12 must-read mythology books like Cleopatra & Julius by Joanna Courtney

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Cleopatra & Julius

By: Joanna Courtney

3.80

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A young queen. Consecrated at birth as a royal goddess, Cleopatra learns early on from her fathe…

If you liked the mythology plot in Cleopatra & Julius by Joanna Courtney , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. The Winter Crown (Eleanor of Aquitaine, #2)

By: Elizabeth Chadwick

4.23

Format: 483 pages, Hardcover

It is the winter of 1154 and Eleanor, Queen of England, is biding her time. While her husband King … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Chadwick's The Winter Crown (Eleanor of Aquitaine, #2) book and Joanna Courtney's Cleopatra & Julius

  • historical
  • historical fiction
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2. 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 Joanna Courtney's Cleopatra & Julius

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • historical fiction
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3. Away With Words

By: Sophie Cameron

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing 2024 Shortlisted for the UKLA Book Awards 2024… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Cameron's Away With Words book and Joanna Courtney's Cleopatra & Julius

  • fantasy
Cover of The Temple of Fortuna (Wolf Den Trilogy #3) by Elodie Harper

4. The Temple of Fortuna (Wolf Den Trilogy #3)

By: Elodie Harper

4.39

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The final instalment in Elodie Harper's Sunday Times bestselling Wolf Den Trilogy Amara's journe… read more

Similar categories in Elodie Harper's The Temple of Fortuna (Wolf Den Trilogy #3) book and Joanna Courtney's Cleopatra & Julius

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • historical fiction
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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 Joanna Courtney's Cleopatra & Julius

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • historical fiction
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6. The Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary I

By: Alison Weir

4.02

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series explores the dramatic and poig… read more

Similar categories in Alison Weir's The Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary I book and Joanna Courtney's Cleopatra & Julius

  • historical
  • novels
  • historical fiction
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7. For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

By: Victoria Mackenzie

3.85

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives … read more

Similar categories in Victoria Mackenzie's For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain book and Joanna Courtney's Cleopatra & Julius

  • historical
  • novels
  • historical fiction
"Sometimes I reworked, with much crossing out and burning of papers; I had to sift through my thoughts for words that gleamed with truth. But other times the words came fast, and then I was an arrow, …"

-Victoria Mackenzie, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

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8. Scarlet (Scarlet Revolution, #1)

By: Genevieve Cogman

3.67

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

Revolution is a bloodthirsty business . . . especially when vampires are involved. It is 1793 an… read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Cogman's Scarlet (Scarlet Revolution, #1) book and Joanna Courtney's Cleopatra & Julius

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • historical fiction
"Free speech may be part of the ideal of any revolution, but soon enough it becomes free speech only where the government approves of it."

-Genevieve Cogman, Scarlet (Scarlet Revolution, #1)

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9. 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 Joanna Courtney's Cleopatra & Julius

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • historical fiction
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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

Similar categories in Laura Shepperson's Phaedra book and Joanna Courtney's Cleopatra & Julius

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • historical fiction
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11. The Witches of Vardø

By: Anya Bergman

3.88

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Norway, 1662. A dangerous time to be a woman, when even dancing can lead to accusations of witchcra… read more

Similar categories in Anya Bergman's The Witches of Vardø book and Joanna Courtney's Cleopatra & Julius

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • historical fiction
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12. The Burnings

By: Naomi Kelsey

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Nothing scares men like witchcraft . . . 1589. Scottish housemaid Geillis and Danish courtier Ma… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Kelsey's The Burnings book and Joanna Courtney's Cleopatra & Julius

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • historical fiction
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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 Joanna Courtney's Cleopatra & Julius

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • historical fiction
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14. 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 Joanna Courtney's Cleopatra & Julius

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • historical fiction
"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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15. 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 Joanna Courtney's Cleopatra & Julius

  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • historical fiction
"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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16. The Bad Ones

By: Melissa Albert

3.66

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Goddess, goddess, count to five In the morning, who’s alive? In the course of a single winter’s… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Albert's The Bad Ones book and Joanna Courtney's Cleopatra & Julius

  • fantasy
"Let's say your the girl who saved your best friends life. The person who apparently kept her alive With your love and your constancey. With your steadfast disregard for the worser parts of her nature…"

-Melissa Albert, The Bad Ones

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17. Shield Maiden

By: Sharon Emmerichs

3.69

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Both epic and intimate, Sharon Emmerichs's extraordinary debut novel reimagines  Beowulf  from the … read more

Similar categories in Sharon Emmerichs's Shield Maiden book and Joanna Courtney's Cleopatra & Julius

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • historical fiction
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18. 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 Joanna Courtney's Cleopatra & Julius

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • historical fiction
"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

Cover of Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5) by Juno  Dawson

19. Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5)

By: Juno Dawson

3.76

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The next enchanting instalment of the sensational #1 SUNDAY TIMES bestselling HER MAJESTY’S ROYAL C… read more

Similar categories in Juno Dawson's Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5) book and Joanna Courtney's Cleopatra & Julius

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • historical fiction
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20. 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 Joanna Courtney's Cleopatra & Julius

  • historical
  • ancient history
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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21. Cleopatra & Julius

By: Joanna Courtney

3.80

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A young queen. Consecrated at birth as a royal goddess, Cleopatra learns early on from her fathe… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Courtney's Cleopatra & Julius book and Joanna Courtney's Cleopatra & Julius

  • historical
  • egypt
  • ancient history
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
  • mythology

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