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
Myth and Meaning
The Flight of the Wild Gander
The origins of the Mithraic mysteries
How Societies Remember
Theory of Religion
Indo-European Poetry and Myth
The Ritual Process
Sociology of Religion
Morphology of the Folktale
Conversations with Ogotemmeli
The Scapegoat
Ancient Mystery Cults.
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
The myth of the eternal return, or, Cosmos and history
The Sacred and the Profane
Stay Alive All Your Life
The Masks of God : Creative Mythology
Images and Symbols
A History of Religious Ideas
The Forge and the Crucible
Rites and Symbols of Initiation.
The Phenomenon of Man
The Masks of God, Vol. 3
Adam, Eve and the Serpent