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Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,497,947 ratings — published 2018
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,207,091 ratings — published 2011
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.09 — 349,750 ratings — published 2017
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,579,116 ratings — published 2005
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as mythologies)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,297,411 ratings — published -800
The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)
by (shelved 25 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,266,960 ratings — published 2008
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
by (shelved 25 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,433,759 ratings — published 2006
The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)
by (shelved 24 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,273,733 ratings — published 2007
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as mythologies)
avg rating 3.94 — 541,253 ratings — published -750
The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.29 — 971,887 ratings — published 2010
The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5)
by (shelved 22 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.56 — 1,198,564 ratings — published 2009
The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus, #2)
by (shelved 21 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.40 — 692,370 ratings — published 2011
Ariadne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as mythologies)
avg rating 3.78 — 157,205 ratings — published 2021
The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus, #5)
by (shelved 19 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.43 — 410,861 ratings — published 2014
Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.25 — 181,969 ratings — published 2017
The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus, #4)
by (shelved 18 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.56 — 504,838 ratings — published 2013
The Mark of Athena (Heroes of Olympus, #3)
by (shelved 18 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.47 — 697,316 ratings — published 2012
Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.04 — 61,650 ratings — published 1942
A Thousand Ships (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.04 — 101,141 ratings — published 2019
Stone Blind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as mythologies)
avg rating 3.77 — 86,497 ratings — published 2022
Galatea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as mythologies)
avg rating 3.93 — 135,894 ratings — published 2013
Clytemnestra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.22 — 70,396 ratings — published 2023
Elektra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as mythologies)
avg rating 3.65 — 61,480 ratings — published 2022
The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as mythologies)
avg rating 3.89 — 122,865 ratings — published 2018
The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.10 — 435,296 ratings — published 2010
The Penelopiad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as mythologies)
avg rating 3.70 — 100,850 ratings — published 2005
Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.31 — 67,001 ratings — published 2018
The Sword of Summer (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.23 — 248,503 ratings — published 2015
The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.18 — 234,387 ratings — published 2011
The Witch's Heart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.03 — 66,012 ratings — published 2021
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,889 ratings — published 2020
The Dark Prophecy (The Trials of Apollo, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.09 — 148,604 ratings — published 2017
The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.12 — 243,019 ratings — published 2016
The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.27 — 186,541 ratings — published 2012
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as mythologies)
avg rating 3.88 — 149,731 ratings — published -19
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,370 ratings — published 1220
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.26 — 13,025 ratings — published 1270
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,007,467 ratings — published 2001
The Greek Myths: Complete Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,910 ratings — published 1955
The Burning Maze (The Trials of Apollo, #3)
by (shelved 8 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.25 — 121,983 ratings — published 2018
The Ship of the Dead (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, #3)
by (shelved 8 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.35 — 111,277 ratings — published 2017
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mythologies)
avg rating 3.51 — 358,701 ratings — published 950
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.07 — 104,254 ratings — published 2022
Ithaca (The Songs of Penelope, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as mythologies)
avg rating 3.68 — 16,384 ratings — published 2022
Lore Olympus: Volume One (Lore Olympus, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.18 — 185,011 ratings — published 2021
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mythologies)
avg rating 3.76 — 125,174 ratings — published -1800
Lore (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mythologies)
avg rating 3.73 — 111,418 ratings — published 2021
The Hammer of Thor (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.29 — 135,226 ratings — published 2016
Percy Jackson's Greek Gods (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as mythologies)
avg rating 4.42 — 101,881 ratings — published 2014
The Gospel of Loki (Loki, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as mythologies)
avg rating 3.74 — 15,560 ratings — published 2014
“In America’s earliest mythologizing of itself, America is the underdog guided to the promised land by a merciful God. Other countries do something similar. In some other national mythology, America might be the Egyptian Pharaoh holding a worthy population captive.
We can’t all be that righteous. And sometimes that’s hard to stomach. It’s hard accepting that your comfort, or privilege, or disinterest might feed into a real and palpable problem for another group of people. And it’s hard, once you’ve recognized this to be the case, to heed the call to change.”
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We can’t all be that righteous. And sometimes that’s hard to stomach. It’s hard accepting that your comfort, or privilege, or disinterest might feed into a real and palpable problem for another group of people. And it’s hard, once you’ve recognized this to be the case, to heed the call to change.”
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“Today’s religions are nothing but the long-lived mythologies!”
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