18 books like Circe

What to read after Circe — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Lies We Sing to the Sea Sarah Underwood · 2023 · ★ 3.4 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Each spring, Ithaca condemns twelve maidens to the noose. This is the price vengeful Poseidon demands for the lives of Queen Penelope’s twelve maids, hanged and cast into the depths centuries ago. But when that fate comes for Leto, death is not what she thought it would be. Instead, she wakes on a mysterious island and meets a girl with green eyes and the power to command the sea. A girl named… Shares: Retellings, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Historical Fiction

A Touch Of Ruin Scarlett St. Clair · 2020 · ★ 3.8 · 418p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Persephone's relationship with Hades has gone public and the resulting media storm disrupts her normal life and threatens to expose her as the Goddess of Spring. Hades, God of the Dead, is burdened by a hellish past that everyone's eager to expose in an effort to warn Persephone away. Things only get worse when a horrible tragedy leaves Persephone's heart in ruin and Hades refusing to help.… Shares: Retellings, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Fantasy

A Game of Fate Scarlett St. Clair · 2020 · ★ 4.0 · 372p · ≈ 12h · Moderate "Take her, and I will destroy this world. Take her, and I will destroy you. Take her, and I will end us all." Hades, God of the Underworld, is known for his inflexible rule, luxurious night clubs, and impossible bargains. Used to control, he is not prepared to discover the Fates have chosen his future wife and Queen―Persephone, Goddess of Spring. Despite her attraction to the god, Persephone,… Shares: Retellings, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Fantasy

A Touch of Darkness Scarlett St. Clair · 2019 · ★ 4.4 · 379p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Persephone is the Goddess of Spring in title only. Since she was a little girl, flowers have only shriveled at her touch. After moving to New Athens, she hoped to lead an unassuming life disguised as a mortal journalist. All of that changes when she sits down in a forbidden nightclub to play a hand of cards with a hypnotic and mysterious stranger. Hades, God of the Dead, has built a gambling… Shares: Retellings, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Fantasy

A Touch of Malice Scarlett St. Clair · 2021 · ★ 3.9 · 456p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Persephone and Hades are engaged. In retaliation, Demeter summons a snowstorm that cripples New Greece, and refuses to lift the blizzard unless her daughter calls off her engagement. When the Olympians intervene, Persephone finds her future in the hands of ancient gods, and they are divided. Do they allow Persephone to marry Hades and go to war with Demeter or prohibit their union and take up… Shares: Retellings, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Fantasy

Weyward Emilia Hart · 2023 · ★ 4.1 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate KATE, 2019 Kate flees London – abandoning everything – for Cumbria and Weyward Cottage, inherited from her great-aunt. There, a secret lurks in the bones of the house, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century. VIOLET, 1942 Violet is more interested in collecting insects and climbing trees than in becoming a proper young lady. Until a chain of shocking events changes her life… Shares: Historical, Witches, Historical Fiction, Magic

A book of myths Jeanie Lang · 1915 · 286p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Just as a little child holds out its hands to catch the sunbeams, to feel and to grasp what, so its eyes tell it, is actually there, so, down through the ages, men have stretched out their hands in eager endeavour to know their God. And because only through the human was the divine knowable, the old peoples of the earth made gods of their heroes and not unfrequently endowed these gods with as… Shares: Greek Mythology, Mythology

The Myths of Plato Πλάτων · 1905 · 544p · ≈ 18h · Challenging tr., with introductory and other observations Shares: Greek Mythology, Mythology

D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths Ingri Parin D'Aulaire · 1962 · ★ 4.4 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A re-telling of the myths of ancient Greece for children. Shares: Greek Mythology, Mythology

Mythology Jane Ellen Harrison · 1924 · ★ 4.0 · 155p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Jane Harrison examines the festivals of ancient Greek religion to identify the primitive "substratum" of ritual and its persistence in the realm of classical religious observance and literature. In Harrison's preface to this remarkable book, she writes that J. G. Frazer's work had become part and parcel of her "mental furniture" and that of others studying primitive religion. Today, those who… Shares: Greek Mythology, Mythology

Margaret and her friends Caroline Wells Healey Dall · 1895 · 162p · ≈ 5h · Challenging The only firsthand account of one of Fuller's famous "Conversations," the first of which to men were invited. Guests included Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sophia and George Ripley, Sophia and Elizabeth Peabody, Caroline Sturgis and Jones Very. Dall, who went on the become a major figure in the woman's rights movement in Massachusetts, includes direct quotes attributed to Fuller and… Shares: Greek Mythology, Mythology

Cyclops Tells All Nancy Loewen · 2014 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate OF COURSE you think my actions were horrific and heartless, that dining on Odysseus' men was unforgivable. You don't know the other side of the myth. Well, let me tell you... Shares: Greek Mythology, Mythology

The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer Alfred John Church · 1906 · 277p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Three thousand years ago the world was still young. The western continent was a huge wilderness, and the greater part of Europe was inhabited by savage and wandering tribes. Only a few nations at the eastern end of the Mediterranean and in the neighbouring parts of Asia had learned to dwell in cities, to use a written language, to make laws for themselves, and to live in a more orderly fashion.… Shares: Greek Mythology, Mythology

The Greek mythology Alexander Duthie · 1932 · 168p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Shares: Greek Mythology, Mythology

The Book of Longings Sue Monk Kidd · 2020 · ★ 4.2 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate “An extraordinary novel . . . a triumph of insight and storytelling.” —Associated Press“A true masterpiece.” —Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed An extraordinary story set in the first century about a woman who finds her voice and her destiny, from the celebrated number one New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of WingsIn her mesmerizing… Shares: Ancient, Historical

Ilium Dan Simmons · 2003 · ★ 4.0 · 592p · ≈ 19h · Moderate From the author of the Hyperion Cantos -- one of the most acclaimed popular series in contemporary science fiction -- comes a powerful epic of high-tech gods, human heroes, total war, and the extraordinary transcendence of ordinary beings. The first book in a two-part epic. "I am in awe of Dan Simmons." -- Stephen King. From the towering heights of Olympos Mons on Mars, the mighty Zeus and his… Shares: Gods, Greek Mythology, Mythology

The myths of the New World Daniel Garrison Brinton · 1868 · 331p · ≈ 11h · Challenging The book is a study of an obscure portion of the intellectual history of our species as exemplified in one of its varieties. It is based on the mythology of the American Indians. Shares: Ancient, Gods, Mythology

Weight Jeanette Winterson · 2005 · ★ 3.7 · 151p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Condemned to shoulder the world "for ever" by the gods he dared defy, freedom seems unattainable to Atlas. But then he receives an unexpected visit from Heracles, the one man strong enough to share the burden, and it seems they can strike a bargain that might release him . . . Jeanette Winterson asks difficult questions about the nature of choice and coercion in her dazzling retelling of the myth… Shares: Retellings, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Fantasy

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