What to Read After Images and Symbols
Readers who loved Images and Symbols by Mircea Eliade keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Images and Symbols is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Images and Symbols
The Golden Bough
The myth of the eternal return, or, Cosmos and history
The Joyless Economy
The sacred and the profane
A history of religious ideas
Structural Anthropology
The mythic image
Young Man Luther
The Arab Mind
Red horizons
Pathways to Bliss
Myths and symbols in Indian art and civilization
Japanese society.
Myth and reality
An Essay on Man
Rites and Symbols of Initiation.
The forge and the crucible
Myth and meaning
Synchronicity
Purity and Danger
Homo Ludens
The naive and the sentimental novelist
The Nag Hammadi Library
Creativity