Books like Circe
If you liked Circe by Madeline Miller, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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A Touch of Darkness
Because shares tags: fantasy, mythology, retelling.
Persephone bargains with Hades in New Athens nightclub deal.
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American Gods
Because shares tags: fantasy, mythology, gods.
Shadow Moon leaves prison to work for Mr Wednesday and gets pulled into war between old gods and new.
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The Blood of Olympus
Because shares tags: fantasy, mythology.
Seven demigods stop Gaia waking while Reyna brings Athena statue.
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Cress
Because shares tags: fantasy, retelling.
Imprisoned hacker Cress joins Cinder Scarlet Wolf Thorne to stop Levana's wedding to Kai.
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The Red Pyramid
Because shares tags: fantasy, mythology.
Siblings Carter and Sadie Kane wake the Egyptian gods and must stop Set from destroying the world.
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The House of Hades
Because shares tags: fantasy, mythology.
Percy and Annabeth cross Tartarus while the five close the Doors of Death before Gaea wakes.
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Scarlet
Because shares tags: fantasy, retelling.
Scarlet searches for her grandmother with Wolf while escaped Cinder fights Levana in the Lunar Chronicles sequel.
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Ella Enchanted
Because shares tags: fantasy, retelling.
Cursed to obey, Ella fights for freedom and love in a Cinderella retelling.
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Because shares tags: fantasy, retelling.
Elphaba is born green in Oz and called wicked for refusing the Wizard in Maguire's 1995 novel.
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Divine Rivals
Because shares tags: fantasy, gods.
Iris Winnow trades secret letters with rival Roman Kitt as gods Enva and Dacre wake to war.
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The Son of Neptune
Because shares tags: fantasy, mythology.
Amnesiac Percy wakes at Camp Jupiter and quests to Alaska with Hazel and Frank to free Thanatos.
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The Mark of Athena
Because shares tags: fantasy, mythology.
Seven demigods sail for Rome where Annabeth must follow the Mark to the Athena Parthenos alone.
