Loved The Odyssey? Read These Next…

If you loved Homer’s The Odyssey — the wandering hero, strange lands, monsters, gods, war, homecoming, and the long journey back to yourself — there are countless books that explore similar ideas of adventure, exile, identity, sacrifice, mythology, and the search for home. In this video, I explore 10 books to read if you loved The Odyssey, from ancient epics to modern novels (plus a few honorary mentions, too) Books featured in this video: The Penelopiad — Margaret Atwood Memoirs of Hadrian — Marguerite Yourcenar Lavinia - Ursula Le Guin The Once and Future King - TH White Son of Nobody - Yann Martel The Travels of Sir John Mandeville Circe — Madeline Miller The Iliad — Homer The Aeneid — Virgil Song of Solomon — Toni Morrison The Lord of the Rings — J.R.R. Tolkien Till We Have Faces — C.S. Lewis The Epic of Gilgamesh — Anonymous The King Must Die — Mary Renault Anabasis — Xenophon The Autobiography of Red — Anne Carson Ulysses — James Joyce The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas From Odysseus and Penelope to Circe, Gilgamesh, Aeneas, Frodo, and other unforgettable travellers, these books show just how enduring the idea of the epic journey really is. Some are direct responses to Homer. Others take the same fundamental questions — Who am I? Where do I belong? What does it mean to return home? What do we become through suffering and adventure? — and take them somewhere completely new. Which of these have you read? And what would you add to the list? #TheOdyssey #Homer #BookRecommendations #ClassicLiterature #Mythology #EpicLiterature #BookTube #BooksToRead #AncientLiterature #Literature Subscribe to my channel if you love books, reading, exploring classic and contemporary literature. Explore book themes, the best books, best authors, best stories, and best characters (and maybe sometimes the worst books, too). #books #reading #literature #lovetoread #bestbooks #whattoread