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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 344 times as epics)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,295,134 ratings — published -800
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 270 times as epics)
avg rating 3.94 — 540,345 ratings — published -750
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as epics)
avg rating 3.51 — 358,346 ratings — published 950
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 197 times as epics)
avg rating 3.88 — 149,534 ratings — published -19
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as epics)
avg rating 3.76 — 124,983 ratings — published -1800
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as epics)
avg rating 3.86 — 189,099 ratings — published 1667
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 101 times as epics)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,827,008 ratings — published 1996
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as epics)
avg rating 4.09 — 180,518 ratings — published 1304
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 80 times as epics)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,247,012 ratings — published 1954
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by (shelved 75 times as epics)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,055,511 ratings — published 1998
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as epics)
avg rating 4.03 — 214,001 ratings — published 1321
The Song of Roland (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as epics)
avg rating 3.51 — 20,000 ratings — published 1115
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as epics)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,651,529 ratings — published 1937
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as epics)
avg rating 4.10 — 81,316 ratings — published 8
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
by (shelved 62 times as epics)
avg rating 4.55 — 874,244 ratings — published 2000
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
by (shelved 58 times as epics)
avg rating 4.18 — 815,825 ratings — published 2005
Mahabharata (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as epics)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,433 ratings — published 1839
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as epics)
avg rating 4.66 — 732,311 ratings — published 2010
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 55 times as epics)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,186,696 ratings — published 1954
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 52 times as epics)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,095,503 ratings — published 1955
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as epics)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,322 ratings — published 1835
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
by (shelved 49 times as epics)
avg rating 4.35 — 758,324 ratings — published 2011
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as epics)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,852 ratings — published 1957
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as epics)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,123,627 ratings — published 2007
The Nibelungenlied (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as epics)
avg rating 3.82 — 9,230 ratings — published 1200
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as epics)
avg rating 4.17 — 379,510 ratings — published 1868
The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
by (shelved 43 times as epics)
avg rating 4.55 — 751,162 ratings — published 1955
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as epics)
avg rating 4.35 — 862,134 ratings — published 1989
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as epics)
avg rating 4.19 — 615,924 ratings — published 1990
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as epics)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,572 ratings — published 1590
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as epics)
avg rating 4.48 — 4,606 ratings — published 1010
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
by (shelved 39 times as epics)
avg rating 4.76 — 536,735 ratings — published 2014
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as epics)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,092,418 ratings — published 2006
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as epics)
avg rating 3.77 — 82,203 ratings — published 1375
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 37 times as epics)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,918 ratings — published -250
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as epics)
avg rating 4.26 — 12,998 ratings — published 1270
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as epics)
avg rating 4.60 — 292,905 ratings — published 1985
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as epics)
avg rating 3.92 — 316,184 ratings — published 1605
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as epics)
avg rating 3.58 — 637,515 ratings — published 1851
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as epics)
avg rating 4.04 — 351,158 ratings — published 1977
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
by (shelved 33 times as epics)
avg rating 4.37 — 734,394 ratings — published 2007
Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as epics)
avg rating 4.41 — 221,945 ratings — published 1975
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as epics)
avg rating 4.22 — 867,900 ratings — published 1862
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as epics)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,273,382 ratings — published 1936
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as epics)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,349 ratings — published 1220
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 4.19 — 84,971 ratings — published -400
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 4.11 — 972,493 ratings — published 1878
The Lusiads (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as epics)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,774 ratings — published 1572
Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as epics)
avg rating 3.91 — 40,158 ratings — published 1485
“Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.”
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“Life and death, joy and sorrow, gain and loss; These dualities cannot be avoided. Learn to accept what you cannot change.”
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