15 Best fantasy books like A Spartan's Sorrow by Hannah M. Lynn

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A Spartan's Sorrow

By: Hannah M. Lynn

3.99

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From an award winning author comes a story of feminist revenge perfect for readers of Madeleine Mil…

If you liked the fantasy plot in A Spartan's Sorrow by Hannah M. Lynn , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Olympos: Vizi, amori e avventure degli antichi dei

By: Giorgio Ieranò

3.77

Format: 342 pages,

Gli dei dell'antica Grecia sono rissosi, violenti, bugiardi, passionali... molto diversi dall'immag… read more

Similar categories in Giorgio Ieranò's Olympos: Vizi, amori e avventure degli antichi dei book and Hannah M. Lynn's A Spartan's Sorrow

  • greek mythology
  • mythology
  • greece

2. Helen of Sparta (Helen of Sparta #1)

By: Amalia Carosella

3.86

Format: 416 pages,

Long before she ran away with Paris to Troy, Helen of Sparta was haunted by nightmares of a burning… read more

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3. Medea

By: Eilish Quin

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Discover the full story of the sorceress Medea, one of the most reviled and maligned women of Greek… read more

Similar categories in Eilish Quin's Medea book and Hannah M. Lynn's A Spartan's Sorrow

  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • greece
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4. A Thousand Ships

By: Natalie Haynes

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This is the women’s war, just as much as it is the men’s. They have waited long enough for their tu… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Haynes's A Thousand Ships book and Hannah M. Lynn's A Spartan's Sorrow

  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"If he tells me to sing one more time, I think I might bite him."

-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

"An artist constantly risks falling fully into chaos, instead of transforming it."

-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

"Because really, how many cannibalistic giants can one Greek plausibly meet as he sails the open seas?"

-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

"We are all human. That means there is something about our experience that is the same. Otherwise, we would not all be human."

-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

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5. Daughters of Sparta

By: Claire Heywood

3.88

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

For millennia, men have told the legend of the woman whose face launched a thousand ships--but now … read more

Similar categories in Claire Heywood's Daughters of Sparta book and Hannah M. Lynn's A Spartan's Sorrow

  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • greece
"He helped her to rule without ever trying to rule her."

-Claire Heywood, Daughters of Sparta

"Sometimes we must be led by duty, and sometimes by what is right....The trick is to know when these things are the same, and when they are not. [Tyndoreos]"

-Claire Heywood, Daughters of Sparta

"None of this was Agatha's fault, Helen knew that in her honest heart. And yet she resented her. For doing what she could not, for being what she was not, for giving her daughter what she had not. Whe…"

-Claire Heywood, Daughters of Sparta

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6. Ithaca (The Songs of Penelope, #1)

By: Claire North

3.70

Format: 391 pages, Kindle Edition

Seventeen years ago, King Odysseus sailed to war with Troy, taking with him every man of fighting a… read more

Similar categories in Claire North's Ithaca (The Songs of Penelope, #1) book and Hannah M. Lynn's A Spartan's Sorrow

  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • greece
"...for it is the poet’s art to make every ear that hears the ancient songs think they have been sung for them alone, the old made new."

-Claire North, Ithaca (The Songs of Penelope, #1)

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7. The Shadow of Perseus

By: Claire Heywood

3.65

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

Danae: Banished from her homeland thanks to a prophecy foretelling that her unborn child will one … read more

Similar categories in Claire Heywood's The Shadow of Perseus book and Hannah M. Lynn's A Spartan's Sorrow

  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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8. Atalanta

By: Jennifer Saint

3.78

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, bestselling author of Elektra and Ariadne , a reimagining of the myth of Atalanta… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Saint's Atalanta book and Hannah M. Lynn's A Spartan's Sorrow

  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"I made a bargain with him: if he let me have the mountains and my girls, then I'd keep out of Hera's way. But the main thing I wanted was to live untouched by men. I wasn't going to find myself in my…"

-Jennifer Saint, Atalanta

"I missed the spread of the sky above me. Sometimes as I lay awake, I yearned so powerfully for freedom; for the dark silhouette of the Argo, blotting out the stars behind it; the promise of another j…"

-Jennifer Saint, Atalanta

"Standing in the shadows, gathering my resolve. I'd been among too many people, living according to their rules for too long. It was clouding my vision, gnawing away at my confidence and certainty, ma…"

-Jennifer Saint, Atalanta

"I despised my father, of course I did. The thought of presenting myself to him, of him thinking that my deeds could reflect on him was repulsive, that he thought what I would do would be a substitute…"

-Jennifer Saint, Atalanta

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9. La schiava ribelle

By: Eleonora Fasolino

3.72

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Briseide, amante di Achille e custode dei suoi segreti. Troia è sotto assedio. Ogni giorno gli a… read more

Similar categories in Eleonora Fasolino's La schiava ribelle book and Hannah M. Lynn's A Spartan's Sorrow

  • retellings
  • greek mythology
  • historical fiction
  • mythology
  • greece
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10. Hera

By: Jennifer Saint

3.75

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Hera, immortal goddess and daughter of the ancient Titan Cronos, helped her brother Zeus to overthr… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Saint's Hera book and Hannah M. Lynn's A Spartan's Sorrow

  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"She has been alone for a very long time."

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"All she knows is that he leaves a trail of broken women in his wake, and she is the most broken of them all."

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"But as he looms over her, blocking out the sky, it seems that he is everything in the world, that he is bigger than that sky. He is too immense and too strong. There is nothing that Hera, the warrior…"

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"She can be anyone. Vengeful Hera, wrathful Hera, the queen of the heavens, most long-suffering of wives and cruellest of punishers, will continue without her. She can slip away from the tethers of wh…"

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

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11. A Spartan's Sorrow

By: Hannah M. Lynn

3.99

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From an award winning author comes a story of feminist revenge perfect for readers of Madeleine Mil… read more

Similar categories in Hannah M. Lynn's A Spartan's Sorrow book and Hannah M. Lynn's A Spartan's Sorrow

  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • greece
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12. Orphia and Eurydicius

By: Elyse John

3.54

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Their love transcends every boundary. Can it cheat death? Orphia dreams of something more than … read more

Similar categories in Elyse John's Orphia and Eurydicius book and Hannah M. Lynn's A Spartan's Sorrow

  • retellings
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"When Poseidon pinned her To the temple stones, her voice Flared like pyre-wood, Faded like smoke. ‘As Perseus bore down upon her She bestrode the pitted ground; The snakes that writhed from her head …"

-Elyse John, Orphia and Eurydicius

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13. Io sono Persefone

By: Daniele Coluzzi

3.73

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

Il destino di Core, giovane dea, è già stato scritto: regnerà sulla natura, assicurando terreno fer… read more

Similar categories in Daniele Coluzzi's Io sono Persefone book and Hannah M. Lynn's A Spartan's Sorrow

  • retellings
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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14. The Last Song of Penelope (The Songs of Penelope, #3)

By: Claire North

4.38

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

Following the critically acclaimed Ithaca and House of Odysseus comes the final novel in Claire Nor… read more

Similar categories in Claire North's The Last Song of Penelope (The Songs of Penelope, #3) book and Hannah M. Lynn's A Spartan's Sorrow

  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • greece
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15. Song of Sacrifice (Homeric Chronicles #1)

By: Janell Rhiannon

3.91

Format: 543 pages, ebook

The heart of the Trojan War belongs to the women.Mothers and daughters; wives and war prizes, whisp… read more

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  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • greece
"We all make war, but not all can bring forth life."

-Janell Rhiannon, Song of Sacrifice (Homeric Chronicles #1)

"Love is a poison,' her father responded. 'One you grow accustomed to, but does not kill you."

-Janell Rhiannon, Song of Sacrifice (Homeric Chronicles #1)

"She didn't know how she would survive when every breath stung, every tear burned, and every step took her further from the only man she'd ever loved."

-Janell Rhiannon, Song of Sacrifice (Homeric Chronicles #1)

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16. Rise of Princes: A Greek Myth and Trojan War Retelling (Homeric Chronicles Book 2)

By: Janell Rhiannon

4.14

Format: 491 pages, Kindle Edition

Fans of Greek mythology and Trojan War retellings will be eager to continue the Homeric Chronicles … read more

Similar categories in Janell Rhiannon's Rise of Princes: A Greek Myth and Trojan War Retelling (Homeric Chronicles Book 2) book and Hannah M. Lynn's A Spartan's Sorrow

  • retellings
  • greek mythology
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"Fate always found its mark, one way or another."

-Janell Rhiannon, Rise of Princes: A Greek Myth and Trojan War Retelling (Homeric Chronicles Book 2)

"Hektor was the wall around her world that kept life's perils at bay."

-Janell Rhiannon, Rise of Princes: A Greek Myth and Trojan War Retelling (Homeric Chronicles Book 2)

"Precious are the last moments when you do not know they are the last."

-Janell Rhiannon, Rise of Princes: A Greek Myth and Trojan War Retelling (Homeric Chronicles Book 2)

"I would not trade one day of our life for all the gold in the citadel."

-Janell Rhiannon, Rise of Princes: A Greek Myth and Trojan War Retelling (Homeric Chronicles Book 2)

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17. Rage of Queens (Homeric Chronicles #3)

By: Janell Rhiannon

4.15

Format: 491 pages, Kindle Edition

After years of fighting, the fate of Troy hangs precariously in the balance. Rage and revenge rule … read more

Similar categories in Janell Rhiannon's Rage of Queens (Homeric Chronicles #3) book and Hannah M. Lynn's A Spartan's Sorrow

  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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18. L'eroe di Atene

By: Andrea Frediani

3.30

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

Convinto di essere il figlio di Poseidone e destinato a grandi imprese, Teseo cresce con l’ambizion… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Frediani's L'eroe di Atene book and Hannah M. Lynn's A Spartan's Sorrow

  • mythology
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19. Medea: Priestess, Princess, Witch

By: J.J. Taylor

4.10

Format: 390 pages, Kindle Edition

This is not the story of the woman you think you know. You know only the tales of men through the a… read more

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  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • mythology
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20. God of Fire

By: Helen Steadman

3.48

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

Was love the greatest punishment of all? Repulsed by her ugly newborn, Hera throws him into the … read more

Similar categories in Helen Steadman's God of Fire book and Hannah M. Lynn's A Spartan's Sorrow

  • retellings
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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21. Cassandra

By: Cinzia Giorgio

3.76

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

La storia mai raccontata del mito maledetto Quando il dio Apollo invia i suoi serpenti nella cesta… read more

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  • retellings
  • greek mythology
  • mythology
  • greece

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Eilish Quin

3.84

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Natalie Haynes

4.07

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Daughters of Sparta

Claire Heywood

3.88

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Ithaca (The Songs of Penelope, #1)

Claire North

3.70

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House of Odysseus (The Songs of Penelope, #2)

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4.19

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Jennifer Saint

3.75

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J.H. Markert

4.11

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