[Note: titles marked with an asterisk* indicate books that are feminist but not Dianic, and include men and male deities]

Feminist Craft and Ritual:

*The Spiral Dance by Starhawk

Ariadne's Thread by Shekinah Mountainwater

Women's Rites, Women's Mysteries: Intuitive Ritual Creation by Ruth Barrett

The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries by Z. Budapest

Wild Witches Don't Get the Blues by ffiona Morgan

The Art of Ritual by Renee Beck & Sydney Barbara Metrick

*Wheel of the Year by Pauline Campenelli

*Ancient Ways by Pauline Campanelli

*Circle Round: Raising Children in Goddess Traditions by Starhawk, Diane Baker, Anne Hill

Jambalaya by Luisah Teish



Goddess Movement & Neopagan Thealogy & Thought:

Shakti Woman by Vicki Noble

*Dreaming the Dark by Starhawk (excellent book on feminist Neopagan worldview!)

*The Pagan Book of Living and Dying by Starhawk, M. Macha Nightmare

Goddesses in Every Woman by Jean Shinoda Bolen (Feminist Jungian ideas)

Pagan Meditations by Ginette Paris (Jungian musings on pagan deities)

* Pagan Grace by Ginette Paris (Jungian musings on pagan deities)

The Grandmother of Time by Z. Budapest

Grandmother Moon by Z. Budapest

The Crone by Barbara Walker

The Laughter of Aphrodite: A Journey to the Goddess by Carol P. Christ
(essays by a theologian who became pagan)

Rebirth of the Goddess: Finding Meaning in Feminist Spirituality by Carol P. Christ (a Goddess thealogy)

She Who Changes: Re-Imagining the Divine in the World by Carol P. Christ (Goddess & process theology)

Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism ed. Irene Diamond & Gloria Feman Orenstein

The Politics of Women's Spirituality ed. by Charlene Spretnak (excellent essays)

Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion ed. Carol P. Christ & Judith Plaskow

Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality ed. Judith Plaskow & Carol P. Christ

A Circle of Stones by Judith Durek (short "thought experiments" about women's lives)

Motherwit by Diane Mariechild

Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés (using folktales to empower women)

*Drawing Down the Moon by Margot Adler (early impotant study of Neopagans in the U.S.)


Goddess Information and Herstory:

The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler

When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone

Roles of the Northern Goddess by Hilda Ellis Davidson (Norse and Celtic cultures)

The Serpent and the Goddess: Women and Power in Ireland by Mary Condon (pagan Ireland to Christianity)

The Concept of the Goddess ed. Sandra Billington & Miranda Green

Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister: Religions Dominated by Women by Susan Starr Sered

Land of Women: Tales of Sex and Gender from Early Ireland by Lisa M. Bitel (analysis of women's roles in early Irish culture and stories)

The Festival of Brigit: Celtic Goddess and Holy Woman by Seamus O'Cathain (interesting info on folk customs about Brigit and Imbolc)

The Book of the Cailleach: Stories of the Wise-Woman Healer by Gearoid O'Crualaoich (analysis of Irish oral narratives about the Hag)

The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe by Marija Gimbutas (first work to detail her theory of Old Europe Civilization being matrifocal & peaceful, by an archaeologist)

The Hebrew Goddess by Raphael Patai (scholarly book re Goddess worship in Israel & traces of it in mystical Judaism)

Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood by Merlin Stone (a page or two on tons of goddesses)

Sarah the Priestess by Savina J. Teubal (What if Sarah in Bible was a priestess?)

Inanna by Dianne Wolkstein & Samuel Kramer (wonderful ancient hymns and texts)

Oya: In Praise of an African Goddess by Judith Gleeson

Women and Religion in the First Christian Centuries by Deborah F. Sawyer

Her Share of the Blessings: Women's Religions Among Pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Greco-Roman World by Ross Shephard Kraemer

The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets by Barbara Walker (not always considered accurate by scholars, but interesting)

The Great Cosmic Mother by Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor (very radical, not scholarly, but thought-provoking)

The White Goddess by Robert Graves (dense & his theories are not accepted by scholars, but very interesting)


Works by Current Scholars of the Goddess Movement:

Daughters of the Goddess ed. by Wendy Griffin (articles by scholars and practitioners; Dr. Griffin also has many good articles on the movement in sociology journals)

"Returning to the Mother of Us All: Goddess Spirituality in the West" by Wendy Griffin, in Through Her Eyes: Women's Perspectives on World Religions, ed by Arvind Sharma & Kathleen Young (Good article on our herstory and who we are)

Beautiful Necessity: The Art and Meaning of Women's Altars by Kay Turner (folklorist on women's altars)

Ritualizing Women: Patterns of Spirituality by Lesley A. Northrup

Enchanted Feminisims by Jone Salmonsen (religious studies scholar who studied Starhawk's Reclaiming group)

Embracing the Witch and the Goddess by Kathryn Rountree (studies the movement in New Zealand)

In the Lap of the Goddess by Cynthia Eller (has some flaws, but first scholarly book-length study of the Goddess movement)


Goddess-centered Periodicals:

The Beltane Papers

Sagewoman


Feminist Thought:

Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism by Mary Daly

The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements & Human Malaise by Dorothy Dinnerstein

Backlash by Susan Faludi

The War Against Women by Marilyn French

Woman and Nature; The Roaring Inside Her by Susan Griffin

Women Respond to the Men's Movement ed. by Kay Leigh Hagen

Fugitive Information: Essays from a Feminist Hothead by Kay Leigh Hagan

The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner

The Creation of Feminist Consciousness by Gerda Lerner

Sexual Politics by Kate Millet

Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism ed. by C. Mohanty, A. Russo, L. Torres

Sisterhood is Powerful ed. by Robin Morgan

Sisterhood is Global ed. by Robin Morgan

Revolution from Within by Gloria Steinem

Moving Beyond Words by Gloria Steinem

The Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women are not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex or the Opposite Sex by Carol Travis

The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf

Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier

Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed, ed. by Bell & Klein

Cunt: a Declaration of Independence by Inga Muscio

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf

*Refusing to Be a Man: Essays on Sex and Justice by John Stoltenberg

*The Horned God by John Rowan

*For Men Against Sexism ed. by John Snodgrass


Fiction:

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (re Morgan le Fay, King Arthur's sister; greatly influenced many Goddess women)

The Mammoth Hunters by Jean Auel (Stone Age Goddess worshipers)

The Flame Bearers by Kim Chernin (about a secret group of Goddess-worshiping women among Orthodox Jews)

The Moon Under Her Feet by Clysta Kinstler (speculations about Mary Magdalene, the Goddess, and Jesus)

Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins (has lots of stuff re ancient Goddess worship)

The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk

The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker

The Copper Crown by Patricia Kennealy (Celts in Space)
The Throne of Scone by Patricia Kennealy (more Celts in Space)

The Mabinogion Series by Evangeline Walton: (re-tellings of ancient Welsh legends, imagines a switch from matrinlineal to patrilineal cultures in ancient Briton)
Prince of Annwn
The Children of Llyr
The Song of Rhiannon
The Island of the Mighty

Sister Light, Sister Dark by Jane Yolen



These are just a few suggestions from books that I've read and enjoyed; there are many more, and more are being written every day!