My Top Ten Reading List

All right: Due to popular demand here is my top ten list.

Rank Beginner

1) Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft by Raymond Buckland
2) Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner by Scott Cunningham
3) Burning Water by Mercedes Lackey
4) The Tree by Raymond Buckland
5) Illusions by Richard Bach
6) Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
7) Encyclopedia of Wicca & Witchcraft by Raven Grimassi
8) Faery Wicca: Theory and Magick a Book of Shadows and Lights by Kisma K. Stepanich
9) An ABC of Witchcraft by Doreen Valente
10) When Santa was a Shaman by Tony Van Renterghem (Out of Print)

Intermediate learner:

1) Dune by Frank Herbert
2) The White Goddess by Robert Graves
3) The Four Branches of the Mabinogion by Evangeline Walton
4) Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
5) One by Richard Bach
6) The Bridge Across Forever by Richard Bach
7) The KJV Bible
8) A Witch's Bible by Janet and Stewart Farrar
9) Women of the Celts by Jean Markale
10) About 20-50 different fiction and SF books to broaden minds

For children: (Ages 4-13)

1) The Chronicles of Pyrdain by Lloyd Alexander
2) The Witch Next Door by Norman Bridwell
3) The Family Wicca Book by Ashleen O'Gaea
4) Mythology by Edith Hamilton
5) There's No Such Place as Far Away by Richard Bach
6) Strega Nona by Tomie de Paola
7) Iktomi series by Paul Goble
8) The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
9) The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery Katherine Woods
10) Harry Potter Series

From Intermediate stage, there is just too much diversity to list only ten. There are literally hundreds of books that I would advise they read, but no ten spring to mind, and once again it depends on the interests of the student in question.

I understand that this is a very eclectic list of reading material, and if desired, I will explain my choices, but you will have to ask. There are good reasons for all of them to be here. And I have read all the above mentioned books, with the exception of the Little Prince, KJB (even though I took classes in it), And the White Goddess (which I am working on.)

Stars light your path.

Daven

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