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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 322 times as epics)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,218,704 ratings — published -800
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 253 times as epics)
avg rating 3.93 — 520,921 ratings — published -800
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as epics)
avg rating 3.50 — 351,365 ratings — published 1000
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 181 times as epics)
avg rating 3.88 — 145,863 ratings — published -19
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as epics)
avg rating 3.76 — 121,296 ratings — published -1800
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as epics)
avg rating 3.86 — 185,254 ratings — published 1667
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 100 times as epics)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,772,625 ratings — published 1996
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as epics)
avg rating 4.09 — 175,830 ratings — published 1320
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 80 times as epics)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,196,546 ratings — published 1954
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by (shelved 76 times as epics)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,035,253 ratings — published 1998
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 65 times as epics)
avg rating 4.03 — 209,518 ratings — published 1321
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as epics)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,534,751 ratings — published 1937
The Song of Roland (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as epics)
avg rating 3.51 — 19,548 ratings — published 1115
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
by (shelved 63 times as epics)
avg rating 4.55 — 856,846 ratings — published 2000
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
by (shelved 59 times as epics)
avg rating 4.17 — 801,822 ratings — published 2005
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as epics)
avg rating 4.10 — 79,507 ratings — published 8
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as epics)
avg rating 4.66 — 697,020 ratings — published 2010
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 53 times as epics)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,152,082 ratings — published 1954
Mahabharata (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as epics)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,287 ratings — published 300
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 50 times as epics)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,064,512 ratings — published 1955
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
by (shelved 50 times as epics)
avg rating 4.34 — 746,645 ratings — published 2011
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as epics)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,203 ratings — published 1835
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as epics)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,679 ratings — published 1957
The Nibelungenlied (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as epics)
avg rating 3.82 — 9,072 ratings — published 1200
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as epics)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,100,361 ratings — published 2007
The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
by (shelved 42 times as epics)
avg rating 4.54 — 740,047 ratings — published 1959
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as epics)
avg rating 4.17 — 371,577 ratings — published 1869
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as epics)
avg rating 4.35 — 843,803 ratings — published 1989
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as epics)
avg rating 4.52 — 5,762 ratings — published 1010
The Eye of the World (Wheel of Time, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as epics)
avg rating 4.19 — 603,066 ratings — published 1990
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
by (shelved 39 times as epics)
avg rating 4.76 — 509,083 ratings — published 2014
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as epics)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,025,697 ratings — published 2006
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as epics)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,436 ratings — published 1590
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as epics)
avg rating 3.76 — 80,527 ratings — published 1375
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as epics)
avg rating 4.59 — 259,223 ratings — published 1985
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 34 times as epics)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,607 ratings — published -250
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as epics)
avg rating 4.26 — 12,734 ratings — published 1270
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as epics)
avg rating 3.91 — 310,051 ratings — published 1605
Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as epics)
avg rating 4.41 — 216,651 ratings — published 1975
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
by (shelved 32 times as epics)
avg rating 4.38 — 689,670 ratings — published 2007
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as epics)
avg rating 3.57 — 624,797 ratings — published 1851
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 4.19 — 83,103 ratings — published -400
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 4.11 — 948,469 ratings — published 1878
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 4.04 — 342,434 ratings — published 1977
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as epics)
avg rating 4.21 — 852,877 ratings — published 1862
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as epics)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,263,983 ratings — published 1936
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as epics)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,007 ratings — published 1220
The Lusiads (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as epics)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,580 ratings — published 1572
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 29 times as epics)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,166,672 ratings — published 2007
“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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“Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he always seems to be looking backwards, to a greater and more golden past; and what's more he doesn't allow girls or women any important part in the story at all. Life is bigger and more interesting than The Lord of the Rings thinks it is.”
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