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Around the Year in 52 Books is a Goodreads group that creates a user-generated reading challenge each year. This listopia is dedicated to one of our 2023 prompts. Please do not vote on these lists unless you are participating in our reading challenge!
Prompt: Three books, each of which is set in a different century
These are books generally set before the turn of the Common Era, where most ancient civilizations and mythological books occur.
For other centuries:
Set Pre-19th Century (BCE through the 1700s)
Set in the 19th Century (1800s)
Set in the 20th Century (1900s)
Set in the 21st Century (2000s)
Set Post-21st Century (2100 and Beyond)
Prompt: Three books, each of which is set in a different century
These are books generally set before the turn of the Common Era, where most ancient civilizations and mythological books occur.
For other centuries:
Set Pre-19th Century (BCE through the 1700s)
Set in the 19th Century (1800s)
Set in the 20th Century (1900s)
Set in the 21st Century (2000s)
Set Post-21st Century (2100 and Beyond)
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The Song of Achilles
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Madeline Miller (Goodreads Author)
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Circe
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The Odyssey
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The Red Tent
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Anita Diamant (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 626,710 ratings
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Ariadne
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Jennifer Saint (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 142,642 ratings
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The Penelopiad
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 84,389 ratings
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A Thousand Ships
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Natalie Haynes (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 87,234 ratings
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The Iliad
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Elektra
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Jennifer Saint (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 54,217 ratings
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The Wolf Den (Wolf Den Trilogy, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 44,405 ratings
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Norse Mythology
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 339,926 ratings
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Clytemnestra
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Costanza Casati (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 53,163 ratings
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The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
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Stone Blind: Medusa's Story
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Natalie Haynes (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 73,439 ratings
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Kaikeyi
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Vaishnavi Patel (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 36,475 ratings
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Antigone (Penguin Little Black Classics, #55)
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Oedipus the King
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I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
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Ithaca (The Songs of Penelope, #1)
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The Aeneid
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Daughters of Sparta
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The Silence of the Girls
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Death Comes as the End
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Mythology
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Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
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The Lost Queen (The Lost Queen, #1)
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Signe Pike (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 15,842 ratings
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House of Odysseus (The Songs of Penelope, #2)
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Lavinia
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The House with the Golden Door (Wolf Den Trilogy, #2)
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The Voyage Home (Women of Troy, #3)
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World
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4.21 avg rating — 39,082 ratings
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To the Sky Kingdom
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Cleo (Cleo #1)
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The Persian Boy
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Many Waters (Time Quintet, #4)
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3.95 avg rating — 49,865 ratings
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The Book of Job (Pocket Canon)
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Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
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3.75 avg rating — 16,150 ratings
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The Heretic Queen
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4.21 avg rating — 26,478 ratings
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
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4.06 avg rating — 78,518 ratings
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Horses of Fire
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Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish (Celtic World of Morgan Llywelyn #2)
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Athena's Child
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Hannah M. Lynn (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 15,435 ratings
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The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
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3.83 avg rating — 27,770 ratings
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Atalanta
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Jennifer Saint (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 33,321 ratings
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The Egyptian
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The Children of Jocasta
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Natalie Haynes (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 12,175 ratings
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Galatea
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Madeline Miller (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 118,142 ratings
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The Temple of Fortuna (Wolf Den Trilogy #3)
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4.36 avg rating — 13,719 ratings
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Witch Princess
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Hero For Hire (Eno the Thracian #1)
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C.B. Pratt (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 379 ratings
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Christmas in Camelot (Merlin Missions, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 11,295 ratings
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In Search of Ancient Ireland: The Origins of the Irish from Neolithic Times to the Coming of the English
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3.98 avg rating — 885 ratings
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The Last Hours (Black Death, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 8,427 ratings
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The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
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3.64 avg rating — 1,171 ratings
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Monkey King
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Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials
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Timon of Athens
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3.45 avg rating — 7,710 ratings
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The Hidden Prince
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Tessa Afshar (Goodreads Author)
4.56 avg rating — 4,360 ratings
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Epic of Helinthia (Epic of Helinthia, #1)
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M.J. Pankey (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 372 ratings
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Glorious Exploits
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Ferdia Lennon (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 16,955 ratings
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Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
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Nobody's Princess (Nobody's Princess, #1)
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3.69 avg rating — 13,394 ratings
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Sita's Ramayana
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3.73 avg rating — 1,241 ratings
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Pearl in the Sand
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Tessa Afshar (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 11,362 ratings
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The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 10,218 ratings
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100 Characters from Classical Mythology: Discover the Fascinating Stories of the Greek and Roman Deities
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4.06 avg rating — 487 ratings
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Irish Myths and Legends
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3.76 avg rating — 279 ratings
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Nobody's Prize (Nobody's Princess, #2)
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3.86 avg rating — 6,588 ratings
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Ramayana: Divine Loophole
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4.45 avg rating — 1,431 ratings
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The Ides of April (Flavia Albia, #1)
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3.82 avg rating — 3,839 ratings
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The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song, #1)
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Shauna Lawless (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 5,216 ratings
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Harvest Of Rubies (Harvest Of Rubies, #1)
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Tessa Afshar (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 6,383 ratings
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Schildmaid - Das Lied der Skaldin
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Anthony and Cleopatra
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Harvest Of Gold (Harvest Of Rubies, #2)
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Tessa Afshar (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 4,636 ratings
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Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
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Rebecca Wragg Sykes (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 3,548 ratings
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The Inheritors
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3.51 avg rating — 5,471 ratings
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Psyche and Eros
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Luna McNamara (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 18,868 ratings
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Lies We Sing to the Sea
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Sarah Underwood (Goodreads Author)
3.42 avg rating — 10,559 ratings
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Counted with the Stars (Out From Egypt, #1)
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Connilyn Cossette (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 10,075 ratings
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An Acceptable Time (Time Quintet, #5)
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3.78 avg rating — 23,627 ratings
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A Light on the Hill (Cities of Refuge, #1)
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Connilyn Cossette (Goodreads Author)
4.52 avg rating — 6,113 ratings
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For the Most Beautiful
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Emily Hauser (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 1,252 ratings
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Love Amid The Ashes
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Mesu Andrews (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 4,819 ratings
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Spear
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Nicola Griffith (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 8,704 ratings
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Troilus and Cressida
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The Pharaoh's Daughter (Treasures of the Nile, #1)
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Mesu Andrews (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 2,001 ratings
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Chosen: The Lost Diaries of Queen Esther (Lost Loves of the Bible #1)
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Ginger Garrett (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 1,196 ratings
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The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)
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Bernard Cornwell (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 53,960 ratings
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The Faraway Lurs
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Reign: The Chronicles of Queen Jezebel (Lost Loves of the Bible Book 3)
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Ginger Garrett (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 275 ratings
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Cleopatra: A Life
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Stacy Schiff (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 122,153 ratings
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Isle of Shadows (Seven Wonders, #1)
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Sistersong
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Lucy Holland (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 10,712 ratings
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Mythes grecs pour les petits - édition miniature
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Heather Amery (Adapter)
4.16 avg rating — 1,721 ratings
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The Wolf in the Whale
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Jordanna Max Brodsky (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 5,218 ratings
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Coriolanus
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3.72 avg rating — 19,147 ratings
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A Ship in a Storm on the Way to Tarshish
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Jul 26, 2023 02:04AM
The song of Achilles is on this list like 3 times.
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Sorry, I typically remove duplicates as I come across listopias but this one hasn't been on my radar.
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