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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,640,706 ratings — published 1937
Stardust (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.09 — 489,532 ratings — published 1999
In the Night Garden (The Orphan's Tales, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.03 — 9,331 ratings — published 2006
Sunshine (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 3.84 — 44,532 ratings — published 2003
In the Cities of Coin and Spice (The Orphan's Tales, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,996 ratings — published 2007
Little, Big (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 3.80 — 12,775 ratings — published 1981
Uprooted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.01 — 274,190 ratings — published 2015
The Wood Wife (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,617 ratings — published 1996
The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 3.85 — 96,031 ratings — published 1996
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,005,816 ratings — published 2001
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.13 — 134,005 ratings — published 2013
Bridge of Birds (The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.26 — 10,807 ratings — published 1984
Thomas the Rhymer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,978 ratings — published 1990
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.01 — 667,022 ratings — published 2013
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.04 — 350,246 ratings — published 1977
The Queen of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.17 — 51,143 ratings — published 2000
Winter Rose (Winter Rose, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 3.86 — 7,707 ratings — published 1996
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,680,247 ratings — published 1998
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,845,524 ratings — published 1997
Anansi Boys (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.04 — 231,413 ratings — published 2005
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 3.88 — 263,290 ratings — published 2004
Spinning Silver (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.17 — 159,128 ratings — published 2018
Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.16 — 569,526 ratings — published 1996
The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.18 — 44,731 ratings — published 2001
Lifelode (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 3.88 — 687 ratings — published 2009
The Folk Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,322 ratings — published 1999
The Changeling Sea (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,255 ratings — published 1988
The Book of Atrix Wolfe (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,220 ratings — published 1995
Ombria in Shadow (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,512 ratings — published 2002
Alphabet of Thorn (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,488 ratings — published 2004
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,092,463 ratings — published 1955
The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.14 — 142,064 ratings — published 1970
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 5 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,935,758 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 5 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,362,536 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.58 — 5,059,612 ratings — published 1999
Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.06 — 484,809 ratings — published 2008
Ink Blood Sister Scribe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 3.99 — 67,042 ratings — published 2023
Unfinished Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.03 — 45,960 ratings — published 1980
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,482,685 ratings — published 2018
Tehanu (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.07 — 62,855 ratings — published 1990
The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4)
by (shelved 4 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.25 — 164,329 ratings — published 2016
The Graveyard Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.15 — 571,885 ratings — published 2008
The Stress of Her Regard (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,416 ratings — published 1989
Cards of Grief (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 3.83 — 550 ratings — published 1984
The Innamorati (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 3.77 — 469 ratings — published 1998
Palimpsest (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 3.65 — 5,306 ratings — published 2009
The Hero and the Crown (Damar, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.21 — 55,630 ratings — published 1984
The Blue Sword (Damar, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.20 — 63,670 ratings — published 1982
Fire and Hemlock (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 3.95 — 11,280 ratings — published 1985
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mythopoeic)
avg rating 4.07 — 22,624 ratings — published 1974
“It may even be one of the greatest arts; for it produces works which give us (at the first meeting) as much delight and (on prolonged acquaintance) as much wisdom and strength as the works of the greatest poets. It is in some ways more akin to music than to poetry or at least to most poetry. It goes beyond the expression of things we have already felt. It arouses in us sensations we have never had before, never anticipated having, as though we had broken out of our normal mode of consciousness and 'possessed joys not promised to our birth.' It gets under our skin, hits us at a level deeper than our thoughts or even our passions, troubles oldest certainties till all questions are re-opened, and in general shocks us more fully awake than we are for most of our lives.
It was in this mythopoeic art that MacDonald excelled.”
― Phantastes
It was in this mythopoeic art that MacDonald excelled.”
― Phantastes
“The good reporters of that era, those who were well educated and who were enlightened themselves and worked for enlightened organizations, liked the Kennedys and were for the same things the Kennedys were for. In addition, the particular nature of the President’s personal style, his ease and confidence with reporters, his considerable skill in utilizing television, and the terrible manner in which he was killed had created a remarkable myth about him. The fact that a number of men in his Cabinet were skillful writers themselves and that in the profound sadness after his murder they wrote their own eloquent (and on occasion self-serving) versions of his presidency had strengthened that myth.”
― The Best and the Brightest
― The Best and the Brightest







