Books on Indo-European Mythology

One of the questions I get asked more than most is "What books do I recommend some one reads who wants to learn Indo-European mythology?" Well the answer isn't easy, as there are many books, and so here I present a list of some of them, ones to start reading, or to start your own library of books.

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The book list includes;

Prose Edda. Translation by Faulkes. Everyman. 1995
The Upsala Edda. Translation: Faulkes. Viking Society for Northern Research. 2012
Poetic Edda. Carolyne Larrington. Oxford World Classics. 2014
A Handbook to Eddic Poetry. Larrington, Quinn, and Schorn. Cambridge University Press. 2016
Poetic Edda. Hollander. University of Texas. 2010 Poetic Edda. Crawford. Hackett Publishing. 2015
The Odyssey. Homer. Penguin Clothbound Classics. 2009 The Illiad. Homer. Penguin Clothbound Classics. 2014
Metaomorphoses. Ovid. Penguin Clothbound Classics. 2014
Rig Veda. Translation, Ralph Griffith. Create Space Independent Publishing Platform. 2017
The Rig Veda (3 Volumes Set). Jamison and Brereton. OUP. 2014
The Zend-avesta. James Darmesteter. Andesite Press. 2015
History of Zoroastrianism. Mary Boyce. Brill. 1996
The Tain. Translation Cairon Carson. Penguin. 2008
Mabinogion. Sioned Davies. Oxford World Classics. 2008
Beowulf. Translations by: Shamus Heaney, Howell Chickering, or Liuzza
Beowulf and its Analogues. G.N.Garmonsway. Little Hampton Book Services Ltd. 1968
The Kalavela. Elias Lonnrot (Trans. Bosley). Oxford World’s Classics. 2008
Jaan Puhvel, Comparative Mythology, John Hopkins University Press, 1989
Benjamin Forston IV, Indo European Language and Culture, Blackwell Publishing, 2009
J.P.Mallory and Adams, The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World, Oxford Linguistics, 2006
David Anthony. The Horse, The Wheel and Language. Princeton University Press. 2010
Calvert Watkins, How to Kill a Dragon, Oxford University Press, 2001
Bruce Lincoln. Death, War and Sacrifice. University of Chicago Press, 1986
Bruce Lincoln., Myth, Cosmos, and Society, Indo-European Themes of Creation and Destruction. Harvard University Press. 1986
Larson, Litteton, and Puhvel. Myth in Indo-European Antiquity. University of California Press. 1974.
Csapo. Theories of Mythology. Blackwell Publishing. 1995
Pettazzoni. Essays on the History of Religion. 1954
Edith Hamilton. Mythology. Brand Central. 2011