Master Book List

General Pagan

• Being a Pagan: Druids, Wiccans, and Witches Today; Ellen Evert Hopman & Lawrence Bond
• Introduction to Pagan Studies; Barbara Jane Davy

Druid Studies

• A Druid’s Tale; Cat Treadwell
• Bonewit’s Essential Guide to Druidism; Isaac Bonewits
• Druidry; Emma Restall Orr
• Druidry and Meditation; Nimue Brown
• Living Druidry: Magical Spirituality for the Wild Soul; Emma Restall Orr
• Natural Druidry; Kristoffer Hughes
• Principles of Druidry; Emma Restall Orr
• The Druidry Handbook; John Michael Greer *
• The Druid’s Primer; Luke Eastwood
• The Mysteries of Druidry; Brendan Cathbad Myers
• The Path of Druidry; Penny Billington
• The Solitary Druid; Robert Lee Ellison @

Magic & Divination

• Real Magic: An Introductory Treatise on the Basic Principles of Yellow Magic; Isaac Bonewits
• Real Energy: Systems, Spirits, And Substances to Heal, Change, And Grow; Isaac Bonewits
• The Druid Magic Handbook; John Michael Greer

Historical

• A Brief History of the Druids; Peter Beresford Ellis
• A History of Pagan Europe; Prudence Jones @
• A World Full of Gods: An Inquiry Into Polytheism; John Michael Greer
• Contemporary Druidry: A Historical and Ethnographic Study; Michael T. Cooper
• Gods and Myths of Northern Europe; H.R. Ellis-Davidson @
• In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology, and Myth; J.P. Mallory @
• The Celts; Frank Delaney
• The Celtic Heroic Age: Literary Sources for Ancient Celtic Europe and Early Ireland and Wales; John T. Koch @
• The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why an Invented past Won’t Give Women a Future; Cynthia Eller
• The Tain: Translated from the Irish Epic Tain Bo Cuailnge; Thomas Kinsella @
• Travels Through Middle Earth; Alaric Albertsson @

“Classic”

• Buckland’s Complete Book of Witchcraft; Raymond Buckland
• Drawing Down the Moon; Margot Adler
• The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess; Starhawk

Other 

• Chakras for Beginners: A Guide to Balancing Your Chakra Energies; David Pond
• Kindling Our Stars: Nurturing Bright and Dark Flames; Genevieve Wood
• The Complete Book of Herbs: A Practical Guide to Growing and Using Herbs; Lesley Bremness
• Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem, and Metal Magic; Scott Cunningham
• Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs; Scott Cunningham
• Shambhala: The Fascinating Truth Behind the Myth of Shangri-La; Victoria LePage
• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Celtic Wisdom; Carl McColman @
• Pagan Theology: Paganism as a World Religion; Michael York @

Fictional

• The Apple and the Thorn; Emma Restall Orr
• The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm; Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
• The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest; Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling, & Charles Vess

Books I’ve Already Read (good and bad)

• Complete Idiot’s Guide to Wicca and Witchcraft; Denise Zimmerman & Katherine Gleason
• Confessions of a Teenage Witch; Gwinevere Rain
• Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner; Scott Cunningham
• The Book of Wizardry: The Apprentice’s Guide to the Secrets of the Wizards’ Guild; Cornelius Rumstuckle

* = currently reading

@ = suggestion from ADF recommended reading