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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 323 times as epics)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,208,241 ratings — published -800
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 250 times as epics)
avg rating 3.93 — 515,718 ratings — published -800
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 201 times as epics)
avg rating 3.50 — 349,550 ratings — published 1000
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 180 times as epics)
avg rating 3.88 — 144,927 ratings — published -19
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as epics)
avg rating 3.76 — 120,502 ratings — published -2000
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as epics)
avg rating 3.86 — 184,189 ratings — published 1667
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 99 times as epics)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,758,015 ratings — published 1996
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as epics)
avg rating 4.09 — 174,507 ratings — published 1320
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 80 times as epics)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,182,089 ratings — published 1954
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by (shelved 76 times as epics)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,029,490 ratings — published 1998
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 65 times as epics)
avg rating 4.03 — 208,317 ratings — published 1321
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as epics)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,502,018 ratings — published 1937
The Song of Roland (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as epics)
avg rating 3.50 — 19,442 ratings — published 1115
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
by (shelved 63 times as epics)
avg rating 4.55 — 852,493 ratings — published 2000
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
by (shelved 59 times as epics)
avg rating 4.17 — 797,864 ratings — published 2005
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as epics)
avg rating 4.10 — 79,039 ratings — published 8
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as epics)
avg rating 4.66 — 686,535 ratings — published 2010
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 53 times as epics)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,142,060 ratings — published 1954
Mahabharata (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as epics)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,241 ratings — published 1951
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 50 times as epics)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,055,515 ratings — published 1955
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
by (shelved 50 times as epics)
avg rating 4.34 — 743,358 ratings — published 2011
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as epics)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,165 ratings — published 1835
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as epics)
avg rating 4.07 — 13,316 ratings — published 1957
The Nibelungenlied (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as epics)
avg rating 3.82 — 9,016 ratings — published 1200
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as epics)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,093,492 ratings — published 2007
The Lord of the Rings (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as epics)
avg rating 4.54 — 736,011 ratings — published 1959
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as epics)
avg rating 4.35 — 838,584 ratings — published 1989
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as epics)
avg rating 4.52 — 5,733 ratings — published 1010
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as epics)
avg rating 4.19 — 599,245 ratings — published 1990
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as epics)
avg rating 4.17 — 369,214 ratings — published 1869
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
by (shelved 39 times as epics)
avg rating 4.76 — 500,558 ratings — published 2014
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as epics)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,005,737 ratings — published 2006
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as epics)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,387 ratings — published 1590
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 35 times as epics)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,527 ratings — published -250
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as epics)
avg rating 3.76 — 78,668 ratings — published 1375
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as epics)
avg rating 4.26 — 12,643 ratings — published 1270
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as epics)
avg rating 4.58 — 251,431 ratings — published 1985
Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as epics)
avg rating 4.41 — 215,069 ratings — published 1975
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as epics)
avg rating 4.19 — 82,471 ratings — published -400
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
by (shelved 32 times as epics)
avg rating 4.38 — 676,053 ratings — published 2007
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 3.91 — 308,301 ratings — published 1615
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 4.04 — 339,946 ratings — published 1977
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 3.57 — 621,022 ratings — published 1851
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,261,159 ratings — published 1936
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as epics)
avg rating 4.10 — 942,115 ratings — published 1878
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as epics)
avg rating 4.15 — 15,916 ratings — published 1220
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as epics)
avg rating 4.21 — 849,065 ratings — published 1862
The Lusiads (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as epics)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,528 ratings — published 1572
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 29 times as epics)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,145,356 ratings — published 2007
“Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.”
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