Mood
Epic
Big sky, long road, high stakes. Books that sweep you across years and worlds and make you feel small in a good way.
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Books and stacks that feel Epic
Adventure books for anyone who wanted to be Indiana Jones
Treasure hunts and lost cities, chased by people with a bad map and worse judgement. The kind of adventure that needs a hat and a head start.
Geopolitics books where the whole world is the board
Powers sizing each other up and red lines no one wants to cross. Fiction and nonfiction where what's at stake is the world order.
Myth retellings for when you've run out of Greek ones
Norse, Hindu, Chinese and Roman myths, retold up close. For when you've closed your last Greek one and aren't ready to leave the old stories.
Science fiction that runs on ancient myths
Old myths running on new machines. Sci-fi for readers who grew up on mythology and never quite got over it.
Arthurian retellings told by anyone but Arthur
King Arthur stories from the edge of the court, where the people are far more interesting than the crown.
Greek myth retellings told by the side characters
Mythology from the back of the room. Wives, monsters, lovers and witches get the version the poets never bothered to write down.
Romantasy where the fantasy half is real
The romantasy for readers who also want a map at the front. Sieges, old gods and curses with rules, and a love story that has to share the page.
Read it before it was prestige TV
The books behind the prestige TV everyone binged. Read them first, picture it yourself, then argue about what the show got wrong.
Alexander Dumas 1940
Amal El-Mohtar 2019
Isaac Asimov 1951
J.R.R. Tolkien 1972
Adrian Tchaikovsky 2015
J.R.R. Tolkien 1967
J.R.R. Tolkien 1999
Brandon Sanderson 2001