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Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,494,212 ratings — published 2018
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,007,008 ratings — published 2001
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,203,074 ratings — published 2011
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,576,734 ratings — published 2005
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,432,482 ratings — published 2006
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.09 — 349,635 ratings — published 2017
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as mythic)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,295,702 ratings — published -800
The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.29 — 971,332 ratings — published 2010
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,652,911 ratings — published 1937
Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.25 — 181,599 ratings — published 2017
Anansi Boys (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.04 — 231,523 ratings — published 2005
The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.40 — 691,942 ratings — published 2011
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,852 ratings — published 2020
A Thousand Ships (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.04 — 100,982 ratings — published 2019
The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)
by (shelved 8 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,272,550 ratings — published 2007
Ariadne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mythic)
avg rating 3.78 — 157,056 ratings — published 2021
Galatea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as mythic)
avg rating 3.93 — 135,618 ratings — published 2013
The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.13 — 215,358 ratings — published 1982
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.08 — 246,439 ratings — published 2017
The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus, #4)
by (shelved 7 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.56 — 504,460 ratings — published 2013
The Mark of Athena (Heroes of Olympus, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.47 — 696,899 ratings — published 2012
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.04 — 351,277 ratings — published 1977
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.19 — 595,107 ratings — published 2020
The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus, #5)
by (shelved 6 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.43 — 410,570 ratings — published 2014
The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5)
by (shelved 6 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.56 — 1,197,577 ratings — published 2009
The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)
by (shelved 6 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,265,951 ratings — published 2008
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,247,701 ratings — published 1954
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mythic)
avg rating 3.94 — 540,559 ratings — published -750
Lore Olympus: Volume One (Lore Olympus, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.18 — 184,818 ratings — published 2021
Elektra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mythic)
avg rating 3.65 — 61,404 ratings — published 2022
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.07 — 104,135 ratings — published 2022
The Witch's Heart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.03 — 65,846 ratings — published 2021
The Girl in the Tower (Winternight Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.35 — 117,702 ratings — published 2017
Uprooted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.01 — 274,815 ratings — published 2015
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.01 — 667,714 ratings — published 2013
The Penelopiad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mythic)
avg rating 3.70 — 100,522 ratings — published 2005
Till We Have Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.20 — 86,348 ratings — published 1956
A Wizard of Earthsea (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.01 — 378,974 ratings — published 1968
Deathless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mythic)
avg rating 3.92 — 23,655 ratings — published 2011
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,187,088 ratings — published 1954
The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.25 — 277,597 ratings — published 1988
Clytemnestra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.22 — 70,172 ratings — published 2023
Stone Blind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mythic)
avg rating 3.77 — 86,334 ratings — published 2022
The Maidens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mythic)
avg rating 3.61 — 471,481 ratings — published 2021
The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as mythic)
avg rating 3.89 — 122,689 ratings — published 2018
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.24 — 39,634 ratings — published 1998
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.10 — 260,887 ratings — published 2018
Gods of Jade and Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mythic)
avg rating 3.87 — 81,274 ratings — published 2019
The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.48 — 94,162 ratings — published 2019
The Palace of Illusions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mythic)
avg rating 4.20 — 71,467 ratings — published 2008
“He kills the stars.”
― Borne
― Borne
“Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.”
― Complete Prose Works
― Complete Prose Works
