Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha De Danaan and the Fianna of Ireland

9 best books like Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha De Danaan and the Fianna of Ireland (Lady Augusta Gregory): The Dying Earth, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I), Throne of the Crescent Moon, What Mad Universe, The I Ching or Book of Changes, The Táin: From the Irish Epic Táin Bó Cúailnge, The Art of Over the Garden Wall, Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism

The Dying Earth

Author	Jack Vance
ISBN	0671831526

I did not like this book much the first time I read it, but after reading it a second time while visualizing its characters as puppets, I found I liked it much more.

This book—particularly the first three stories—irritated me. I found its wizards to be contemptible creatures, morally...

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Author	Anonymous
ISBN	0141026286

Andrew George's "masterly new translation" (The Times) of the world's first truly great work of literature

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world’s oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries....

Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)

Author	David Hackett Fischer
ISBN	0195069056

This book is the first volume in a cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural...

Throne of the Crescent Moon

Author	Saladin Ahmed
ISBN	0756407117

The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, home to djenn and ghuls, holy warriors and heretics, are at the boiling point of a power struggle between the iron-fisted Khalif and the mysterious master thief known as the Falcon Prince. In the midst of this brewing rebellion a series of brutal supernatural murders strikes...

What Mad Universe

Author

Fredric Brown

Fredric Brown was a true ubermensch of the Golden Age of Science Fiction, and his short stories are still among the best ever written in the genre. I mean that. Best...Ever...Written.

What Mad Universe is one of only a handful of SF novels that he wrote, a tear-inducing shame given...

The I Ching or Book of Changes

Author

Anonymous

The I Ching, or Book of Changes, is one of the 1st efforts of the human mind to place itself within the universe. It has exerted a living influence in China for 3000 years and interest in it has spread in the West.

Set down in the dawn of history as a book of oracles, the Book of Changes deepened in meaning...

The Táin: From the Irish Epic Táin Bó Cúailnge

Author	Anonymous
ISBN	0192803735

The Táin Bó Cúailnge, centre-piece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's nearest approach to a great epic. It tells the story of a great cattle-raid, the invasion of Ulster by the armies of Medb and Ailill, queen and king of Connacht, and their allies, seeking to carry off...

The Art of Over the Garden Wall

Author	Sean Edgar
ISBN	1506703763

Venture into the Unknown! A complete tour through the development and production of the Emmy-winning animated miniseries Over the Garden Wall, this volume contains hundreds of pieces of concept art and sketches, and a comprehensive look at the show's breathtaking production art. From the original...

Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism

Author

James Burnham

The premise of The Suicide of the West is that the West is in decline, and the decline is fueled by the rise of liberalism. Despite the strong title, most of the book is an attempt at an objective definition of liberalism. Only the beginning and end actually discuss why liberalism could potentially lead...