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Epic Fiction

Description: What fiction would you consider particularly epic? That is, it spans a wide swath of time and/or geography and probably has many, many characters. Vote up your favorites.

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

50,560 members

451 reviews

½ 4.5

5 Members: aulsmith, luke4, ahef1963, deerhorne, ManWithAnAgenda

2

53,279 members

475 reviews

4

4 Members: aulsmith, roby72, amanda4242, deerhorne

3

The Epic of Gilgamesh

by Gilgamesh Poet

9,913 members

120 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aulsmith, roby72, amanda4242, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by Frank Herbert

42,776 members

694 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: aulsmith, amanda4242, deerhorne, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

21,838 members

188 reviews

4.1

3 Members: aulsmith, roby72, ManWithAnAgenda

6

13,955 members

113 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Pearl / Sir Orfeo

3,464 members

19 reviews

3.9

3 Members: amanda4242, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

by Herman Melville

35,525 members

545 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, amanda4242, ManWithAnAgenda

9

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

25,623 members

435 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: roby72, jeffza

10

2001: A Space Odyssey

by Arthur C. Clarke

13,397 members

209 reviews

4

2 Members: roby72, ImmortalWords

11

11,892 members

118 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: luke4, ManWithAnAgenda

12

40,116 members

386 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, roby72

13

by Táin author

1,887 members

24 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, amanda4242

14

2,936 members

32 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, roby72

15

The Song of Roland

5,419 members

39 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aulsmith, amanda4242

16

28,957 members

460 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: roby72, ManWithAnAgenda

17

24,152 members

379 reviews

4

2 Members: roby72, ahef1963

18

by Jeffrey Eugenides

27,200 members

631 reviews

4.1

2 Members: roby72, ahef1963

19

The Tale of Genji

by Shikibu Murasaki

5,526 members

53 reviews

3.9

2 Members: roby72, ManWithAnAgenda

20

The Five Books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy (The Schocken Bible, Volume 1)

877 members

6 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

21

by John Steinbeck

23,472 members

425 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: roby72, amanda4242

22

Paradise Lost [Norton Critical Edition]

2,208 members

13 reviews

4.2

2 Members: roby72, ahef1963

23

by Richard Adams

24,966 members

472 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

24

The Knight in the Panther's Skin

by Shota Rustaveli

258 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: bluepiano

25

by Jamie Le Fay

4 members

5

Member: GabrielWarren

26

22,987 members

198 reviews

3.9

Member: roby72

27

The Sagas of Icelanders

by Örnólfur Thorsson

2,473 members

18 reviews

4.2

Member: aulsmith

28

Orlando Furioso

by Ludovico Ariosto

1,380 members

19 reviews

4.2

Member: roby72

29

Orlando innamorato

by Matteo Maria Boiardo

170 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: roby72

30

Around the World in Eighty Days

17,173 members

265 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

31

Jerusalem Delivered

by Torquato Tasso

789 members

8 reviews

3.9

Member: roby72

32

Mahābhārata (C. Rajagopalachari ed.)

380 members

5 reviews

4

Member: aulsmith

33

The Last Light of the Sun

by Guy Gavriel Kay

1,981 members

52 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

34

The Arabian Nights

by Sir Richard Burton

412 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: roby72

35

Paradise lost, Samson Agonistes [and] Lycidas

128 members

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

36

by Mabinogion Author

4,539 members

46 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith

37

Mahābhārata {retold by William Buck}

498 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: roby72

38

by Elias Lönnrot

2,365 members

28 reviews

4.2

Member: aulsmith

39

by Boris Pasternak

11,419 members

152 reviews

3.9

Member: roby72

40

Les Misérables

26,367 members

341 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: roby72

41

The Tale of the Heike

555 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: roby72

42

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

19,179 members

346 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963,amanda4242

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Started: sturlington
September 2013
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