You've decided you want to learn about contemporary Wicca or another modern Pagan path, and you are curious where to start and what books you should read. After all there are thousands of books that are out there. We have started a small list of books we recommend you start with. Of course if you have any suggestions you would like to share with our readers, we look forward to hearing from you in our comments!
Blessed Be.
Cormac O'Dwyer
Librarian and Senior Witch
Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner
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Living Wicca
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Complete Book of Witchcraft
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Wicca For One: The Path Of Solitary Witchcraft
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Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs
Each herb listing includes names, associations, and magical attributions. Violets can be used for protection, luck, love, and more. Primrose is for protection and love. Garlic is for protection, healing, exorcism, lust, and prevention of theft. |
Cunningham’s classic introduction to Wicca is about how to live life magically, spiritually, and wholly attuned with nature. It is a book of sense and common sense, not only about magick, but about religion and one of the most critical issues of today: how to achieve the much needed and wholesome relationship with our Earth. Cunningham presents Wicca as it is today: a gentle, Earth-oriented religion dedicated to the Goddess and God. Wicca also includes Scott Cunningham’s own Book of Shadows and updated appendices of periodicals and occult suppliers. 
Living Wicca takes a philosophical look at the questions, practices, and differences within Witchcraft. You'll learn how to create your own rituals and symbols, develop a book of shadows, and even become a high priest or priestess. Also covered in this Scott Cunningham classic are tools, magical names, initiation, the mysteries, 120 Wiccan symbols, and the importance of secrecy in your practice. 
Here is the most complete self-study course in modern Wicca available, written by the person who first went public with "The Old Religion" in the United States. For group or solitary use, it includes rituals; exercises for developing psychic talents; information on all major "sects" of the Craft; sections on tools, beliefs, dreams, meditations, divination, herbal lore, healing, ritual clothing; and much, much more. 
Seize control of your destiny with the simple but profound practice of Advanced Candle Magick. In Advanced Candle Magick, you'll use advanced spells, preparatory work, visualization and astrology to improve and enhance your results. Create a framework conducive to potent spell work through the use of planetary hours, days of the week, herb and stone correspondences, and colour symbolism. Create positive changes in your relationships, finances, health and spirit when you devise your own powerful rituals based upon the sample spells presented in this book.
Do you work magic with herbs? Do you use them in spells, for talismans or simply use their innate powers? If you don't have Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs, you need to get it right away. This book has become a classic in its field. Over 200,000 people already have this book and use it frequently. 
