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Place of Setting	Author	Title	Notes
China	Liang, Ann	A Song to Drown Rivers	Fifth century BCE — girl seeks to avenge her sister
Egypt	George, Margaret	The Memoirs of Cleopatra	Based on the life of the last Egyptian Pharoah in the first century BCE
Egypt	Moran, Michelle	Nefertiti	Based on the wife of Pharoah Amunhotep in the 1300’s BCE
Europe	Auel, Jean	The Clan of the Cave Bear	Cro-magnon girl adopted by a Neandertal medicine woman. The series continues with five more books.
Europe	Haggith, Mandy	The Walrus Mutterer	Adventures of a Scottish healer enslaved by a trader in 4th century BCE
Greece	Atwood, Margaret	The Penelopiad	The Odyssey re-told through the eyes of Penelope
Greece	Barker, Pat	The Silence of the Girls	The Iliad from the POV of captured women
Greece	Beutner, Katharine	Alcestis	A re-imagined story of Alcestis, who gave her life in exchange for her husband’s
Greece	Haynes, Natalie	The Children of Jocasta	Story of Jocasta (mother/wife of Oedipus) and their daughter Ismeme
Greece	LeGuin, Ursula	Lavinia	The story of the second wife of Aeneas
Greece	Miller, Madeline	Circe	In The Odyssey, Circe was the “witch” woman who turned Odysseus’s men into pigs. Who was she really?
Greece	Mitchison, Naomi	The Corn King and the Spring Queen	228 BCE — the forced marriage of the Corn King and the Spring Queen sets off a series of quests by both women and men
Greece	Wolf, Christa	Cassandra	Retells the story of the Iliad from the perspective of Cassandra
Greece	Wolf, Christa	Medea	A modern retelling of the legend of Medea
Mediterranean	Fortier, Anne	The Lost Sisterhood	Adventures of an Amazon queen alternate with modern-day scholar researching Amazon women.
Middle East	Diamant, Anita	The Red Tent	Events of the Old Testament told through the eyes of Dinah, daughter of Leah and Jacob
Middle East	Marmery, Nikki	Lilith	Lilith, first wife of Adam, from the Garden of Eden to Jesus’ time
Middle East and Europe	Warner, Marina	The Leto Bundle	Ancient times to present — follows the story of Leto, a Greek goddess and mortal woman
North America	Wood, Barbara	Sacred Ground	Ancient times to present – fictional Native American tribe in California
Worldwide	Wood, Barbara	The Blessing Stone	Eight linked stories of world history, from pre-history to the 1800s