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Circe Audiobook by Madeline Miller— narrated by Perdita Weeks
2019 Indies Choice Award · Audiobook
Madeline Miller hands the page to Circe, the lesser goddess of myth, and lets her tell her own long life in luminous first person. It is mythological retelling at its most intimate: a story of exile, witchcraft, and the slow, hard-won making of a self.
Why the audiobook wins
Circe lives or dies on voice, since the entire novel is one immortal woman narrating her own long life, and Perdita Weeks's cool, precise reading is the reason this recording became a listener favorite in its own right. Her control over Circe's shift from scorned, uncertain girl to a witch who has earned her exile gives the book's slow transformation a shape you can actually hear happening.
That arc is the hook: centuries compress into a single unbroken performance, so the loneliness of the island, the visits from gods and monsters, and the hard-won self-possession Circe arrives at all land with cumulative weight instead of chapter breaks. It rewards a long, uninterrupted listen more than most mythological retellings do.
Weeks's narration helped make this one of the more decorated audiobooks of its year, taking the 2019 Indies Choice Award for Audiobook. Centuries of a goddess's life, told in one voice, fit easily into a single Audible credit.
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- Who narrates the Circe audiobook?
- Perdita Weeks narrates the audiobook edition of Circe.
- Is the Circe audiobook worth listening to?
- We scored Circe 4.4 out of 5. Circe lives or dies on voice, since the entire novel is one immortal woman narrating her own long life, and Perdita Weeks's cool, precise reading is the reason this recording became a listener favorite in its own right. Her control over Circe's shift from scorned, uncertain girl…
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