# Book Recommendations **URL:** \ **Category:** Recommendations\ **Tags:** books\ **Created:** [May 12, 2020, 5:49am UTC](https://forum.spells8.com/t/book-recommendations/1868 "2020-05-12T05:49:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![Francisco](https://spells8.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.spells8.com/francisco/32/352_2.png) [@Francisco](https://forum.spells8.com/u/Francisco)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.spells8.com/t/book-recommendations/1868/3 "2020-05-12T16:44:32Z")
It really depends on what you’re looking for. There are just SO MANY books out there to choose from… ## Beginner Must-Read Books - [Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner](https://amzn.to/2WrsqY0) by Scott Cunningham - [Living Wicca: A Further Guide for the Solitary Practitioner](https://amzn.to/2LmnfCr) by Scott Cunningham - [Buckland’s Complete Book of Witchcraft](https://amzn.to/3cmNhBs) by Raymond Buckland **More Beginner book recommendations here:** **[Best Books for Wiccans](https://spells8.com/topic/recommended-books-wicca/)** 📚 .:｡✧_ﾟ ﾟ･ ✧.｡. \* \* .:｡✧_ﾟ ﾟ･ ✧.｡. \* . \*.:｡✧ \*ﾟ ﾟ･ ✧.｡. \*. ## Advanced Books - [The Meaning of Witchcraft](https://amzn.to/3fHAFXJ) by Gerald Gardner Published in 1959, it’s clearly outdated now but it helps a lot to understand where Wicca comes from, and what modern Western witchcraft is and is not. - [Charge of The Goddess](https://amzn.to/35RBxVj) by The Doreen Valiente Foundation A Collection of poems by Doreen Valiente, the Mother of Modern Wicca. Useful for ideas to incorporate in your craft, prayers, art. - [The Malleus Maleficarum](https://amzn.to/2ztobm3) by James Sprenger and Henry Kramer First published in 1486, this book describes how to identify witches, try them, and kill them. Interesting if you don’t mind reading tedious little details of the trial process, plus other anti-women archaic ideas. - [The Grimoire of Lady Sheba](https://amzn.to/3dDmZLt) by Lady Sheba First published in 1974, this is a personal magickal workbook copied by hand from the time of her initiation into the Craft. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.spells8.com/t/book-recommendations/1868)._