The Lost Books of the Odyssey[1] is a 2007 novel by Zachary Mason, republished in 2010.

[2] The Los Angeles Times reviewed the book,[3] and it became a finalist in the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction competition in 2009.

[2][4] The book garnered additional positive reviews upon re-publication with Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

[5][6] Jonathan Galassi, president of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, noticed the book and worked with Mason to craft a second edition of the book, reducing its length and making other modifications to the content.

[7][8] A series of short stories following the general theme of Odysseus, discussing fragments from the Iliad and the Odyssey, changing narrator and subject on very regular occasion for a total of 44 fragments.