Fiction books about Greek Gods?

Question

What fiction books are therewhich have the Greek God's as character(s)?

I'm not talking about things like the Iliad or the Odyssey, I'm looking for books that are much more recent and incorporate the Greek Gods into them.

Answer 1

There is a new book that has come out this year that is on my list of books to read...

Gods behaving badly: a novel
Author: Phillips, Marie, 1976-
Alive and well in the twenty-first century in spite of the need to hold jobs to support themselves, the twelve Greek gods of Olympus work as dog walkers, TV psychics, and phone sex operators before a pair of humans is swept up in a battle of wills between Aphrodite and Apollo.

New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2007, 304 p.

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Answer 2

The iron Druid chronicles are good and they incorporate the gods. So does Neil gaimans American gods. Starling by Leslie Livingston does too

Answer 3

Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins

Answer 4

Phillip Roth's the super American Novel (definite it is the call of the e book.) wherein baseball gamers are godlike; some even have godlike names: Astarte and Demeter are 2 I remember. John Updike's The Centaur Bernard Malamud's The organic

Answer 5

mary pope osbourne (author of magic treehouse jack & annie books) has a series for young readers called "tales from the odyssey"

Answer 6

look for any GREEK MYTHOLOGY book, although they are all based on Homer. Homer wrote two important books:
1)The iliad
2)The Odissey

Answer 7

try this website;
www.historicalromancewriters.com