Nicole Trilivas's new novel is Girls Who Travel. One book that changed the author, as shared at the Sydney Morning Herald:THE ODYSSEYRead about the other books on the list.
Homer
Full disclosure: If I wasn't forced to read this in university, I'm not sure I would have been able to handle it on my own. However, it's challenging, but rewarding and it's kind of the world's first travel novel. Homer paints the scenes with this delicious, honey-thick language that still sticks to me to this day – I can't see the ocean at night without thinking of Homer's "wine dark seas" or see thepink sky of daybreak without recalling Dawn's "rosy fingers."
The Odyssey is among Jill Ciment's ten top dog stories, Shaun Byron Fitzpatrick's top seven bad witches in literature, Ellen Cooney's ten top canine-human literary duos, Nicole Hill's ten best names in literature to give your dog, Alexandra Silverman's biggest fictional literary crushes, James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello's top ten journeys across the Mediterranean and Caspian seas, Panayiota Kuvetakis's top ten fictional female friends who would make good real-life friends, James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello's top ten journeys across the Mediterranean and Caspian Sea, Tony Bradman's top 10 list of father and son stories, John Mullan's lists ten of the best shipwrecks in literature, ten of the best monsters in literature, ten of the best examples of rowing in literature, and ten of the best caves in literature, as well as Madeline Miller's top ten list of classical books, Justin Somper's top ten list of pirate books, and Carsten Jensen's list of the top ten seafaring tales.
--Marshal Zeringue