Books like Circe
12 books with a reading profile close to Circe by Madeline Miller. Inward-looking and contemplative; a moderate read.
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1
The Song of Achilles
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
In this reimagining of the Trojan War, the awkward prince Patroclus is exiled to the court of King Peleus, where he forms an unlikely friendship with the golden demi-god Achilles.
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2
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
by V.E. Schwab
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
In 1714, a young French woman named Adeline LaRue strikes a deal with a god of darkness to escape a forced marriage and live without belonging to anyone.
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3
The Binding
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
In a world where books are physical vessels for human memories, Emmett Farmer is sent to apprentice under a Binder.
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4
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
romance, narrative
Set in the early 1900s, January Scaller lives as a ward in the sprawling mansion of Mr.
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5
My Policeman
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Brighton in the 1950s: Tom, a young policeman, courts and marries Marion, a schoolteacher, while also carrying on a secret relationship with Patrick, a museum curator, at a time when homosexuality is a crime.
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6
Eva Luna
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Eva Luna is born to a servant mother and a gardener father in an unnamed South American country, and her mother tells her stories to survive.
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7
The Night Circus
romance, narrative
Celia Bowen and Marco Alisdair are two young illusionists tethered to Le Cirque des Rêves, a traveling venue of monochrome tents that appears without warning and opens only at night.
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8
The Deep
narrative, literary
Inspired by a song by the group clipping., this novella follows the wajinru, water-breathing descendants of pregnant African women thrown overboard during the Atlantic slave trade.
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9
Swimming in the Dark
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Set in early 1980s Poland during the decline of the communist regime, the story follows Ludwik Glowacki, a university student who falls in love with the charismatic Janusz at an agricultural summer camp.
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10
Once Upon a River
narrative, literary
On a winter night at the Swan Inn along the Thames, a wounded stranger staggers through the door carrying the lifeless body of a small girl.
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11
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
by Neil Gaiman
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
When a middle-aged man returns to his childhood home for a funeral, he wanders to the neighboring farmhouse where he met Lettie Hempstock decades earlier.
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12
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Wavy Quinn is the daughter of a meth dealer growing up in a chaotic, neglectful household in rural Kansas.
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