9 must-read short stories books like Heracles' Bow by Madeline Miller

Cover of Heracles' Bow by Madeline Miller

Heracles' Bow

By: Madeline Miller

3.16

Format: 10 pages, None

A short story published in a Waterstones Special Edition of The Song of Achilles & 'We Love This Bo…

If you liked the short stories plot in Heracles' Bow by Madeline Miller , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Orestes by Euripides, John Peck, Frank Nisetich

1. Orestes

By: Euripides , John Peck , Frank Nisetich

4.03

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the… read more

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  • fiction
  • mythology
Cover of Green but for a Season (Captive Prince Short Stories, #1) by C.S. Pacat

2. Green but for a Season (Captive Prince Short Stories, #1)

By: C.S. Pacat

3.64

Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition

Green but for a Seasonis the first of a series of four Captive Princeshort stories. It follows the … read more

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  • short stories
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The Libation Bearers (Oresteia, #2) by Aeschylus

3. The Libation Bearers (Oresteia, #2)

By: Aeschylus

3.80

Format: 43 pages, None

Produced in 458 BC, Aeschylus' Choephori is the second play in the Oresteian trilogy. Many years af… read more

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  • mythology
  • fiction
Cover of The Last Time I'll Write About You by Dawn Lanuza

4. The Last Time I'll Write About You

By: Dawn Lanuza

3.90

Format: 77 pages,

Should I be Thankful Or Regretful That my only idea Of love Is You? read more

Similar categories in Dawn Lanuza's The Last Time I'll Write About You book and Madeline Miller's Heracles' Bow

  • adult

5. The Art and Making of Hannibal: The Television Series

By: Jesse McLean

3.98

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

The Art & Making of Hannibal: The Television Series is a detailed look at the making of this highly… read more

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6. A Cup of Salt Tears

By: Isabel Yap

3.71

Format: 234 pages,

Makino's mother taught her caution, showed her how to carve her name into cucumbers, and insisted t… read more

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7. Daughter of Necessity

By: Marie Brennan

4.09

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

By day she crafts; by night she unmakes. Surely somewhere, in all the myriad crossings of the threa… read more

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8. The Adventures of Charls, the Veretian Cloth Merchant (Captive Prince Short Stories, #3)

By: C.S. Pacat

4.05

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The Adventures of Charlsfollows the dealings of a humble cloth merchant in the days before the roya… read more

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9. Variations on an Apple

By: Yoon Ha Lee

3.00

Format: None pages, ebook

For the fairest. Past, present, and future. Again. read more

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Cover of Persephone (Into Shadow, #2) by Lev Grossman

10. Persephone (Into Shadow, #2)

By: Lev Grossman

3.02

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

A teenage nobody crosses a line that will change her life forever in this short coming-of-age story… read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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11. Elektra

By: Jennifer Saint

3.68

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

The House of Atreus is cursed. A bloodline tainted by a generational cycle of violence and vengeanc… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Saint's Elektra book and Madeline Miller's Heracles' Bow

  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"I had not dreamed I would bring my children into a world that could drain their blood in the light of dawn before they’d had a chance to live at all."

-Jennifer Saint, Elektra

"Nothing brought them more joy than the fall of a lovely woman. They picked over her reputation like vultures, scavenging for every scrap of flesh they could devour."

-Jennifer Saint, Elektra

"The wine tasted like dirt to me. I could shriek out my warnings, claw at my flesh, hurl my goblet right into Paris' face, but they would still carry on as though I did not exist."

-Jennifer Saint, Elektra

"Let him come back so that I can see his eyes as the light drains from them. Let him come back and die at the hands of his bitterest enemy. Let him come back so that I can watch him suffer. And let me…"

-Jennifer Saint, Elektra

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

12. 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

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  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"...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)

Cover of The Six Deaths of the Saint (Into Shadow, #3) by Alix E. Harrow

13. The Six Deaths of the Saint (Into Shadow, #3)

By: Alix E. Harrow

4.33

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

The Saint of War spares the life of a servant girl so she can fulfill her destiny as the kingdom’s … read more

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  • historical
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"He doesn’t move or speak, but he doesn’t need to. I know his desires by the pace of his breath and the tilt of his shoulders, by the shape of his jaw and the heat of his gaze. I know him, and in know…"

-Alix E. Harrow, The Six Deaths of the Saint (Into Shadow, #3)

Cover of Atalanta by Jennifer Saint

14. 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 Madeline Miller's Heracles' Bow

  • 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

Cover of Heracles' Bow by Madeline Miller

15. Heracles' Bow

By: Madeline Miller

3.16

Format: 10 pages, None

A short story published in a Waterstones Special Edition of The Song of Achilles & 'We Love This Bo… read more

Similar categories in Madeline Miller's Heracles' Bow book and Madeline Miller's Heracles' Bow

  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
Cover of The Garden of Time by J.G. Ballard

16. The Garden of Time

By: J.G. Ballard

4.05

Format: 7 pages, Kindle Edition

None read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Heartstopper - The mini-comics by Alice Oseman

17. Heartstopper - The mini-comics

By: Alice Oseman

4.27

Format: 73 pages, Kindle Edition

A short collection of Heartstopper art and mini-comics, self-published as a 40-page zine by Alice O… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Ethics Of Infatuation Dynamics by Lauren   James

18. The Ethics Of Infatuation Dynamics

By: Lauren James

4.52

Format: 12 pages, ebook

Nick and Charlie face some confusion and a little jealousy when Charlie has a celebrity crush. A… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Goblins & Greatcoats by Travis Baldree

19. Goblins & Greatcoats

By: Travis Baldree

3.87

Format: 25 pages, ebook

A goblin with too many pockets and a disturbing affinity for cutlery, a rain-soaked night, four adv… read more

Similar categories in Travis Baldree's Goblins & Greatcoats book and Madeline Miller's Heracles' Bow

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Castle Swimmer: Volume 1 by Wendy Martin

20. Castle Swimmer: Volume 1

By: Wendy Martin

4.48

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In the gorgeous first installment of the hit Webtoon series Castle Swimmer, two young mermen reject… read more

Similar categories in Wendy Martin's Castle Swimmer: Volume 1 book and Madeline Miller's Heracles' Bow

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Marie’s Proof of Love by Mieko Kawakami

21. Marie’s Proof of Love

By: Mieko Kawakami

3.44

Format: 20 pages, None

People believe, Marie thinks, even when there’s no proof. You believe because you imagine. But is i… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

14 best-selling fiction books like Heracles' Bow by Madeline Miller

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Orestes

Euripides , John Peck , Frank Nisetich

4.03

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The Libation Bearers (Oresteia, #2)

Aeschylus

3.80

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Persephone (Into Shadow, #2)

Lev Grossman

3.02

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Jennifer Saint

3.68

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Jen Wang

4.35

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Kay O'Neill

4.35

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Kay O'Neill

4.41

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Lynn Painter

4.52

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