There are several sorts of Druidry out there. One type seek to reconstruct Iron Age Celtic religion or other Indo-European religions. This reading list is not about that type of Druidry.
This reading list is useful for those, who wish to seek inspiration from sources like: Nature, Neo-Pythagoreanism, Celtic myths, Celtic Christianity, chivalric romances of the middle ages, what Enlightenment Era and Victorian authors (erroneously) believed the ancient Druids did and taught, the 19th century Occult revival, and the modern environmental movement. The list does not at all claim to be exhaustive, but it may be somewhere to start.
To begin withP.B. Ellis:
The DruidsT.W. Rolleston:
Illustrated Guide to Celtic MythologyJohn Michael Greer:
The Druidry HandbookHistory: ModernRonald Hutton:
Blood and MistletoeThis study is very important for anyone who wish to put historical truth according to critical methods (which belongs in the class room and the study desk) in one pile, and creative myth-telling (which belongs beside camp fires) in another pile. They serve entirely different purposes. There didn't exist any Mount Haemus Grove in 1717.
Modern Druid spiritualityBrendan Cathbad-Myers:
Mysteries of DruidryJohn Michael Greer (ed.):
The Druid Revival ReaderEmma Restall-Orr:
Living DruidryGraeme Talboys:
Way of the DruidCeltic mythRachel Bromwich:
Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Triads of the Island of BritainKoch & Carey:
The Celtic Heroic AgeWhen it comes to
Mabinogion, a short collection of Welsh myths, fairy-tales and chivalric romances, there are several translations. The proper Mabinogion, strictly, only contain the so called
four branches (the tales about Pwyll, Branwen, Manawydan and Math), but it is customary to add several other mediaeval Welsh tales, the exact content never defined.
The most recent one is done by Sioned Davies (2007) in the series Oxford World's Classics. Gwyn and Thomas Jones' translation from 1949 contain valuable notes. The reader who wish to read the famous
Hanes Taliesin have to chose either the translation of Patrick K. Ford or the translation of Lady Charlotte Guest, since other translations doesn't contain that tale.
Arthurian literatureJon B. Coe & Simon Young:
The Celtic Sources for the Arthurian LegendGeoffrey of Monmouth:
The History of the Kings of BritainEugene Mason (ed. & tr.): The Arthurian Chronicles of Wace and Layamon (1970)
Chrétien de Troyes:
Arthurian RomancesRobert de Boron, Nigel Bryant (tr.):
Merlin and the GrailNigel Bryant (tr.):
The High Book of the Grail (1978)
Norris J. Lacy (ed.):
The Lancelot Grail: The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation; Vol. I-V (1993-1996)
Thomas Hahn (ed.):
Sir Gawain: Eleven Romances an Tales (1995)
Sir Thomas Malory:
Le Morte d'Arthur Vol I-IIRevival Druidry sourcesAlthough we now know that Iolo Morganwg was the
author, not the
finder, of certain alleged Welsh myths, some of these Enlightenment Era myths (and their 19th and 20th century expositors) have a literary and existential (but not historical) value of their own. For a century, several authors developed systems out of these younger myths. These systems does not describe historical facts, but they may be useful for persons of the present age who seek for a spirituality (Morien obviously influenced the Wiccan Gerald Gardner, for instance). For this, see:
William Stukeley:
Stonehenge, a temple restored to the British Druids (1740)
William Stukeley:
Abury, a temple of the British Druids (1743)
William Owen Pughe:
Heroic Elegies (1792)
Edward Williams (Iolo Morgnwg):
Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales I-III (1801-1807)
Edward Williams (Iolo Morgnwg):
Cyfrinach Beirdd Ynys Prydain (1829)
Edward Williams (Iolo Morgnwg):
Iolo Manuscripts (1848)
J. Williams ab Ithel (ed.):
Barddas (1874)
Edward Davies:
Celtic Researches (1804)
Edward Davies:
Mythology and Rites of the British Druids (1809)
Godfrey Higgins:
The Celtic Druids (1829)
D James:
The Patriarchal Religion of Britain or a Complete Manual of Ancient British Druidism (1836)
Owen Morgan (Morien Morganwg):
Mabin of the Mabinogion ()
Owen Morgan (Morien Morganwg):
Light of Britannia (1893)
Dudley Wright:
Druidism: The Ancient Faith of Britain (1924)
Lewis Spence:
Mysteries of Britain (1905)
Lewis Spence:
History and Origins of Druidism (1949)
Ross Nichols:
The Book of Druidry (1990)
MagicDion Fortune, Margaret Lumley Brown, Gareth Knight:
The Arthurian Formula (2006)
John Michael Greer:
The Druid Magic Handbook: Ritual Magic Rooted in the Living Earth (2007)
Gareth Knight:
The Secret Tradition in Arthurian Legend (1983)
For a taste of other, contrasting, styles of magic the following two are useful:
Henry Cornelius Agrippa, Donald Tyson:
Three Books of Occult PhilosophyPatrick Dunn:
Postmodern Magic (2005)
The following is a good special study on its subject:
Nick Farrell:
Magical Imagination: The Keys to MagicAnd for philosophy:
Ramsey Dukes:
SSOTBME Revised: An essay on Magic (2002; First edition 1975)