The following books are decent and fairly readable retellings of classic mythological tales. The list includes books for adults and children.

Please note that these are neither primary sources (direct translations) nor our recommended reading list. If you are an ADF member and have a suggestion for this page, please contact us.

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Celtic

• Over Nine Waves: A Book of Irish Legends - Marie Heaney
• Mabinogion Tetralogy - Evangeline Walton, Betty Ballantine
• The Chronicles of the Celts: Their Myths and Legends - Peter Berrisford Ellis
• Book of the Cailleach: Stories of the Wise-Woman Healer - Gearoid O Crualaoich
• Traditional Celtic Stories - Lindsay Clarke
• Step Into the Celtic World - Fiona MacDonald (children)
• Various books by Morgan Llywelyn
• The Raid (Ulster Cycle) - Randy Lee Eickhoff
• The Sorrows (Ulster cycle) - Randy Lee Eickhoff
• The Destruction of the Inn (Ulster Cycle) - Randy Lee Eickhoff
• The Feast (Ulster Cycle) - Randy Lee Eickhoff
• He Stands Alone (Ulster Cycle) - Randy Lee Eickhoff
• The Red Branch Tales (Ulster Cycle) - Randy Lee Eickhoff

Hellenic

• Adventures of Ulysses - Bernard Evslin (children)
• Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths - Bernard Evslin (children)
• The Gods of the Greeks - Carl Kerényi
• The Heroes of the Greeks - Carl Kerényi
• Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece - Gustav Schwab

Norse

• Norse Myths - Kevin Crossley-Holland (adults or children)
• Gods and Heroes from Viking Mythology - Brian Branston, Giovanni Caselli (children)
• Odin's Family: Myths of the Vikings - Neil Philip (children)

Roman

• Aeneas: Virgil's Epic Retold for Young Readers - Emily Frenkel

Slavic

• Russian Fairy Tales - Aleksandr Afanas'ev

Vedic

• India: Myths and Legends - Donald Mackenzie