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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 310 times as epics)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,165,455 ratings — published -700
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 244 times as epics)
avg rating 3.93 — 498,650 ratings — published -800
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as epics)
avg rating 3.50 — 340,003 ratings — published 1000
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 169 times as epics)
avg rating 3.87 — 140,812 ratings — published -19
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as epics)
avg rating 3.75 — 115,152 ratings — published -1200
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as epics)
avg rating 3.85 — 179,004 ratings — published 1667
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 98 times as epics)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,689,118 ratings — published 1996
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as epics)
avg rating 4.08 — 168,570 ratings — published 1320
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 80 times as epics)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,075,720 ratings — published 1954
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by (shelved 75 times as epics)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,005,684 ratings — published 1998
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as epics)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,374,112 ratings — published 1937
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 62 times as epics)
avg rating 4.03 — 201,987 ratings — published 1320
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
by (shelved 62 times as epics)
avg rating 4.55 — 834,622 ratings — published 2000
The Song of Roland (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as epics)
avg rating 3.50 — 18,845 ratings — published 1115
A Feast for Crows (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as epics)
avg rating 4.17 — 780,852 ratings — published 2005
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as epics)
avg rating 4.67 — 637,517 ratings — published 2010
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as epics)
avg rating 4.10 — 76,877 ratings — published 8
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 53 times as epics)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,094,763 ratings — published 1954
Mahabharata (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as epics)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,020 ratings — published 1951
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 50 times as epics)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,013,911 ratings — published 1955
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
by (shelved 49 times as epics)
avg rating 4.34 — 728,778 ratings — published 2011
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as epics)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,973 ratings — published 1835
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as epics)
avg rating 4.07 — 13,072 ratings — published 1957
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as epics)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,059,258 ratings — published 2007
The Lord of the Rings (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as epics)
avg rating 4.54 — 720,212 ratings — published 1954
The Nibelungenlied (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as epics)
avg rating 3.82 — 8,758 ratings — published 1200
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as epics)
avg rating 4.17 — 359,197 ratings — published 1869
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
by (shelved 38 times as epics)
avg rating 4.76 — 462,638 ratings — published 2014
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as epics)
avg rating 4.49 — 917,540 ratings — published 2006
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as epics)
avg rating 4.19 — 580,322 ratings — published 1990
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as epics)
avg rating 4.35 — 814,962 ratings — published 1989
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as epics)
avg rating 4.52 — 5,563 ratings — published 1010
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 33 times as epics)
avg rating 3.83 — 11,124 ratings — published -250
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as epics)
avg rating 3.58 — 17,185 ratings — published 1590
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as epics)
avg rating 3.76 — 75,666 ratings — published 1375
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
by (shelved 32 times as epics)
avg rating 4.38 — 618,235 ratings — published 2007
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 4.26 — 11,775 ratings — published 1270
Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 4.41 — 208,361 ratings — published 1975
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as epics)
avg rating 4.03 — 327,784 ratings — published 1977
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as epics)
avg rating 4.16 — 15,479 ratings — published 1220
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as epics)
avg rating 4.19 — 79,934 ratings — published -400
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as epics)
avg rating 3.91 — 299,337 ratings — published 1615
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as epics)
avg rating 4.21 — 834,076 ratings — published 1862
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as epics)
avg rating 4.57 — 226,707 ratings — published 1985
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 29 times as epics)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,035,306 ratings — published 2007
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as epics)
avg rating 4.10 — 913,087 ratings — published 1878
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as epics)
avg rating 3.56 — 606,337 ratings — published 1851
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as epics)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,248,044 ratings — published 1936
The Saga of the Volsungs (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as epics)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,891 ratings — published 1000
“I wasn’t a nerd, mind you, but I’d spent a lot of my youth studying Epics, so I’d had limited experience with social interaction. I mixed with ordinary people about the same way that a bucket of paint mixed with a bag of gerbils.”
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