer book
Tove Jansson 2000
It leaves you thinking · tender and sad at once
Jasmine Throne
Tasha Suri 2021
Love hurts sometimes · you won't want to come back
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel 2014
It hurts, and then it heals, but in science fiction
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Only retelling
Till We Have Faces
C. S. Lewis 1956
Readers put them together in Greek myth retellings told by the side characters
The Crystal Cave
Mary Stewart 1974
In common with yours: retelling · a world to get lost in
Historian
Elizabeth Kostova 2005
Like yours: retelling · the truth comes out bit by bit
Silence of the Girls
Pat Barker 2018
Readers put them together in Greek myth retellings told by the side characters
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
Jonathan L. Howard 2008
In common with yours: retelling · odd and endearing
Witch's Heart
Genevieve Gornichec 2021
In common with yours: retelling · it restores your faith in people
Winter King
Bernard Cornwell 1995
In common with yours: retelling · love in the middle of danger
Gospel of Loki
Joanne Harris 2014
In common with yours: retelling · comedy with teeth
Ulysses
James Joyce 1914
In common with yours: retelling · full of big ideas
The Einstein Intersection
Samuel R. Delany 1967
In common with yours: retelling · properly strange
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