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There has been an explosion of mainly popular press books on Pagan religions since 1990 (not to mention other books not specially written for Pagans that are of interest to Pagans). Read what members of The Cauldron: A Pagan Forum think of some of these books in these reviews. The more info link in each review will take you to a page on our site with more information on the book from Amazon (as well as Amazom CA and Amazon UK). Remember that ordering books from Amazon (and, to a lesser extent, from Amazon CA and Amazon UK) via our links helps support The Cauldron! 1-9 | A-B | C-D | E-F | G-H | I-J | K-L | M-N | O-P | Q-R | S-T | U-V | W-X | Y-Z

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• The 13 Original Clan Mothers [Sams]
  
• 2001 Spell-a-Day Desk Calendar
  
• 2001 Tarot Wall Calendar
  
• 2002 Goddess Wall Calendar
  
• 2002 Witches' Datebook
  
• 2002 Witches' Wall Calendar
  
• 2003 Herbal Almanac
  
• 2003 Magical Almanac
  
• 2003 Moon Sign Book
  
• 2003 Wicca Almanac [2]
  
• 2003 Witches' Spell-A-Day Almanac
  
• 2004 Sun Sign Book
  
• 2004 Witches' Spell-A-Day Almanac
  
• 2005 Herbal Almanac
  
• 2005 Magical Almanac
  
• 2005 Wicca Almanac
  
• 2005 Witches' Almanac [Pepper]
  
• 2005 Witches' Calendar
  
• 2005 Witches' Datebook
  
• 2005 Witches' Spell-A-Day Almanac
  
• 2006 Herbal Almanac
  
• 2006 Magical Almanac
  
• 2006 Witches' Calendar
  
• 2006 Witches Datebook
  
• 2006 Witches' Spell-A-Day Almanac
  
• 21st Century Wicca [Hunter]
  
• The 21 Lessons of Merlyn [Monroe]
  
  
• Advanced Candle Magick [Buckland]
  
• Advanced Wiccan Spirituality [Saunders]
  
• After the Ecstasy, the Laundry [Kornfield]
  
• Alchemy at Work [Eason]
  
• All Around the Zodiac [Tierney]
  
• Am I A Hindu? [Viswanathan]
  
• American Folk Magick [Ravenwolf]
  
• American Indian Myths and Legends [Erdoes]
  
• The Ancient Art of Faery Magick [Conway]
  
• Ancient Pagan Symbols [Goldsmith]
  
• And Banish With Laughter [Soror Diotima]
  
• Antagonists in the Church [Haugk]
  
• The Apple Branch [Kondratiev]
  
• Apprentice to Power [Roderick]
  
• Aradia [Leland] [2]
  
• Are We Living in the End Times? [LaHaye]
  
• Ariadne's Thread [Mountainwater]
  
• Around the Roman Table [Faas]
  
• Astral Projection Plain & Simple [Phillips]
  
• Astrology for Beginners [Hewitt]
  
• Astrology & Relationships [Pond]
  
  
• Be a Goddess! [De Grandis]
  
• Before You Cast A Spell [McColman]
  
• Beltane [Grimassi]
  
• Between The Worlds [Myers]
  
• Book of Druidry [Nichols]
  
• Book of Hours [Gillotte]
  
• Book of Shadows [Gonzalez-Wippler]
  
• A Book of Pagan Prayers [Serith]
  
• The Book of Wizardry [Rumstuckle] (Children)
  
• Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft [Buckland]
  
• Bud, Blossom, & Leaf [Morrison]
  
  
• Cakes and Ale for the Pagan Soul [Telesco]
  
• Candlemas [Amber K]
  
• Candle Magic [Auer]
  
• Celebrating the Seasons of Life: Beltane to Mabon [O'Gaea]
  
• Celebrating the Seasons of Life: Samhain to Ostara [O'Gaea]
  
• Celestial Goddesses [Hunt]
  
• Celtic Astrology [Vega]
  
• Celtic Fire [Van de Weyer]
  
• Charting Your Spiritual Path With Astrology [Clement]
  
• The Cherokee Herbal [Garrett]
  
• Christianity: The Origins of a Pagan Religion [Walter]
  
• Circle, Coven & Grove [Blake]
  
• Circle of Isis [Reed]
  
• Circle Round [Starhawk]
  
• The Circle Within [Sylvan]
  
• The Closing of the Western Mind [Freeman]
  
• Color Magick [Buckland]
  
• Cooking By Moonlight [Allrich]
  
• Cooking by the Seasons [Allrich]
  
• The Complete Book of Incense, Oils, and Brews [Cunningham]
  
• The Complete Book of Numbers [Pither]
  
• The Complete Guide to Divination [Eason]
  
• The Complete Guide to Labyrinths [Eason]
  
• The Complete Guide to Psychic Development [Eason]
  
• Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt [Hornung]
  
• Covencraft [Amber K]
  
• The Craft [Morrison]
  
• The Craft Companion [Morrison]
  
• Crafting the Body Divine [Galenorn]
  
• Crafts for the Spirit [Lundy]
  
• Creating Home Sanctuaries With Feng Shui [Mitchell]
  
• Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from The Ancient World [Gager]
  
  
• Dancing Up the Moon [Lysne]
  
• The Dark Archetype [Dumars]
  
• A Dark Muse [Lachman]
  
• Devoted To You [Harrow]
  
• Discovering Kwan Yin [Boucher]
  
• Divination For Beginners [Cunningham]
  
• Drawing Down the Moon [Adler]
  
• Dunwich's Guide to Gemstone Sorcery [Dunwich]
  
  
• Earth Magic [Weinstein]
  
• The Earth Path [Starhawk]
  
• Earth Power [Cunningham]
  
• The Elements of Ritual [Lipp]
  
• Embracing the Moon [Galenorn]
  
• The Enchanted Diary [Woods]
  
• Enchantments [McCoy]
  
• Encyclopedia of Wicca & Witchcraft [Grimassi]
  
• Essential Energy Balancing II [Stein]
  
• The Essential Golden Dawn [Cicero]
  
• Essential Wicca [Tuitean]
  
• Everyday Magic [Morrison]
  
• Everyday Tarot Magic [Morrison]
  
• Exploring Chakras [Shumsky]
  
• Exploring Native American Wisdom [Dancing Feather]
  
• Exploring Numerology [Lawrence]
  
  
• Faery Healing [McArthur]
  
• Fifty Years of Wicca [Lamond]
  
• Finding Soul on the Path of Orisa [Correal]
  
• Finnish Magic [Nelson]
  
• The Forest of Souls [Pollack]
  
• Full Contact Magick [Cuhulain]
  
  
• Garden Witchery [Dugan] [2]
  
• Gerald Gardner and the Cauldron of Inspiration [Heselton]
  
• Ghosts, Spirits & Hauntings [Telesco]
  
• Goddess in the Grass [Foubister]
  
• The Goddess Path [Monaghan]
  
• Gothic Grimoire [Konstantinos]
  
• Greek Religion [Burkert]
  
• Green Spirituality [Romani]
  
• Green Witchcraft [Moura]
  
• Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard [Zell-Ravenheart]
  
• Grimoire for the Green Witch [Moura]
  
• The Grimoire of Lady Sheba [Bell] [2]
  
• A Grimoire of Shadows [Fitch]
  
  
• The Haitian Vodou Handbook [Filan]
  
• Handfasting and Wedding Ritual [Kaldera]
  
• Healing Ground [Tuley]
  
• Healing Mudras [Mesko]
  
• Heart of Tarot [Amber K]
  
• The Hermetic Tradition [Evola]
  
• A History of Pagan Europe [Jones]
  
• The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries [Budapest]
  
• Hoodoo Mysteries [Malbrough]
  
• How to be a Ghost Hunter [Southall]
  
• How To Be A Wicked Witch [Telesco]
  
• How To Communicate With Spirits [Owens]
  
• How to Write for the New Age Market [Webster]
  
  
• If You Want to Be a Witch [McCoy]
  
• Illuminations [Ashcroft-Nowicki]
  
• The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Fairies [Franklin]
  
• In The Circle [Hawke]
  
• Incense [Neal]
  
• The Inner Temple of Magick [Cooper]
  
• Inside A Witches' Coven [McCoy]
  
• Invoke The Gods [Trobe]
  
• Irish Witchcraft from an Irish Witch [O'Brien]
  
• Isis Magic [Forrest]
  
  
• The Joy of Sects [Occhiogrosso]
  
  
• Lammas [Franklin]
  
• Liber Null and Psychonaut [Carroll]
  
• Lid Off the Cauldron [Crowther]
  
• Life's A Witch [Horne]
  
• Lily Dale [Wicker]
  
• The Lore of the Bard [Rowan]
  
  
• Mabon [Madden]
  
• Maiden Magick [Brondwin]
  
• Magic for Lovers [Silverwind]
  
• Magic of Qabalah [Trobe]
  
• Magic of the Celtic Gods and Goddesses [McColman]
  
• Magical Creatures [Pepper]
  
• Magical Herbalism [Cunningham]
  
• Magical Meditations [Galenorn]
  
• Magickal Mermaids and Water Creatures [Conway]
  
• Magical Rites from the Crystal Well [Fitch]
  
• Magickal Use of Thought Forms [Ashcroft-Nowicki]
  
• The Magician's Workbook [Tyson]
  
• Magick, Shamanism, & Tao [Herne]
  
• Magick of the Gods and Goddesses [Conway]
  
• The Magickal Life [Crowley]
  
• Magickal, Mythical, Mystical Beasts [Conway]
  
• Making Magick [McCoy]
  
• Making Talismans [Farrell]
  
• Many Lives, Many Masters [Weiss]
  
• Mapping Your Birthchart [Clement]
  
• Mastering Candle Magick [Telesco]
  
• Mastering Reiki [Tompkins]
  
• Mastering Witchcraft [Huson]
  
• The Meaning of Witchcraft [Gardner]
  
• Medicine of the Cherokee [Garrett]
  
• Meditation [Lorenzo-Fuentes]
  
• Meditations with the Cherokee [Garrett]
  
• Modern Magick [Kraig]
  
• Modern Pagans [Vale] [2]
  
• Monsters [Greer]
  
• The Moon & Everyday Living [Pharr]
  
• Moon Tides, Soul Passages [Simms]
  
• Mudras [Hirschi]
  
• Music, Witchcraft and the Paranormal [Willin]
  
• My Life with the Spirits [DuQuette]
  
• The Mysteries of Mithras [Nabarz]
  
• The Mystic Foundation [Penczak]
  
  
• The Narrow Land [Reynard]
  
• Necronomicon [Tyson]
  
• Never Again The Burning Times [Orion]
  
• The New Book of Magical Names [McFarland]
  
• The New Encyclopedia of the Occult [Greer]
  
• Northern Mysteries & Magick [Aswynn]
  
  
• Old Stones, New Temples [Campbell]
  
• On the Trail of the Women Warriors [Wilde]
  
• The Origins of Psychic Phenomena [Gooch]
  
• Out of the Shadows [Coughlin]
  
• The Outer Temple of Witchcraft [Penczak]
  
• The Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth & Religion [Price]
  
  
• Pagan Christmas [Ratsch]
  
• The Pagan Path [Farrar]
  
• Pagan Parenting [Madden]
  
• Paganism [Higginbotham]
  
• Paganism: A Beginner's Guide [Moorey]
  
• Pagans & Christians [diZerega]
  
• Pagans and the Law [Eilers]
  
• Palmistry Quick & Easy [Hazel]
  
• Past Life & Karmic Tarot [McCoy]
  
• Pendulums and the Light [Stein]
  
• Philosophy of Wicca [Fisher]
  
• The Pickingill Papers [Liddell]
  
• Pocket Guide to Celtic Spirituality [Knight]
  
• Pocket Guide to Crystals and Gemstones [Knight]
  
• Pocket Guide to the Tarot [Oken]
  
• The Pocket Spell Creator [Connor]
  
• Polarity Magic [Berg]
  
• Positive Magic [Weinstein]
  
• Power Tarot [MacGregor]
  
• Practical Candle Burning [Buckland]
  
• Praise to the Moon [Hawke]
  
• Priestess of Avalon, Priestess of the Goddess [Jones]
  
• Prime Chaos [Hine]
  
• Professional Tarot [Jette]
  
• Progressive Witchcraft [Farrar]
  
• Putting the Tarot to Work [McElroy]
  
  
• Real Magic [Bonewits]
  
• The Real Witches' Coven [West]
  
• Real Witches' Year [West]
  
• The Rebirth of Witchcraft [Valiente]
  
• Reclaiming the Commons [Donahue]
  
• Rede of the Wiccae [Mathiesen]
  
• Reflexology For Beginners [Vennells]
  
• Refuge: Tales of Myth and Magick [Soror Diotima]
  
• The Rites of Odin [Fitch]
  
• Ritual: Power, Healing, & Community [Somé]
  
• Rocking the Goddess [Paige]
  
• Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs [Kowalchik]
  
• Romancing the Tarot [Vega]
  
• Runic Palmistry [Saint-Germain]
  
  
• Sabbat Entertaining [Polson]
  
• The Sacred Magic of Ancient Egypt [Clark]
  
• Sacred Sexuality in Ancient Egypt [Antelme]
  
• Satan's Conspiracy [Maxwell-Stuart]
  
• Scottish Witchcraft [Buckland]
  
• Seasons of the Witch [Monaghan]
  
• The Secret Doctrine of the Kabbalah [Leet]
  
• Secrets of the Magickal Grimoires [Leitch]
  
• Secrets of Western Sex Magic [Frater U.D.]
  
• A Seeker's Journey and Initiation into Wicca [DeMartini]
  
• Self-Initiation for the Solitary Witch [Shanddaramon]
  
• Sexual Ecstasy and the Divine [Galenorn]
  
• Sexual Secrets [Douglas]
  
• Signs, Symbols & Omens [Buckland]
  
• Silver's Spells for Love [Ravenwolf]
  
• Silver's Spells for Protection [Ravenwolf]
  
• Simplified Qabala Magic [Andrews]
  
• Sisters of the Dark Moon [Wood]
  
• Solar Arcs [Tyl]
  
• Sons of the Goddess [Penczak]
  
• Soul Purpose Astrology [Koolman]
  
• The Spell of Making [Blacksun]
  
• Spellcraft for Teens [Rain]
  
• Spells for Teenage Witches [Baker]
  
• Spinning Spells, Weaving Wonders [Telesco]
  
• The Spiral Dance [Starhawk]
  
• Spirit of the Witch [Grimassi]
  
• Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity [Bawer]
  
• SuperSleep [Mahaney]
  
  
• Tarot & Magic [Kraig]
  
• Tarot for a New Generation [Renee]
  
• Tarot for All Seasons [Jette]
  
• Tarot for Beginners [Hollander]
  
• Tarot for the Healing Heart [Jette]
  
• Tarot for Self Discovery [Braden]
  
• Tarot Tells the Tale [Ricklef]
  
• Taliesin [Matthews]
  
• Talisman Magic [Webster]
  
• A Time For Magick [Simms]
  
• The Teen Spell Book [Wood]
  
• Thorsons Way of Wicca [Crowley]
  
• Teen Witch [Ravenwolf]
  
• Teen Witch Kit [Ravenwolf]
  
• Teenage Witch's Book of Shadows [de Benzelle]
  
• The Temple of Shamanic Witchcraft [Penczak]
  
• To Light a Sacred Flame [Ravenwolf]
  
• To Ride a Silver Broomstick [Ravenwolf]
  
• Totem Magic [Galenorn]
  
• The Training and Work of an Initiate [Fortune]
  
• The Tree [Buckland]
  
• The Tree of Life (3rd Edition) [Regardie]
  
• True Hauntings [Denning]
  
• The Triumph of the Moon [Hutton]
  
• True Magick [Amber K]
  
• True Magick (2006 Edition) [Amber K]
  
  
• Understanding the Tarot Court [Greer ]
  
• The Urban Pagan [Telesco]
  
• The Urban Primitive [Kaldera]
  
  
• Vibrational Medicine [Gerber]
  
• The Virtual Pagan [McSherry]
  
• The Visitants [Tevelein] (Fiction)
  
  
• What's Your Wicca IQ? [Wildman]
  
• Wheels of Life [Judith]
  
• Wheels of Light [Bruyere]
  
• When, Why ... If [Wood]
  
• When Someone You Love Is Wiccan [McColman]
  
• Which Witch is Which? [Telesco]
  
• White Spells [Abrev]
  
• Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner [Cunningham]
  
• The Wicca Cookbook [Wood]
  
• Wicca Demystified [Lankford]
  
• Wicca For Couples [Drew]
  
• The Wicca Handbook [Holland]
  
• The Wicca Herbal [Wood]
  
• Wicca Unveiled [Rhodes]
  
• Wiccan Beliefs and Practices [Cantrell]
  
• A Wiccan Bible [Drew]
  
• A Wiccan Formulary and Herbal [Drew]
  
• Wiccan Rituals and Blessings (CD) [Starhawk]
  
• Wiccan Roots [Heselton]
  
• Wiccan Spirituality [Saunders]
  
• Wiccan Warrior [Cuhulain]
  
• The Wiccan Wellness Book [Perry]
  
• Wiccan Wisdomkeepers [Griffyn]
  
• Wild Girls [Monaghan]
  
• A Witch Alone [Green]
  
• The Witch Book: The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft, Wicca and Neo-Paganism [Buckland]
  
• Witch Crafting [Curott]
  
• A Witch's Book of Dreams [Allrich]
  
• The Witch's Circle [Simms]
  
• The Witch's Familiar [Grimassi]
  
• A Witch's Notebook [Ravenwolf]
  
• The Witch's Shield [Penczak] [2]
  
• The Witches' Craft [Grimassi]
  
• Witchcraft: A Tradition Renewed [Valiente]
  
• Witchcraft: An Alternative Path [Moura]
  
• Witchcraft and Magic in 16th and 17th Century Europe [Scarre]
  
• Witchcraft and the Mystery Tradition [Grimassi]
  
• Witchcraft and the Web [Nightmare]
  
• Witches [Holzer]
  
• A Witches' Bible [Farrar]
  
• Witching Culture [Magliocco]
  
• The Women's Book of Healing [Stein]
  
• A Woman's Book of Rituals & Celebrations [Ardinger]
  
• Women Who Run With The Wolves [Estes]
  
• The World's Most Haunted Places [Belanger]
  
• Write Your Own Magic [Webster]
  
  
• Your Book of Shadows [Telesco]
  
• Your Magickal Name [Vega]
  
• Yule: A Celebration of Light & Warmth [Morrison]