Psychedelic books have always constituted a large percentage of my reading time.
From my teenage days when I traveled far to the city in search of bookstores stocking anything to do with psychedelia to today where I can have my next book delivered to my ebook reader within seconds. Psychedelic literature of all forms has shaped my understanding of life and continues to inform my decisions.
So in an effort to collate all the psychedelic books I have read and would like to read I have put all the books in a long list of noteworthy titles.
That done, I was wondering if you guys have any others you would like to recommend ?
This list is a work in progress so please help me build up a solid collection of psychedelic books that we can share as a resource for people everywhere. I have included all kinds of trippy literature here from drugs, spiritualism, art, music and the science behind the psychedelic experience.
So if you have any of your own favorites to add please comment in the form below, send me an email or contact me via the Facebook link on the right-side of this blog.
Happy reading !
LSD My Problem Child - Albert Hofmann
Be Here Now - Ram Dass
Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story - Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin
LSD - Otto Snow
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
Sacred Mushroom of Visions - Ralph Metzner
Psychedelic Prayers: And Other Meditations - Timothy Leary
Your Brain Is God - Timothy Leary
High Priest - Timothy Leary
The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead - Timothy Leary
The Invisible Landscape - Terence McKenna, Dennis McKenna
Thr Archaic Revival - Terence McKenna
True Hallucinations - Terence McKenna
Food of the Gods - Terence McKenna
Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
The Doors Of Perception - Aldous Huxley
Advanced Techniques of Clandestine Psychedelic & Amphetamine Manufacture - Uncle Fester
Adventures Beyond the Body - William Buhlman
Animals and Psychedelics - Rob Montgomery , Giorgio Samorini
The Shaman & Ayahuasca - Don Jose Campos, Geraldine Overton, Alberto Roman, Charles Grob
Ayahuasca Visions - Pablo Amaringo, Luis Luna
Sacred Vine of Spirits : Ayahuasca - Ralph Metzner
The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge - Jeremy Narby
DMT: The Spirit Molecule - Rick Strassman
Shedding the Layers - Mark Flaherty
The Ayahuasca Diaries - Caspar Greeff
Fishers of Men - Adam Elenbaas
Heavenly Highs - Peter Stafford
Pineal Gland & Third Eye - Dr. Jill Ammon-Wexler
Supernatural - Graham Hancock
Inner Paths to Outer Space - Rick Strassman
The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide - James Fadiman
Tripping with Allah: Islam, Drugs, and Writing - Michael Muhammad Knight
Hallucinogens: A Reader - Charles S. Grob
The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia - Paul Devereux
One Pill Makes You Smaller - Lisa Dierbeck
The Chemistry of Mind-Altering Drugs - Daniel M. Perrine
Peyote and Other Psychoactive Cacti - Adam Gottlieb
Peyote : The Divine Cactus - Edward F. Anderson
The Hummingbird's Journey to God: Perspectives on San Pedro - Ross Heaven
Plant Spirit Shamanism - Ross Heaven, Howard G. Charing
Plants of the Gods - Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann, Christian Ratsch
Psilocybin Mushroom Handbook - L. G Nicholas, Kerry Ogame
Psychedelic Monographs & Essays - Thomas Lyttle
The Psychedelic Sacrament - Dan Merkur
Off the Wall: Psychedelic Rock Posters from San Francisco - Jean Pierre Criqui
Mushrooms and Mankind - James Arthur
The Psychedelic Future of the Mind - Thomas B. Roberts
The Psychedelic Renaissance - Dr Ben Sessa
The New Science of Psychedelics - David Jay Brown
Brotherhood of the screaming abyss - Dennis McKenna
Psychedelic Shamanism - Jim DeKorne
Psychedelic Trips for the Mind - Paul Krassner
Psychedelics Encyclopedia by Peter Stafford
Sacred Plant Medicine : The Wisdom in Native American Herbalism - Stephen Harrod Buhner
Soma : Divine Mushroom of Immortality - R. Gordon Wasson
Persephone's Quest - R. Gordon Wasson, Stella Kramrisch, Carl Ruck, Jonathan Ott
The Great Shark Hunt : Strange Tales from a Strange Time - Hunter S. Thompson
Sisters of the Extreme - Various
Cosmic Trigger I : Final Secret of the Illuminati - Robert Anton Wilson
What the Dormouse Said - John Markoff
The Road of Excess : A History of Writers on Drugs - Marcus Boon
The Joyous Cosmology : Adventures in the Chemistry of Conciousness - Alan Watts
The Road to Eleusis - R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann
Are You Experienced ? - Ken Johnson
The Secret Chief - Myron J. Stolaroff
The Natural Mind - Andrew T. Weil M.D.
Earth Ascending - Ph.D. Jose Arguelles
States of Consciousness - Charles Tart
The Private Sea : LSD & the Search for God - William Braden
Transfiguration - Alex Grey
Storming Heaven : LSD and the American Dream - Jay Stevens
The Teachings of Don Juan ( series ) - Carlos Castaneda
Psychedelic : Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960s - David Rubin
Tryptamine Palace : 5-MeO-DMT and the Sonoran Desert Toad - James Oroc
Electrical Banana : Masters of Psychedelic Art - Norman Hathaway, Daniel Nadel
The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes : The Art of Alan Aldridge - Alan Aldridge
Art of the Dead - Phil Cushway
High Art : A History of the Psychedelic Poster - Ted Owen
Sex, Rock 'n' Roll & Op. Illusions - Victor Moscoso
Visionary Plant Consciousness - J. P. Harpignies
Yellow Submarine.. the Beatles (hardcover) - Charlie Gardner
Hallucinogenic Plants (A Golden Guide) - Richard Evans Schultes, Elmer W. Smith
Ecstasy : The MDMA Story - Bruce Eisner, Peter Stafford, Stanley Krippner
Codex Seraphinianus - Luigi Serafini
Art Forms in Nature - Ernst Haeckel
Salvia Divinorum : Doorway to Thought Free Awareness - J. D. Arthur
Mushroom Wisdom : How Shamans Cultivate Spiritual Consciousness - Martin W. Ball
Ayahuasca in My Blood : 25 Years of Medicine Dreaming - Peter Gorman
Ayahuasca Reader - Luis Eduardo Luna, Steven F. White
Cleansing the Doors of Perception - Huston Smith
Sacred Mushrooms : Secrets of Eleusis - Carl A. P. Ruck
Etidorpha The End of Earth - John Uri Lloyd
Psychedelic Healing - Neal M. Goldsmith
Decoding Eternal Tales : Psychedelic Art of John Thompson - John Thompson
Global Tribe : Technology, Spirituality and Psytrance - Graham St. John
Orange Sunshine - Nicholas Schou
The Art of Peter Max - Charles A. Riley, Peter Max
Illuminatus - Robert Venosa
LSD Psychotherapy - Stanislav Grof
The Futurological Congress : From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy - Stanislaw Lem
Grudge Punk - John McNee
Vurt / Pollen - Jeff Noon
Visions of a Huichol Shaman - Peter T. Furst
The Shaman's Mirror : Visionary Art of the Huichol
Trout's Notes on San Pedro & Related Trichocereus Species - Keeper of the Trout
Left in the Dark - Tony Wright, Graham Gynn
Entangled - Graham Hancock
Enter Through the Image - L. Caruana
The Art of the Fillmore : 1966-1971 - Gayle Lemke, Bill Graham
Memoirs of an ExHippie : Seven Years in the Counterculture - Robert A. Roskind