19 Top retellings books like Argo (Blades of Bronze, #1) by Mark Knowles

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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…

If you liked the retellings plot in Argo (Blades of Bronze, #1) by Mark Knowles , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. 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

Similar categories in Natalie Haynes's The Children of Jocasta book and Mark Knowles's Argo (Blades of Bronze, #1)

  • retellings
  • classics
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • greece

2. Jason and the Golden Fleece

By: Apollonius of Rhodes , Richard L. Hunter

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Argonauticais the dramatic story of Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with … read more

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3. The Furies

By: Natalie Haynes

4.40

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

When you open up, who will you let in? When Alex Morris loses her fiance in dreadful circumstances,… read more

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4. 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

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  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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5. 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 Mark Knowles's Argo (Blades of Bronze, #1)

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

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  • 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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7. 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 Mark Knowles's Argo (Blades of Bronze, #1)

  • 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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8. 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

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  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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9. 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

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  • 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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10. 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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11. 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 Mark Knowles's Argo (Blades of Bronze, #1)

  • 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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12. The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)

By: Mary Renault

3.98

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

“Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not prete… read more

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  • retellings
  • classics
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • greece
"Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge."

-Mary Renault, The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)

"It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting."

-Mary Renault, The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)

"Always, in the Bull Court, our most precious trophies were the gifts of the dead."

-Mary Renault, The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)

"A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it."

-Mary Renault, The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)

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13. 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 Mark Knowles's Argo (Blades of Bronze, #1)

  • 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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14. 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

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  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • greece
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15. 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

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  • 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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16. 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

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  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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17. 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

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  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • greece
Cover of Argo (Blades of Bronze, #1) by Mark  Knowles

18. 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

Similar categories in Mark Knowles's Argo (Blades of Bronze, #1) book and Mark Knowles's Argo (Blades of Bronze, #1)

  • retellings
  • classics
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • greece
Cover of Rise of Princes: A Greek Myth and Trojan War Retelling (Homeric Chronicles Book 2) by Janell Rhiannon

19. 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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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 Mark Knowles's Argo (Blades of Bronze, #1)

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

21. 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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  • classics
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • greece

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