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Mythic Books
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Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,427,180 ratings — published 2018
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,001,332 ratings — published 2001
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,124,805 ratings — published 2011
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,532,126 ratings — published 2005
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,412,054 ratings — published 2006
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.10 — 347,401 ratings — published 2017
The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.29 — 962,045 ratings — published 2010
Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.25 — 173,680 ratings — published 2017
Anansi Boys (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.04 — 230,937 ratings — published 2005
The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.40 — 684,598 ratings — published 2011
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,584,809 ratings — published 1937
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,025 ratings — published 2020
A Thousand Ships (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.04 — 96,408 ratings — published 2019
The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)
by (shelved 8 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,255,130 ratings — published 2007
Ariadne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mythic)
avg rating 3.78 — 153,177 ratings — published 2021
Galatea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as mythic)
avg rating 3.93 — 130,686 ratings — published 2013
The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.13 — 214,608 ratings — published 1982
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.08 — 243,319 ratings — published 2017
The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus, #4)
by (shelved 7 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.57 — 497,864 ratings — published 2013
The Mark of Athena (Heroes of Olympus, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.47 — 690,050 ratings — published 2012
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mythic)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,244,320 ratings — published
The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus, #5)
by (shelved 6 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.43 — 404,767 ratings — published 2014
The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5)
by (shelved 6 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.55 — 1,182,392 ratings — published 2009
The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)
by (shelved 6 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,250,634 ratings — published 2008
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.04 — 346,014 ratings — published 1977
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,218,092 ratings — published 1954
Lore Olympus: Volume One (Lore Olympus, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.18 — 182,210 ratings — published 2021
The Witch's Heart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.03 — 64,283 ratings — published 2021
The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.35 — 116,242 ratings — published 2017
Uprooted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.02 — 271,467 ratings — published 2015
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.01 — 664,418 ratings — published 2013
The Penelopiad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mythic)
avg rating 3.71 — 93,038 ratings — published 2005
Till We Have Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.20 — 84,632 ratings — published 1956
Deathless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mythic)
avg rating 3.92 — 23,399 ratings — published 2011
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,166,800 ratings — published 1954
The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.25 — 275,788 ratings — published 1988
Clytemnestra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.21 — 64,836 ratings — published 2023
Stone Blind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mythic)
avg rating 3.77 — 82,803 ratings — published 2022
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mythic)
avg rating 3.94 — 528,183 ratings — published -750
Elektra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mythic)
avg rating 3.66 — 59,192 ratings — published 2022
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.20 — 546,081 ratings — published 2020
The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as mythic)
avg rating 3.89 — 118,532 ratings — published 2018
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.10 — 256,278 ratings — published 2018
The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.48 — 92,935 ratings — published 2019
The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.54 — 61,623 ratings — published 1993
Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark is Rising, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as mythic)
avg rating 3.86 — 57,156 ratings — published 1965
The Dark Is Rising (The Dark is Rising, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.04 — 61,453 ratings — published 1973
The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.27 — 184,852 ratings — published 2012
The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1–5)
by (shelved 4 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.06 — 120,488 ratings — published 1958
A Wizard of Earthsea (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.01 — 372,849 ratings — published 1968
“The thunderstorm-heaviness in the air intensified; above them there was a jangle as if the wind had blown through the glass floats in the solarium. The same gust whipped through the room, scattering the limericks and sending a spray of sparks up out of the brazier.
Very deliberately, Cliopher smiled.
Fitzroy uttered one of those words of magic, which made the air ring like the inside of a struck bell, and without moving a step he growled out a line of poetry.
'Hear, O ye children of the sun and of the wind, of the emperor Aurelius called Magnus and his fanoa from across the sea: sing with me of their deeds of magic and daring, their high-hearted courage, their love that crested the very sky, and weep, all you lovers of beauty, for what glory once was in the world.'
Oh, thought Cliopher, very clearly: There it is.”
― At the Feet of the Sun
Very deliberately, Cliopher smiled.
Fitzroy uttered one of those words of magic, which made the air ring like the inside of a struck bell, and without moving a step he growled out a line of poetry.
'Hear, O ye children of the sun and of the wind, of the emperor Aurelius called Magnus and his fanoa from across the sea: sing with me of their deeds of magic and daring, their high-hearted courage, their love that crested the very sky, and weep, all you lovers of beauty, for what glory once was in the world.'
Oh, thought Cliopher, very clearly: There it is.”
― At the Feet of the Sun
“I don't like the word 'allegorical', I don't like the word 'symbolic' - the word I really like is 'mythic', and people always think that means 'full of lies', whereas of course what it really means is 'full of truth which cannot be told in any other way but a story'.”
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