turns out when you wanna write a book, you have to read a lot of books first. wild.
(some of these i've already read, some are on my tbr, some are on my wishlist...)
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last updated August, 2026
Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women
Hetta Howes
The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability
Annette Kehnel
Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic
Tabitha Stanmore
The Black Pullet: Science of Magical Talisman
Anonymous
The Fated Sky: Astrology in History
Benson Bobrick
Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters
Sacha Coward
Magic: A History: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present
Chris Gosden
Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages (Wellcome Collection)
Jack Hartnell
Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe: An Investigation
Ronald Hutton
The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies (New York Review Books Classics)
Robert Kirk
Weird Woods: Tales From the Haunted Forests of Britain
John Miller
Paradise Lost
John Milton
Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland
Steve Roud
The Wisdom of the Beguines: The Forgotten Story of a Medieval Women’s Movement
Laura Swan
The Jinn, Magic and the Evil-Eye
Abdullah Al-Tayyar
The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary
Hana Videen
Dragons, Heroes, Myths & Magic: The Medieval Art of Storytelling
Chantry Westwell
Ways of Curating
Hans Ulrich Obrist
Going to Church in Medieval England
Nicholas Orme
How to Read Churches: A Crash Course in Ecclesiastical Architecture
Denis R. McNamara
Fairies: A Dangerous History
Richard Sugg
Horns of Honor: Regaining the Spirit of the Pagan Horned God
Frederick Thomas Elworthy
The Book of Magic: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment (A Penguin Classics Hardcover)
Brian P. Copenhaver
A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Book of English Magic: A History
Philip Carr-Gomm
The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
Seb Falk
The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe
Matthew Gabriele
The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games (Postmillennial Pop, 13)
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
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