8 Top nonfiction books like The Great Beast: The Life and Magick of Aleister Crowley by John Symonds

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The Great Beast: The Life and Magick of Aleister Crowley

By: John Symonds

3.74

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

La Gran Bestia. Vida de Aleister Crowley es la biografía más completa de quien, posiblemente, fue e…

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Cover of The Necronomicon by Peter Levenda, Simon, Abdul Alhazred

1. The Necronomicon

By: Peter Levenda , Simon , Abdul Alhazred

3.20

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Simon Necronomicon is a purported grimoire written by an unknown author, with an introduction b… read more

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  • occult
  • esoterica
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2. The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, #4)

By: Anne Rice

3.75

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

In a gripping feat of storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that b… read more

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"The Vampire Lestat here."

-Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, #4)

"God is love. But I'm not sure God is absolutely brilliant."

-Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, #4)

"One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world."

-Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, #4)

"What in hell was mortality? Shitting, pissing, eating, and then the same cycle all over again!"

-Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, #4)

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3. Sexual Outlaw, Erotic Mystic: The Essential Ida Craddock

By: None , Mary K. Greer , Vere Chappell

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Sex, Magick, Aleister Crowley, Orgasms, Erotic Dances, Angelic Beings, Revolutionary Activism, Libe… read more

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  • occult
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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4. Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

By: William Walker Atkinson , Three Initiates , Tre Iniziati

4.25

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

The precepts of Hermetic philosophy remained shrouded in secrecy for more than 2,000 years, clouded… read more

Similar categories in William Walker Atkinson's Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece book and John Symonds's The Great Beast: The Life and Magick of Aleister Crowley

  • occult
  • esoterica
  • nonfiction
  • history
"The lips of Wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding."

-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

"He who grasps the truth of the Mental Nature of the Universe is well advanced on The Path to Mastery."

-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

"Nothing stands still - everything is being born, growing, dying - the very instant a thing reaches its height, it begins to decline - the law of rhythm is in constant operations...."

-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

"Everything flows out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right, is the measure of the swing to the …"

-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

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5. Les Fleurs du Mal

By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more

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"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"I am the vampire at my own veins."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

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6. The Club Dumas

By: Arturo Pérez-Reverte , Sonia Soto

0.00

Format: 798 pages, Paperback

A provocative literary thriller that playfully pays tribute to classic tales of mystery and adventu… read more

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7. The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

By: Neil Strauss , Marilyn Manson

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

The 150,000-copy national bestselling autobiography of Marilyn Manson, America's most controversial… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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8. Ten Days in a Mad-House

By: Nellie Bly

3.70

Format: 186 pages,

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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9. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

By: Anne Brontë , Stevie Davies

3.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

Note: Editions of The Tenant that start with: "You must go back with me..." are incomplete. Actual … read more

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10. Utilitarianism

By: John Stuart Mill , George Sher

4.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

This expanded edition of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianismincludes the text of his 1868 speech to t… read more

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  • nonfiction

11. La casa y el cerebro

By: Edward Bulwer-Lytton , Arturo Agüero Herranz

4.48

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

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12. Many Dimensions

By: Charles Williams

4.06

Format: None pages,

...One of the most gifted and influential Christian writers England has produced this century.- Tim… read more

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13. The Book of the Law

By: Aleister Crowley , None

3.80

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." This oft-misunderstood phrase, which forms the b… read more

Similar categories in Aleister Crowley's The Book of the Law book and John Symonds's The Great Beast: The Life and Magick of Aleister Crowley

  • thelema
  • nonfiction
  • esoterica
  • occult
"Love is the law, love under will."

-Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law

"Every man and every woman is a star."

-Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law

"There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt."

-Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law."

-Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law

14. Carnacki, the Ghost Finder

By: William Hope Hodgson

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder is a collection of supernatural detective short stories by author Willia… read more

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15. The Monk

By: None

4.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, this is a violent tale of ambition, murde… read more

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16. The Bhagavad Gita

By: Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa , Juan Mascaró , None

4.20

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

The Bhagavad Gitais an intensely spiritual work that forms the cornerstone of the Hindu faith, and … read more

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17. Our Share of Night

By: Mariana Enríquez

4.28

Format: 588 pages, Hardcover

A woman’s mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family. … read more

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"Los fantasmas son reales. Y no siempre vienen los que uno llama."

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

"They sought me out, here I am. I don’t know how to let go of the dead."

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

"Nothing can hurt you now, how long was now, how long did the present last?"

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

"Detestaba cuando la gente se reía de esas fiestas donde la gente trataba de ser feliz."

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

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18. The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

By: Mariana Enríquez

3.81

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the "propulsive and mesmerizing" (New York Times Book Review) Things We Lost in the Fire … read more

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"A friend of ours was arrested because he painted a slogan that said, 'Tourists, you're the terrorists."

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

"Ahora tampoco se puede fumar en los bares. Sí, ya sé que eso pasa en todo el mundo, pero un bar no es un lugar sano, santa Madre de Dios. Es para conspirar, para relajarse, para ponerse en pedo."

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

"esa edad suena música en la cabeza, todo el tiempo, como si transmitiera una radio en la nuca, bajo el cráneo. Esa música un día empieza a bajar de volumen o sencillamente se detiene. Cuando eso pasa…"

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

"Julieta finì di bere il caffè e abbassò la voce. «Non bisogna fare figli a Barcellona. Hai sentito quello che ci ha raccontato Manuel ieri sera? Qui non bisogna fare figli.» «Che cosa?» «Dammi retta.…"

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

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19. Introducing Jung: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides)

By: Maggie Hyde

3.70

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

'Clever and witty.' Susie Orbach, Guardian Carl Gustav Jung was the enigmatic and controversial fat… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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20. The Great Beast: The Life and Magick of Aleister Crowley

By: John Symonds

3.74

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

La Gran Bestia. Vida de Aleister Crowley es la biografía más completa de quien, posiblemente, fue e… read more

Similar categories in John Symonds's The Great Beast: The Life and Magick of Aleister Crowley book and John Symonds's The Great Beast: The Life and Magick of Aleister Crowley

  • thelema
  • history
  • biography
  • esoterica
  • occult
  • nonfiction
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21. War in Heaven

By: Charles Williams

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found: here A battle over the most sacred object in Chri… read more

Similar categories in Charles Williams's War in Heaven book and John Symonds's The Great Beast: The Life and Magick of Aleister Crowley

"The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"[...] the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the thing beneath the Graal was not fighting but vomiting."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

5 Top history books like The Great Beast: The Life and Magick of Aleister Crowley by John Symonds

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4.37

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Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

William Walker Atkinson , Three Initiates , Tre Iniziati

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Ten Days in a Mad-House

Nellie Bly

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Introducing Jung: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides)

Maggie Hyde

3.70

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21 Best fiction books like The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez

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Fever Dream

Samanta Schweblin , Megan McDowell , Ruth Sepp

3.72

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I Who Have Never Known Men

Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

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Bad Girls

Camila Sosa Villada

4.43

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Tender Is the Flesh

Agustina Bazterrica

3.79

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