Book Recommendations: My Top 10 Mythology Books

I've done one other book recommendations post, which you can see at the following link. Book Recommendations: My General Top 10 Favorite Books.

Mythology can be a tough genre to get into. It's definitely entering popular culture in various ways - video games, book retellings, and so on. However, familiarizing yourself with the myths, even if you only read 1-2 of these recommendations, will help you get the more subtle references.

Here are my Top 10 favorite mythology books, and the ones I highly recommend looking into and reading:

1. Bulfinch's Mythology, Thomas Bulfinch
2. Early Irish Myths and Sagas, Jeffrey Gantz
3. Norse Myths, Martin J. Dougherty
4. Celtic Legends, Michael Kerrigan
5. Tales from the Arabian Nights, Donna Jo Napoli
6. Treasury of Egyptian Mythology, Donna Jo Napoli
7. Treasury of Greek Mythology, Donna Jo Napoli
8. Treasury of Norse Mythology, Donna Jo Napoli
9. The Greek Myths, Robin Waterfield
10. A Treasury of Irish Fairy and Folk Tales, Various