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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 335 times as epics)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,264,424 ratings — published -750
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 264 times as epics)
avg rating 3.94 — 532,121 ratings — published -750
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as epics)
avg rating 3.50 — 355,084 ratings — published 1000
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 189 times as epics)
avg rating 3.88 — 147,932 ratings — published -19
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as epics)
avg rating 3.76 — 123,363 ratings — published -1800
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as epics)
avg rating 3.86 — 187,468 ratings — published 1667
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 99 times as epics)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,803,942 ratings — published 1996
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as epics)
avg rating 4.09 — 178,557 ratings — published 1320
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 80 times as epics)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,226,133 ratings — published 1954
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by (shelved 75 times as epics)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,046,762 ratings — published 1998
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 68 times as epics)
avg rating 4.03 — 212,180 ratings — published 1321
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as epics)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,604,250 ratings — published 1937
The Song of Roland (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as epics)
avg rating 3.51 — 19,780 ratings — published 1115
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
by (shelved 62 times as epics)
avg rating 4.55 — 867,726 ratings — published 2000
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
by (shelved 58 times as epics)
avg rating 4.18 — 809,833 ratings — published 2005
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as epics)
avg rating 4.10 — 80,596 ratings — published 8
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as epics)
avg rating 4.66 — 718,101 ratings — published 2010
Mahabharata (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as epics)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,368 ratings — published 1839
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 54 times as epics)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,172,432 ratings — published 1954
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 51 times as epics)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,082,605 ratings — published 1955
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as epics)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,268 ratings — published 1835
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
by (shelved 49 times as epics)
avg rating 4.34 — 753,424 ratings — published 2011
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as epics)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,777 ratings — published 1957
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as epics)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,114,170 ratings — published 2007
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as epics)
avg rating 4.17 — 376,216 ratings — published 1868
The Nibelungenlied (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as epics)
avg rating 3.82 — 9,158 ratings — published 1200
The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
by (shelved 42 times as epics)
avg rating 4.55 — 746,491 ratings — published 1959
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as epics)
avg rating 4.35 — 854,523 ratings — published 1989
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as epics)
avg rating 4.19 — 610,780 ratings — published 1990
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as epics)
avg rating 4.54 — 5,741 ratings — published 1010
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
by (shelved 39 times as epics)
avg rating 4.76 — 525,730 ratings — published 2014
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as epics)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,513 ratings — published 1590
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as epics)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,065,626 ratings — published 2006
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as epics)
avg rating 3.76 — 81,424 ratings — published 1375
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 36 times as epics)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,800 ratings — published -250
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as epics)
avg rating 4.60 — 279,044 ratings — published 1985
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as epics)
avg rating 4.26 — 12,885 ratings — published 1270
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as epics)
avg rating 3.91 — 313,645 ratings — published 1605
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as epics)
avg rating 3.57 — 632,353 ratings — published 1851
Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as epics)
avg rating 4.41 — 219,778 ratings — published 1975
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as epics)
avg rating 4.04 — 347,445 ratings — published 1977
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as epics)
avg rating 4.22 — 860,371 ratings — published 1862
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
by (shelved 32 times as epics)
avg rating 4.37 — 716,288 ratings — published 2007
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 4.19 — 84,128 ratings — published -400
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 4.11 — 962,278 ratings — published 1878
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,269,572 ratings — published 1936
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,231 ratings — published 1220
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 — 40,030 ratings — published 1485
The Lusiads (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as epics)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,703 ratings — published 1572
“I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of them protect us. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
― Steelheart
― Steelheart
“My life wasn’t just about one city, or one Epic, anymore. It was about a war. It was about finding a way to stop the Epics.
Permanently.”
― Firefight
Permanently.”
― Firefight
