Literary agents who want books like Circe

Bent consistently closes major and pre-empt deals in adult fiction — historical fiction (particularly WWII-set), women's fiction with emotional depth, and liter…

Intergenerational stories rooted in specific cultural worlds — particularly Turkish, Iranian, and broader Middle Eastern or Asian contexts, though she is explic…

Valentina leans toward contemporary fantasy over secondary-world epic, though she will consider secondary-world projects with a genuinely distinctive premise. W…

Lake welcomes literary fiction that incorporates a speculative twist or draws on mythological frameworks — but the literary sensibility should be primary. These…

The hardest category to define but among her most active: she wants novels that are clever in conception, beautiful in execution, and genuinely accessible — the…

This may be where Esty's tastes run deepest. She wants prose that takes formal risks — the kind of sentence that makes a reader stop and question whether a writ…

Retellings must earn their source material: Lightner is looking for rigorous research, an original interpretive angle, and prose with real electric charge. Smar…

She is specifically drawn to traditions that are less familiar to Western readers, and she expects dark themes and subverted expectations rather than faithful o…

Hernick gravitates toward fiction that bridges intellect and emotional intimacy — narratives that follow a character so deeply the reader loses themselves in th…

She describes this as among her most wanted categories and lists specific touchstone titles with genuine enthusiasm. She is not a fit for epic or world-building…