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✍️ Madeline Miller

9 titles · Historical Fiction, Romance, LGBTQ, Historical, FantasyL

The Song of Achilles
4.62011

The Song of Achilles

🌶️🌶️ · 352p

The love story of Achilles and Patroclus, from their boyhood friendship to their tragic end at Troy. Miller's retelling makes ancient myth feel immediate and devastating.

Friends To LoversGreek MythologyStar Crossed LoversTragedy
The Song of Achilles
4.52011

The Song of Achilles

🌶️🌶️ · 416p

The Iliad from Patroclus's POV. A love story that knows where it's headed.

RetellingGreek MythQueer RomanceTragedy
The Song of Achilles
4.82012

The Song of Achilles

🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 378p

Patroclus tells the story of Achilles — from boyhood friendship to the Trojan War. You know how it ends. You read it anyway. And it DESTROYS you. The last page is one of the most devastating in literature.

Friends To LoversSlow BurnGreek MythologyRetelling
The Song of Achilles
4.72012

The Song of Achilles

🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 370p

The Iliad retold as a love story between Achilles and Patroclus. You know how it ends. You read it anyway. You cry for three days. A masterpiece of queer historical fiction.

Slow BurnGreek MythologyAngstEmotional Devastation
The Song of Achilles
4.72012

The Song of Achilles

🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 378p

Patroclus tells the story of Achilles — not the hero of myth but the boy he loved. The most beautiful love story you'll ever read. The last chapter will ruin you.

Greek MythologyRetellingSlow BurnTragic Romance
The Song of Achilles
4.62012

The Song of Achilles

🌶️🌶️ · 378p

Patroclus and Achilles. From boys to warriors to legend. You know how it ends. It destroys you anyway.

Star Crossed LoversGreek MythologyDevotionTragic Ending
Circe
4.62018

Circe

🌶️🌶️ · 393p

The witch of Greek mythology gets her own story. Circe isn't powerful or beautiful like other gods. But she finds her own magic, on her own terms. Quietly devastating.

Strong Female LeadGreek MythologyRetellingRedemption Arc
Circe
4.32018

Circe

🌶️🌶️ · 400p

Circe, daughter of the sun god Helios, is banished to a deserted island where she hones her witchcraft. From Odysseus to the Minotaur, she encounters the most famous figures of mythology—on her own terms.

Strong Female LeadGreek MythologyRetellingRedemption Arc
Circe
4.32018

Circe

🌶️🌶️ · 400p

The witch of Aiaia tells her own story — from banishment to Odysseus to motherhood.

RetellingGreek MythFeminism