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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 335 times as epics)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,264,234 ratings — published -750
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 264 times as epics)
avg rating 3.94 — 532,079 ratings — published -750
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as epics)
avg rating 3.50 — 355,060 ratings — published 1000
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 189 times as epics)
avg rating 3.88 — 147,924 ratings — published -19
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as epics)
avg rating 3.76 — 123,362 ratings — published -1800
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as epics)
avg rating 3.86 — 187,461 ratings — published 1667
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 99 times as epics)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,803,839 ratings — published 1996
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as epics)
avg rating 4.09 — 178,544 ratings — published 1320
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 80 times as epics)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,226,060 ratings — published 1954
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by (shelved 75 times as epics)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,046,724 ratings — published 1998
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 68 times as epics)
avg rating 4.03 — 212,174 ratings — published 1321
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as epics)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,604,014 ratings — published 1937
The Song of Roland (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as epics)
avg rating 3.51 — 19,780 ratings — published 1115
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
by (shelved 62 times as epics)
avg rating 4.55 — 867,694 ratings — published 2000
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
by (shelved 58 times as epics)
avg rating 4.18 — 809,798 ratings — published 2005
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as epics)
avg rating 4.10 — 80,596 ratings — published 8
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as epics)
avg rating 4.66 — 718,034 ratings — published 2010
Mahabharata (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as epics)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,368 ratings — published 1839
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 54 times as epics)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,172,368 ratings — published 1954
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 51 times as epics)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,082,538 ratings — published 1955
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as epics)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,268 ratings — published 1835
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
by (shelved 49 times as epics)
avg rating 4.34 — 753,404 ratings — published 2011
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as epics)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,776 ratings — published 1957
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as epics)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,114,118 ratings — published 2007
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as epics)
avg rating 4.17 — 376,201 ratings — published 1868
The Nibelungenlied (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as epics)
avg rating 3.82 — 9,159 ratings — published 1200
The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
by (shelved 42 times as epics)
avg rating 4.55 — 746,478 ratings — published 1959
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as epics)
avg rating 4.35 — 854,488 ratings — published 1989
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as epics)
avg rating 4.19 — 610,759 ratings — published 1990
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as epics)
avg rating 4.54 — 5,739 ratings — published 1010
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
by (shelved 39 times as epics)
avg rating 4.76 — 525,677 ratings — published 2014
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as epics)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,512 ratings — published 1590
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as epics)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,065,497 ratings — published 2006
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as epics)
avg rating 3.76 — 81,420 ratings — published 1375
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 36 times as epics)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,800 ratings — published -250
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as epics)
avg rating 4.60 — 278,979 ratings — published 1985
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as epics)
avg rating 4.26 — 12,885 ratings — published 1270
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as epics)
avg rating 3.91 — 313,622 ratings — published 1605
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as epics)
avg rating 3.57 — 632,337 ratings — published 1851
Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as epics)
avg rating 4.41 — 219,766 ratings — published 1975
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as epics)
avg rating 4.04 — 347,431 ratings — published 1977
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as epics)
avg rating 4.22 — 860,346 ratings — published 1862
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
by (shelved 32 times as epics)
avg rating 4.37 — 716,207 ratings — published 2007
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 4.19 — 84,127 ratings — published -400
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 4.11 — 962,242 ratings — published 1878
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,269,559 ratings — published 1936
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,230 ratings — published 1220
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 — 40,029 ratings — published 1485
The Lusiads (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as epics)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,702 ratings — published 1572
“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
