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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorPercy Jackson's Greek Heroes
Rick Riordan · 457 pages
Who cut off Medusa's head? Who was raised by a she-bear? Who tamed Pegasus? It takes a demigod to know, and Percy Jackson can fill you in on the all the daring deeds of Perseus, Atalanta, Bellerophon, and the rest of the major Greek heroes. Told in the funny, irreverent style readers have come to expect from Percy -- Provided by publisher.
The One-Eyed Giant
Mary Pope Osborne, Homer · 112 pages
Retells a part of the Odyssey in which King Odysseus fights the cyclops.
Flight of the Fire Thief
Terry Deary · 240 pages
Flight of the Fire Thief continues the hilarious fantastical adventures of Prometheus, the Greek demigod who stole fire from the gods and gave it to the human race. To escape the gods' revenge, Prometheus time-travels to Eden City, arriving in 1795. There he befriends a brave and resourceful twelve-year-old girl named Nell. Deary skillfully interweaves two plots, with the action jumping at a whir
Persephone the Phony
Joan Holub, Suzanne Williams · 160 pages
She really falls for this guy who becomes bad news for her friends and her mom. She's really upset thinking that only Hades understand. She does the unbeleivable when she gets in over her head. Hades is also falling for Persephony. They can both be themselves around each other. Surprisingly, Hades is shy around her and barely has any friends, get picked on alot, but they get through it at a dance!
My Life From Hell
Tellulah Darling · 414 pages
Athena: Grey-Eyed Goddess
George O'Connor · 80 pages
From the moment she emerged, fully grown, from the head of Zeus, Athena was one of the most complex Olympians. This graphic novel retells her many interwoven tales: how she killed Pallas, fought the Gigantes, aided Perseus, and cursed Arachne.
The Tale of Troy: Retold from the Ancient Authors
Roger Lancelyn Green · 210 pages
Warrior Rising
P.C. Cast · 346 pages
The Goddesses have had it with the Trojan War. So much devastation—all because of some silly male egos. The worst of the bunch is that cocky, handsome brute Achilles. But the only way to stop a man like Achilles is to distract him with something far more pleasurable than combat… Enter Kat, a modern girl from Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Goddesses transform her into a Trojan princess, having no doubt that
Girl, Goddess, Queen
Bea Fitzgerald · 464 pages
Black Ships Before Troy
Rosemary Sutcliff · 128 pages
Retells the story of the Trojan War, from the quarrel for the golden apple, and the flight of Helen with Paris, to the destruction of Troy.
Gods Behaving Badly
Marie Phillips · 288 pages
Being a Greek god is not all it once was. Yes, the twelve gods of Olympus are alive and well in the twenty-first century, but they are crammed together in a London townhouse-and none too happy about it. And they've had to get day jobs: Artemis as a dog-walker, Apollo as a TV psychic, Aphrodite as a phone sex operator, Dionysus as a DJ.Even more disturbingly, their powers are waning, and even tur
Pandora Gets Jealous
Carolyn Hennesy · 272 pages
Daughter of the Earth and Sky
Kaitlin Bevis · 208 pages
Medusa, A Love Story
Sasha Summers · 284 pages
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.
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller · 368 pages
This is the story of the seige of Troy from the perspective of Achilles best-friend Patroclus. Although Patroclus is outcast from his home for disappointing his father he manages to be the only mortal who can keep up with the half-God Archilles. Even though many will know the facts behind the story the telling is fresh and engaging.
The Immortals
Jordanna Max Brodsky · 474 pages
"A high quality contemporary fantasy novel that will appeal to a wide range of readers from American Gods to the kids who grew up reading Percy Jackson. The Relentless One, the Bearer of the Bow, the Untamed.....those are only a few of the names Selene DiSilva's answered to over the years. But these days she's content to work in secret, defending the women of Manhattan from the evils of men. She's
Dreamless
Josephine Angelini · 500 pages
With help from her new friend Orion, seventeen-year-old Helen Hamilton descends into the Underworld in search of a way to break the Furies' blood curse and prevent the start of another Trojan War. With help from her new friend Orion, 17-year-old Helen Hamilton descends into the Underworld in search of a way to break the Furies' blood curse and prevent the start of another Trojan War. The plot con
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
Ingri d'Aulaire, Edgar Parin d'Aulaire · 192 pages
A re-telling of the myths of ancient Greece for children.