📚 Mythology

The stories a culture tells about its gods and origins, compared across the world — what they meant, and why they still shape how we think.

Below are the 22 works carrying the subject mythology in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Golden Bough	James George Frazer	1890	374
	Modern mythology	Andrew Lang	1897	73
	Mythology	Edith Hamilton	1940	59
	The children of Odin	Padraic Colum	1920	52
	The Greek myths	Robert Graves	1955	50
	The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays	Albert Camus	1955	30
	The masks of God	Joseph Campbell	1959	30
	12 Rules for Life	Jordan B. Peterson	2015	26
	Mythology	Neil Philip	1995	25
	Mythos	Stephen Fry	2017	22
	The fairy-faith in Celtic countries	W. Y. Evans-Wentz	1911	19
	The hero with a thousand faces	Joseph Campbell	1949	16
	World mythology	Donna Rosenberg	1986	14
	Bibliotheca	Apollodorus of Athens	1782	12
	The Wanderings of Odysseus	Rosemary Sutcliff	1995	12
	Myths to live by	Joseph Campbell	1972	12
	The Hero with a Thousand Faces	Joseph Campbell	1968	11
	Introduction to mythology	Eva M Thury	2004	5
	Favorite Greek Myths	Mary Pope Osborne	1988	4
	Greek Myths Sticker Book	Rosie Dickins	2013	3
	Mythology	Edith Hamilton	1969	2
	Parallel myths	J. F. Bierlein	1994	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 06 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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