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Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,480,072 ratings — published 2018
The Penelopiad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.71 — 99,275 ratings — published 2005
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,187,773 ratings — published 2011
The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.89 — 122,005 ratings — published 2018
Elektra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.65 — 61,031 ratings — published 2022
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.25 — 38,873 ratings — published 1998
Lavinia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.87 — 18,993 ratings — published 2008
A Thousand Ships (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.04 — 100,262 ratings — published 2019
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,128,456 ratings — published 1992
The Lost Books of the Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,701 ratings — published 2007
Stone Blind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.77 — 85,657 ratings — published 2022
Ariadne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.78 — 156,464 ratings — published 2021
Galatea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.93 — 134,438 ratings — published 2013
Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,226 ratings — published 2011
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,567,123 ratings — published 2005
Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,745 ratings — published 1969
Omeros (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,481 ratings — published 1990
Glorious Exploits (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.12 — 29,366 ratings — published 2024
Cassandra (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.87 — 7,655 ratings — published 1983
The Children of Jocasta (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.89 — 14,124 ratings — published 2017
The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,268,770 ratings — published 2007
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,427,256 ratings — published 2006
Home Fire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.01 — 74,608 ratings — published 2017
Red Doc> (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,805 ratings — published 2013
The Last of the Wine (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,905 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 — 797 ratings — published 2018
C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,713 ratings — published 1935
The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.83 — 31,930 ratings — published 2021
The Praise Singer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,668 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
House of Names (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.57 — 10,965 ratings — published 2017
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,288,894 ratings — published -800
Metamorphica (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.72 — 602 ratings — published 2018
The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,765 ratings — published 1972
The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5)
by (shelved 3 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.56 — 1,194,179 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 — 1,262,514 ratings — published 2008
Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.74 — 8,221 ratings — published 2005
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.24 — 75,522 ratings — published 1934
Nox (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,210 ratings — published 2010
Girl Meets Boy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.78 — 10,943 ratings — published 2007
Memoirs of Hadrian: And, Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian (FSG Classics)
by (shelved 3 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.21 — 38,553 ratings — published 1951
Son of Nobody (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.52 — 4,535 ratings — published 2026
No Friend to This House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.03 — 6,225 ratings — published 2025
Sing to Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.83 — 325 ratings — published 2025
Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,040 ratings — published 2018
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 3.94 — 538,203 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 — 39,365 ratings — published 2023
House of Odysseus (The Songs of Penelope, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,344 ratings — published 2023
Cloud Cuckoo Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as classical-reception)
avg rating 4.24 — 285,714 ratings — published 2021