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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorYajnaseni: The Story of Draupadi
Pratibha Ray · 402 pages
Epistolary novel about Draupadī, Hindu mythological character from the Mahābhārata.
The Palace of Illusions
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni · 372 pages
A reimagining of the world-famous Indian epic, the Mahabharat--told from the point of view of the wife of an amazing woman.Relevant to today's war-torn world, The Palace of Illusions takes us back to a time that is half history, half myth, and wholly magical. Narrated by Panchaali, the wife of the legendary Pandavas brothers in the Mahabharat, the novel gives us a new interpretation of this ancien
The Goddess Chronicle
Natsuo Kirino · 320 pages
The Witch's Heart
Genevieve Gornichec · 359 pages
Circe
Madeline Miller · 408 pages
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child—not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power—the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus b
Not Wanted On The Voyage
Timothy Findley · 352 pages
This is thee story of the great flood and the first time the world ended. The interesting characters include the tyrranical Noah, his indomitable wife and many others.
Girl, Goddess, Queen
Bea Fitzgerald · 464 pages
Alcestis
Katharine Beutner · 304 pages
In this vivid reimagining of a classical Greek myth, the eponymous Greek heroine Alcetis, known as the good wife because she loved her husband so much that she died to save his life, tells about her childhood, her marriage to the young king of Pherae, and what happened during the three days she spent in the underworld before being rescued by Heracles. Set in the world of Mycenaean Greece.
Lady of Avalon
Marion Zimmer Bradley, Diana L. Paxson · 480 pages
New York Times bestselling author Marion Zimmer Bradley brings the mesmerizing world of myth, romance and history to life in the spellbinding novel of epic grandeur!Before the legend of King Arthur and Camelot, there was Avalon, a beautiful island of golden vales and silver mists. A land where the lives of three powerful priestesses shape the destiny of Roman Britian as they fight to regain the ma
Gwenhwyfar: The White Spirit
Mercedes Lackey · 404 pages
The bestselling author of the Valdemar novels pens a classic tale about King Arthur's legendary queen.Gwenhwyfar moves in a world where gods walk among their pagan worshipers, where nebulous visions warn of future perils, and where there are two paths for a woman: the path of the Blessing or the rarer path of the Warrior. Gwenhwyfar chooses the latter, giving up the power that she is born into. Ye
Helen of Sparta
Amalia Carosella
Sita: Warrior of Mithila
Amish Tripathi · 375 pages
Daughter of the Moon Goddess
Sue Lynn Tan · 503 pages
The Penelopiad
Margaret Atwood · 199 pages
Homer's Odyssey is not the only version of the story. Mythic material was originally oral, and also local -- a myth would be told one way in one place and quite differently in another. I have drawn on material other than the Odyssey, especially for the details of Penelope's parentage, her early life and marriage, and the scandalous rumors circulating about her. I've chosen to give the telling of t
Till We Have Faces
C.S. Lewis · 320 pages
C.S. Lewis once described Till We Have Faces as his best work. It is a retelling of the Psyche myth with a subtle Christian bent. One of my professors, Dr. Jim Hand, once posed the question, "Is Psyche a case of spirit becoming flesh, or flesh becoming spirit?" It is a great novel with much depth.
Quiver
Stephanie Spinner · 177 pages
When her father commands that she produce an heir, the huntress Atalanta gives her suitors a seemingly impossible task in order to uphold her pledge of chastity, as the gods of ancient Greece look on.
Neon Gods
Katee Robert · 408 pages
**He was supposed to be a myth. But from the moment I crossed the River Styx and fell under his dark spell... he was, quite simply, mine.** Society darling Persephone Dimitriou plans to flee the ultra-modern city of Olympus and start over far from the backstabbing politics of the Thirteen Houses. But all that’s ripped away when her mother ambushes her with an engagement to Zeus, the dangerous
Destined
Jessie Harrell · 368 pages
When Psyche receives a prophecy gone horribly wrong, she learns that even the most beautiful girl in Greece can have a hideous future. Her fate? Fall in love with the one creature even the gods fear. As she feels herself slipping closer into the arms of the prophecy, Psyche must choose between the terrifyingly tender touch she feels almost powerless to resist and the one constant she's come to exp
The Monstrous Child
Francesca Simon · 303 pages
Eternal teenager Hel, who was born with the legs of a rotting corpse, is goddess of the Underworld where she creates a magical atmosphere to welcome the dead for eternity, until eternity is threatened.