Circe
core novel 2018 The Song of Achilles and Circe
Record
| First published | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.22 (1,439,307 ratings, collected 2026-08-13) |
| Page count | 393 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780316556347 |
Where it sits
- Universe: The Song of Achilles and Circe
- Series: The Song of Achilles and Circe core; position 2 of 2 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Madeline Miller
Awards (verified)
- Readers' Choice Awards (Fantasy), 2018: won; The awarding body's own 'Announcing the Winners' page, confirmed directly.
- Alex Award (YALSA), 2019: won; ALA/YALSA's own announcement, confirmed directly.
- Mythopoeic Award (Adult Literature), 2019: finalist; Confirmed directly via the Mythopoeic Society's own 2019 results page; the winner was Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver (already in this canon).
- Women's Prize for Fiction, 2019: nominated; Shortlisted; womensprize.com's own site corroborates via its 2019 shortlist reader's guide and celebrity-review pages, though its dedicated shortlist announcement page itself was not fetched directly.
Notes
- From the series record (The Song of Achilles and Circe): Two independent standalone novels retelling Greek mythology, registered as ONE universe under this canon's 'one continuous world/continuity, not one continuous plot' bright line: Circe's own narrative directly overlaps and re-narrates scenes involving Achilles and Patroclus from The Song of Achilles, a genuine textual crossover, not merely a same-author/same-genre coincidence. internal chronology is deliberately left null for both books, matching the treatment of other overlapping chronologies -- Circe's own story begins well before Achilles' birth and continues long after the Trojan War, so the two books' timelines substantially overlap rather than sitting in a clean sequence; publication order is the sourced default. Registered 'sequence' rather than 'duology' since Miller has not stated the pair is permanently closed at 2 books.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Song of Achilles and Circe: position 2 of 2: previous The Song of Achilles (2011)
Sources
- Wikipedia: The Song of Achilles
- Wikipedia: Circe (novel)
- ALA: YALSA announces 2019 Alex Awards
- Announcing the Winners of the 2018 Readers' Choice Awards
- Mythopoeic Society: Mythopoeic Awards 2019
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