All 5 Percy Jackson books ranked from worst to best
By Bryce Olin
2. The Lightning Thief
We’re going back to the beginning for the second-best Percy Jackson and the Olympians book. The Lightning Thief is the first book of the series. It’s largely where most fans fell in love with Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, Grover Underwood, the rest of these great characters, and the world created by Rick Riordan using stories from Greek mythology as its guide.
In the book, Percy Jackson discovers that he’s a demigod, but not just any demigod. He’s the son of Poseidon, and he’s picked for a quest to find Zeus’s missing lightning bolt and prevent civil war in Olympus. There are so many great moments as Riordan sets up the larger story, the one that last five books to be resolved and also continues in The Heroes of Olympus book series.
It doesn’t get much better than The Lightning Thief when it comes to Percy Jackson. There’s something special about the first quest with Annabeth and Grover, the friendship forming, and exploring this world in such a short amount of time.
The Lightning Thief is so nostalgic for me, and that’s why is the second best of the Percy Jackson books. Only one book left!