What to Read After The King and the Corpse
Readers who loved The King and the Corpse by Heinrich Robert Zimmer keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The King and the Corpse 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 The King and the Corpse
The myth of the eternal return, or, Cosmos and history
The Transposed Heads
Eros and magic in the Renaissance
Dionysos
Alone with the Alone
The Grail Legend
Conversations with Ogotemmeli
The Forge and the Crucible
The Sacred and the Profane
The portable Jung.
The Golden Bough
The Power of Myth
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Interpretation of Dreams
Demian
Der Steppenwolf
Dubliners
Contact
Meditations
Robinson Crusoe
The Catcher in the Rye
Fellowship of the Ring
Frankenstein
Siddhartha