Novels
I am not including fantasy books or children's fantasy.
- The Magician by W Somerset Maugham: based on the real-life Aleister Crowley whom WSM met
- The Course of the Heart by M John Harrison: the consequences of dabbling in magic rituals
Biographies
- Sex and Rockets by John Carter: a biography of pioneering rocket scientist and ceremonial magician Jack Parsons
- Strange Angel by George Pendle: another biography of pioneering rocket scientist and ceremonial magician Jack Parsons
- Do What Thou Wilt by Lawrence Sutin: the biography of ceremonial magician Aleister Crowley
- Scotland's Merlin by Tim Clarkson: an investigation into a possible real-life prototype for the archetypal wizard.
- The Devil's Doctor by Philip Ball the biography of Paracelsus, renaissance proto-scientist, alchemist and magician
- Magus by Antony Grafton: biographies of various renaissance magicians/ natural philosophers/ alchemists including Nicholas of Cusa, Roger Bacon, Pico della Mirandeola, Johannes Trimethius and Agrippa
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