Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner is the essential primer from one of the best known authors on Wicca. Focusing on the importance of individualism in your spiritual path, Cunningham explains the very basics of Sabbats (holy days), ceremonies, altars, and other nuts and bolts of Wicca that a solitary practitioner may have trouble finding elsewhere. While Wicca shouldn't be your sole point of reference when considering Wicca as your way of life, it is one of the best starting points. --Brian Patterson

This is a great book to help a friend or family member become more informed about what you believe. Scott Cunningham delivers the basic info to help calm any sort of fears of midnight parties with Satan and presents Witchcraft as a nature-loving, positive religion that thousands and thousands of people are practicing everyday. From the basic tools, to religious days, to Deities, to folk magick, to initiation, Scott covers the necessary basics to help inform the reader about what Witchcraft is all about. A recommended book for all beginners and practitioners' friends and family who need something to ease that pesky chest pain.

Everything you need to know is here! The Sabbats; Casting & Banishing the Magic Circle; The Complete Book of Shadows; The Great Rite; Initiation Rites; Consecration Rites; Spells; Witches' Tools; Witchcraft & Sex; Running a Coven; Clairvoyance; Astral Projection. This collection includes two books in one volume, Eight Sabbats for Witches and The Witches' Way and is the most comprehensive and revealing work on the principles, rituals and beliefs of modern witchcraft.

Written for serious practitioners, Marian Green's Witch Alone: Thirteen Moons to Master Natural Magic guides those who wish to learn the "old religion" without the aid of a coven. Densely written in a serious tone, Witch Alone is nonetheless an inspiring and poetic read. Exercises at the end of each chapter are designed to take a full 28 nights to accomplish, and are designed to progressively lead one down the path to success. Worshippers of the goddess and those interested in exploring the deeper aspects of their own souls will find this tome deeply informative, but for the neo-pagan committed to learning solitary witchcraft, Witch Alone is a must-read. --P. Randall Cohan

Like an earlier reviewer, this book was my introduction to Magick. And Like another earlier reviewer, if you buy this book, you will be replacing it in few years (from excessive use). I've heard a lot of criticism of Scott Cunningham's overall work as promoting a brand of "fluffy-bunny" wicca and such, however, this book, by far is his greatest contribution to magickal literature anywhere. It full of well researched folklore for literally hundreds of plants and herbs. It is an essential text for any of those "do-it-yourself" kinds of witches that love to create their own rituals and spells.

Amber K's True Magick is the book for anyone who is looking to start down their magickial journey. Her words are insightful and she does not fill the book with jargon which would make it incomprehensible, nor does she dumb it down to a thrid grade reading level. Unlike books by such authors like, Scott Cunningham, Amber K does not insult the reader by making everything seem rosy and simple, she simply tells it like it is, and that makes it a book that is not only for those beggining, but for those how are already well established in their Craft. It is a book that should be used in every coven and even in every religion because it is so universal that it appeals to the human spirit, no matter what any person might believe.