# What book will we read next list

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## The Power of Myth

[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Power-Myth-Joseph-Campbell-ebook/dp/B004QZACH6/)  4.7 2,038 ratings •
[Goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35519.The_Power_of_Myth) Rating: 4.2 · ‎48,297 votes • [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Myth) • 317 pages

> The Power or Myth is a book based on the 1988 PBS documentary Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth. The documentary was originally broadcast as six one-hour conversations between mythologist Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) and journalist Bill Moyers. It remains one of the most popular series in the history of American public television. —Wikipedia

> The Power of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminent scholar, writer, and teacher, he has had a profound influence on millions of people--including Star Wars creator George Lucas. To Campbell, mythology was the “song of the universe, the music of the spheres.” With Bill Moyers, one of America’s most prominent journalists, as his thoughtful and engaging interviewer, The Power of Myth touches on subjects from modern marriage to virgin births, from Jesus to John Lennon, offering a brilliant combination of intelligence and wit.

> This extraordinary book reveals how the themes and symbols of ancient narratives continue to bring meaning to birth, death, love, and war. From stories of the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece and Rome to traditions of Buddhism, Hinduism and Christianity, a broad array of themes are considered that together identify the universality of human experience across time and culture. An impeccable match of interviewer and subject, a timeless distillation of Campbell’s work, The Power of Myth continues to exert a profound influence on our culture.

> —Amazon

## The Hero with a Thousand Faces

[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Faces-Collected-Joseph-Campbell/dp/1577315936)  4.7 4,222 ratings •
[Goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/588138.The_Hero_With_a_Thousand_Faces) Rating: 4.1 · ‎36,794 votes
• [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces) • 432 pages

> (first published in 1949) is a work of comparative mythology by Joseph Campbell, in which the author discusses his theory of the mythological structure of the journey of the archetypal hero found in world myths —
Wikipedia

> Since its release in 1949, The Hero with a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbell’s revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. In these pages, Campbell outlines the Hero’s Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through virtually all of the world’s mythic traditions. He also explores the Cosmogonic Cycle, the mythic pattern of world creation and destruction.

> As part of the Joseph Campbell Foundation’s Collected Works of Joseph Campbell, this third edition features expanded illustrations, a comprehensive bibliography, and more accessible sidebars.

> As relevant today as when it was first published, The Hero with a Thousand Faces continues to find new audiences in fields ranging from religion and anthropology to literature and film studies. The book has also profoundly influenced creative artists—including authors, songwriters, game designers, and filmmakers—and continues to inspire all those interested in the inherent human need to tell stories.
> —Amazon

## Myths to Live By

[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Myths-Live-Collected-Joseph-Campbell-ebook/dp/B00537W8I2)  4.6 391 ratings •
[Goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/821380.Myths_to_Live_By) Rating: 4.1 · ‎6.987 votes
• [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces) • 276 pages

> Myths to live by is a 1972 book, a collection of essays, originally given as lectures at the Cooper Union Forum, by mythologist Joseph Campbell between 1958 and 1971. \
—Google books

> "There's no one quite like Joseph Campbell. He knows the vast sweep of man's panoramic past as few men have ever known it." --The Village Voice

> Joseph Campbell famously compared mythology to a kangaroo pouch for the human mind and spirit: "a womb with a view." In Myths to Live By, he examines all of the ways in which myth supports and guides us, giving our lives meaning. Love and war, science and religion, East and West, inner space and outer space — Campbell shows how the myths we live by can reconcile all of these pairs of opposites and bring a sense of the whole.

> This classic has been newly illustrated and annotated in its first new edition since its original publication, which also marks the first ebook in the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell series. In the tradition of The Power of Myth and Pathways to Bliss, Myths to Live By remains one of Joseph Campbell's most enduring, popular, and accessible works.
— Amazon

## The Mythic Image
[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Mythic-Image-Joseph-Campbell/dp/0691018391) 4.7 45 ratings •
[Goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/787565.The_Mythic_Image) Rating: 4.4 · ‎464 votes
• 576 pages

> A paperback edition of Campbell's major study of the mythology of the world's high civilizations over five millennia. It includes nearly 450 illustrations. The text is the same as that of the 1974 edition. —Google books

> A paperback edition of Campbell's major study of the mythology of the world's high civilizations over five millennia. It includes nearly 450 illustrations. The text is the same as that of the 1974 edition.

> Mythologist Joseph Campbell was a masterful storyteller, able to weave tales from every corner of the world into compelling, even spellbinding, narratives. His interest in comparative mythology began in childhood, when the young Joe Campbell was taken to see Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show at Madison Square Garden. He started writing articles on Native American mythology in high school, and the parallels between age-old myths and the mythic themes in literature and dreams became a lifelong preoccupation. Campbell's best-known work is The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), which became a New York Times paperback best-seller for Princeton in 1988 after Campbell's star turn on the Bill Moyers television program The Power of Myth.

> During his early years as a professor of comparative religion at Sarah Lawrence College, Campbell made the acquaintance of Indologist Heinrich Zimmer, a kindred spirit who introduced him to Paul and Mary Mellon, the founders of Bollingen Series. They chose Campbell's The Mythic Image as the culmination of the series, giving it the closing position--number one hundred. A lavishly illustrated and beautifully produced study of the mythology of the world's high civilizations, The Mythic Image received a front-cover review in the New York Times Book Review upon publication. Through the medium of visual art, the book explores the relation of dreams to myth and demonstrates the important differences between oriental and occidental interpretations of dreams and life. —Amazon

## The Mythic Dimension
[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Mythic-Dimension-Selected-1959-1987-Collected/dp/1608684911) 4.6 25 ratings •
[Goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1969110.The_Mythic_Dimension) Rating: 4.1 · ‎147 votes • 352 pages

> In these pages, the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell presents twelve eclectic, far-ranging, and brilliant essays gathered together for the first time. The essays explore myth in all its dimensions: its history; its influence on art, literature, and culture; and its role in everyday life.

> This second volume of Campbell’s essays (following The Flight of the Wild Gander) brings together his uncollected writings from 1959 to 1987. Written at the height of Campbell’s career―and showcasing the lively intelligence that made him the twentieth century’s premier writer on mythology―these essays investigate the profound links between myth, the individual, and societies ancient and contemporary. Covering diverse terrain ranging from psychology to the occult, from Thomas Mann to the Grateful Dead, from Goddess spirituality to Freud and Jung, these playful and erudite writings reveal the threads of myth woven deeply into the fabric of our culture and our lives. —Amazon

## The Mythology and the Individual
[Amazon (cassettes only)](https://www.amazon.com/Joseph-Campbell-Collection-Mythology-Individual/dp/1565111877) 5 3 ratings •
[Goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35516.Mythology_and_the_Individual) Rating: 4.6 · ‎117 votes
• [Joseph Campbell foundation (book available $25)](https://www.jcf.org/works/titles/mythology-and-the-individual/) • pages

> From the Star Wars saga to the lyrics of the Grateful Dead, Joseph Campbell has had a profound impact on our global culture, our beliefs, and the way we view ourselves and the world. These early lectures are the recordings Campbell kept in his study and used as the basis for later lectures on myth, symbolism, the psyche, and spiritual awakening. Provocative and exhilarating, full of wit and wisdom, they are the windows into one of the greatest minds of our time.

> Portions of this collection are available in print as chapters in Myths to Live By and Pathways to Bliss.
Celebration of Life

> “In the human heart and in the human mind–no matter what the race, the culture, the language, the tradition–there is at least the sense of a mystery, and an awesome and a very terrifying mystery inhabiting the whole universe: the very mystery of being itself.” ~Joseph Campbell\
—Joseph Campbell Foundation