These are the books that gain their inspiration from mythology. I’m (not even mildly) obsessed with mythologies and belief systems, so I like to have a read of these books and compare them to what I know about said mythology. Or I use them as a stepping stone to doing more research!

Series

• The Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne
• Red Winter by Annette Marie (Red Winter Trilogy #1)
• Ordinary Magic series by Devon Monk
• One Boy, No Water by Lehua Parker (Nihui Shark Saga #1)
• Trickster series by Rob Thurman

Short story collections

• The Coyote Road edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling

Standalones – Novels

• Subversive Spiritualities by Frederique Apffel-Marglin
• The Mammoth Book of Celtic Myths and Legends by Peter Berresford Ellis
• African Myths and Tales by Flame Tree Studios
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Standalones – Short stories

• The Veiled Prophet by David B.
• Devourings by Aimee Bender
• Wagers of Gold Mountain by Steve Berman
• Prayers of Forges and Furnaces by Aliette de Bodard
• Sawdust by Edward Carey
• Friend Robin by Maile Chapman
• Come to Me by Heather Clitheroe
• Labyrinth by Ron Currie, Jr.
• Henry and Booboo by Elanor Dymott
• Mr. Sandman by Sherri Browning Erwin
• The Wedding of Wylda Serene by Esther M. Friesner
• Persephone, or Why the Winters Seem to be Getting Longer by Wendy Froud
• An Introduction to Jewish Myth and Mysticism by Steve Hockensmith
• The Sage of Theare by Diana Wynne Jones
• Modern Coyote by Shane Jones
• The Constable of Abal by Kelly Link
• One Odd Shoe by Pat Murphy
• The Sisters by Sabina Murray
• Huntress by Tamora Pierce
• Coyote, Spider, Bat by Steven Saus
• The Sons of Ra by Helen Scott Taylor
• Anthropogenesis, Or: How to Make a Family by Laura van den Berg
• Argos by Joy Williams

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