List of literary cycles

• The Anansi tales, which center on the Ashanti of Ghana trickster spider-spirit Anansi, and its variations in the Americas as Ti Malice and Bouki in Haiti, Br'er Rabbit or John and Old Master in the Southern US.
• The Matter of Britain (or the "Arthurian cycle"), which centers on King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
• The Matter of France (or the "Carolingian cycle"), which centers on Charlemagne and the Twelve Peers
• The Matter of Rome (or the "cycle of Rome"), which centers on Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great
• The Reynard cycle, which centers on the fabular fox Reynard
• The Epic Cycle, which centers on the Trojan War
• The Mythological Cycle, which centers on the Celtic pantheon
• The Fenian Cycle, which centers on Fionn mac Cumhaill and the Fianna
• The Ulster Cycle, which centers on Cú Chulainn and the Kingdom of Ulster
• The Cycle of the Kings, which centers on the monarchy of Ireland
• Der Ring des Nibelungen (or the "Ring cycle"), which centers on the Ring and the Norse pantheon
• The four troubadours Bernart d'Auriac, Pere Salvatge, Roger Bernard III of Foix, and Peter III of Aragon composed a cycle of four sirventes in the summer of 1285 concerning the Aragonese Crusade.
• The Japanese literary concept of sekai (世界, lit. "world") bears strong similarities to that of a cycle. Those surrounding Minamoto no Yoshitsune and the Soga brothers are likely the most popularly reproduced.