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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 343 times as epics)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,294,984 ratings — published -800
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 269 times as epics)
avg rating 3.94 — 540,275 ratings — published -750
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as epics)
avg rating 3.51 — 358,315 ratings — published 950
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 196 times as epics)
avg rating 3.88 — 149,519 ratings — published -19
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as epics)
avg rating 3.76 — 124,972 ratings — published -1800
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as epics)
avg rating 3.86 — 189,086 ratings — published 1667
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 101 times as epics)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,826,816 ratings — published 1996
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as epics)
avg rating 4.09 — 180,503 ratings — published 1304
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 80 times as epics)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,246,829 ratings — published 1954
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by (shelved 75 times as epics)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,055,441 ratings — published 1998
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as epics)
avg rating 4.03 — 213,980 ratings — published 1321
The Song of Roland (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as epics)
avg rating 3.51 — 19,995 ratings — published 1115
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as epics)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,651,170 ratings — published 1937
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
by (shelved 62 times as epics)
avg rating 4.55 — 874,195 ratings — published 2000
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as epics)
avg rating 4.10 — 81,304 ratings — published 8
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
by (shelved 58 times as epics)
avg rating 4.18 — 815,787 ratings — published 2005
Mahabharata (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as epics)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,431 ratings — published 1839
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as epics)
avg rating 4.66 — 732,196 ratings — published 2010
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 55 times as epics)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,186,598 ratings — published 1954
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 52 times as epics)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,095,402 ratings — published 1955
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as epics)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,322 ratings — published 1835
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
by (shelved 49 times as epics)
avg rating 4.35 — 758,296 ratings — published 2011
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as epics)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,852 ratings — published 1957
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as epics)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,123,569 ratings — published 2007
The Nibelungenlied (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as epics)
avg rating 3.82 — 9,230 ratings — published 1200
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as epics)
avg rating 4.17 — 379,465 ratings — published 1868
The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
by (shelved 43 times as epics)
avg rating 4.55 — 751,103 ratings — published 1955
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as epics)
avg rating 4.35 — 862,070 ratings — published 1989
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as epics)
avg rating 4.19 — 615,892 ratings — published 1990
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as epics)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,571 ratings — published 1590
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as epics)
avg rating 4.48 — 4,604 ratings — published 1010
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
by (shelved 39 times as epics)
avg rating 4.76 — 536,636 ratings — published 2014
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as epics)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,092,232 ratings — published 2006
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as epics)
avg rating 3.77 — 82,188 ratings — published 1375
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 37 times as epics)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,918 ratings — published -250
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as epics)
avg rating 4.26 — 12,997 ratings — published 1270
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as epics)
avg rating 4.60 — 292,798 ratings — published 1985
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as epics)
avg rating 3.92 — 316,153 ratings — published 1605
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as epics)
avg rating 3.58 — 637,474 ratings — published 1851
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as epics)
avg rating 4.04 — 351,136 ratings — published 1977
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
by (shelved 33 times as epics)
avg rating 4.37 — 734,261 ratings — published 2007
Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as epics)
avg rating 4.41 — 221,930 ratings — published 1975
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as epics)
avg rating 4.22 — 867,839 ratings — published 1862
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as epics)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,273,356 ratings — published 1936
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as epics)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,349 ratings — published 1220
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 4.19 — 84,962 ratings — published -400
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 4.11 — 972,390 ratings — published 1878
Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as epics)
avg rating 3.91 — 40,158 ratings — published 1485
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as epics)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,090,719 ratings — published 1846
“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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“My life wasn’t just about one city, or one Epic, anymore. It was about a war. It was about finding a way to stop the Epics.
Permanently.”
― Firefight
Permanently.”
― Firefight
