Reading lists

Introductory books — General

• Margot Adler — Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America (The classic)
• Ellen Evert Hopman — Being a Pagan: Druids, Wiccans, and Witches Today
• Carl McColman — The Complete Idiot's Guide to Paganism (Don't be insulted by the title! A very light-hearted author)

Introductory books — Wicca

• Phyllis Curott — Witch Crafting: A Spiritual Guide to Making Magic
• Scott Cunningham — Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner ("How to" for solitary practitioners of Wicca)
• Jennifer Hunter — 21st Century Wicca: A Young Witch's Guide to Living the Magical Life
• Vivianne Crowley — Wicca: The Old Religion in the New Millennium
• Starhawk — The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess
• Judy Harrow — Devoted to You: Honoring Deity in Wiccan Practice
• Kaatryn MacMorgan — All One Wicca: A Study in the Universal Eclectic Tradition of Wicca (A study of a specific, eclectic tradition of Wicca; still a good intro)

Introductory books — Druidism

• Isaac Bonewits — Bonewits's Essential Guide to Druidism

Introductory books — Shinto

• Sokyo Ono — Shinto: The Kami Way (This was written in the 1960s, well before Shinto spread outside Japan)
• Ann Llewellyn Evans — Shinto Norito: A Book of Prayers (Modern; a "how to" for solitary practitioners of Shinto, written by a Canadian preistess)

For friends & family

• Carl McColman — When Someone You Love Is Wiccan: A Guide to Witchcraft and Paganism for Concerned Friends, Nervous Parents, and Curious Co-Workers (For cowan (non-pagan) friends & family; some have complained of oversimplification or overly simplistic writing - read beforehand)

Further study — General

• Isaac Bonewits — Real Magic: An Introductory Treatise on the Basic Principles of Yellow Magic
• David Fontana — The Meditator's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Eastern and Western Meditation Techniques
• Thich Naht Hanh — Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
• Thich Naht Hanh — The Miracle of Mindfulness
• Brian Copenhaver — Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation, with Notes and Introduction

Further study — Wicca

• Starhawk — Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex, and Politics (Putting the Wiccan faith in context with society and political activism - an eye opener)
• Ed Fitch — The Rites of Odin (Norse Wicca)
• Ronald Hutton — The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft
• Grey Cat — Deepening Witchcraft: Advancing Skills and Knowledge
• Janet and Stewart Farrar — The Witches' Goddess: The Feminine Principle of Divinity
• Janet and Stewart Farrar — The Witches' God: Lord of the Dance
• Janet and Stewart Farrar — A Witches' Bible: The Complete Witches Handbook
• Phyllis Curott — Book of Shadows: A Modern Woman's Journey into the Wisdom of Witchcraft and the Magic of the Goddess
• Ellen Cannon Reed — The Goddess and the Tree
• Gerald Gardner — The Meaning of Witchcraft

Fiction

• Robin McKinley — Deerskin
• Starhawk — The 5th Sacred Thing
• Mercedes Lackey — ALL WORKS
• Robert Graves — ALL MYTH WORKS
• Tom Robbins — Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
• Robert A. Heinlein — Stranger in a Strange Land
• Neil Gaiman — ALL WORKS
• Charles De Lint — ALL WORKS

Poetry

• Yeats
• Shelly
• Whitman