Ursula K. Le Guin 2008
- What it is
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A myth or a classic told anew · a small, intimate story
- Genre
- Literary Historical fiction Fantasy Classics
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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Only retelling
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Readers put them together in Myth retellings for when you've run out of Greek ones
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Like yours: retelling · you'll keep turning it over for days
Spear
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In common with yours: retelling · love in the middle of danger
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Like yours: retelling · it's hiding a secret
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Mary Stewart 1974
In common with yours: retelling · a world to get lost in
Ariadne
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Like yours: retelling · you won't want to come back
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Readers put them together in Myth retellings for when you've run out of Greek ones
Thousand Ships
Natalie Haynes 2019
Like yours: retelling · a big story that sweeps you along
Stone Blind
Natalie Haynes 2022
Like yours: retelling · tender and sad at once
Kaikeyi
Vaishnavi Patel 2022
Grouped with yours in Myth retellings for when you've run out of Greek ones
Historian
Elizabeth Kostova 2005
Like yours: retelling · the truth comes out bit by bit
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James Joyce 1914
In common with yours: retelling · full of big ideas
Gospel of Loki
Joanne Harris 2014
A reader shelved it with yours in Myth retellings for when you've run out of Greek ones
Silence of the Girls
Pat Barker 2018
Like yours: retelling · it leaves you shaken
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Jonathan L. Howard 2008
In common with yours: retelling · odd and endearing
East of Eden
John Steinbeck 1952
Like yours: retelling · it hurts, and then it heals
The Einstein Intersection
Samuel R. Delany 1967
In common with yours: retelling · properly strange
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