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The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,136,380 ratings — published 2011
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,435,287 ratings — published 2018
The Penelopiad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.71 — 94,259 ratings — published 2005
The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.89 — 119,187 ratings — published 2018
Elektra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.66 — 59,504 ratings — published 2022
A Thousand Ships (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.04 — 97,097 ratings — published 2019
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.25 — 38,287 ratings — published 1998
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,104,494 ratings — published 1992
The Lost Books of the Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,666 ratings — published 2007
Lavinia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.87 — 18,594 ratings — published 2008
Stone Blind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.77 — 83,301 ratings — published 2022
Ariadne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.78 — 153,770 ratings — published 2021
Galatea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.93 — 131,480 ratings — published 2013
Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,150 ratings — published 2011
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,538,542 ratings — published 2005
Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,613 ratings — published 1969
Omeros (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,416 ratings — published 1990
Glorious Exploits (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.12 — 27,065 ratings — published 2024
Cassandra (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.87 — 7,412 ratings — published 1983
The Children of Jocasta (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,770 ratings — published 2017
The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,257,785 ratings — published 2007
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,415,204 ratings — published 2006
Home Fire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.01 — 74,185 ratings — published 2017
Red Doc> (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,729 ratings — published 2013
The Last of the Wine (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,792 ratings — published 1956
Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.89 — 794 ratings — published 2018
C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,645 ratings — published 1935
The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,999 ratings — published 2021
The Praise Singer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,654 ratings — published 1978
Classics and the Uses of Reception (Classical Receptions)
by (shelved 3 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published 2006
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,255,436 ratings — published -750
Metamorphica (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.72 — 601 ratings — published 2018
The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,609 ratings — published 1972
The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5)
by (shelved 3 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.56 — 1,184,716 ratings — published 2009
The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)
by (shelved 3 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,252,909 ratings — published 2008
Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.74 — 8,144 ratings — published 2005
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.24 — 74,921 ratings — published 1934
Nox (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,152 ratings — published 2010
Girl Meets Boy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.78 — 10,867 ratings — published 2007
Memoirs of Hadrian (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.21 — 37,876 ratings — published 1951
Son of Nobody (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.54 — 3,426 ratings — published 2026
Sing to Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.81 — 307 ratings — published 2025
Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,033 ratings — published 2018
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.94 — 530,240 ratings — published -750
Classical Controversies: Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Atalanta (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.73 — 38,322 ratings — published 2023
House of Odysseus (The Songs of Penelope, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,102 ratings — published 2023
Cloud Cuckoo Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.24 — 282,495 ratings — published 2021
The Stars Undying (Empire Without End, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.45 — 1,348 ratings — published 2022
Ithaca (The Songs of Penelope, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.68 — 15,493 ratings — published 2022