Looking for info; Top Five #1

[curgoth]

I'm looking for new sources of various things, so I'm going to start posting "Top Fives", asking for peoples' favourites.

To start with, I'm looking for mythology books. I want actual readable stories, rather than narrative novelizations or reference/analyses of the myths.

What are your top five (or top one, if that's all you can come up with) books for mythological stories? Bonus points for anything that doesn't focus exclusively on Greco-Roman myths.

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[corwin77.livejournal.com]

Joseph Campbell wrote a book called The Hero With a Thousand Faces that's supposed to be pretty good, and a whole series called The Masks of God, which is almost exactly as you describe. I haven't read them yet but they're on my list.

[curgoth]

Is it actual myth, or metamyth?