Circe
Madeline Miller
The witch of the Odyssey, finally given her own story. Lush, feminist, and totally absorbing.
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★ 5Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
A strange, beautiful novel about a man who lives alone in a labyrinthine house filled with statues and tidal halls… and slowly comes to realize he doesn’t know who he is or how he got there. It’s unlike anything else, and somehow both deeply weird and deeply moving.
★ 5Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
Kate Atkinson
Ursula Todd dies and is reborn again and again across the 20th century. Ingenious, and I couldn't stop.
★ 5Matrix
Lauren Groff
Matrix is a mostly fictional novel about a real person: Marie de France, an orphaned poet and member of the twelfth century royal court who is banished to a nunnery. She’s an incredible protagonist: clever, ambitious, and fiercely independent. Anyone who fell in love with Circe’s dynamism will be captivated by Matrix.