Grave Moss & Stars

My Kemetic Booklist

I hoard books like dragons hoard gold and crazy people hoard cats. (…so what if I have four cats?) I own all of the physical and digital books listed here, but I will not claim to have read them all! I also intend to acquire most of the books listed here as I’m able.

A † next to any book below means it’s available for free and legal download; check my resources page for the link! An asterisk (*) next to a book below means I do not necessarily recommend it; take it with a grain of salt.

Physical Books

  • Ancient Egyptian Literature, Vols 1-3 (Miriam Lichtheim)
  • Bast and Sekhmet: Eyes of Ra (Storm Constantine, Elise Coquio)
  • Book of the Sphinx (Willis Regier)
  • Common Birds of Egypt (Bertel Bruun)
  • Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many (Erik Hornung)
  • Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods (Dimitri Meeks)
  • Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt (Geraldine Pinch)
  • Eternal Egypt: Ancient Rituals for the Modern World (Richard Reidy)
  • Handbook to Life in Ancient Egypt (Rosalie David)
  • Hathor Rising: The Power of the Goddess in Ancient Egypt (Alison Roberts)
  • Heart of the Sun: An Anthology in Exaltation of Sekhmet (Candace Kant, Anne Key)
  • How To Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs (Mark Collier, Bill Manly)
  • Magic in Ancient Egypt (Geraldine Pinch)
  • Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs (James Allen)
  • Nebt-het: Lady of the House (Tamara Siuda)
  • *Pathworking with the Egyptian Gods (Judith Page, Jan Malique)
  • Sekhmet: When The Lion Roars (Galina Krasskova)
  • Selections from the Husia: Sacred Wisdom of Ancient Egypt (Maulana Karenga) [currently loaned out]
  • *Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts: The Mystical Tradition of Ancient Egypt (Jeremy Naydler)
  • Symbol & Magic in Ancient Egyptian Art (Richard Wilkinson)
  • The 42 Purifications (Tamara Siuda)
  • The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife (Erik Hornung)
  • The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts (Raymond Faulkner)
  • The Ancient Egyptian Prayerbook (Tamara Siuda)
  • The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt (Richard Wilkinson)
  • The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day (Raymond Faulkner)
  • The Egyptian God Tutu: A Study of the Sphinx-God and Master of Demons with a Corpus of Monuments (Olaf Kaper)
  • *The Goddess Sekhmet: Psycho-Spiritual Exercises of the Fifth Way (Robert Masters)
  • The Great Goddesses of Egypt (Barbara S. Lesko)
  • *The Inner Guide to Egypt: A Mystical Journey Through Time & Consciousness (Alan Richardson, B. Walker-John)
  • † The Mechanics of Ancient Egyptian Magical Practice (Robert Ritner)
  • The Sacred Magic of Ancient Egypt (Rosemary Clark)
  • The Serpent Myths of Ancient Egypt (William Cooper)
  • Understanding Hieroglyphs (Hilary Wilson)
  • Women in Ancient Egypt (Gay Robins)

Kindle Books

  • An Account of Egypt (Herodotus)
  • Egyptian Tales: The Complete Collection (W. Petrie)
  • Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt (Barbara Mertz)
  • The Routledge Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses (George Hart)

PDFs

  • A Handbook of Egyptian Religion (Adolf Erman)
  • Akhenaten: The Heretic King (Donald Redford)
  • Ancient Egyptian Boats (Dilwyn Jones)
  • † Between Heaven and Earth: Birds in Ancient Egypt (Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer)
  • Brick Architecture in Ancient Egypt (AJ Spencer)
  • Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum: Axes (W. Davies)
  • Chronicle of the Pharaohs: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers and Dynasties of Ancient Egypt (Thames, Hudson)
  • Composite Bows from the Tomb of Tut.ankam.um (Wallace McLeod)
  • Dictionary of Ancient Egypt (Ian Shaw, Paul Nicholson)
  • Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant: Interconnections in the Second Millenium BC (W. Davies, Louise Schofield)
  • Egyptian Medicine (Carole Reeves)
  • Egyptian Metalworking and Tools (Bernd Scheel)
  • Egyptian Models and Scenes (Angela Tooley)
  • Egyptian Mythology A to Z (Pat Remler)
  • Egyptian Towns and Cities (Eric Uphill)
  • Egyptian Warfare and Weapons (Ian Shaw)
  • Egyptian Woodworking and Furniture (Geoffrey Killen)
  • Historical Dictionary of Ancient Egyptian Warfare (Robert Morkot)
  • Legends of Ancient Egypt: Stories of Egyptian Gods and Heroes (F. Brooksbank)
  • Life History Notes on Some Egyptian Solitary Wasps and Bees and Their Associates (Karl Krombein)
  • Living in Ancient Egypt (Norman Hunt)
  • Luxor: A Guide to Ancient Thebes (Jill Kamil)
  • Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt (Gaston Maspero)
  • *Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt (John West)
  • Seth, God of Confusion (H. Te Velde)
  • Swifter Than The Arrow: The Golden Hunting Hounds of Ancient Egypt (Michael Rice)
  • The Complete Pyramids: Solving the Ancient Mysteries (Mark Lehner)
  • The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt (Richard Wilkinson)
  • The Complete Valley of the Kings: Tombs and Treasures of Egypt’s Greatest Pharaohs (Nicholas Reeves, Richard Wilkinson)
  • The Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden (Griffith)
  • The Greenhaven Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (Patricia Netzley)
  • The Kadesh Inscriptions of Ramesses II (Alan Gardiner)
  • † The Life of Meresamun: A Temple Singer in Ancient Egypt (Emily Teeter, Janet Johnson)
  • The Mind of Egypt: History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohs (Jan Assmann)
  • † The Organization of the Pyramid Texts (Harold Hays)
  • The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt (Bill Manley)
  • † The Presentation of Maat: Ritual and Legitimacy in Ancient Egypt (Emily Teeter)
  • The Spirit of Ancient Egypt (Ana Ruiz)
  • Thoth, The Hermes of Egypt (Patrick Boylan)
  • Tutankhamun’s Armies: Battle and Conquest During Ancient Egypt’s Late 18th Dynasty (John Darnell, Colleen Manassa)
  • Queens of Egypt: From Early Dynastic Times to the Death of Cleopatra (Thames, Hudson)
  • War in Ancient Egypt (Anthony Spalinger)
  • Who’s Who in Ancient Egypt (Michael Rice)