30 must-read mythology books like Queens of Themiscyra (The Grecian Women) by Hannah M. Lynn

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Queens of Themiscyra (The Grecian Women)

By: Hannah M. Lynn

3.94

Format: 429 pages, Kindle Edition

They are the women of war. In ancient Themiscyra, Hippolyte rules as Queen of the Amazons. Feare…

If you liked the mythology plot in Queens of Themiscyra (The Grecian Women) by Hannah M. Lynn , here is a list of 30 books like this:

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1. By Helen's Hand (Helen of Sparta #2)

By: Amalia Carosella

4.02

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

With divine beauty comes dangerous power. Helen believed she could escape her destiny and save her … read more

Similar categories in Amalia Carosella's By Helen's Hand (Helen of Sparta #2) book and Hannah M. Lynn's Queens of Themiscyra (The Grecian Women)

  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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2. The Children of Jocasta

By: Natalie Haynes

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

My siblings and I have grown up in a cursed house, children of cursed parents... Jocasta is just… read more

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  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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3. Herc

By: Phoenicia Rogerson

3.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

This should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labours, his endless adventures…everyone’s favouri… read more

Similar categories in Phoenicia Rogerson's Herc book and Hannah M. Lynn's Queens of Themiscyra (The Grecian Women)

  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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4. 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

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  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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5. 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 Queens of Themiscyra (The Grecian Women)

  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • 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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6. 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 Hannah M. Lynn's Queens of Themiscyra (The Grecian Women)

  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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7. 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

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  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"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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8. 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 Hannah M. Lynn's Queens of Themiscyra (The Grecian Women)

  • 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

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9. 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 Queens of Themiscyra (The Grecian Women)

  • 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)

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10. 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 Queens of Themiscyra (The Grecian Women)

  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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11. 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 Queens of Themiscyra (The Grecian Women)

  • 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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12. Phaedra

By: Laura Shepperson

3.32

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Debut novelist Laura Shepperson offers a powerful feminist retelling of Phaedra and her unyielding … read more

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  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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13. Psyche and Eros

By: Luna McNamara

3.78

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this utterly transporting reimagining of Greek mythology, the god of desire is cursed to fall fo… read more

Similar categories in Luna McNamara's Psyche and Eros book and Hannah M. Lynn's Queens of Themiscyra (The Grecian Women)

  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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14. Clytemnestra

By: Costanza Casati

4.25

Format: 435 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Madeline Miller's Circe, a stunning debut following Clytemnestra, the most notorious vi… read more

Similar categories in Costanza Casati's Clytemnestra book and Hannah M. Lynn's Queens of Themiscyra (The Grecian Women)

  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"She will bow to no one. Her destiny will be what she wants it to be."

-Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra

"It is unwise to let a man who isn't king sit on a throne for too long."

-Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra

"As for queens, they are either hated or forgotten. She already knows which option suits her better. Let her be hated forever."

-Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra

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15. 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 Queens of Themiscyra (The Grecian Women)

  • 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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16. 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 Hannah M. Lynn's Queens of Themiscyra (The Grecian Women)

  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"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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17. Queens of Themiscyra (The Grecian Women)

By: Hannah M. Lynn

3.94

Format: 429 pages, Kindle Edition

They are the women of war. In ancient Themiscyra, Hippolyte rules as Queen of the Amazons. Feare… read more

Similar categories in Hannah M. Lynn's Queens of Themiscyra (The Grecian Women) book and Hannah M. Lynn's Queens of Themiscyra (The Grecian Women)

  • lesbian
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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18. 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 Queens of Themiscyra (The Grecian Women)

  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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19. Argo (Blades of Bronze, #1)

By: Mark Knowles

3.38

Format: 629 pages, Paperback

An action-filled retelling of the famous Greek myth, Jason and the Golden Fleece, brilliantly reima… read more

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  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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20. 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
"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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21. 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

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  • 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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22. 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

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  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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23. 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 Queens of Themiscyra (The Grecian Women)

  • mythology
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24. 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

Similar categories in Rosie Garland's The Fates: A spellbindingly original mythical retelling for 2024 book and Hannah M. Lynn's Queens of Themiscyra (The Grecian Women)

  • retellings
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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25. 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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26. 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

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

Similar categories in Cinzia Giorgio's Cassandra book and Hannah M. Lynn's Queens of Themiscyra (The Grecian Women)

  • retellings
  • greek mythology
  • mythology
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28. 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

Similar categories in Costanza Casati's Babylonia book and Hannah M. Lynn's Queens of Themiscyra (The Grecian Women)

  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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29. Helen Had A Sister: A Tale of Ancient Greece (previously published as "Princess of Sparta")

By: Penelope Haines

4.27

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

Helen of Troy's story is well known. Hers was the "face that launched a thousand ships", started a … read more

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  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
Cover of Queen of Heaven (Hera Greek Myths Retold #1) by Ava McKevitt

30. Queen of Heaven (Hera Greek Myths Retold #1)

By: Ava McKevitt

3.69

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

A thrilling tale of Ancient Greek Gods and Goddesses! For fans of Natalie Haynes, Jennifer Saint, M… read more

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  • greek mythology
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31. Gilgamesh (Sumerians #2)

By: Emily H. Wilson

4.39

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The second book in the enthralling and lyrical Sumerians trilogy, retelling the Epic of Gigamesh, p… read more

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  • retellings
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology

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