17 must-read mythology books like Athena's Child (The Grecian Women Trilogy, #1) by Hannah M. Lynn

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Athena's Child (The Grecian Women Trilogy, #1)

By: Hannah M. Lynn

3.76

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

For readers of Madeleine Miller and Claire Heywood comes the story of the most infamous monster of …

If you liked the mythology plot in Athena's Child (The Grecian Women Trilogy, #1) by Hannah M. Lynn , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. 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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2. 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

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  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
"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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3. Due cuori in affitto

By: Felicia Kingsley

4.19

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Summer ha ventisette anni ed è californiana. Blake ne ha quasi trentatré ed è un vero newyorkese. L… read more

Similar categories in Felicia Kingsley's Due cuori in affitto book and Hannah M. Lynn's Athena's Child (The Grecian Women Trilogy, #1)

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. Prima regola: non innamorarsi

By: Felicia Kingsley

4.28

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

Silvye ha ventisette anni, una madre asfissiante e sogna solo una vita normale, con un lavoro norma… read more

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  • fiction
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5. Athena's Child (The Grecian Women Trilogy, #1)

By: Hannah M. Lynn

3.76

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

For readers of Madeleine Miller and Claire Heywood comes the story of the most infamous monster of … read more

Similar categories in Hannah M. Lynn's Athena's Child (The Grecian Women Trilogy, #1) book and Hannah M. Lynn's Athena's Child (The Grecian Women Trilogy, #1)

  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
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6. La favola di Amore e Psiche

By: Apuleius

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Comincia come ogni favola il racconto di Amore e Psiche, con un re e una regina e le loro tre figli… read more

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  • greek mythology
  • mythology
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Iam nil officiunt mihi nec ipsae nocturnae tenebrae: teneo te, meum lumen."

-Apuleius, La favola di Amore e Psiche

"I little esteeme to see your visage and figure, little doe I regard the night and darknesse thereof, for you are my only light."

-Apuleius, La favola di Amore e Psiche

"Night fell, and her husband came to bed, and as soon as they had finished kissing and embracing each other, he fell fast asleep. Psyche was not naturally either very strong or very brave, but the cru…"

-Apuleius, La favola di Amore e Psiche

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7. Appuntamento in terrazzo

By: Felicia Kingsley

3.83

Format: 127 pages, ebook

“Rimanete a casa, rimanete a casa”, si sente urlare dagli altoparlanti delle uniche auto che circol… read more

Similar categories in Felicia Kingsley's Appuntamento in terrazzo book and Hannah M. Lynn's Athena's Child (The Grecian Women Trilogy, #1)

  • adult
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8. 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

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  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
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9. 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
  • feminism
  • 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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10. 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
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
"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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11. 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
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
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12. 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
  • audiobook
"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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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

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  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
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14. La schiava ribelle

By: Eleonora Fasolino

3.72

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Briseide, amante di Achille e custode dei suoi segreti. Troia è sotto assedio. Ogni giorno gli a… read more

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  • retellings
  • greek mythology
  • mythology
  • historical fiction
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15. Ariadne

By: Jennifer Saint

3.80

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Ariadne, Princess of Crete, grows up greeting the dawn from her beautiful dancing floor and listeni… read more

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  • retellings
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
"the world was on fire, and theseus was a shaded green pool."

-Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

"We might only have a mortal lifetime, but it will belong to us and no one else."

-Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

"We might only have a mortal lifetime, but it will belong to us, and no one else."

-Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

"My mother's private constellation of shame intermingled with love and despair no longer."

-Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

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16. 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
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
"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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17. Io sono Persefone

By: Daniele Coluzzi

3.73

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

Il destino di Core, giovane dea, è già stato scritto: regnerà sulla natura, assicurando terreno fer… read more

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  • retellings
  • greek mythology
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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18. 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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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. 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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21. 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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