Books like The Song of Achilles
12 books with a reading profile close to The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. Inward-looking; a moderate read.
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Circe
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
On the island of Aiaia, the exiled nymph Circe transforms from a rejected daughter of the sun god Helios into a formidable witch.
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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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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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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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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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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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The Gargoyle
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
A man, the narrator, is horribly burned in a car crash and spends months in a hospital burn unit, planning his own suicide.
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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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The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
Also inward-looking · romance, literary
Following the history of the Roux family across three generations, this narrative centers on Ava Lavender, a girl born in 1944 with a pair of functional, feathered wings.
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Here on Earth
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
March Murray returns with her teenage daughter Gwen to her childhood home in a coastal Massachusetts town after a death in the family.
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The Magic Fish
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Tiên is a Vietnamese-American teenager who shares a love for fairy tales with his mother, Hiền.
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Tipping the Velvet
by Sarah Waters
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
In 1890s Whitstable, Nancy Astley lives a quiet life shucking oysters until she becomes obsessed with Kitty Butler, a male impersonator performing at a local music hall.
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