8 must-read magic books like The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present by Chris Gosden

Cover of The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present by Chris Gosden

The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present

By: Chris Gosden

3.64

Format: 492 pages, Kindle Edition

Three great strands of practice and belief run through human history: science, religion and magic. …

If you liked the magic plot in The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present by Chris Gosden , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art

By: Leonora Carrington , Susan L. Aberth

4.37

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

This is the first book to survey the life and work of Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington (born 19… read more

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  • occult
  • nonfiction
"If you are in a condition of inferiority, I think it affects you very much creatively. You have incredible visions but you might be too bashful to show them. Your creativity becomes inhibited. I've a…"

-Leonora Carrington, Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art

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2. Three Books of Occult Philosophy

By: Cornelius Agrippa , Donald Tyson

4.11

Format: 1024 pages, Paperback

Now you can learn from the original, most important source for magic in the Western world that has … read more

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  • history
  • magic
  • occult
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • witchcraft
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3. Là-Bas

By: Joris-Karl Huysmans , None

3.73

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

At the novel's center is Durtal, a writer obsessed with the life of one of the blackest figures in … read more

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4. The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present

By: Ronald Hutton

3.62

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context… read more

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  • history
  • magic
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • witchcraft
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5. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: How Churchill's Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Ops

By: Damien Lewis

3.79

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

When France fell to the Nazis in the winter of 1939, Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared that… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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6. The Ancient Celts

By: None

4.00

Format: 10 pages, Paperback

The archetypal `barbarians from the north', the Celts were feared for their ferocity in battle and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
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7. The Occult

By: Colin Wilson

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

Topics include Aleister Crowley, G.I. Gurdjieff, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Kabbalah, primitive mag… read more

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  • occult
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history

8. Arctic Dreams

By: Barry Lopez

4.13

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Barry Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his m… read more

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9. Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene

By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing , None , None , None

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on … read more

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10. American Witches: A Broomstick Tour Through Four Centuries

By: Susan Fair

3.95

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

Throughout history, the specter of witchcraft has both mesmerized and terrified us. But witches are… read more

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11. Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence

By: Timothy Morton

4.00

Format: 302 pages,

Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a… read more

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12. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

By: M.R. James , James McBride , E.F. Bleiler

4.34

Format: 413 pages, Paperback

Eight classics by great Edwardian scholar and storyteller. "Number Thirteen," "The Mezzotint," "Can… read more

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13. Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

By: Jenni Nuttall

3.82

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

An enlightening linguistic journey through a thousand years of feminist language--and what we can l… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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14. Turning Points in Medieval History

By: Dorsey Armstrong

4.25

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

For an accurate picture of how the political, social, and religious structure of present-day Europe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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15. Early Humans: Ice, Stone, and Survival

By: Suzanne Pilaar Birch

3.89

Format: None pages, Audiobook

None read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • anthropology
  • nonfiction
  • science
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16. Circles of Stone: Weird Tales of Pagan Sites and Ancient Rites

By: Katy Soar

4.08

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

In the wood the grey stone rose from the grass, and she cried out and ran back in panicked terror. … read more

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  • occult
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17. Entering Hekate's Garden: The Magick, Medicine & Mystery of Plant Spirit Witchcraft

By: Cyndi Brannen

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A guide to plant spirit ritual and witchcraft, with practical instruction on the use of botanicals … read more

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  • audiobook
  • magic
  • occult
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • witchcraft
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18. The Rest is History: The Official Book from the Makers of the Hit Podcast

By: Tom Holland

3.85

Format: 522 pages, Kindle Edition

Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys... there's a new history book in town. Fro… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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19. Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

By: Marion Gibson

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, vivid global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told t… read more

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  • history
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • witchcraft
  • audiobook
"James looks like he's waiting to mug old ladies, which of course is one way of looking at a witch trial."

-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

"Witch trials were not just misogynist festivals of torture and hatred; they also directly facilitated the building of empire."

-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

"As with later witch trials, like the ones in Salem, flexing normal court processes in response to a powerful authority can lead to mass injustice..."

-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

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20. Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings

By: Thomas Williams

3.75

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Viking Britain, a new epic history of our forgotten past. As Tolk… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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21. The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present

By: Chris Gosden

3.64

Format: 492 pages, Kindle Edition

Three great strands of practice and belief run through human history: science, religion and magic. … read more

Similar categories in Chris Gosden's The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present book and Chris Gosden's The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present

  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • magic
  • occult
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • witchcraft
  • anthropology
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22. Initiated: Memoir of a Witch

By: Amanda Yates Garcia

4.00

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes meets Women Who Run With The Wolves in this "gorgeously written, fierce, po… read more

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  • witchcraft
  • nonfiction
  • magic
  • spirituality
"I recommend no one ever say, “I will do X, or die trying."

-Amanda Yates Garcia, Initiated: Memoir of a Witch

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23. Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain

By: Amy Jeffs

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland is a new illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its wilde… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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24. Beyond the North Wind: The Fall and Rise of the Mystic North

By: Christopher McIntosh

3.18

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

"The North" is simultaneously a location, a direction, and a mystical concept. Although this concep… read more

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  • history
  • magic
  • occult
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. Cunning Words: a Grimoire of Tales and Magic

By: Marshall W.S.L.

4.68

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

Cunning Words: a Grimoire of Tales and Magic is a book of witchcraft in three parts. Part I is a co… read more

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  • spirituality
  • witchcraft
Cover of Uproar!: Satire, Scandal & Printmakers in Georgian London by Alice Loxton

26. Uproar!: Satire, Scandal & Printmakers in Georgian London

By: Alice Loxton

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

London, 1772: a young artist called Thomas Rowlandson is making his way through the grimy backstree… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of American Brujeria: Modern Mexican American Folk Magic by J. Allen Cross

27. American Brujeria: Modern Mexican American Folk Magic

By: J. Allen Cross

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A practical, hands-on guide to Mexican-American folk magic.   American Brujeria  is about the fasci… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • occult
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • witchcraft
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28. A History of Magic, Witchcraft, and the Occult (DK A History of)

By: D.K. Publishing

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A lavishly illustrated history of witchcraft, magic, and the occult, from Paleolithic cave rituals … read more

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  • history
  • magic
  • occult
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • witchcraft
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29. Strange Folk

By: Alli Dyer

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A woman returns to her estranged, magical family in Appalachia but when a man is found dead in the … read more

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  • magic
"Mugwort. Dangerous for pregnant women. Good for bad dreams and insomnia, digestion, irregular periods, bad liver."

-Alli Dyer, Strange Folk

"The greatest heroines all go through trying times. Those are the moments we see what they are truly made of. It is how we know they are great."

-Alli Dyer, Strange Folk

"She now recognized that like most mountain folk, she possessed a vein of fierce, magical energy inside her that could take many forms--- rage, or a stubborn intelligence, or a thick gray melancholy. …"

-Alli Dyer, Strange Folk

"The nurse looked around at the jars of water in the corner, the dirt scattered on the floor, the iron and dogwood bark that Luann had brought from the cabin crowding the nightstand. She stared at the…"

-Alli Dyer, Strange Folk

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30. Cat + Gamer Volume 5

By: Wataru Nadatani

4.46

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Office worker Riko Kozakura supports her entire band of adventurers—including the two cats she coha… read more

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12 Top audiobook books like The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present by Chris Gosden

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Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

Jenni Nuttall

3.82

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Turning Points in Medieval History

Dorsey Armstrong

4.25

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Early Humans: Ice, Stone, and Survival

Suzanne Pilaar Birch

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Entering Hekate's Garden: The Magick, Medicine & Mystery of Plant Spirit Witchcraft

Cyndi Brannen

4.01

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The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Amanda Montell

3.54

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Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

Natalie Haynes

4.05

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A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

Emma Southon

4.23

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Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

Lisa Kaltenegger

4.08

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