18 must-read mythology books like Clytemnestra's Bind (The House of Atreus #1) by Susan C. Wilson

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Clytemnestra's Bind (The House of Atreus #1)

By: Susan C. Wilson

4.08

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

The House of Atreus is spiralling into self-destruction - a woman must find a way to break the fami…

"A peal of mirth almost escaped me at the notion of shaming the blood-soaked House of Atreus, as if it had even been clean."

-Susan C. Wilson, Clytemnestra's Bind (The House of Atreus #1)

"If a woman receives only cruelty or indifference from her husband, father, brother, or son, why should she trust her well-being to any of them?"

-Susan C. Wilson, Clytemnestra's Bind (The House of Atreus #1)

If you liked the mythology plot in Clytemnestra's Bind (The House of Atreus #1) by Susan C. Wilson , here is a list of 18 books like this:

1. Mâța Vinerii

By: Doina Ruști

4.01

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

Mata Vinerii/The Book of Perilous Dishes tells the story of a magic recipe book and a family of ade… read more

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2. 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 Susan C. Wilson's Clytemnestra's Bind (The House of Atreus #1)

  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • greece
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3. Horses of Fire

By: A.D. Rhine

4.13

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

"One of those singular books that pulls readers into a completely immersive world with a dazzling s… read more

Similar categories in A.D. Rhine's Horses of Fire book and Susan C. Wilson's Clytemnestra's Bind (The House of Atreus #1)

  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • greece
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4. House of Odysseus (The Songs of Penelope, #2)

By: Claire North

4.19

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

House of Odysseus is the follow up to award-winning author Claire North's Ithaca "a powerful, fresh… read more

Similar categories in Claire North's House of Odysseus (The Songs of Penelope, #2) book and Susan C. Wilson's Clytemnestra's Bind (The House of Atreus #1)

  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • greece
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5. Daughters of Olympus

By: Hannah M. Lynn

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A daughter pulled between two worlds and a mother willing destroy both to protect her... Gods an… read more

Similar categories in Hannah M. Lynn's Daughters of Olympus book and Susan C. Wilson's Clytemnestra's Bind (The House of Atreus #1)

  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • greece
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6. 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

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  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • 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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7. Neferura

By: Malayna Evans

3.61

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

For readers of The Wolf Den and Kaikeyi comes the thrilling tale of the forgotten daughter of a leg… read more

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  • retellings
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"Perhaps you feel you've no choices, or perhaps you believe everything has been decided for you. But when it feels like you have no alternatives, you must create them. If you're creative enough, optio…"

-Malayna Evans, Neferura

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8. Medusa's Sisters

By: Lauren J.A. Bear

4.18

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

A vivid and moving reimagining of the myth of Medusa and the sisters who loved her. The end of t… read more

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  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"To have choices is to have power. Most women have neither."

-Lauren J.A. Bear, Medusa's Sisters

"When I choose myself, do not be afraid if my choice looks different than yours"

-Lauren J.A. Bear, Medusa's Sisters

"She thought love a perfect pain. Come then. Break me, bend me. Hurt me flawless."

-Lauren J.A. Bear, Medusa's Sisters

"Find delight in your pain, she said, and rejoice in your longing. If it still hurts, you are alive, you are alive."

-Lauren J.A. Bear, Medusa's Sisters

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9. 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 Susan C. Wilson's Clytemnestra's Bind (The House of Atreus #1)

  • 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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10. Medea

By: Rosie Hewlett

4.22

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Medea longs for a different life. Since childhood, she has been separated from her sister, shunned … read more

Similar categories in Rosie Hewlett's Medea book and Susan C. Wilson's Clytemnestra's Bind (The House of Atreus #1)

  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • greece
"I hate him for infecting me with this love I have carried for so long – I wish I could remove it, sever it from me like an infected limb."

-Rosie Hewlett, Medea

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11. Looking for Lucie

By: Amanda Addison

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Looking for Lucie is a contemporary YA novel that explores identity, self-discovery, and newfound f… read more

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12. Clytemnestra's Bind (The House of Atreus #1)

By: Susan C. Wilson

4.08

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

The House of Atreus is spiralling into self-destruction - a woman must find a way to break the fami… read more

Similar categories in Susan C. Wilson's Clytemnestra's Bind (The House of Atreus #1) book and Susan C. Wilson's Clytemnestra's Bind (The House of Atreus #1)

  • retellings
  • classics
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • greece
"A peal of mirth almost escaped me at the notion of shaming the blood-soaked House of Atreus, as if it had even been clean."

-Susan C. Wilson, Clytemnestra's Bind (The House of Atreus #1)

"If a woman receives only cruelty or indifference from her husband, father, brother, or son, why should she trust her well-being to any of them?"

-Susan C. Wilson, Clytemnestra's Bind (The House of Atreus #1)

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13. Scareground

By: Angela Kecojevic

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Roll up, roll up, the Scareground is in town! Twelve-year-old Nancy Crumpet lives above a bakery… read more

Similar categories in Angela Kecojevic's Scareground book and Susan C. Wilson's Clytemnestra's Bind (The House of Atreus #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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14. The Djinn's Apple

By: Djamila Morani

3.77

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

Historical fiction meets crime fiction in The Djinn's Apple , an award-winning YA murder mystery se… read more

Similar categories in Djamila Morani's The Djinn's Apple book and Susan C. Wilson's Clytemnestra's Bind (The House of Atreus #1)

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. The Vanitas & Other Tales of Art and Obsession

By: Jake Kendall

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Spanning three hundred years of art history, The Vanitas & Other Tales of Art and Obsession tells t… read more

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16. War of the Wind

By: Victoria Williamson

4.13

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

AN ADVENTUROUS ECO-THRILLER FROM AWARD-WINNING CHILDREN’S AUTHOR VICTORIA WILLIAMSON On a remote… read more

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  • fiction
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17. The Haunting Scent of Poppies

By: Victoria Williamson

4.32

Format: 59 pages, Kindle Edition

A spine-chilling winter ghost story set in the months after the Great War. Perfect for lovers of MR… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. Belly Woman

By: Benjamin Oren Black

4.60

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Hailed as "a must-read for our times" (Aminatta Forna) and "eye-opening, kind, and inspirational" (… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Oren Black's Belly Woman book and Susan C. Wilson's Clytemnestra's Bind (The House of Atreus #1)

"The disease moves within human suffering"

-Benjamin Oren Black, Belly Woman

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19. Red Runs the Witch's Thread

By: Victoria Williamson

3.97

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Paisley, Scotland, 1697. Thirty-five people accused of witchcraft. Eight condemned to death. Seven … read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
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20. Goddess of the River

By: Vaishnavi Patel

3.86

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

A powerful reimagining of the story of Ganga, goddess of the river, and her doomed mortal son, from… read more

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  • retellings
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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21. 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 Susan C. Wilson's Clytemnestra's Bind (The House of Atreus #1)

  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • greece
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22. Medusa

By: Rosie Hewlett

4.04

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

You know her name, you know her story. Just not the right one. Within the depths of the Underwor… read more

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  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"I cannot escape my past because it is a part of who I am today. That is something that has taken me a long time to accept."

-Rosie Hewlett, Medusa

"I had hurled my anger and hatred at the world, spreading misery in a vain attempt to stifle my own. I should have expected it to be thrown back in my face, shouldn't I? After all, violence only ever …"

-Rosie Hewlett, Medusa

"One day, you will come to realise that people will always try and wriggle out of the uncomfortable truths, choosing instead to cushion their fragile egos with the lies they want to hear. Well, now I …"

-Rosie Hewlett, Medusa

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23. The Fates: A spellbindingly original mythical retelling for 2024

By: Rosie Garland

3.78

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

You've heard the legends, now hear their truth . . . Before Gods and mortals, there were The Fat… read more

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  • retellings
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
Cover of The Idle Stance of the Tippler Pigeon by Safinah Danish Elahi

24. The Idle Stance of the Tippler Pigeon

By: Safinah Danish Elahi

4.30

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

Zohaib, Misha and Nadia believed they would be in each other's lives forever. As children they play… read more

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  • fiction
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25. The Nightingale's Castle

By: Sonia Velton

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In the vein of riveting historical novels such as Hamnet and Circe—with a touch of Dracula—a propul… read more

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  • retellings
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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26. Le Fay (Morgan le Fay, #2)

By: Sophie Keetch

4.46

Format: 461 pages, Kindle Edition

Lady Morgan surveys her life at an unhappy marriage and a vengeful husband determined to keep thei… read more

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  • retellings
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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27. Babylonia

By: Costanza Casati

4.44

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the bestselling Clytemnestra comes another intoxicating excursion into ancient h… read more

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  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
Cover of The Voyage Home (Women of Troy, #3) by Pat Barker

28. The Voyage Home (Women of Troy, #3)

By: Pat Barker

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The follow-up to Pat Barker's Number One bestseller THE WOMEN OF TROY Continuing the story of th… read more

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  • retellings
  • classics
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • greece
Cover of Time-Marked Warlock (The Chronos Chronicles #1) by Shami Stovall

29. Time-Marked Warlock (The Chronos Chronicles #1)

By: Shami Stovall

4.51

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

Adair Finch is the most powerful warlock in the world, and one of the best private investigators fo… read more

Similar categories in Shami Stovall's Time-Marked Warlock (The Chronos Chronicles #1) book and Susan C. Wilson's Clytemnestra's Bind (The House of Atreus #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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30. Epic of Helinthia

By: M.J. Pankey

3.99

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

When a madman seizes the throne, the gods on Olympus fall silent, and the island of Helinthia desce… read more

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  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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31. No Funeral for Nazia

By: Taha Kehar

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Nazia Sami is a celebrated author, but perhaps her greatest plot twist is yet to be produced. In he… read more

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  • fiction

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Eilish Quin

3.84

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A.D. Rhine

4.13

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Claire North

4.19

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Hannah M. Lynn

4.05

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Natalie Haynes

3.91

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Katharine Beutner

3.92

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Phoenicia Rogerson

3.53

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