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)