The Medusa Reader (Culture Work)
By: Marjorie Garber
4.12
Format: 346 pages, Paperback
Ranging from classical times to pop culture, this collection will appeal to art historians, feminis…
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1. The Woman in Black
By: Susan Hill , John Lawrence
3.85
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
What real reader does not yearn, somewhere in the recesses of his or her heart, for a really litera… read more
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- classics
2. The Golden Ass
By: Apuleius , Jack Lindsay , None
4.30
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
The Golden Assby Apuleius is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only… read more
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3. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
By: Gregory Maguire , Douglas Smith
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale we heard o… read more
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4. The Odyssey
By: Homer , Robert Fagles , Bernard Knox , E.V. Rieu , None
3.53
Format: 349 pages, Paperback
Literature's grandest evocation of life's journey, at once an ageless human story and an individual… read more
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5. Audition
By: Ryū Murakami , Ralph McCarthy
4.20
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Documentary-maker Aoyama hasn't dated anyone in the seven years since the death of his beloved wife… read more
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6. The Iliad
By: Homer
3.91
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more
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- poetry
- greek mythology
- classics
- mythology
"I say no wealth is worth my life."-Homer, The Iliad
"These were the colloquies in heaven."-Homer, The Iliad
"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."-Homer, The Iliad
"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"-Homer, The Iliad
7. The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
By: Pat Barker
3.90
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek army, which conti… read more
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- feminism
- greek mythology
- mythology
"Achilles shook him. "Just come back."-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
"Grief's only ever as deep as the love it's replaced."-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
"Sometimes at night I lie awake and quarrel with the voices in my head."-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
"Ik zal nooit vergeten dat zij voor me huilde toen ik dat zelf niet kon."-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
8. Stone Blind
By: Natalie Haynes
3.82
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
A fresh take on the story of Medusa, the original monstered woman. They will fear you and flee y… read more
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- feminism
- greek mythology
- mythology
"Then look."-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind
"The sea gods keep their secrets deep; they always have."-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind
"There is one question that devours me still. Why didn’t I close my eyes?"-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind
"And the monster? Who is she? She is what happens when someone cannot be saved."-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind
9. Medusa
By: Jessie Burton
3.87
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling, feminist retelling of Greek myth from the internationally bestselling author of The Min… read more
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- feminism
- greek mythology
- mythology
"I'd never known a change that wasn't monstrous."-Jessie Burton, Medusa
"I was lonely and I was angry, and rage and loneliness can end up tasting the same."-Jessie Burton, Medusa
"I'm a half-finished map and I'm always trying to plot my points, and I won't have anyone do it for me."-Jessie Burton, Medusa
"Sometimes, not even folding yourself into the smallest, littlest shape is enough. So you might as well stay the size you're supposed to be"-Jessie Burton, Medusa
10. A Ruin of Roses (Deliciously Dark Fairytales, #1)
By: K.F. Breene
3.81
Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition
A spicy new twist on an old classic - a deliciously dark Beauty and the Beast reimagining. I co… read more
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"Fuck! I dropped the fucking knife. Hold on to your dicks, folks, this is about to get hairy."-K.F. Breene, A Ruin of Roses (Deliciously Dark Fairytales, #1)
11. Milk Fed
By: Melissa Broder
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the… read more
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"This interplay between hope and reality was also a part of the mourning."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
"There are emanations of god we can’t even see. What’s important is that you feel it."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
"Life was a lot less bleak when you were staring straight down the barrel of a burrito."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
"I wanted a love contingent on nothing finite. I wanted a love without end. Everyone was always saying you had to give it to yourself. Self-love, self-love."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
12. The London Séance Society
By: Sarah Penner
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding tale about two daring women who hunt for truth and justice in the perilous art of co… read more
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13. Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire
By: Bettany Hughes
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning hist… read more
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- classics
- feminism
- greek mythology
- nonfiction
- mythology
14. Medusa: Solving the Mystery of the Gorgon
By: Stephen R. Wilk
3.68
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
Medusa, the Gorgon, who turns those who gaze upon her to stone, is one of the most popular and endu… read more
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- nonfiction
- mythology
15. The Medusa Reader (Culture Work)
By: Marjorie Garber
4.12
Format: 346 pages, Paperback
Ranging from classical times to pop culture, this collection will appeal to art historians, feminis… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- theory
- feminism
- greek mythology
- academic
- nonfiction
- womens
- mythology
