What to Read After Myth and reality
Readers who loved Myth and reality by Mircea Eliade keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Myth and reality 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 Myth and reality
The flight of the wild gander
Myth and meaning
How societies remember
The elementary forms of the religious life
Indo-European Poetry and Myth
Theory of Religion
Ancient Mystery Cults.
Conversations with Ogotemmeli
The ritual process
The origins of the Mithraic mysteries
The scapegoat
Morphology of the folktale
The myth of the eternal return, or, Cosmos and history
The sacred and the profane
The masks of God : creative mythology
Stay alive all your life
Violence et le sacré
Images and Symbols
A history of religious ideas
The forge and the crucible
Rites and Symbols of Initiation.
The Phenomenon of Man
Adam, Eve and the serpent
The Masks of God, Vol. 3