which won the White Pine Award and the Bapsi Sidhwa Literary Prize, and The Beauty of the Moment, which won the Nautilus Gold Award for Young Adult Fiction. Her acclaimed debut, A Girl Like That, was named a Best Book of the Year by numerous outlets including The Globe and Mail, Seventeen, and The Times of India. Her debut adult fantasy, Witch Daughter, will be published in fall 2026 by Grand Central.
At Lit Hub Bhathena tagged nine feminist myth and fairytale retellings to read after watching Christopher Nolan’s big screen adaptation of The Odyssey. One title on the list:
Natalie Haynes, A Thousand ShipsRead about another entry on the list.
Framed by the narrative of Calliope, the muse of epic poetry, Haynes’s novel is told in 43 chapters, exploring the perspectives of multiple women onboth sides of the Trojan war. We hear from Penelope who pens letters to Odysseus, not knowing if he has survived the war, and from Clytemnestra who loses her daughter in her husband’s quest for Troy. But some of the most poignant narratives come from Trojan women like Creusa, wife of Aeneas who escapes Troy and becomes a founding father for Rome, and Hector’s wife, Andromache, who is taken as a war captive by Achilles’s son.
A Thousand Ships is among Book Riot's best historical fiction books of the century so far, Megan Barnard's top eleven books about misunderstood women in history and mythology, the B&N Reads editors' twenty-four best mythological retellings, Susan Stokes-Chapman's top ten novels inspired by Greek myths, Jennifer Saint's ten essential books inspired by Greek myth, Deanna Raybourn's six top novels based on historical scandals, and Alyssa Vaughn's forty-two books to help you get through the rest of quarantine.
The Page 69 Test: A Thousand Ships.
--Marshal Zeringue
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