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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 327 times as epics)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,232,291 ratings — published -700
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 255 times as epics)
avg rating 3.93 — 525,389 ratings — published -750
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as epics)
avg rating 3.50 — 353,134 ratings — published 1000
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 183 times as epics)
avg rating 3.88 — 146,835 ratings — published -19
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as epics)
avg rating 3.76 — 122,123 ratings — published -1800
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as epics)
avg rating 3.86 — 186,394 ratings — published 1667
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 100 times as epics)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,786,726 ratings — published 1996
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as epics)
avg rating 4.09 — 177,077 ratings — published 1320
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 80 times as epics)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,210,807 ratings — published 1954
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by (shelved 76 times as epics)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,040,654 ratings — published 1998
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 67 times as epics)
avg rating 4.03 — 210,801 ratings — published 1321
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as epics)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,567,542 ratings — published 1937
The Song of Roland (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as epics)
avg rating 3.51 — 19,672 ratings — published 1115
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
by (shelved 63 times as epics)
avg rating 4.55 — 860,970 ratings — published 2000
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
by (shelved 59 times as epics)
avg rating 4.17 — 805,685 ratings — published 2005
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as epics)
avg rating 4.10 — 79,929 ratings — published 8
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as epics)
avg rating 4.66 — 707,139 ratings — published 2010
Mahabharata (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as epics)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,332 ratings — published 300
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 54 times as epics)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,161,932 ratings — published 1954
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 51 times as epics)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,073,234 ratings — published 1955
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
by (shelved 50 times as epics)
avg rating 4.34 — 749,888 ratings — published 2011
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as epics)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,232 ratings — published 1835
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as epics)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,730 ratings — published 1957
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as epics)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,106,946 ratings — published 2007
The Nibelungenlied (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as epics)
avg rating 3.82 — 9,113 ratings — published 1200
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as epics)
avg rating 4.17 — 373,922 ratings — published 1868
The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
by (shelved 41 times as epics)
avg rating 4.54 — 743,415 ratings — published 1959
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as epics)
avg rating 4.35 — 848,993 ratings — published 1989
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as epics)
avg rating 4.52 — 5,808 ratings — published 1010
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as epics)
avg rating 4.19 — 606,682 ratings — published 1990
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
by (shelved 39 times as epics)
avg rating 4.76 — 517,169 ratings — published 2014
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as epics)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,044,756 ratings — published 2006
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as epics)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,468 ratings — published 1590
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as epics)
avg rating 3.76 — 80,957 ratings — published 1375
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as epics)
avg rating 4.59 — 268,459 ratings — published 1985
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as epics)
avg rating 4.26 — 12,791 ratings — published 1270
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 34 times as epics)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,701 ratings — published -250
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as epics)
avg rating 3.91 — 311,485 ratings — published 1605
Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as epics)
avg rating 4.41 — 218,184 ratings — published 1975
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as epics)
avg rating 4.04 — 344,794 ratings — published 1977
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
by (shelved 32 times as epics)
avg rating 4.38 — 702,533 ratings — published 2007
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as epics)
avg rating 3.57 — 628,597 ratings — published 1851
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 4.11 — 955,187 ratings — published 1878
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 4.21 — 856,412 ratings — published 1862
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as epics)
avg rating 4.19 — 83,621 ratings — published -400
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as epics)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,266,657 ratings — published 1936
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as epics)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,123 ratings — published 1220
The Lusiads (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as epics)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,626 ratings — published 1572
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 29 times as epics)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,190,186 ratings — published 2007
“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
“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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