6 must-read history books like The English Heretic Collection: Ritual Histories, Magickal Geography by Andy Sharp

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The English Heretic Collection: Ritual Histories, Magickal Geography

By: Andy Sharp

3.92

Format: 427 pages, Paperback

Andy Sharp delivers a visionary field report based on fifteen years of deep vein creative research …

If you liked the history plot in The English Heretic Collection: Ritual Histories, Magickal Geography by Andy Sharp , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Nightmare in Pink (Travis McGee, #2)

By: John D. MacDonald

3.91

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Travis McGee’s permanent address is the Busted Flush, Slip F-18, Bahia Mar, Lauderdale, and there i… read more

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2. Ice

By: Anna Kavan

3.67

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

In this haunting and surreal novel, the narrator and a man known as the warden search for an elusiv… read more

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  • literature
"Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

"I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

"What I saw had no solidity, it was all made of mist and nylon, with nothing behind."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

"I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

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3. Less Than Angels

By: Barbara Pym

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

It is surely appropriate that anthropologists, who spend their time studying life and behavior in v… read more

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"Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink."

-Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels

"What was the point of living in a suburb if one couldn’t show a healthy curiosity about one’s neighbours?"

-Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels

"Not that the making of tea can ever really be regarded as a petty or trivial matter and Miss Clovis did seem to have been seriously at fault."

-Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels

"Like so many men, he needed a woman stronger than himself, for behind the harsh cragginess of the Easter Island façade cowered the small boy, uncertain of himself."

-Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels

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4. England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground

By: David Keenan

3.61

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Based on several years' worth of exclusive interviews and unprecedented access to all three bands' … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • history
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5. Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

By: Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Two terrifying classics by "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction" (TheWashington Pos… read more

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  • horror
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6. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

By: Peter Watts

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more

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  • horror
"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"

-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

7. The Word for World is Forest

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.36

Format: 189 pages, ebook

Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahit… read more

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8. Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs

By: Mark Pilkington

3.27

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

This title is based on interviews with intelligence agents, scientists, psychics and UFO hunters wh… read more

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9. This Is Memorial Device

By: David Keenan

3.64

Format: 211 pages, Paperback

This Is Memorial Device, the debut novel by David Keenan, is a love letter to the small towns of La… read more

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10. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

By: Olivia Laing

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"

-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

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11. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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12. Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls

By: Kathleen Hale

3.94

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

The first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true crime narrative of mental illness, the Am… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • horror
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13. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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14. Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present

By: J.R. Moores

3.92

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From Black Sabbath to Big Black, a ride through the evolution, diversity, and influence of genre-de… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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15. K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher

By: Mark Fisher

4.30

Format: 821 pages, Kindle Edition

A comprehensive collection of the writings of Mark Fisher (1968-2017), whose work defined critical … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • film
"Assimilation is sometimes the most effective kind of assassination."

-Mark Fisher, K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher

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16. Everything Keeps Dissolving: Conversations with Coil

By: Nick Soulsby

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Core members of the legendary British experimental band Coil tell its story in the present-tense, a… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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17. Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure

By: Adelle Stripe

4.40

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOO… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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18. Industry of Magic & Light

By: David Keenan

4.11

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Industry of Magic & Light is a love letter to the counterculture of the 1960s and a requiem for its… read more

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Cover of The English Heretic Collection: Ritual Histories, Magickal Geography by Andy Sharp

19. The English Heretic Collection: Ritual Histories, Magickal Geography

By: Andy Sharp

3.92

Format: 427 pages, Paperback

Andy Sharp delivers a visionary field report based on fifteen years of deep vein creative research … read more

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  • music
  • history
  • film
  • literature
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • horror
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20. Obsolete Spells: Poems & Prose from Victor Neuburg & the Vine Press

By: Justin Hopper

3.36

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A collection of rare pagan poetry and purple prose from the heart of the 1920s counterculture. V… read more

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21. High John the Conqueror

By: Tariq Goddard

2.96

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

When children start going missing in a rural town, the investigation takes twists and turns into th… read more

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  • horror

10 Top nonfiction books like The English Heretic Collection: Ritual Histories, Magickal Geography by Andy Sharp

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England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground

David Keenan

3.61

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Olivia Laing

4.07

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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls

Kathleen Hale

3.94

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Transform Your Habits

Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Fredric Jameson , Stanley Fish , Stefano Velotti

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Society of the Spectacle

Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

David Graeber

3.61

Transform Your Habits

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Slavoj Žižek , Ernesto Laclau

3.50

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