The Greatest Books of All Time on Mythology

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
111 The Waste Land T. S. Eliot 1922 British English
257 Finnegans Wake James Joyce 1939 Irish English
268 Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats William Butler Yeats 1933 Irish English
357 At Swim Two-Birds Flann O'Brien 1939 Irish English
367 Journey to the West Wu Cheng'en 1592 Chinese Chinese
478 Alcools Guillaume Apollinaire 1913 French French
481 The Lusiad Luís Vaz Camões 1572 Portuguese Portuguese
768 A Glastonbury Romance John Cowper Powys 1932 British English
859 The Palm-Wine Drinkard Amos Tutola 1952 Nigerian English
860 The Solitudes Luis de Góngora 1613 Spanish Spanish
974 The Poems of John Keats John Keats 1817 British English
985 Mythology Edith Hamilton 1942 American English
991 Macunaíma Mario de Andrade 1928 Brazilian Portuguese
1005 The Dark Is Rising Susan Cooper 1973 British English
1053 The Kalevala Elias Lönnrot 1835 Finnish Finnish
1079 The Book of the New Sun Gene Wolfe 1980 American English
1091 Shahnameh Ferdowsi 1010 Iranian Persian
1112 The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake William Blake 1827 British English
1141 The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1890 British English
1145 The Bone People Keri Hulme 1984 New Zealand English
1223 Jurgen James Branch Cabell 1919 American English
1232 Children of Gebelawi Naguib Mahfouz 1959 Egyptian Arabic
1270 Omeros Derek Walcott 1990 Saint Lucian English
1281 Mumbo Jumbo Ishmael Reed 1972 American English
1330 The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller 2011 American English
1348 Sandman Neil Gaiman 1989 British English
1351 The Suppliants Aeschylus -463 Greek Ancient greek
1370 The House Of Souls Arthur Machen 1906 British English
1395 The Mists of Avalon Marion Zimmer Bradley 1983 American English
1414 Something About Eve James Branch Cabell 1927 American English
1537 The Owl Service Alan Garner 1967 British English
1543 Eclogues Virgil -37 Latin Latin
1544 The Poetic Edda Unknown 1270 Multiple Old norse
1611 The Song of Hiawatha Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1855 American English
1692 Till We Have Faces C. S. Lewis 1956 British English
1694 Cassandra Christa Wolf 1983 German German
1715 The Clay Machine-gun Victor Pelevin 1996 Russian Russian
1800 The Deptford Trilogy Robertson Davies 1970 Canadian English
1883 Chariots Of The Gods Erich Von Däniken 1968 German German
1887 The Uses of Enchantment Bruno Bettelheim 1976 Austrian English
2006 The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter Unknown 900 Japanese Japanese
2059 The Passion Of New Eve Angela Carter 1977 British English
2061 The Last World Christoph Ransmayr 1988 Austrian German
2103 The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories Angela Carter 1979 British English
2122 The Crystal Cave Mary Stewart 1970 British English
2138 The Worm Ouroboros E. R. Eddison 1922 British English
2141 Mythago Wood Robert Holdstock 1984 British English
2168 Terra Nostra Carlos Fuentes 1975 Mexican Spanish
2192 American Gods Neil Gaiman 2001 British English
2196 That Hideous Strength C. S. Lewis 1945 British English
2228 The Anubis Gates Tim Powers 1983 American English
2263 Georgics Virgil 29 Latin Latin
2298 Poems Of George Seferis George Seferis 1931 Greek Greek
2304 Giles Goat-Boy John Barth 1966 American English
2308 The Dead Father Donald Barthelme 1975 American English
2310 Sexing the Cherry Jeanette Winterson 1989 British English
2348 Bulfinch's Mythology Thomas Bulfinch 1855 British English
2431 The Einstein Intersection Samuel R. Delany 1967 American English
2430 The Call Of Cthulhu H. P. Lovecraft 1928 American English
2470 The Grey King Susan Cooper 1975 British English
2501 Popol Vuh Dennis Tedlock 1985 Mayan K'iche'
2513 Deathbird Stories Harlan Ellison 1975 American English
2525 The Everlasting Man G. K. Chesterton 1925 British English
2528 The Weirdstone Of Brisingamen Alan Garner 1960 British English
2581 Scenes From The Life Of A Faun Arno Schmidt 1953 German German
2592 The Gods Of Pegana Lord Dunsany 1905 Irish English
2624 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell 1949 American English
2633 Tripmaster Monkey Maxine Hong Kingston 1989 American English
2651 Circe Madeline Miller 2018 American English
2661 Daughters of Fire Gerard de Nerval 1854 French French
2745 Erec And Enide Chrétien de Troyes 1160 French Old french
2751 Gods And Heroes Gustav Schwab 1838 German German
2827 A Swiftly Tilting Planet Madeleine L'Engle 1978 American English
2840 The Magician's Nephew C. S. Lewis 1955 British English
2880 Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One Rick Riordan 2005 American English
2888 Olvidado Rey Gudú Ana María Matute 1996 Spanish Spanish
2892 Seven Days In New Crete Robert Graves 1949 British English
2892 Silverlock John Myers Myers 1949 American English
2911 The Odyssey Nikos Kazantzakis 1938 Greek Greek
2914 The Broken Sword Poul Anderson 1954 American English
2924 The Castle Of Iron L. Sprague de Camp 1950 American English
3007 Labyrinths Christopher Okigbo 1971 Nigerian English
3045 Three Hearts And Three Lions Poul Anderson 1953 American English
3086 The Marriage Of Cadmus And Harmony Roberto Calasso 1988 Italian Italian
3122 Carpentaria Alexis Wright 2006 Australian English
3127 Attis And Other Poems Catullus -53 Roman Latin
3136 The Keep F. Paul Wilson 1981 American English
3157 The Flounder Günter Grass 1977 German German
3165 Red Moon and Black Mountain Joy Chant 1970 British English
3168 North Seamus Heaney 1975 Irish English
3195 The Crock Of Gold James Stephens 1912 Irish English
3212 Neverwhere Neil Gaiman 1996 British English
3228 Phantastes George McDonald 1858 British English
3255 The Theogony Hesiod -700 Greek Ancient greek
3324 Arcanum 17 André Breton 1944 French French
3371 Fable Of Polyphemus And Galatea Luis de Góngora 1627 Spanish Spanish
3406 The Great Indian Novel Shashi Tharoor 1989 Indian English
3442 The Summer Tree Guy Gavriel Kay 1984 Canadian English
3456 Glory Road Robert A. Heinlein 1963 American English
3478 American Born Chinese Gene Luen Yang 2006 American English
3519 Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin Friedrich Holderlin 1800 German German
3529 Love in the Western World Denis de Rougemont 1939 Swiss French
3603 Celtic Tales Hugo Pratt 1980 Italian Italian
3620 Day Of The Minotaur Thomas Burnett Swann 1966 American English
3636 Odes John Keats 1820 British English
3638 The Tootinameh; Or, Tales of a Parrot India, Iran 1300 Indian Persian
3638 The White Ship Chinghiz Aitmatov 1970 Kyrgyz Russian
3638 The Works Of John Dryden John Dryden 1808 British English
3638 Des Knaben Wunderhorn Clemens Brentano, Achim von Arnim 1808 German German
3638 New Testament And Mythology Rudolf Bultmann 1941 German German
3638 L'après Midi D'un Faune Stéphane Mallarmé 1876 French French
3638 Report On The Excavations At Troy Heinrich Schliemann 1875 German German
3820 Weaveworld Clive Barker 1987 British English
3950 The Phoenix And The Mirror Avram Davidson 1969 American English
3953 Amorgos Nikos Gatsos 1943 Greek Greek
3953 The Axion Esti Odysseas Elytis 1959 Greek Greek
3953 Mythistorema George Seferis 1935 Greek Greek
4065 A Feast Unknown Philip José Farmer 1969 American English
4100 Aegypt John Crowley 1987 American English
4175 Peer Gynt Henrik Ibsen 1867 Norwegian Norwegian