Key Books

Arbatel

The Key of Soloman

Picatrix: Liber Atratus Edition

Ars Notoria

Grimorium Verum

Voynich Manuscript (Worth A Look)

Sexual Alchemy

Sorcerer's Secrets

Real Alchemy: A Primer of Practical Alchemy

The New Age Herbalist

The Book of Soyga

On the Writing of the Insane

The Oera Linda

Devils, Demons and Dangerous Creatures of the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum

Ars Vercanus: Advanced Magickal Techniques

Liber Noctis: A Handbook of the Sorcerer's Arte

The Secrets of High Magic

The Book of Black Magic

Even I haven't gotten through all of them in their entireity yet, together they cover quite an extensive field of catagories.

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Thank you for the list! Now I have a list when I go book hunting!

Not sure how useful the Voynich Manuscript would be given that no one can read it. It's nifty, sure, but not terribly helpful.

Plus many of these seem to grimoires, so useful for someone looking to get into high ritual magic, but not so much for someone doing something less ritual.

I kind of dig Judika Illes' Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells, it has a bit of a bad habit of listing correspondences as spells on their own and it's a little light on explanations for a number of things, but it's a good started book if you have the understanding that you'll want to do your own research as well.

Penczak's City Magic is pretty good too, especially if you're just starting out or just moved from the country to a city. It has something of a Wiccan bent,most of his books do, but that can be worked around pretty easily.

The " Oera Linda book " is a known forgery and known to be fake so I'm not certain it is useful either.

Thank you for this post! I'll poke around and see if I can find a few of these book :3