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Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 326 times as myths)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,477,512 ratings — published 2018
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 277 times as myths)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,184,951 ratings — published 2011
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
by (shelved 215 times as myths)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,565,344 ratings — published 2005
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as myths)
avg rating 4.09 — 349,066 ratings — published 2017
Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 167 times as myths)
avg rating 4.25 — 179,965 ratings — published 2017
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
by (shelved 159 times as myths)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,426,501 ratings — published 2006
The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)
by (shelved 145 times as myths)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,268,099 ratings — published 2007
The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)
by (shelved 137 times as myths)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,261,901 ratings — published 2008
The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5)
by (shelved 137 times as myths)
avg rating 4.56 — 1,193,593 ratings — published 2009
Ariadne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as myths)
avg rating 3.78 — 156,330 ratings — published 2021
The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1)
by (shelved 128 times as myths)
avg rating 4.29 — 968,899 ratings — published 2010
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as myths)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,287,540 ratings — published -800
The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus, #2)
by (shelved 108 times as myths)
avg rating 4.40 — 690,012 ratings — published 2011
Galatea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 105 times as myths)
avg rating 3.93 — 134,290 ratings — published 2013
A Thousand Ships (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as myths)
avg rating 4.04 — 100,111 ratings — published 2019
The Mark of Athena (Heroes of Olympus, #3)
by (shelved 101 times as myths)
avg rating 4.47 — 695,116 ratings — published 2012
The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
by (shelved 98 times as myths)
avg rating 3.89 — 121,865 ratings — published 2018
The Penelopiad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as myths)
avg rating 3.71 — 99,051 ratings — published 2005
The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus, #4)
by (shelved 90 times as myths)
avg rating 4.57 — 502,726 ratings — published 2013
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as myths)
avg rating 3.94 — 537,777 ratings — published -750
Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as myths)
avg rating 4.04 — 61,480 ratings — published 1942
Stone Blind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as myths)
avg rating 3.77 — 85,514 ratings — published 2022
Elektra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as myths)
avg rating 3.65 — 60,957 ratings — published 2022
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as myths)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,641 ratings — published 2020
Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)
by (shelved 79 times as myths)
avg rating 4.31 — 66,197 ratings — published 2018
Clytemnestra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as myths)
avg rating 4.22 — 69,058 ratings — published 2023
The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus, #5)
by (shelved 74 times as myths)
avg rating 4.43 — 409,174 ratings — published 2014
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as myths)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,005,306 ratings — published 2001
The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as myths)
avg rating 4.10 — 434,498 ratings — published 2010
Atalanta (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as myths)
avg rating 3.73 — 39,316 ratings — published 2023
The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo, #1)
by (shelved 64 times as myths)
avg rating 4.12 — 242,050 ratings — published 2016
The Sword of Summer (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as myths)
avg rating 4.23 — 247,836 ratings — published 2015
Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)
by (shelved 59 times as myths)
avg rating 4.34 — 49,840 ratings — published 2020
The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 56 times as myths)
avg rating 4.18 — 233,861 ratings — published 2011
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as myths)
avg rating 4.26 — 54,709 ratings — published 1988
The Witch's Heart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as myths)
avg rating 4.03 — 65,169 ratings — published 2021
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as myths)
avg rating 3.76 — 124,461 ratings — published -1800
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as myths)
avg rating 4.10 — 81,074 ratings — published 8
The Children of Jocasta (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as myths)
avg rating 3.89 — 14,098 ratings — published 2017
The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles, #3)
by (shelved 46 times as myths)
avg rating 4.27 — 186,086 ratings — published 2012
Gods of Jade and Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as myths)
avg rating 3.87 — 80,948 ratings — published 2019
The Hammer of Thor (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, #2)
by (shelved 45 times as myths)
avg rating 4.29 — 134,790 ratings — published 2016
The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
by (shelved 44 times as myths)
avg rating 3.83 — 31,897 ratings — published 2021
The Dark Prophecy (The Trials of Apollo, #2)
by (shelved 44 times as myths)
avg rating 4.09 — 147,905 ratings — published 2017
Percy Jackson's Greek Gods (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as myths)
avg rating 4.42 — 101,575 ratings — published 2014
The Ship of the Dead (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, #3)
by (shelved 42 times as myths)
avg rating 4.36 — 110,870 ratings — published 2017
The Greek Myths: Complete Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as myths)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,880 ratings — published 1955
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 40 times as myths)
avg rating 3.88 — 149,040 ratings — published -19
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as myths)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,329 ratings — published 1949
“They say a witch used to live in these woods, a long long time ago,” she began. And this is what the little girl would tell her children and what they would tell their children long after the ones who came before were gone. “They say an old witch lived in the east, in Iron Wood. And there, she bore the wolves who chase the sun and moon. They say she went to Asgard and was burned three times upon a pyre and three times she was reborn before she fled. They say she loved a man with scarred lips and a sharp tongue; a man who gave her back her heart and more. They say she loved a woman too, a sword-wielding bride of the Gods; as bold as any man and fiercer still. They say she wandered, giving aid to those who needed it most, healing them with potions and spells. They say she stood her ground against the fires of Ragnarok, until the very end, until she was burned a final time. All but her heart reduce to ashes once more. But others say she lives yet.”
― The Witch's Heart
― The Witch's Heart
“Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because there is reality and we can write reality because there is fiction; everything we consider today to be myth and legend, our ancestors believed to be history and everything in our history includes myths and legends. Before the splendid modern-day mind was formed our cultures and civilizations were conceived in the wombs of, and born of, what we identify today as "fiction, unreality, myth, legend, fantasy, folklore, imaginations, fabrications and tall tales." And in our suddenly realized glory of all our modern-day "advancements" we somehow fail to ask ourselves the question "Who designated myths and legends as unreality? " But I ask myself this question because who decided that he was spectacular enough to stand up and say to our ancestors "You were all stupid and disillusioned and imagining things" and then why did we all decide to believe this person? There are many realities not just one. There is a truth that goes far beyond what we are told today to believe in. And we find that truth when we are brave enough to break away from what keeps everybody else feeling comfortable. Your reality is what you believe in. And nobody should be able to tell you to believe otherwise.”
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