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Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,369,125 ratings — published 2018
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
by (shelved 174 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,462,941 ratings — published 2005
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,023,965 ratings — published 2011
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
by (shelved 135 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,380,579 ratings — published 2006
The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)
by (shelved 128 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,228,007 ratings — published 2007
The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)
by (shelved 118 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,227,731 ratings — published 2008
The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5)
by (shelved 117 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.55 — 1,157,854 ratings — published 2009
The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1)
by (shelved 112 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.29 — 946,818 ratings — published 2010
The Mark of Athena (Heroes of Olympus, #3)
by (shelved 88 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.47 — 678,846 ratings — published 2012
The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus, #2)
by (shelved 82 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.40 — 672,636 ratings — published 2011
The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus, #4)
by (shelved 79 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.57 — 487,279 ratings — published 2013
The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus, #5)
by (shelved 74 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.43 — 394,509 ratings — published 2014
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.10 — 344,262 ratings — published 2017
The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.10 — 427,738 ratings — published 2010
Ariadne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as mythological)
avg rating 3.78 — 148,320 ratings — published 2021
The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo, #1)
by (shelved 58 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.13 — 233,556 ratings — published 2016
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.10 — 993,439 ratings — published 2001
The Sword of Summer (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, #1)
by (shelved 54 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.23 — 241,929 ratings — published 2015
The Immortals of Meluha (Shiva Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.14 — 127,928 ratings — published 2010
A Touch of Darkness (Hades & Persephone, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as mythological)
avg rating 3.80 — 435,450 ratings — published 2019
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as mythological)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,202,749 ratings — published -800
The Dark Prophecy (The Trials of Apollo, #2)
by (shelved 45 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.10 — 142,133 ratings — published 2017
The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 45 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.18 — 229,502 ratings — published 2011
The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles, #3)
by (shelved 42 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.27 — 182,118 ratings — published 2012
The Burning Maze (The Trials of Apollo, #3)
by (shelved 39 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.25 — 116,175 ratings — published 2018
The Palace of Illusions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.20 — 66,317 ratings — published 2008
The Hammer of Thor (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, #2)
by (shelved 37 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.29 — 130,938 ratings — published 2016
Percy Jackson's Greek Gods (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 35 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.42 — 98,975 ratings — published 2014
A Thousand Ships (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.05 — 92,002 ratings — published 2019
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.26 — 165,523 ratings — published 2017
The Ship of the Dead (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, #3)
by (shelved 34 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.36 — 107,314 ratings — published 2017
The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo, #5)
by (shelved 33 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.47 — 88,054 ratings — published 2020
The Tyrant’s Tomb (The Trials of Apollo, #4)
by (shelved 32 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.30 — 96,136 ratings — published 2019
The Secret of the Nagas (Shiva Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 32 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.11 — 94,214 ratings — published 2011
The Demigod Files (Percy Jackson and the Olympians)
by (shelved 32 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.02 — 124,486 ratings — published 2009
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as mythological)
avg rating 3.93 — 513,644 ratings — published -800
The Oath of the Vayuputras (Shiva Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 29 times as mythological)
avg rating 3.85 — 73,184 ratings — published 2013
Elektra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as mythological)
avg rating 3.66 — 56,929 ratings — published 2022
The Witch's Heart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.04 — 62,569 ratings — published 2021
The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as mythological)
avg rating 3.89 — 113,873 ratings — published 2018
Stone Blind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as mythological)
avg rating 3.78 — 78,606 ratings — published 2022
Neon Gods (Dark Olympus, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as mythological)
avg rating 3.68 — 311,510 ratings — published 2021
Lore (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as mythological)
avg rating 3.74 — 107,912 ratings — published 2021
Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.41 — 54,615 ratings — published 2015
The Goddess Test (Goddess Test, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as mythological)
avg rating 3.79 — 59,007 ratings — published 2011
Galatea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as mythological)
avg rating 3.93 — 125,480 ratings — published 2013
Lore Olympus: Volume One (Lore Olympus, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.19 — 177,000 ratings — published 2021
The Chalice of the Gods (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Senior Year Adventures, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.26 — 174,780 ratings — published 2023
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as mythological)
avg rating 4.21 — 489,296 ratings — published 2020
The Penelopiad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as mythological)
avg rating 3.71 — 88,865 ratings — published 2005
“He left her there —
amid doubt and fear,
amid love and incomprehension,
amid pain and hope.”
― The Most Precious Gift: A myth of gods and humans
amid doubt and fear,
amid love and incomprehension,
amid pain and hope.”
― The Most Precious Gift: A myth of gods and humans
“So we grew up with mythic dead
To spoon upon midwestern bread
And spread old gods' bright marmalade
To slake in peanut-butter shade,
Pretending there beneath our sky
That it was Aphrodite's thigh...
While by the porch-rail calm and bold
His words pure wisdom, stare pure gold
My grandfather, a myth indeed,
Did all of Plato supersede
While Grandmama in rockingchair
Sewed up the raveled sleeve of care
Crocheted cool snowflakes rare and bright
To winter us on summer night.
And uncles, gathered with their smokes
Emitted wisdoms masked as jokes,
And aunts as wise as Delphic maids
Dispensed prothetic lemonades
To boys knelt there as acolytes
To Grecian porch on summer nights;
Then went to bed, there to repent
The evils of the innocent;
The gnat-sins sizzling in their ears
Said, through the nights and through the years
Not Illinois nor Waukegan
But blither sky and blither sun.
Though mediocre all our Fates
And Mayor not as bright as Yeats
Yet still we knew ourselves. The sum?
Byzantium.
Byzantium.”
― Dandelion Wine
To spoon upon midwestern bread
And spread old gods' bright marmalade
To slake in peanut-butter shade,
Pretending there beneath our sky
That it was Aphrodite's thigh...
While by the porch-rail calm and bold
His words pure wisdom, stare pure gold
My grandfather, a myth indeed,
Did all of Plato supersede
While Grandmama in rockingchair
Sewed up the raveled sleeve of care
Crocheted cool snowflakes rare and bright
To winter us on summer night.
And uncles, gathered with their smokes
Emitted wisdoms masked as jokes,
And aunts as wise as Delphic maids
Dispensed prothetic lemonades
To boys knelt there as acolytes
To Grecian porch on summer nights;
Then went to bed, there to repent
The evils of the innocent;
The gnat-sins sizzling in their ears
Said, through the nights and through the years
Not Illinois nor Waukegan
But blither sky and blither sun.
Though mediocre all our Fates
And Mayor not as bright as Yeats
Yet still we knew ourselves. The sum?
Byzantium.
Byzantium.”
― Dandelion Wine
