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- Goddess Girls
series43 books2010
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Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams' Goddess Girls reimagines young Olympian gods and goddesses as students at Mount Olympus Academy, principaled by Zeus. The core series follows four friends -- Athena, Persephone, Aphrodite, and Artemis -- through school-life adventures that also weave in mortal figures like Pandora and Medusa and visiting deities from other mythologies. Holub writes Athena and Artemis while Williams writes Persephone and Aphrodite, across more than two dozen main entries and spin-off collections published since 2010.
- Norse Mythology
series17 books2017
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Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology retells the central myths of the Norse gods in his own prose, moving from the creation of the nine worlds through the exploits of Odin, Thor, and Loki to the final battle of Ragnarok. It is a single volume rather than a continuing series, drawing on the old Eddic sources and shaped by Gaiman's lifelong fondness for them.
- Celestial Kingdom
series4 books2022
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Sue Lynn Tan's Celestial Kingdom duology reimagines the Chinese legend of the moon goddess Chang'e, following her daughter Xingyin as she seeks to free her mother from an enchantment binding her to the moon. It opens with Daughter of the Moon Goddess (2022) and concludes with Heart of the Sun Warrior, with the companion collection Tales of the Celestial Kingdom and the further novel Immortal extending the same mythic world.
- Ragnarok: The End of the Gods
A. S. Byattstandalone novel2011
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Ragnorak: The End of the Gods is a 2011 novel written by English critic and novelist A. S. Byatt. Written for the Canongate Myth Series, Byatt chose to make the book about Norse mythology so she could grapple the "appalling finality" of Ragnarök.
- The Fall of Gondolin
series2 books1984
completed
part of Tolkien's legendarium
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The Fall of Gondolin (2018), edited by Christopher Tolkien from his father's manuscripts, tells one of the three "Great Tales" of the First Age of Middle-earth: the hidden elven city of Gondolin, its long concealment, and its eventual betrayal and destruction by the forces of the dark lord Morgoth. It sits alongside The Children of Hurin and Beren and Luthien as an expanded, standalone telling of a story that The Silmarillion had compressed into a single chapter. This is legendarium history assembled from multiple drafts rather than a novel with one continuous throughline.
- Ever
Gail Carson Levinestandalone novel2008
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Fourteen-year-old Kezi and Olus, Akkan god of the winds, fall in love and together try to change her fate--to be sacrificed to a Hyte god because of a rash promise her father made--through a series of quests that might make her immortal.
- Mythago Wood
series7 books1984
completed
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Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood is set around Ryhope Wood, a small patch of ancient British woodland that is somehow far larger on the inside, generating 'mythagos' -- physical embodiments of myth and legend drawn from visitors' own collective unconscious. The first novel follows Stephen Huxley investigating his family's obsession with the wood after his father's death; Holdstock continued the cycle across further novels and stories exploring different characters and eras. It blends fantasy with psychology and British folklore rather than a conventional quest structure.
- The Ship of Ishtar
A. Merrittstandalone novel1926
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From the back cover of the 1991 Collier paperback: The ship in the stone - When John Kenton first gets the shipment from an ancient Babylonian site, he finds a block of stone nothing more. But when he strikes the stone, it answers with a strange sound that challenges him - summons him - to release whatever secret lies buried within. When he finally manages to crack open the rock, a mist escapes. When the air clears the stone is gone except for its hidden contents: a perfectly sculpted Babylonian ship riding atop the turquoise waves of a turbulent sea. Before he knows what happened, Kenton is swept away from the room in which he stands, to the deck of the ancient ship, alive, with the priestesses of Ishtar and the priests of Nergal agape before him. This is but the start of an adventure that will consume John Kenton and seize his life forever. One look at the radiant beauty of the Goddess's favored servant, Sharane, and he knows that he must possess this woman, no matter what terrible trials lie in his way.
- Thor's Wedding Day
Bruce Covillestandalone novel2005
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Thialfi, the Norse thunder god's goat boy, tells how he inadvertently helped the giant Thrym to steal Thor's magic hammer, the lengths to which Thor must go to retrieve it, and his own assistance along the way.
- Fionavar Universe
series5 books1984
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Ysabel is a 2007 standalone contemporary fantasy novel by Guy Gavriel Kay, following teenager Ned Marriner as he stumbles into a centuries-old rivalry playing out around the cathedral of Aix-en-Provence. It marked Kay's turn toward urban fantasy and briefly brings back two adult characters from his earlier Fionavar Tapestry trilogy, though it is not itself part of that trilogy and can be read on its own.
- Legends (Anthony Horowitz)
series42 books1985
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