Books like The Song of Achilles
An exiled prince grows up beside Achilles, becomes his companion and lover, and follows him to Troy, where prophecy and pride carry them towards the war's end.
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Circe
Exiled to the island of Aiaia for witchcraft, the scorned daughter of the sun god Helios spends centuries honing her power, entangled with gods and with mortal visitors such as Odysseus.
A Thousand Ships
The Trojan War told by its women, from the Trojan queens waiting on the shore to be taken as slaves to Penelope writing increasingly sharp letters to her absent husband.
The Witch's Heart
Angrboda, a witch burned by Odin and left for dead, retreats to a forest at the edge of the worlds, where the trickster Loki finds her and the children they have together become central to the end of everything.
Return to Ithaca
Odysseus, worn out by twenty years of war and wandering, washes up among the Phaeacians and makes his way home to Ithaca, where suitors are eating through his house.
A Touch of Darkness
Persephone, goddess of spring, has spent her life sheltered by her mother and passes for a journalism student in New Athens, until a game of cards with Hades, god of the dead, binds her to a contract she cannot easily break.
The Penelopiad
Speaking from the underworld, Penelope gives her own account of waiting twenty years for Odysseus, and the chorus of twelve maids he hanged on his return has its say too.
Blood of Hercules
A blood test lands Alexis Hert, who considers herself a survivor rather than any kind of hero, in the Spartan War Academy, where immortality has to be won, gladiators train her for the Coliseum and her professors are the brooding heirs to the underworld.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
An Italian officer and a Greek woman fall in love on occupied Cephalonia during World War II.
The Binding
Emmett Farmer is sent to apprentice with a bookbinder in a world where books are made from people's painful memories, which are then gone for good, and he finds one with his own name in it.
Wild Reverence
Matilda, the youngest goddess of her underworld clan, carries letters between the realms, and ten years after a mortal boy she knew from dreams prayed to her for help that never came, she tumbles through his window with a letter that will change both their fates.
A Promise of Fire
Cat, the Kingmaker who can hear truth through lies, hides from her murderous mother and her destiny as a soothsayer in a travelling circus, until Griffin, an ambitious warlord from the magicless south, takes her to be the weapon that holds his newly conquered realm.
The Games Gods Play
Lyra Keres, a clerk for the Order of Thieves cursed by Zeus before she was born so that no one could ever love her, is chosen by Hades as his champion in the Crucible, the deadly contest the gods hold every hundred years to decide who rules Olympus.