1 |
|
The Power of Myth
by
4.26 avg rating — 45,430 ratings
|
|
2 |
|
Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
by
4.09 avg rating — 51,211 ratings
|
|
3 |
|
From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers
by
4.11 avg rating — 1,355 ratings
|
|
4 |
|
The Classic Fairy Tales
by
4.29 avg rating — 2,950 ratings
|
|
5 |
|
The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales
by
4.20 avg rating — 270 ratings
|
|
6 |
|
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
by
4.15 avg rating — 33,536 ratings
|
|
7 |
|
Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale
by
3.88 avg rating — 162 ratings
|
|
8 |
|
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
by
4.40 avg rating — 320 ratings
|
|
9 |
|
The Greek Myths
by
4.19 avg rating — 6,309 ratings
|
|
10 |
|
The Owl, the Raven, and the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales
by
4.28 avg rating — 64 ratings
|
|
10 |
|
Tree and Leaf: Includes Mythopoeia and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
by
4.05 avg rating — 3,872 ratings
|
|
12 |
|
Spinning Straw into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman's Life
by
3.81 avg rating — 477 ratings
|
|
13 |
|
When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition
by
3.96 avg rating — 78 ratings
|
|
14 |
|
The Interpretation of Fairy Tales
by
4.16 avg rating — 904 ratings
|
|
15 |
|
Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales
by
4.29 avg rating — 626 ratings
|
|
16 |
|
The Fairies in English Tradition and Literature
by
4.12 avg rating — 158 ratings
|
|
16 |
|
The Vanishing People: Fairy Lore and Legends
by
4.22 avg rating — 165 ratings
|
|
18 |
|
One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L'Engle, Orson Scott Card
by
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings
|
|
19 |
|
The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre
by
3.75 avg rating — 244 ratings
|
|
20 |
|
The Feminine in Fairy Tales
by
4.31 avg rating — 596 ratings
|
|
21 |
|
Morphology of the Folktale
by
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,539 ratings
|
|
22 |
|
Gods and Myths of Northern Europe
by
4.09 avg rating — 1,913 ratings
|
|
23 |
|
Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, & Other Supernatural Creatures
by
4.26 avg rating — 1,186 ratings
|
|
24 |
|
Living the Personal Myth: Making the Magic of Faerie Real in One's Own Life
by
4.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
|
|
25 |
|
The Dharma of Dragons and Daemons: Buddhist Themes in Modern Fantasy
by
3.66 avg rating — 44 ratings
|
|
26 |
|
T.H. White's the Once and Future King
by
3.99 avg rating — 167 ratings
|
|
27 |
|
The Gods of the Greeks
by
4.13 avg rating — 489 ratings
|
|
28 |
|
Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper
by
4.31 avg rating — 35 ratings
|
|
28 |
|
The Golden Ass of Apuleius: The Liberation of the Feminine in Man
by
4.31 avg rating — 87 ratings
|
|
30 |
|
Goddesses of Sun and Moon
by
3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
|
|
31 |
|
Rhetorics of Fantasy
by
3.85 avg rating — 304 ratings
|
|
32 |
|
Writing Down the Dragon: and Other Essays on the Tolkien Method and the Craft of Fantasy
by
4.52 avg rating — 27 ratings
|
|
33 |
|
Beauty and the Beast: Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale
by
3.94 avg rating — 50 ratings
|
|
34 |
|
Tolkien on Fairy-stories
by
4.30 avg rating — 2,799 ratings
|
|
35 |
|
The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created A New Mythology
by
3.92 avg rating — 5,837 ratings
|
|
36 |
|
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
by
3.83 avg rating — 5,308 ratings
|
|
37 |
|
Jack the Ripper and Black Magic: Victorian Conspiracy Theories, Secret Societies and the Supernatural Mystique of the Whitechapel Murders
by
3.74 avg rating — 84 ratings
|
|
37 |
|
The Morrigan: Raven Heart
by
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
|
|
37 |
|
The Werewolf Book: The Encyclopedia Of Shape-Shifting Beings
by
3.80 avg rating — 443 ratings
|
|
37 |
|
From the Forest: A Search for the Hidden Roots of our Fairytales
by
3.61 avg rating — 865 ratings
|
|
37 |
|
A-Ma Alchemy of Love (AoL Mindfulness #1)
by
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 44 ratings
|
|
37 |
|
Green Man: The Archetype of Our Oneness with the Earth
by
3.96 avg rating — 102 ratings
|
|
37 |
|
The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faërie
by
4.20 avg rating — 35 ratings
|
|
44 |
|
The Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy
by
3.65 avg rating — 65 ratings
|
|
44 |
|
Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
by
3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
|
|
44 |
|
The Encyclopedia of Vampires, Werewolves, and Other Monsters
by
4.08 avg rating — 458 ratings
|
|
44 |
|
The Moon and the Virgin: Reflections on the Archetypal Feminine
by
4.05 avg rating — 61 ratings
|
|
44 |
|
Weird Words: A Lovecraftian Lexicon
by
4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
|
|
49 |
|
Athene: Virgin and Mother in Greek Religion
by
4.19 avg rating — 42 ratings
|
|
49 |
|
The Element Encyclopedia of Magical Creatures: The Ultimate A-Z of Fantastic Beings from Myth and Magic
by
4.14 avg rating — 5,819 ratings
|
|
49 |
|
Science of the Magical: From the Holy Grail to Love Potions to Superpowers
by
3.73 avg rating — 614 ratings
|
|
49 |
|
H.P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West
by
4.33 avg rating — 43 ratings
|
|
53 |
|
The Eternal Drama: The Inner Meaning of Greek Mythology
by
4.07 avg rating — 87 ratings
|
|
53 |
|
Robin Hood
by
3.78 avg rating — 244 ratings
|
|
53 |
|
Kuan Yin: Myths and Revelations of the Chinese Goddess of Compassion: The Prophecies of the Goddess of Mercy
by
4.04 avg rating — 123 ratings
|
|
53 |
|
I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft
by
4.38 avg rating — 212 ratings
|
|
57 |
|
Lord Dunsany: Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination
by
3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
|
|
57 |
|
The Heroes of the Greeks
by
4.03 avg rating — 86 ratings
|
|
57 |
|
Majesty and magic in Shakespeare's last plays: A new approach to Cymbeline, Henry VIII and the Tempest
by
4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
|
|
57 |
|
The Quest for Merlin
by
3.84 avg rating — 163 ratings
|
|
61 |
|
Prometheus: Archetypal Image of Human Existence
by
4.20 avg rating — 55 ratings
|
|
61 |
|
Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales
by
4.03 avg rating — 74 ratings
|
|
63 |
|
The Christian Imagination: G.K. Chesterton on the Arts
by
4.23 avg rating — 39 ratings
|
|
63 |
|
The Discovery of King Arthur
by
3.80 avg rating — 464 ratings
|
|
65 |
|
For the Childlike: George Macdonald's Fantasies for Children
by
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
|
|
65 |
|
Essays on a Science of Mythology: The Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis
by
4.14 avg rating — 207 ratings
|
|
65 |
|
From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine's Journey Through Myth and Legend
by
3.99 avg rating — 106 ratings
|
|
68 |
|
The Goddesses' Mirror
by
3.93 avg rating — 28 ratings
|
|
69 |
|
The Lore of the Unicorn
by
3.72 avg rating — 200 ratings
|
|
69 |
|
Good and Evil In Myth and Legend
by
3.43 avg rating — 37 ratings
|
|
71 |
|
Personnel of Fairyland: A Short Account of the Fairy People of Great Britain for Those Who Tell Stories to Children
by
3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
|
|
71 |
|
Guinevere
by
3.58 avg rating — 117 ratings
|
|
73 |
|
Heroines
by
4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
|
|
74 |
|
Seduction and the Secret Power of Women: The Lure of Sirens and Mermaids
by
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 26 ratings
|
|
75 |
|
Language Of The Night
by
4.25 avg rating — 1,064 ratings
|
|
75 |
|
The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World
by
3.92 avg rating — 104 ratings
|
|
77 |
|
Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of Children's Literature
by
3.73 avg rating — 331 ratings
|
|
78 |
|
Meditations on Middle-Earth
by
3.83 avg rating — 3,112 ratings
|
|
78 |
|
Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion
by
4.09 avg rating — 324 ratings
|
|
80 |
|
No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock
by
4.07 avg rating — 228 ratings
|
|
81 |
|
Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood
by
3.98 avg rating — 239 ratings
|
|
82 |
|
Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
by
3.68 avg rating — 4,106 ratings
|
|
82 |
|
Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale
by
3.68 avg rating — 885 ratings
|
|
84 |
|
The Witch Must Die: The Hidden Meaning of Fairy Tales
by
3.91 avg rating — 596 ratings
|
|
84 |
|
Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness
by
3.90 avg rating — 126 ratings
|
|
86 |
|
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
by
4.27 avg rating — 999 ratings
|
|
87 |
|
Appendix N
by
3.75 avg rating — 116 ratings
|
|
87 |
|
The Neurobiology of the Gods: How Brain Physiology Shapes the Recurrent Imagery of Myth and Dreams
by
4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
|
|
89 |
|
The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
by
4.07 avg rating — 615 ratings
|
|
90 |
|
The Lament of Prometheus: An Examination of David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus
by
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
|
|
91 |
|
From Barsoom to Malacandra: Musings on Things Past and Things to Come
by
4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
|
|
92 |
|
On Fairy-Stories
by
3.93 avg rating — 323 ratings
|
|
93 |
|
Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth
by
3.80 avg rating — 154 ratings
|
|
94 |
|
Trolls: An Unnatural History
by
3.72 avg rating — 88 ratings
|
|
95 |
|
The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth
by
4.38 avg rating — 130 ratings
|
|
96 |
|
Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn
by
4.07 avg rating — 71 ratings
|
|
97 |
|
Legends of the Fire Spirits: Jinn and Genies from Arabia to Zanzibar
by
4.07 avg rating — 143 ratings
|
|
98 |
|
Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography
by
3.77 avg rating — 86 ratings
|
|
98 |
|
The Myth Of The American Superhero
by
3.81 avg rating — 53 ratings
|
|
98 |
|
Fairytale in the Ancient World
by
3.97 avg rating — 31 ratings
|
|