The Best Books About Mythology & Archetypes

This is a catch-all category, but includes some of my favorite books about these over-arching stories and systems that try to unify the human experience. If you don’t know your Enneagram type, I highly recommend digging into that system (I like the RHETI test, it’s $12, and Riso and Hudson have written many of the primary textbooks about the Enneagram). And then of course there’s Joseph Campbell, and his highly readable overview of mythology (The Power of Myth is a great start, and I adored Goddesses). Maria Tatar is a formidable expert/professor in fairytales, and then there’s some primers in Carl Jung and his archetypes (though I’m always trying to learn more).

Please, as always, drop recommendations in the comments, I am always all ears for more books to read. The link below will take you to a shelf I curated on Bookshop with my picks—I earn an affiliate commission there, but it is ALWAYS MY PREFERENCE that you shop at and support your local bookseller, so no pressure to buy via Bookshop. This is the easiest way for me to organize and keep picks updated. Happy reading!