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Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 460 times as myth)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,463,438 ratings — published 2018
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 384 times as myth)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,169,467 ratings — published 2011
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 279 times as myth)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,279,454 ratings — published -800
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 278 times as myth)
avg rating 4.09 — 348,573 ratings — published 2017
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
by (shelved 262 times as myth)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,556,200 ratings — published 2005
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 197 times as myth)
avg rating 3.94 — 535,289 ratings — published -750
Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 191 times as myth)
avg rating 4.25 — 178,377 ratings — published 2017
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
by (shelved 189 times as myth)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,422,536 ratings — published 2006
The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)
by (shelved 174 times as myth)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,264,593 ratings — published 2007
The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)
by (shelved 169 times as myth)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,258,770 ratings — published 2008
Ariadne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 165 times as myth)
avg rating 3.78 — 155,581 ratings — published 2021
The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5)
by (shelved 165 times as myth)
avg rating 4.56 — 1,190,451 ratings — published 2009
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as myth)
avg rating 4.26 — 54,633 ratings — published 1988
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as myth)
avg rating 3.76 — 123,810 ratings — published -1800
The Penelopiad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as myth)
avg rating 3.71 — 97,625 ratings — published 2005
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 148 times as myth)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,004,006 ratings — published 2001
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as myth)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,248 ratings — published 1949
Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as myth)
avg rating 4.04 — 61,339 ratings — published 1942
A Thousand Ships (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as myth)
avg rating 4.04 — 99,221 ratings — published 2019
The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1)
by (shelved 130 times as myth)
avg rating 4.29 — 967,068 ratings — published 2010
The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
by (shelved 127 times as myth)
avg rating 3.89 — 121,073 ratings — published 2018
Stone Blind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as myth)
avg rating 3.77 — 84,858 ratings — published 2022
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as myth)
avg rating 3.50 — 355,979 ratings — published 950
The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus, #2)
by (shelved 113 times as myth)
avg rating 4.40 — 688,524 ratings — published 2011
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as myth)
avg rating 4.10 — 80,840 ratings — published 8
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 109 times as myth)
avg rating 3.88 — 148,551 ratings — published -19
The Mark of Athena (Heroes of Olympus, #3)
by (shelved 106 times as myth)
avg rating 4.47 — 693,751 ratings — published 2012
Elektra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as myth)
avg rating 3.65 — 60,540 ratings — published 2022
Galatea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 104 times as myth)
avg rating 3.93 — 133,367 ratings — published 2013
Clytemnestra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as myth)
avg rating 4.21 — 67,973 ratings — published 2023
Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)
by (shelved 94 times as myth)
avg rating 4.31 — 65,633 ratings — published 2018
Till We Have Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as myth)
avg rating 4.20 — 85,540 ratings — published 1956
The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus, #4)
by (shelved 90 times as myth)
avg rating 4.57 — 501,372 ratings — published 2013
Atalanta (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as myth)
avg rating 3.73 — 39,045 ratings — published 2023
The Witch's Heart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as myth)
avg rating 4.03 — 64,845 ratings — published 2021
The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as myth)
avg rating 4.10 — 433,935 ratings — published 2010
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as myth)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,491 ratings — published 2020
Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)
by (shelved 76 times as myth)
avg rating 4.34 — 49,215 ratings — published 2020
The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus, #5)
by (shelved 71 times as myth)
avg rating 4.43 — 408,020 ratings — published 2014
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as myth)
avg rating 4.10 — 102,498 ratings — published 1992
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as myth)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,281 ratings — published 1220
The Sword of Summer (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, #1)
by (shelved 64 times as myth)
avg rating 4.23 — 247,341 ratings — published 2015
The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as myth)
avg rating 4.12 — 241,308 ratings — published 2016
The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 61 times as myth)
avg rating 4.18 — 233,459 ratings — published 2011
Gods of Jade and Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as myth)
avg rating 3.87 — 80,719 ratings — published 2019
The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles, #3)
by (shelved 54 times as myth)
avg rating 4.27 — 185,754 ratings — published 2012
Ithaca (The Songs of Penelope, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as myth)
avg rating 3.68 — 15,996 ratings — published 2022
Neon Gods (Dark Olympus, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as myth)
avg rating 3.68 — 322,511 ratings — published 2021
The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
by (shelved 51 times as myth)
avg rating 3.83 — 31,632 ratings — published 2021
“And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away all this artificial scaffolding...
{Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823}”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
{Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823}”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
“Myth is what we call other people's religion.”
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