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Books Like Percy Jackson: Myth, Quests, and Found Family

If you loved The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan.

Percy Jackson made mythology feel like it was happening down the street: gods behaving badly, monsters on the subway, and a kid who discovers his weirdness is actually a birthright. If you want more of that, quests with real danger, humor that never talks down to you, and a found family worth fighting for, these reviewed fantasy and mythology reads send you back out on the road.

Why these match

  • greek mythology
  • myth
  • quest
  • found family
  • monsters
  • coming of age
  • friendship
  • gods
Cover of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Two: The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan

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Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Two: The Sea of Monsters

by Rick Riordan

4.9 - Incredible

Camp Half-Blood is dying, and the cure is buried in a sea that eats ships whole. Riordan sends Percy back out with the same wisecracking energy that made book one work, except the stakes now have teeth: a family secret about his half brother complicates every choice, and the found family Percy built at camp is what's on the line. If what hooked you about the Lightning Thief was watching an ordinary kid handed impossible odds refuse to flinch, this sequel doubles down without losing its jokes, tighter and faster.

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