The Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerRead about the other books on the list.
The Song of Achilles deserves every accolade it earns and every bump in the bestseller charts. It won the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2012 and it is one of the first books that BookTok sent into the stratosphere.
We all needed a book that emphasizes the love story between hero Achilles and exiled prince Patroclus from The Iliad. It will break your heart that Achilles chooses glory and destiny to fight in the Trojan War over peace and Patroclus. The book will break your heart over and over, and you’ll be glad for it. It also feels like it may have helped raise the profile of feminist and queer reframings of mythological stories.
The Song of Achilles is among Charley Burlock and Bethanne Patrick's 25 best historical fiction books of all time, Tobias Madden's seven top books that take you places, Costa B. Pappas's eleven books that are contemporary retellings of classic titles, Bethanne Patrick's twenty-five best historical fiction books of all time, Mark Skinner's nineteen top Greek myth retellings, Alexia Casale's top eight titles sparked by the authors' work life, Allison Epstein's eight queer historical fiction books set around the world, Phong Nguyen's seven titles that live halfway between history & myth, The Center for Fiction's 200 books that shaped two centuries of literature, Sara Stewart's six best books and Nicole Hill's fourteen characters who should have lived.
My Book, The Movie: The Song of Achilles.
--Marshal Zeringue
Posts
