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After The Odyssey: Voyages, Monsters & the Long Way Home
The movie sends us back to Ithaca; these books keep sailing. Begin with Homer, then follow witches, pirates, impossible islands, haunted veterans, migrants, alien oceans, and starships through literature’s oldest irresistible plot: survive the monsters, become a stranger, find the way home.
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Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr · 2021
A foolish shepherd’s impossible journey survives Constantinople, an Idaho library, and a starship fleeing Earth. Doerr’s real hero is the story itself: fragile cargo carried across catastrophe until it can guide someone home.
§ About this list
- Books
- 25
- Published
- 1920–2024
- Average rating
- 4.2 / 5 across 20,561 ratings
- Genres
- Adventure, Classics, Science Fiction, General
Most-rated on After The Odyssey: Voyages, Monsters & the Long Way Home
- 1Project Hail Mary · Andy Weir
A lone voyager wakes without his name, his mission, or a route home; ingenuity and an unexpected companion become his crew. It is the problem-solving Odyssey, launched between stars and powered by the pleasure of one more impossible obstacle.
- 2The Song of Achilles · Madeline Miller
Before Odysseus can struggle home, Troy has to make homecoming impossible for an entire generation. Patroclus tells the intimate story inside the war machine: tenderness, glory, prophecy, and the terrible cost of becoming the hero a culture demands.
- 3Piranesi · Susanna Clarke
Infinite halls, drowned statues, two living people—or so Piranesi believes. Clarke trades the open sea for a tidal labyrinth where memory is the lost homeland and naming the captor is the first step toward escape.
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