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New to the genre? These 5 are the books to read first.
Seventy-eight degrees of wisdom
Rachel PollackA card-by-card guide that treats each card through its imagery and a personal, mythic reading; widely used by modern students of tarot.
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot
Arthur Edward WaiteThe guide to the Rider-Waite deck, whose pictorial scheme most later tarot decks follow; it is the reference point for much later writing.
Mastering The Tarot
Eden GrayA practical reading manual with card meanings and spreads, popular with beginners in the late 20th century.
The Tarot
Robert PlacePlaces the cards in their historical and cultural settings, including their Renaissance card-game origins and their esoteric reinterpretation.
The game of tarot
Michael DummettA scholarly history of the tarot as a card game and its spread across Europe, separating documented history from occult claims.
Chosen and described with AI from our notes on the genre.
More tarot books
- The book of Thoth
The book of ThothAleister Crowley - The Tarot of the Bohemians
The Tarot of the BohemiansGérard Encausse - Stephen King's Danse Macabre
Stephen King's Danse MacabreStephen King1980 - The astrological tarot
The astrological tarotGeorges Muchery1989 - The Tarot Revealed
The Tarot RevealedEden Gray1960 - Jung and Tarot
Jung and TarotSallie Nichols1980 - The tarot handbook
The tarot handbookAngeles Arrien1987 - Tarot
TarotEileen Connolly1979 - The language of letting go
The language of letting goMelody Beattie1990 - The encyclopedia of tarot
The encyclopedia of tarotStuart R. Kaplan1977 - Tarot for your self
Tarot for your selfMary K. Greer1984 - Universe Has Your Back
Universe Has Your BackGabrielle Bernstein2016