Circe

My knowledge of Greek mythology begins with some hazy recollections of Edith Hamilton and ends with Rick Riordan, so it is not an exaggeration to say the only thing I knew about Circe going into this book was “turns men into animals.” I absolutely loved this novel. The prose was unlike anything I'd ever read: epic and ancient, yet completely accessible to the modern reader. The book was filled with beautiful poetic images that could have come straight out of Homer (and maybe they did, I've never read The Odyssey). I don't know how this book escaped my attention last year (it absolutely crushed the competition in Goodreads' 2018 Fantasy poll), but I eagerly await Madeline Miller's next work.