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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 316 times as epics)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,183,119 ratings — published -700
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 247 times as epics)
avg rating 3.93 — 506,475 ratings — published -800
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as epics)
avg rating 3.50 — 344,727 ratings — published 1000
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 172 times as epics)
avg rating 3.87 — 142,714 ratings — published -19
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as epics)
avg rating 3.75 — 118,360 ratings — published -2000
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as epics)
avg rating 3.85 — 181,547 ratings — published 1667
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 98 times as epics)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,718,866 ratings — published 1996
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as epics)
avg rating 4.08 — 171,232 ratings — published 1320
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 81 times as epics)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,124,856 ratings — published 1954
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by (shelved 75 times as epics)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,015,937 ratings — published 1998
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as epics)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,428,020 ratings — published 1937
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 62 times as epics)
avg rating 4.03 — 205,015 ratings — published 1321
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
by (shelved 62 times as epics)
avg rating 4.55 — 842,491 ratings — published 2000
The Song of Roland (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as epics)
avg rating 3.50 — 19,117 ratings — published 1115
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
by (shelved 58 times as epics)
avg rating 4.17 — 788,409 ratings — published 2005
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as epics)
avg rating 4.66 — 659,622 ratings — published 2010
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as epics)
avg rating 4.10 — 77,946 ratings — published 8
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 53 times as epics)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,115,566 ratings — published 1954
Mahabharata (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as epics)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,125 ratings — published 1951
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 50 times as epics)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,032,259 ratings — published 1955
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
by (shelved 49 times as epics)
avg rating 4.34 — 735,326 ratings — published 2011
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as epics)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,063 ratings — published 1835
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as epics)
avg rating 4.07 — 13,194 ratings — published 1957
The Nibelungenlied (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as epics)
avg rating 3.82 — 8,882 ratings — published 1200
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as epics)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,074,619 ratings — published 2007
The Lord of the Rings (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as epics)
avg rating 4.54 — 727,561 ratings — published 2001
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as epics)
avg rating 4.35 — 825,349 ratings — published 1989
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as epics)
avg rating 4.49 — 955,241 ratings — published 2006
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as epics)
avg rating 4.17 — 363,836 ratings — published 1869
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
by (shelved 38 times as epics)
avg rating 4.76 — 480,239 ratings — published 2014
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as epics)
avg rating 4.19 — 589,006 ratings — published 1990
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as epics)
avg rating 4.52 — 5,650 ratings — published 1010
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as epics)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,288 ratings — published 1590
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as epics)
avg rating 4.57 — 236,327 ratings — published 1985
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 33 times as epics)
avg rating 3.83 — 11,331 ratings — published -250
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as epics)
avg rating 3.76 — 77,549 ratings — published 1375
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
by (shelved 32 times as epics)
avg rating 4.38 — 643,886 ratings — published 2007
Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as epics)
avg rating 4.41 — 211,187 ratings — published 1975
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 4.26 — 11,896 ratings — published 1270
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,253,928 ratings — published 1936
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 4.15 — 15,668 ratings — published 1220
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as epics)
avg rating 3.91 — 303,613 ratings — published 1615
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as epics)
avg rating 4.03 — 333,110 ratings — published 1977
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as epics)
avg rating 4.19 — 81,129 ratings — published -400
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as epics)
avg rating 4.10 — 925,252 ratings — published 1878
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as epics)
avg rating 4.21 — 840,305 ratings — published 1862
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as epics)
avg rating 3.56 — 613,173 ratings — published 1851
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 29 times as epics)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,084,892 ratings — published 2007
The Lusiads (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as epics)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,405 ratings — published 1572
“Per ogni mito narrato, c'è un mito non narrato e innominato che gli accenna dall'ombra, affiorando per allusioni, schegge, coincidenze, senza che mai un autore osi raccontarlo di seguito come una singola storia.”
― Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia
― Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia
“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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