The Satanic Temple Library - Primary Reading (43 books)

A suggested reading list for The Satanic Temple, a non-theistic religious organization with a mission to "encourage benevolence and empathy among all people, reject tyrannical authority, advocate practical common sense and justice, and be directed by the human conscience to undertake noble pursuits guided by the individual will."

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1	The Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,325 ratings score: 199, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Paradise Lost by John Milton 3.85 avg rating — 181,141 ratings score: 194, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Europe's Inner Demons: The Demonization of Christians in Medieval Christendom by Norman Cohn 4.05 avg rating — 299 ratings score: 178, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	The Devil and the Jews: the medieval conception of the Jew and its relation to modern anti-semitism by Joshua Trachtenberg 3.97 avg rating — 120 ratings score: 176, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	The Satanism Scare (Social Institutions and Social Change Series) by Joel Best (Goodreads Author) 3.50 avg rating — 32 ratings score: 174, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World by John Putnam Demos 3.55 avg rating — 365 ratings score: 172, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History by David Frankfurter 3.63 avg rating — 57 ratings score: 170, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt by Debbie Nathan (Goodreads Author) 3.90 avg rating — 287 ratings score: 168, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	The Happy Satanist: Finding Self-Empowerment by Lilith Starr (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 392 ratings score: 164, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America by Kevin M. Kruse 3.96 avg rating — 2,591 ratings score: 157, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Inventing a Christian America: The Myth of the Religious Founding by Steven K. Green 4.02 avg rating — 144 ratings score: 154, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby 4.06 avg rating — 4,583 ratings score: 154, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Speak of the Devil: How The Satanic Temple is Changing the Way We Talk about Religion by Joseph Laycock (Goodreads Author) 4.32 avg rating — 1,015 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 29,502 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Romantic Satanism: Myth and the Historical Moment in Blake, Shelley, and Byron by Peter A. Schock 4.12 avg rating — 26 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The Satanic Epic by Neil Forsyth 4.18 avg rating — 40 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The Little Book of Satanism: A Guide to Satanic History, Culture, and Wisdom by La Carmina (Goodreads Author) 4.31 avg rating — 390 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Compassionate Satanism: An Introduction to Modern Satanic Practice by Lilith Starr (Goodreads Author) 4.45 avg rating — 248 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake 4.19 avg rating — 11,633 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	America: A Prophecy by William Blake 3.65 avg rating — 103 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The Devil's Tome: A Book of Modern Satanic Ritual by Shiva Honey (Goodreads Author) 4.28 avg rating — 158 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Eloa, or the Sister of the Angels by Alfred de Vigny 4.47 avg rating — 45 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Modern Morals and Happiness by William Godwin 3.64 avg rating — 202 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Consuelo by George Sand 4.32 avg rating — 133 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Consuelo by George Sand 4.33 avg rating — 100 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Prometheus Unbound by Percy Bysshe Shelley 3.76 avg rating — 2,186 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Cain: A Mystery by Lord Byron 3.99 avg rating — 1,205 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Flowers of Evil: A Selection by Charles Baudelaire 4.14 avg rating — 1,464 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 4.28 avg rating — 414,989 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Speak of the Devil: an Anthology of Demonology by Sterling Boutell (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Là-Bas by Joris-Karl Huysmans 3.96 avg rating — 4,714 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	The Invention of Satanism by Asbjorn Dyrendal 3.95 avg rating — 73 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	The Devil's Party: Satanism in Modernity by Per Faxneld (Editor) 3.85 avg rating — 54 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Children of Lucifer: The Origins of Modern Religious Satanism by Ruben van Luijk 4.38 avg rating — 103 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Encyclopedic Sourcebook of Satanism by James R. Lewis Shewmaker & Shewmaker LLC 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV by Anne Somerset 3.69 avg rating — 781 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth by Neil Forsyth 4.13 avg rating — 46 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	The Devil: A New Biography by Philip C. Almond 3.46 avg rating — 175 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Here's to My Sweet Satan: How the Occult Haunted Music, Movies and Pop Culture, 1966-1980 by George Case (Goodreads Author) 3.42 avg rating — 158 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	The Last Illusion by Clive Barker (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 66 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind by George Makari 3.81 avg rating — 156 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Phantom Terror: Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789-1848 by Adam Zamoyski 3.76 avg rating — 357 ratings score: 66, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Fire and Light: How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World by James MacGregor Burns 3.68 avg rating — 253 ratings score: 65, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars