Best Norse Mythology Books

Curated by Skriuwer Editors · Updated April 2026 · Affiliate links

Norse mythology is one of the richest and most dramatic traditions in world folklore — full of gods, monsters, and world-ending prophecies. These are the best books on Norse myths and the Vikings, ranked by readers who explored every saga.

  1. 1
    The Power of Now

    Eckhart Tolle

    (70,000 reviews)

    Celebrating 25 Years as a New York Times Bestseller — Over 16 Million Copies Sold It’s no wonder that The Power of Now has sold over 16 million copies world

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  2. 2
    Influence

    Robert B. Cialdini, PhD

    (52,000 reviews)

    The foundational and wildly popular go-to resource for influence and persuasion—a renowned international bestseller, with over 5 million copies sold—now rev

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  3. 3
    Norse Mythology

    Neil Gaiman

    (38,000 reviews)

    Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he turns his attention back to the source, presen

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  4. 4
    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

    Neil deGrasse Tyson

    (33,000 reviews)

    Over a year on the New York Times bestseller list and more than a million copies sold. The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysici

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  5. 5
    Homo Deus

    Yuval Noah Harari

    (32,000 reviews)

    From the author of the international bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind comes an extraordinary follow-up that explores the future of the human spe

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  6. 6
    Heroes

    Unknown Author

    (31,000 reviews)

    Heroes by Unknown Author — one of the most acclaimed books in its field.

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  7. 7
    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Walter Isaacson

    (28,000 reviews)

    The #1 New York Times bestseller "A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it." --The New Yor

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  8. 8
    The Warmth of Other Suns

    Isabel Wilkerson

    (22,000 reviews)

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S F

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  9. 9
    Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

    Edith Hamilton

    (21,000 reviews)

    First published in 1942, Edith Hamilton's Mythology has introduced generations of readers to the gods and heroes of ancient Greece, Rome, and Norse mythology. H

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  10. 10
    The New Silk Roads

    Peter Frankopan

    (14,000 reviews)

    From the bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes an updated, timely, and visionary book about the dramatic and profound changes our world is undergoing right

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    Behave

    Robert M. Sapolsky

    (14,000 reviews)

    Why do we do the things we do? Over a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as ful

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    Surprised by Joy

    C. S. Lewis

    (12,000 reviews)

    Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life is a partial autobiography published by C. S. Lewis in 1955. Specifically the book describes the author's conversio

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  13. 13
    The Gene

    Siddhartha Mukherjee

    (12,000 reviews)

    The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History Now includes an excerpt from Siddhartha Mukherjee’s

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  14. 14
    A Universe from Nothing

    Lawrence M. Krauss

    (7,500 reviews)

    Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how everything that exists came to be in the first place. “Where

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    Dynasty

    Tom Holland

    (6,000 reviews)

    Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivated with Rubicon—his masterful, witty, brilliantly researche

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