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Mythic Fantasy

Based on tag: mythic fantasy

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Rank Title Author Added

1

The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

50,505 members

451 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: Nadine.Stenglein

2

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

by N. K. Jemisin

4,168 members

290 reviews

3.9

Member: Nadine.Stenglein

3

American Gods {original}

33,627 members

932 reviews

4.1

4

20,157 members

465 reviews

3.9

5

The Lightning Thief

by Rick Riordan

31,835 members

1,250 reviews

4.1

6

The Sandman: Season of Mists

6,791 members

97 reviews

½ 4.4

7

by Robert Holdstock

2,278 members

60 reviews

3.8

8

Dreams Underfoot: A Newford Collection

by Charles de Lint

2,151 members

39 reviews

4.1

9

by Charles de Lint

1,880 members

45 reviews

4

10

The Broken Sword

by Poul Anderson

1,454 members

35 reviews

3.8

11

Moonlight & Vines

by Charles de Lint

1,118 members

13 reviews

4

12

21,996 members

564 reviews

4

13

The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes

11,849 members

283 reviews

4.2

14

The Sandman: The Doll's House

8,304 members

150 reviews

½ 4.3

15

The Sandman: Dream Country

7,193 members

115 reviews

4.2

16

The Sandman: A Game of You

6,041 members

81 reviews

½ 4.3

17

The Sandman: Fables & Reflections

5,765 members

70 reviews

½ 4.3

18

The Sandman: Brief Lives

5,492 members

67 reviews

½ 4.5

19

Odd and the Frost Giants

3,332 members

184 reviews

3.9

20

Memory and Dream

by Charles de Lint

1,601 members

22 reviews

4.1

21

Someplace to be Flying

by Charles de Lint

1,571 members

28 reviews

4.2

22

The Little Country

by Charles de Lint

1,538 members

14 reviews

3.9

23

by Charles de Lint

1,197 members

18 reviews

4.1

24

Spirits in the Wires

by Charles de Lint

1,103 members

13 reviews

3.9

25

Jack of Kinrowan: Jack the Giant-Killer and Drink Down the Moon

by Charles de Lint

1,076 members

12 reviews

4

26

by Robert Holdstock

909 members

17 reviews

3.8

27

by Charles de Lint

763 members

10 reviews

3.9

28

Hrolf Kraki's Saga

by Poul Anderson

391 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

29

Eyes Like Leaves

by Charles de Lint

216 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

30

by J. R. R. Tolkien

94,646 members

1,190 reviews

½ 4.3

31

The Silmarillion

by J. R. R. Tolkien

35,035 members

272 reviews

3.9

32

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

by Susanna Clarke

27,015 members

775 reviews

3.9

33

26,589 members

239 reviews

3.9

34

by Richard Adams

24,940 members

472 reviews

4.2

35

The Sea of Monsters

by Rick Riordan

22,944 members

472 reviews

4.1

36

The Graveyard Book

22,238 members

1,264 reviews

4.2

37

The Titan's Curse

by Rick Riordan

21,409 members

395 reviews

4.2

38

The Battle of the Labyrinth

by Rick Riordan

20,603 members

346 reviews

4.2

39

The Last Olympian

by Rick Riordan

19,226 members

379 reviews

½ 4.4

40

The Mists of Avalon

by Marion Zimmer Bradley

16,380 members

300 reviews

4.1

41

The Drawing of the Three

by Stephen King

15,912 members

245 reviews

4.1

42

The Song of Achilles

by Madeline Miller

13,143 members

512 reviews

4.2

43

The Children of Húrin

by J. R. R. Tolkien

11,390 members

137 reviews

3.9

44

Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions

10,279 members

126 reviews

4

45

Norse Mythology

9,090 members

330 reviews

4

46

The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

9,072 members

57 reviews

½ 4.6

47

Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold

8,854 members

153 reviews

4.2

48

The Dark Is Rising

by Susan Cooper

8,481 members

227 reviews

4.1

49

The Farthest Shore

by Ursula K. Le Guin

7,888 members

121 reviews

4

50

by John Gardner

6,057 members

108 reviews

3.8

51

by Susan Cooper

5,868 members

89 reviews

4.1

52

by Melissa Marr

5,861 members

305 reviews

3.8

53

The Sword of Summer

by Rick Riordan

5,860 members

145 reviews

4.1

54

The Sandman: The Kindly Ones

5,233 members

74 reviews

½ 4.5

55

by Roger Zelazny

5,180 members

114 reviews

4

56

The Sandman: Worlds' End

5,157 members

62 reviews

½ 4.4

57

by Susan Cooper

5,079 members

72 reviews

3.9

58

On a Pale Horse

by Piers Anthony

5,063 members

93 reviews

3.8

59

The Bear and the Nightingale

by Katherine Arden

4,902 members

291 reviews

4

60

The Hidden Oracle

by Rick Riordan

4,771 members

93 reviews

4.1

61

The Sandman: Endless Nights

4,419 members

61 reviews

4.2

62

by John Crowley

4,196 members

114 reviews

4

63

The Summer Tree

by Guy Gavriel Kay

4,026 members

101 reviews

3.9

64

Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

3,993 members

199 reviews

3.9

65

The Hammer of Thor

by Rick Riordan

3,818 members

56 reviews

4.2

66

The Forest House

by Marion Zimmer Bradley

3,756 members

35 reviews

½ 3.5

67

Bearing an Hourglass

by Piers Anthony

3,652 members

40 reviews

½ 3.6

68

With a Tangled Skein

by Piers Anthony

3,367 members

27 reviews

½ 3.6

69

by Marion Zimmer Bradley

3,345 members

18 reviews

½ 3.6

70

Days of Blood and Starlight

by Laini Taylor

3,280 members

223 reviews

4.2

71

Wielding a Red Sword

by Piers Anthony

3,188 members

26 reviews

½ 3.5

72

The Sandman: The Dream Hunters [Novella]

3,123 members

53 reviews

½ 4.3

73

The Wandering Fire

by Guy Gavriel Kay

3,103 members

56 reviews

4

74

Being a Green Mother

by Piers Anthony

2,986 members

22 reviews

½ 3.6

75

The Darkest Road

by Guy Gavriel Kay

2,983 members

49 reviews

4.1

76

The Ship of the Dead

by Rick Riordan

2,945 members

40 reviews

4.2

77

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

by Patricia A. McKillip

2,835 members

62 reviews

4.1

78

For Love of Evil

by Piers Anthony

2,753 members

19 reviews

3.8

79

Tales from Watership Down

by Richard Adams

2,559 members

33 reviews

½ 3.6

80

The Hallowed Hunt

by Lois McMaster Bujold

2,502 members

83 reviews

3.8

81

by Piers Anthony

2,487 members

17 reviews

½ 3.5

82

The Stolen Child

by Keith Donohue

2,480 members

129 reviews

3.8

83

The Belgariad, Volume One

by David Eddings

2,467 members

23 reviews

4.1

84

Dreams of Gods & Monsters

by Laini Taylor

2,458 members

131 reviews

4.1

85

Priestess of Avalon

by Marion Zimmer Bradley

2,456 members

19 reviews

½ 3.6

86

The Sea of Trolls

by Nancy Farmer

2,424 members

62 reviews

4.1

87

by Ursula K. Le Guin

2,149 members

93 reviews

3.8

88

The Absolute Sandman Volume One

1,995 members

35 reviews

½ 4.7

89

by Roger Zelazny

1,994 members

35 reviews

½ 3.7

90

The Rivan Codex: Ancient Texts of the Belgariad and the Malloreon

by David Eddings

1,888 members

3 reviews

3.2

91

1,806 members

46 reviews

4.1

92

The Belgariad, Volume Two

by David Eddings

1,797 members

7 reviews

4.2

93

1,767 members

62 reviews

½ 3.5

94

The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1: The Faust Act

by Kieron Gillen

1,674 members

98 reviews

3.9

95

Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall

by Bill Willingham

1,670 members

43 reviews

4.2

96

1,627 members

32 reviews

3.8

97

In the Night Garden

by Catherynne M. Valente

1,594 members

75 reviews

½ 4.3

98

Thomas the Rhymer

by Ellen Kushner

1,444 members

21 reviews

3.9

99

Three Parts Dead

by Max Gladstone

1,423 members

88 reviews

3.9

100

Three Hearts and Three Lions

by Poul Anderson

1,377 members

24 reviews

½ 3.6

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