Top Ten Books on Mythology and Folklore.

By request, here is a (by no means exhaustive) reading list of great books on Mythology and Folklore I've plucked from random places.

Many of them (and others) are available on my online bookstore at bookshop.org; the ethical alternative to Amazon (or so I'm told).

https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/CrowBooks

I do get a small commission if you buy through the links. However, here are the books, authors and publishers mentioned in my 'top ten' anyway, so please check your local independent or thrift bookshop or library - I'm not fussed if you use my link or not 😉

I've also provided an Amazon Link if they're not available through Bookshop.org - because it may be the only place a book is available 🙄

All hail the Demiurge Jeff Bezos!

1) 'Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain' : https://amzn.to/3v9kJd9
'The Lore of the Land' : https://amzn.to/3ItBh2B

2) Grimm's Fairy Tales : https://amzn.to/3ItBh2B

3) Alan Garner 'A Book of Goblins' : https://amzn.to/3ItBh2B
'The Guizer' : https://amzn.to/3ItBh2B

4) Ruth Manning-Sanders 'A Book of Monsters' : https://amzn.to/3ItBh2B
'A Book of Mermaids' : https://amzn.to/3ItBh2B
'A Book of Dragons' : https://amzn.to/3ItBh2B

5) Kevin Crossley-Holland 'Between Worlds': https://amzn.to/3ItBh2B
'Folktales of Britain' : https://amzn.to/3ItBh2B

6) Wordsworth Series 'Irish Fairy Tales' : https://amzn.to/49ZuwBo
'English Fairy Tales' : https://amzn.to/49ZuwBo

7) Duncan Williamson 'Jack and the Devils Purse' : https://amzn.to/49ZuwBo

8) John & Caitlin Matthews : 'Gawain' : https://amzn.to/3ItBh2B
'Taliesin' : https://amzn.to/3ItBh2B

9) Joseph Campbell 'Hero with a Thousand Faces' : https://amzn.to/49ZuwBo

10) Heinrich Zimmer 'The King and the Corpse' : https://amzn.to/49ZuwBo

BONUS BOOKS:

History Press 'Folktales' Series : https://amzn.to/48LcEZX
https://amzn.to/49Zur0A

Martin Shaw 'Parzival' : https://amzn.to/48LcEZX
'A Branch from the Lightning Tree' : https://amzn.to/48LcEZX

Carl Jung: 'The Red Book' : https://amzn.to/4bUp7O1
'Memories, Dreams, Reflections' : https://amzn.to/4bUp7O1