18 books like The curse

What to read after The curse — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The wise wound Penelope Shuttle · 1978 · ★ 4.0 · 358p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "This study of the facts, fantasies and taboos surrounding menstruation has helped bring about a profound shift in attitudes towards a natural phenomenon that has been reviled and denigrated over the centuries. Thoroughly researched yet highly readable, combining psychology, anthropology and poetry, Shuttle and Redgrove illustrate their theories using examples ranging from The Bible to such… Shares: Menstruation, Women, Folklore, Mythology

Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt · 2005 · ★ 4.0 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But… Shares: Popular culture, Sociology, Social Science

The golden age of myth & legend Thomas Bulfinch · 1900 · 495p · ≈ 16h · Challenging The Age of Fable is a Mythological type of book. It contains many Greek and Roman myths, including simplified versions of The Iliad and The Odyssey, as well as a selection of Norse and “eastern” myths. Thomas Bulfinch’s goal was to make the ancient myths accessible to a wide audience, and so it is suitable for children. Shares: Folklore, Mythology

Traditions of the Tinguian Fay-Cooper Cole · 1915 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Abstracts: p. 202-226. Shares: Folklore, Mythology

Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser · 2001 · ★ 3.8 · 383p · ≈ 12h · Moderate To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar Amerca. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has triggered the homogenization of our society. Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled the juggernaut of American cultural imperialism… Shares: Popular culture, Sociology, Social Science, History

The Federalist, or, The New Constitution Alexander Hamilton · 1788 · ★ 4.1 · 456p · ≈ 15h · Demanding Originally published anonymously, The Federalist Papers first appeared in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers urging voters to ratify the new Constitution. Still debated and discussed today, The Federalist Papers provide readers with an important commentary on the crucial issues facing a democracy. This edition includes a complete text of the Constitution. The documents that… Shares: History - General History, History

Backlash Susan Faludi · 1981 · ★ 4.1 · 592p · ≈ 19h · Moderate Skillfully Probing the Attack on Women's Rights "Opting-out," "security moms," "desperate housewives," "the new baby fever"--the trend stories of 2006 leave no doubt that American women are still being barraged by the same backlash messages that Susan Faludi brilliantly exposed in her 1991 bestselling book of revelations. Now, the book that reignited the feminist movement is back in a… Shares: Public opinion, Sociology

JFK Sloan, Bill · 1992 · 255p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "Her tale is often engaging . . . the feisty schoolteacher emerges ultimately as something of a folk heroine."-Publishers WeeklyNovember 22, 1963, is a day not easily forgotten. A sunny, picturesque Dallas day quickly turned into calamity when several mysterious shots descended on the presidential motorcade at Dealey Plaza near the Texas School Book Depository.Amid the confusion were two people… Shares: History - General History, History

The Transatlantic Zombie Sarah J. Lauro · 2015 · 284p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Our most modern monster and perhaps our most American, the zombie that is so prevalent in popular culture today has its roots in African soul capture mythologies. The Transatlantic Zombie provides a more complete history of the zombie than has ever been told, explaining how the myth’s migration to the New World was facilitated by the transatlantic slave trade, and reveals the real-world import of… Shares: Social Science, Folklore, History

Safety crimes Steve Tombs · 2004 · 253p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Every year in the UK, hundreds of workers are killed just doing their jobs, thousands more die of illnesses caused by their work and tens of thousands suffer major injuries such as amputations, loss of sight, serious burns, and so on. Worldwide, two million people are killed by work each year. Yet with the exception of high profile cases such as the gas leak at Bhopal, India, which killed tens of… Shares: Sociology, Social Science

Popular Tales from Norse Mythology George Webbe Dasent · 2001 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Full of giants, trolls, heroes, and beautiful princesses, these 42 folktales include such favorites as "Temptations," "The Magician's Pupil," "Legend of Tannhäuser," "The Outlaw," "The Widow's Son," and "The Goatherd." Shares: Folklore, Mythology

By the Fire We Carry Rebecca Nagle · 2024 · ★ 4.4 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "No part of the judiciary exposes the chasm between American ideals and institutional practice like federal Indian law. In By the Fire We Carry, Nagle, a Cherokee journalist, turns a case most Americans haven’t heard of into a legal thriller." —New York Times Book ReviewNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe New Yorker’s Best Books of 2024 • Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year • NPR 2024 "Books We Loved"… Shares: Social Science, History

The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism Edmund Ronald Leach · 1967 · 206p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Designed to provoke controversy, the papers in this volume concentrate on two main themes: the study of myth and totemism. Starting with an English translation of La Geste d'Asdiwal, which is widely considered to be the most brilliant of all of Lévi-Strauss's shorter expositions of his technique of myth analysis, the volume also contains criticism of this essay. The second part of the volume… Shares: Sociology, Social Science, Mythology

African Myths (Graphic Mythology) Gary Jeffrey · 2005 · 48p · ≈ 1h · Moderate First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world - part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, they speak of a land of heroic battles, intense love and warrior ideals, in which the otherworld is explored and men mingle freely with the gods. From the vivid adventures of the great Celtic hero Cu Chulaind, to the… Shares: Folklore, Mythology

Paradigms and fairy tales Julienne Ford · 1975 · 497p · ≈ 16h · Moderate This book is an introduction to the epistemology and practice of social science. It provides an exposition and critique of the ideology and practice of social science, and an examination of the professional social scientist as a manipulator of ideas and appearances. Shares: Sociology, Social Science

Bulfinch's Mythology Vols. 2&3 Thomas Bulfinch · 1962 · ★ 3.5 For almost a century and a half, Bulfinch's Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of the gods and goddesses, Greek and Roman antiquity. Shares: Folklore, Mythology

The Attention Merchants Tim Wu · 2016 · ★ 4.1 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "From Tim Wu, author of award-winning The Master Switch, and who coined the phrase "net neutrality"--a revelatory look at the rise of "attention harvesting," and its transformative effect on our society and our selves"-- Shares: Popular culture, Social Science, History

Scandinavian folk-lore William A. Craigie · 1896 · 554p · ≈ 18h · Challenging IN this brief outline of an extensive subject I have endeavoured to explain clearly not only what the Icelandic sagas are, but how it happened that they arose in a place so remote from the rest of Europe...The special reasons which explain it are fully stated in the first chapter,...the central Germanic area is not strongly represented; it is on the outmost borders, in Iceland, England, and… Shares: Folklore, Mythology

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