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Myth (Reuse and Retelling)

Description: Works that incorporate mythology as an overt part of the story.
Members: 23 participating members
spiphany, ManWithAnAgenda, ahef1963, wandering_star, guyalice, jillmwo, Jarandel, trollsdotter, aulsmith, lilithcat, johnmackfreeman, foggidawn, ncgraham, hipdeep, inge87, Cecrow, BabelTower, bluepiano, ptittle, Sdurgesh, AnnaClaire, JerryMmm, leahbird

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Rank Title Author Added

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32,278 members

895 reviews

4.1

12 Members: trollsdotter, hipdeep, jillmwo, wandering_star, guyalice, aulsmith, Cecrow, JerryMmm, Jarandel, johnmackfreeman, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by John Gardner

5,668 members

105 reviews

3.8

9 Members: jillmwo, guyalice, aulsmith, Cecrow, spiphany, Jarandel, johnmackfreeman, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

19,221 members

449 reviews

3.9

5 Members: trollsdotter, guyalice, aulsmith, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold

8,071 members

151 reviews

4.2

5 Members: hipdeep, foggidawn, guyalice, ncgraham, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus

by Margaret Atwood

5,470 members

241 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: lilithcat, wandering_star, AnnaClaire, guyalice, spiphany

6

The Lightning Thief

by Rick Riordan

27,015 members

1,188 reviews

4.1

4 Members: foggidawn, guyalice, johnmackfreeman, ahef1963

7

Odd and the Frost Giants

3,108 members

176 reviews

3.9

4 Members: trollsdotter, jillmwo, foggidawn, guyalice

8

Bridge of Birds

by Barry Hughart

2,411 members

96 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: guyalice, aulsmith, Cecrow, spiphany

9

by Ursula K. Le Guin

1,951 members

90 reviews

3.8

4 Members: jillmwo, spiphany, Jarandel, ManWithAnAgenda

10

The Once and Future King

14,204 members

186 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions

9,833 members

124 reviews

4

3 Members: Jarandel, johnmackfreeman, ahef1963

12

Nobody's Princess

by Esther M. Friesner

1,064 members

41 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: jillmwo, foggidawn, BabelTower

13

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

by J. R. R. Tolkien

86,474 members

1,134 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

20,518 members

538 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

A Swiftly Tilting Planet

by Madeleine L'Engle

11,202 members

98 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

by Christopher Moore

10,144 members

404 reviews

4.2

2 Members: leahbird, ManWithAnAgenda

17

The Eyes of the Dragon

by Stephen King

9,781 members

150 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Jarandel, ManWithAnAgenda

18

The Song of Achilles

by Madeline Miller

9,035 members

430 reviews

4.2

2 Members: wandering_star, ncgraham

19

The Sandman: The Doll's House

7,822 members

131 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

by Kevin Hearne

3,084 members

266 reviews

3.9

2 Members: trollsdotter, johnmackfreeman

21

by Guy Gavriel Kay

1,900 members

89 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

22

Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad

by Rosemary Sutcliff

1,523 members

15 reviews

4.1

2 Members: jillmwo, ncgraham

23

Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

by Jeanette Winterson

1,247 members

45 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: lilithcat, guyalice

24

The Hounds of the Morrigan

1,073 members

23 reviews

4.1

2 Members: wandering_star, inge87

25

by Derek Walcott

1,059 members

19 reviews

3.9

2 Members: lilithcat, spiphany

26

by John Myers Myers

968 members

19 reviews

3.9

2 Members: jillmwo, ManWithAnAgenda

27

Ragnarok: The End of the Gods

840 members

54 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: jillmwo, guyalice

28

The Lost Books of The Odyssey

by Zachary Mason

831 members

37 reviews

4

2 Members: wandering_star, spiphany

29

Dream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams

by Alexander McCall Smith

807 members

30 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: lilithcat, guyalice

30

by Christoph Ransmayr

633 members

12 reviews

3.8

2 Members: inge87, spiphany

31

The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel

by Nikos Kazantzakis

461 members

3 reviews

4.2

2 Members: lilithcat, spiphany

32

Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths

by Nina Kossman

67 members

2 reviews

4.1

2 Members: jillmwo, spiphany

33

Ovid Metamorphosed

by Philip Terry

64 members

½ 3.3

2 Members: wandering_star, spiphany

34

by Seamus Heaney

23,346 members

318 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

35

The Mists of Avalon

by Marion Zimmer Bradley

15,598 members

290 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

36

The Satanic Verses

by Salman Rushdie

11,276 members

131 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

37

The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes

11,225 members

262 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

38

The Epic of Gilgamesh

9,211 members

113 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

39

by Stephen King

7,289 members

67 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

40

The Big Over Easy

by Jasper Fforde

5,624 members

180 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

41

The Fourth Bear

by Jasper Fforde

3,996 members

115 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

42

3,943 members

60 reviews

3.9

Member: Jarandel

43

The Bone People

3,600 members

100 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

44

by Leslie Marmon Silko

3,257 members

56 reviews

3.8

Member: inge87

45

by Orson Scott Card

3,027 members

81 reviews

3.9

Member: Jarandel

46

2,740 members

41 reviews

3.8

Member: Jarandel

47

The Stolen Child

by Keith Donohue

2,424 members

128 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

48

by C. E. Murphy

1,629 members

67 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: trollsdotter

49

by Catherynne M. Valente

1,528 members

80 reviews

4

Member: Jarandel

50

Brown Girl In The Ring

by Nalo Hopkinson

1,078 members

46 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith

51

The Wanderings of Odysseus

by Rosemary Sutcliff

936 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: jillmwo

52

Hades' Daughter

by Sara Douglass

795 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: guyalice

53

by Donna Jo Napoli

765 members

29 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

54

681 members

85 reviews

3.9

Member: spiphany

55

578 members

23 reviews

3.8

Member: jillmwo

56

by Christa Wolf

451 members

8 reviews

3.8

Member: spiphany

57

The Fire Gospel: The Myth of Prometheus

by Michel Faber

427 members

24 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: bluepiano

58

Gilgamesh the King

by Robert Silverberg

402 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Jarandel

59

Thirteen Orphans

by Jane Lindskold

337 members

19 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: trollsdotter

60

by Esther M. Friesner

211 members

8 reviews

3.8

Member: trollsdotter

61

by Dino Buzzati

202 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: bluepiano

62

Binu and the Great Wall : The Myth of Meng

161 members

6 reviews

3.2

Member: jillmwo

63

Utterly Charming

by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

148 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: trollsdotter

64

The Moon Riders

by Theresa Tomlinson

111 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: BabelTower

65

Oedipus on the Road

by Henry Bauchau

82 members

½ 4.4

Member: spiphany

66

by Michael Ayrton

66 members

3 reviews

3.1

Member: spiphany

67

54 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: wandering_star

68

50 members

½ 2.5

Member: spiphany

69

Orpheus and Company: Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology

by Deborah DeNicola

48 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: spiphany

70

Eine ganz gewöhnliche Ehe. Odysseus und Penelope. Roman

40 members

½ 4.4

Member: spiphany

71

by Russell Celyn Jones

39 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: wandering_star

72

The Dreams of Max & Ronnie

by Niall Griffiths

32 members

3

Member: wandering_star

73

by Gwyneth Lewis

31 members

3 reviews

4.1

Member: wandering_star

74

Siegfried und Krimhild

by Jürgen Lodemann

29 members

½ 4.6

Member: spiphany

75

Thor Meets Captain America

27 members

1 review

3.9

Member: aulsmith

76

The White Trail

by Fflur Dafydd

23 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: wandering_star

77

The Prince's Pen

by Horatio Clare

21 members

1 review

3.2

Member: wandering_star

78

Palast der blauen Delphine

by Brigitte Riebe

19 members

1 review

3

Member: spiphany

79

by Tor Åge Bringsværd

18 members

4

Member: spiphany

80

See How They Run

14 members

2.8

Member: wandering_star

81

The Tip of My Tongue: (and Some Other Weapons as Well)

by Trezza Azzopardi

12 members

½ 3.5

Member: wandering_star

82

by Katharina Hacker

9 members

Member: spiphany

83

8 members

1 review

4

Member: ptittle

84

Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory

by Durgesh Satpathy

5 members

4

Member: Sdurgesh

85

Unterm Sternbild des Hercules : Antikes in der Lyrik der Gegenwart

by Bernd Seidensticker

5 members

Member: spiphany

86

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

26,254 members

386 reviews

4

87

The Titan's Curse

by Rick Riordan

17,998 members

374 reviews

4.2

88

Kafka on the Shore

by Haruki Murakami

16,893 members

448 reviews

4.1

89

The House of the Spirits

by Isabel Allende

12,976 members

230 reviews

4.1

90

Like Water for Chocolate

by Laura Esquivel

11,324 members

247 reviews

3.8

91

by Joanne Harris

7,632 members

192 reviews

3.8

92

The Hundred Secret Senses

5,470 members

63 reviews

3.8

93

The Tiger's Wife

5,091 members

326 reviews

½ 3.5

94

by Shannon Hale

4,017 members

176 reviews

4.2

95

by John Crowley

3,942 members

109 reviews

4

96

The Outlaws of Sherwood

by Robin McKinley

2,693 members

37 reviews

3.8

97

Nights at the Circus

by Angela Carter

2,494 members

47 reviews

3.9

98

The Fairy Godmother

by Mercedes Lackey

2,373 members

59 reviews

3.9

99

by Gao Xingjian

2,370 members

36 reviews

½ 3.5

100

The Famished Road

2,235 members

37 reviews

½ 3.7

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Started: jillmwo
May 2012
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