The reading list is a reference tool.  Not every grove member agrees with or practices everything in these books.  Also, there are many valuable books not listed here. 

• ABC of Witchcraft, by Doreen Valiente

• Aradia, or Gospel of the Witches, by Charles G. Leland

• Drawing Down the Moon, by Margot Adler

• The Spiral Dance, by Starhawk 

• West Country Wicca, by Rhiannon Ryall 

• Wheel of the Year, by Pauline Campanelli

• Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner, by Scott Cunningham

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• Recommended Additional Reading

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• Earth Power, by Scott Cunningham

• Mother Wit, by Diane Mariechild

• Real Magic, by Isaac Bonewits 

• Practical Candleburning, by Raymond Buckland

• The Power of Myth, by Joseph Campbell

• Voices from the Circle, by Caitlin Matthews

• When God Was a Woman, by Merlin Stone

• The Witches' God, by Janet and Stewart Farrar

• The Witches' Goddess by Janet and Stewart Farrar

• Witchcraft: A Tradition Renewed by Doreen Valiente and Evan Jones

• The Triumph of the Moon, by Ronald Hutton

• Her Hidden Children: The Rise of Wicca And Paganism in America, by Chas. S. Clifton

• Some Starting Points for Individual Study

The Distant Past

The Chalice and the Blade, by Rhianne Eisler

• The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe, by Marija Gimbutas

• Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart, by Betty de Shong Meador

• Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth, by Diane Wolkstein and Samuel Kramer

• Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles, by Ronald Hutton

• Ancient Greece

The Gods of the Greeks, by Carl Kerenyi

• Greek Religion, by Walter Burkert

• Greek Mystery Cults, by Walter Burkert

• The Greek Myths, by Robert Graves

• Sexual Culture in Ancient Greece, by Daniel H. Garrison

• Gods of Love and Ecstasy: The Traditions of Shiva and Dionysus, by Alain Daniélou

• Celtic and Norse Traditions

Northern Mysteries and Magic, by Freya Aswynn

• Sheila-Na-Gigs: Unravelling an Enigma, by Barbara Freitag

• Sheila-Na-Gigs of Ireland and Britain, by Jack Roberts

• The White Goddess, by Robert Graves

• The Mabinogion

• History of Magical Practices and Roots of the Craft

Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion, ed. Christopher Faraone, et al.

• Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, ed. Bengt Ankarloo et al.

•     Volume 1: Ancient Greece and Rome

•     Volume 2: The Middle Ages

•     Volume 3: The Period of the Witch Trials

•     Volume 4: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

• Binding Passions, by Guido Ruggiero

• Witchcraft in Europe 400-1700, ed. Alan C. Kors et al.

• History of Magic and Experimental Science (eight volumes), by Lynn Thorndike

• Etruscan Roman Remains, by Charles G. Leland

• A Taste of Ceremonial Magick

• Modern Magick, by Donald Kraig

• Initiation into Hermetics, by Franz Bardon

• Tarot and Astrology

Tarot for Your Self, by Mary K. Greer

• The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, by A.E. Waite

• A Handbook for the Humanistic Astrologer, by Michael R. Meyer

• Planets in Transit, by Robert Hand

• Sex Magic and Sacred Sexuality

The Lover Within, by Julie Henderson

• Radical Ecstasy, by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy

Incense Making

Wylundt’s Book of Incense

• The Complete Book of Incense, Oils and Brews, by Scott Cunningham

For Additional Ideas

The Well-Read Witch, by Carl McColman
 

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