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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 312 times as epics)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,172,223 ratings — published -700
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 245 times as epics)
avg rating 3.93 — 501,996 ratings — published -800
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as epics)
avg rating 3.50 — 344,284 ratings — published 1000
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 168 times as epics)
avg rating 3.87 — 141,498 ratings — published -19
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as epics)
avg rating 3.75 — 116,447 ratings — published -2000
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as epics)
avg rating 3.85 — 179,863 ratings — published 1667
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 98 times as epics)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,700,657 ratings — published 1996
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as epics)
avg rating 4.08 — 169,573 ratings — published 1320
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 80 times as epics)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,095,053 ratings — published 1954
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by (shelved 75 times as epics)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,009,879 ratings — published 1998
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as epics)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,395,566 ratings — published 1937
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 62 times as epics)
avg rating 4.03 — 203,180 ratings — published 1320
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
by (shelved 62 times as epics)
avg rating 4.55 — 837,797 ratings — published 2000
The Song of Roland (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as epics)
avg rating 3.50 — 18,961 ratings — published 1115
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
by (shelved 58 times as epics)
avg rating 4.17 — 783,865 ratings — published 2005
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as epics)
avg rating 4.66 — 646,402 ratings — published 2010
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 53 times as epics)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,102,876 ratings — published 1954
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as epics)
avg rating 4.10 — 77,266 ratings — published 8
Mahabharata (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as epics)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,061 ratings — published 1951
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 50 times as epics)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,021,076 ratings — published 1955
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
by (shelved 49 times as epics)
avg rating 4.34 — 731,407 ratings — published 2011
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as epics)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,002 ratings — published 1835
The Nibelungenlied (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as epics)
avg rating 3.82 — 8,799 ratings — published 1200
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as epics)
avg rating 4.07 — 13,130 ratings — published 1957
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as epics)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,065,235 ratings — published 2007
The Lord of the Rings (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as epics)
avg rating 4.54 — 723,120 ratings — published 1954
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as epics)
avg rating 4.35 — 819,018 ratings — published 1989
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as epics)
avg rating 4.52 — 5,595 ratings — published 1010
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
by (shelved 38 times as epics)
avg rating 4.76 — 469,713 ratings — published 2014
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as epics)
avg rating 4.49 — 932,905 ratings — published 2006
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as epics)
avg rating 4.19 — 583,871 ratings — published 1990
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as epics)
avg rating 4.17 — 360,924 ratings — published 1869
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as epics)
avg rating 3.58 — 17,226 ratings — published 1590
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 33 times as epics)
avg rating 3.83 — 11,196 ratings — published -250
Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as epics)
avg rating 4.41 — 209,830 ratings — published 1975
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
by (shelved 32 times as epics)
avg rating 4.38 — 628,800 ratings — published 2007
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as epics)
avg rating 3.76 — 76,256 ratings — published 1375
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 4.26 — 11,821 ratings — published 1270
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 4.57 — 230,372 ratings — published 1985
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as epics)
avg rating 4.03 — 329,892 ratings — published 1977
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as epics)
avg rating 4.15 — 15,538 ratings — published 1220
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as epics)
avg rating 4.19 — 80,441 ratings — published -400
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as epics)
avg rating 4.10 — 917,956 ratings — published 1878
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as epics)
avg rating 3.91 — 301,051 ratings — published 1615
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as epics)
avg rating 4.21 — 836,798 ratings — published 1862
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as epics)
avg rating 3.56 — 608,742 ratings — published 1851
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 29 times as epics)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,054,503 ratings — published 2007
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as epics)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,250,484 ratings — published 1936
The Lusiads (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as epics)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,349 ratings — published 1572
“I wasn’t a nerd, mind you, but I’d spent a lot of my youth studying Epics, so I’d had limited experience with social interaction. I mixed with ordinary people about the same way that a bucket of paint mixed with a bag of gerbils.”
― Firefight
― Firefight
“Whatever their DNA contribution to the region, the Brahmins did bring
with them from India three crucial gifts that proved irresistible right across
the region: Sanskrit, the art of writing and the stories of the great Indian
epics.
No Indian import had a deeper or more long-lasting impact than the
deeds of the heroes of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. From the fifth
century, right on through to the dance and shadow puppetry of the present
day, these would remain a major feature in the art and culture of South-east
Asia.26 In time, even the landscape of South-east Asia began to be renamed
under the influence of the great epics and the stories of their respective
heroes, the Pandava brothers and Lord Rama.
The earliest inscription in Khmer territories dating from the fifth century
records that a ruler in what is now Laos took the Indic name Devanika and
the grandiose Sanskrit title Maharajadhiraja, ‘King of Kings’. This
happened during a ceremony when the King installed an image of Shiva
under the lingam-shaped mountain that towered over his capital of
Champasak. There he consecrated a tank which he named Kurukshetra,
after the plain to the north of Delhi where the great battle of the
Mahabharata was fought”
― The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
with them from India three crucial gifts that proved irresistible right across
the region: Sanskrit, the art of writing and the stories of the great Indian
epics.
No Indian import had a deeper or more long-lasting impact than the
deeds of the heroes of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. From the fifth
century, right on through to the dance and shadow puppetry of the present
day, these would remain a major feature in the art and culture of South-east
Asia.26 In time, even the landscape of South-east Asia began to be renamed
under the influence of the great epics and the stories of their respective
heroes, the Pandava brothers and Lord Rama.
The earliest inscription in Khmer territories dating from the fifth century
records that a ruler in what is now Laos took the Indic name Devanika and
the grandiose Sanskrit title Maharajadhiraja, ‘King of Kings’. This
happened during a ceremony when the King installed an image of Shiva
under the lingam-shaped mountain that towered over his capital of
Champasak. There he consecrated a tank which he named Kurukshetra,
after the plain to the north of Delhi where the great battle of the
Mahabharata was fought”
― The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
