Nicola Griffith 2022
- What it is
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A long road where every step counts · love in the middle of danger
- Genre
- Fantasy Historical fiction Literary
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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Love in the middle of danger and the long road
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Bernard Cornwell 1995
Readers put them together in Arthurian retellings told by anyone but Arthur
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Only love in the middle of danger
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Mary Stewart 1974
A reader shelved it with yours in Arthurian retellings told by anyone but Arthur
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Ursula K. Le Guin 2008
Like yours: retelling · one to read slowly
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Kazuo Ishiguro 2001
Grouped with yours in Arthurian retellings told by anyone but Arthur
Cold mountain
Charles Frazier 1997
In common with yours: the long road · it stays with you
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Juliet Marillier 2000
Like yours: retelling · it's hiding a secret
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Sophie Keetch 2023
Grouped with yours in Arthurian retellings told by anyone but Arthur
The Einstein Intersection
Samuel R. Delany 1967
In common with yours: retelling · properly strange
Till We Have Faces
C. S. Lewis 1956
Like yours: retelling · you'll keep turning it over for days
Historian
Elizabeth Kostova 2005
Like yours: retelling · the truth comes out bit by bit
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
Jonathan L. Howard 2008
In common with yours: retelling · odd and endearing
The left hand of darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin 1969
Like yours: the long road · it leaves you thinking
Thousand Ships
Natalie Haynes 2019
Like yours: retelling · a big story that sweeps you along
Ulysses
James Joyce 1914
In common with yours: retelling · full of big ideas
Between two fires
Christopher Buehlman 2012
Like yours: the long road · it ties your stomach in a knot
Silence of the Girls
Pat Barker 2018
Like yours: retelling · it leaves you shaken
Stone Blind
Natalie Haynes 2022
Like yours: retelling · tender and sad at once
News of the World ARE
Paulette Jiles 2016
Like yours: the long road · tender and sad at once
Gospel of Loki
Joanne Harris 2014
In common with yours: retelling · comedy with teeth
Parable Of The Sower
Octavia E. Butler 1993
Like yours: the long road · fierce and defiant
King Solomon's Mines
H. Rider Haggard 2000
In common with yours: the long road · a world to get lost in
Kaikeyi
Vaishnavi Patel 2022
In common with yours: retelling · a big story that sweeps you along
3 books · Alike in just one
Only lyrical prose
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
Max Porter 2015
Properly strange · a farewell that moves you
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse 1951
It stays with you · one to read slowly
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