The Percy Jackson books are staples of the 2000s and 2010s, and the Disney+ adaptation is reigniting interest in Rick Riordan's stories — though readers may be left wondering what to pick up ...

The “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” series by Rick Riordan is something many of my friends have been begging me to read, so I finally did.

The original five Percy Jackson books were released quickly in the mid to late noughties, introducing readers to series protagonists Percy, Annabeth, and Grover, and the gods of Olympus.