Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology was released last week and we decided to celebrate by discussing other books that deal with mythology and lore! 

 

Books Mentioned In This Episode

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan

The Gracekeepers by Kristy Loan

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Red Rising series by Pierce Brown

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

The Odyssey by Homer

The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

The Song of Troy by Colleen McCullough

Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

Grendel by John Gardner

Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

The Tenth Circle by Jodi Piccoult

The Divine Comedy by Dante

The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danieleweski

The Lost Years of Merlin by T. A. Barron

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us by Laurea van Den Berg

The Alchemyst by Michael Scott

 

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