Natalie Haynes 2022
- What it is
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A myth or a classic told anew · tender and sad at once
- Genre
- Literary Fantasy Classics
- Feels
- Unflinching Tender Melancholic Wry Defiant
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.
Books similar to Stone Blind
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2 books
Tender and sad at once and retelling
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Madeline Miller 2011
Grouped with yours in Greek myth retellings told by the side characters
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Tender and sad at once · it restores your faith in people
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Tender and sad at once and unflinching
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Tender and sad at once · it leaves you shaken
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Rohinton Mistry 1995
Tender and sad at once · it makes you laugh
Empire Falls
Richard Russo 2001
Tender and sad at once · funny and sad at once
Sorrow and Bliss
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Tender and sad at once · funny and sad at once
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan 2003
Tender and sad at once · funny and sad at once
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Retelling and unflinching
Thousand Ships
Natalie Haynes 2019
Grouped with yours in Greek myth retellings told by the side characters
Silence of the Girls
Pat Barker 2018
Readers put them together in Greek myth retellings told by the side characters
Kaikeyi
Vaishnavi Patel 2022
Fierce and defiant · a big story that sweeps you along
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
Jonathan L. Howard 2008
In common with yours: retelling · odd and endearing
L' odyssâee de Pâenâelope
Margaret Atwood 2005
Grouped with yours in Greek myth retellings told by the side characters
Gospel of Loki
Joanne Harris 2014
In common with yours: retelling · comedy with teeth
2 books · Alike in just one
Only tender and sad at once
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes 1966
Tender and sad at once · it makes you cry, in a good way
The time traveler's wife
Audrey Niffenegger 2003
Tender and sad at once · love hurts sometimes
13 books · Alike in just one
Only retelling
Ariadne
Jennifer Saint 2021
A reader shelved it with yours in Greek myth retellings told by the side characters
Circe
Madeline Miller 2018
Readers put them together in Greek myth retellings told by the side characters
Till We Have Faces
C. S. Lewis 1956
Readers put them together in Greek myth retellings told by the side characters
The Palace of Illusions
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 2008
In common with yours: retelling · a world to get lost in
Lavinia
Ursula K. Le Guin 2008
Like yours: retelling · one to read slowly
Daughter of the forest
Juliet Marillier 2000
Like yours: retelling · it's hiding a secret
The Crystal Cave
Mary Stewart 1974
In common with yours: retelling · a world to get lost in
Spear
Nicola Griffith 2022
In common with yours: retelling · love in the middle of danger
East of Eden
John Steinbeck 1952
Like yours: retelling · it hurts, and then it heals
Historian
Elizabeth Kostova 2005
Like yours: retelling · the truth comes out bit by bit
Winter King
Bernard Cornwell 1995
In common with yours: retelling · love in the middle of danger
13 books · Alike in just one
Only unflinching
Animal Farm
George Orwell 1997
No clean hands here · full of big ideas
Chain-gang All-stars
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Fierce and defiant · it leaves you shaken
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Grady Hendrix 2020
Fierce and defiant, but in horror
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold 2000
It leaves you shaken · a farewell that moves you
Nightbitch
Rachel Yoder 2021
It gets under your skin · properly strange
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey 2005
Fierce and defiant · nobody is entirely good
Seize the day
Saul Bellow 1956
Melancholic and unhurried · it tells it with no filter
Parable Of The Sower
Octavia E. Butler 1993
Fierce and defiant · it tells it straight
Lesser Dead
Christopher Buehlman 2014
Properly scary · pitch-black comedy
The Group
Mary McCarthy 1968
Funny and sad at once · a small, intimate story
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus 2022
Love and laughs in equal parts · it leaves you with a warm feeling
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Matt Haig 2013
It makes you laugh · it restores your faith in people
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As defiant as yours, only more bittersweet and reflective
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