Book description
From New York Times bestselling, award-winning creator John Hendrix comes The Mythmakers, a graphic novel biography of two literary lions-C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien-following the remarkable story of their friendship and creative fellowship, and how each came to write their masterworks
"Masterful. . . Effortlessly blending fantasy and reality." (BCCB,…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Mythmakers as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I knew the lives of both these men—and their relationship—well, but I found myself learning more: not because of so much new information but because the text, the telling, the and imaginative drawings made them so lucid. And it did something more: it awoke in me, however briefly, that delicious longing that Lewis called "Joy."
If you love The Mythmakers...
The Gotten
No one knew about the doorbell until the news story of the boys’ mysterious disappearance. If certain people couldn’t own the doorbell or if it rejected them, they wanted to destroy it and the boys behind it, calling it a hoax.
Ivor and Inge Borg have been tracking Astrid Sims,…
Want books like The Mythmakers?
Our community of 13,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like The Mythmakers.
Share your top 3 reads of 2026!
And get a beautiful page showing off your 3 favorite reads.
101
readers submitted
so far, will you?
📚 If you like The Mythmakers, you might also like...
Cinderelliot
A gay retelling of the classic fairy tale--a scrumptious love story featuring ungrateful stepsiblings, a bake-off, and a fairy godfather.
Cinderelliot is stuck at home taking care of his ungrateful stepsister and stepbrother. When Prince Samuel announces a kingdom-wide competition to join the royal staff as his baker, the stepsiblings…
Lily Starling and the Voyage of the Salamander
When seventeen-year-old Lily Starling is found in San Francisco with no memory of who she is, her search for answers pulls her into a future she never imagined. Taken aboard the Union starship Salamander, she becomes entangled in a mission that will test the limits of identity, loyalty, and courage.
…
