Myth & Folklore

Books across every Myth & Folklore genre

Hunting Snipe: and Other Notes on the East Texas Cattle Mutilations — Unknown author
Cress — Marissa Meyer
The Crane Husband — Kelly Barnhill
The Wicked + The Divine #5 — Jamie McKelvie / Matt Wilson / Kieron Gillen
Tristan Strong Destroys the World — Kwame Mbalia
Black Water Sister — Zen Cho
The Wicked + The Divine #3 — Jamie McKelvie / Matt Wilson / Kieron Gillen
Untethered Sky — Fonda Lee
The Battle of the Labyrinth — Rick Riordan
The Wise Wound: Menstruation and Everywoman — Penelope Shuttle
Cinder — Marissa Meyer
A Crown of Wishes — Roshani Chokshi / Priya Ayyar
Fevered Star — Rebecca Roanhorse
Dragonsworn — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The Wicked + The Divine #9 — Jamie McKelvie / Matt Wilson / Kieron Gillen
Fablehaven (Fablehaven, #1) — Brandon Mull
Hunted — Kevin Hearne
Troy: Our Greatest Story Retold — Stephen Fry
Northern Wrath — Thilde Kold Holdt
Bad Feminist — Roxane Gay
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2) — Dan Brown
Ariadna — JENNIFER. SAINT
Many Waters — Madeleine L'Engle
Mysteries of the Dark Moon — Demetra George

Mythological Fantasy — Gods walk among us, or used to. Fantasy that draws from the old stories — Greek, Norse, Egyptian, Aztec — and finds them stranger and more brutal than the sanitized versions. Myth retold with the uncomfortable parts intact.
Folklore — What a village tells itself after dark. Tales, charms and superstitions from oral tradition — the small, local stories of cunning folk and household spirits, rather than of gods.
Mythology — The source material, before the retellings.
Arthurian — Camelot's endless retelling — Merlin's prophecies, the Round Table's fractures, Guinevere and Lancelot's impossible love. Arthurian legend reworked for every era, from chivalric romance to feminist revision to grounded historical fiction.
Celtic Fantasy — The old country, where the hills are hollow. Standing stones, selkies and the heroes of the old cycles, rooted in Irish, Scottish and Welsh tradition and its thin places between worlds.
Vikings & Norse — Longships, oaths, and the winter at the end of the world. Sagas and Norse-rooted fiction — feud and kinship, seiðr and prophecy, and gods who are no help at all.
Biblical — Scripture as setting or source. Fiction that draws directly from the Bible — retelling its stories, relocating its characters, or treating its events as the scaffolding for invention.

The stories that were told before anyone wrote them down.