[Mage: The Awakening 2nd Ed] Mage Reading List

Out of Character (OOC):

Chronicle: Mage 2: The Dethroned Queen
Venue: Mage: The Awakening 2nd Edition
Chronicle Storyteller: Jerad Sayler

Assistant Storytellers: Hannah Nyland & Alex Van Belkum

The Wardens from the Dresden Files

Mage: The Awakening 2nd Ed

Reading List

Original submissions by our great team of Storytellers: Jerad Sayler, Hannah Nyland and Korri Smith

Our great team of Storytellers put our heads together to try to make a solid list of all the books that inspire our Mage game within the Chronicles of Darkness (nWoD 2.0).  We purposefully did not include any Onyx Path or White Wolf books about mage or other venues and stuck with non-game related book content (the exception being Three Shades of Night.).  Enjoy!

Italicized text shows highly recommended books! 

Recommended listed first, otherwise in no particular order.

Nonfiction

• The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke
•  On Monsters: The Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears by Stephen T. Asma
• Forensic History: Crimes, Frauds, and Scandals by Elizabeth A. Murray
• Writing Great Fiction: Storytelling Tips and Techniques by James Hynes
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
• The Anatomy of Evil by Michael H. Stone
• The Art of Storytelling by Hannah B. Harvey
• The Secrets of Story by Matt Bird
• How Great Science Fiction Works by The Great Courses
• Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature by Pamela Bedore
• Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
• Unruly Places by Alastair Bonnett
• Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information by Erik Davis
• Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica by Erik Davis
• Redefining Reality by Steven Gimbel
• Utopia and Terror in the 20th Century by The Great Courses

Skitter from Worm

Fiction

• Worm by Wildbow (John C. McCrae)
• Pact by Wildbow (John C. McCrae)
• The Devil's Apocrypha by John DeVito
• The Dresden Files books and graphic novels by Jim Butcher
• The Marla Mason series by T. A. Pratt
• The Laundry Files by Charles Stross
• Alex Verus series by Benedict Jacka
• Sparrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire
• The Checquy Files by Daniel O'Malley
• The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
• The Miriam Black series by Chuck Wendig
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• The Books of Magic by Neil Gaiman
• The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
• The Wicked + The Divine graphic novels by Kieron Gillen
• Lost Legacy by Robert A. Heinlein
• Kill Six Billion Demons by Tom Parkinson-Morgan
• Dear Sweet Filthy World by Caitlin R. Kiernan
• After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones
• The Craft Sequence series by Max Gladstone
• Lucifer graphic novels by Mike Carey
• The Alastair Stone chronicles by R. L. King
• Grimnoir Chronicles by Larry Correia
• World of Darkness: Three Shades Of Night by Janet Trautvetter
• The Rivers of London series (aka Peter Grant novels) by Ben Aaronovitch
• Hellblazer Graphic Novels (Constantine) by Jamie Delano
• The Dark Tower series by Stephen King
• Carrie by Stephen King
• Firestarter by Stephen King
• The Bill Hodges Trilogy by Stephen King
• The Shining & Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
• Desperation by Stephen King
• The Talisman & The Black House by Stephen King
• John Dies at the End series by David Wong
• Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
• Neuromancer by William Gibson
• Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
• The Shadow Police series by Paul Cornell
• We Live Inside You by Jeremy Robert Johnson
• Shadows Over Main Street by Doug Murano
• Apotheosis by Jason Andrew
• Slade House by David Mitchell
• The Club Dumas Arturo Perez-Reverte
• The Arc of a Scythe series by Neal Shusterman
• Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
• Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace
• Pretty Deadly graphic novels by Kelly Sue DeConnick\
• Stand Still, Stay Silent by Minna Sundberg
• Brimstone by Cherie Priest
• Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw
• Child of Fire by Harry Connolly
• The Cthulhu Wars: The US's Battles Against the Mythos by Kenneth Hite, Kennon Bauman
• The Dragon Knight Series by Gordon R. Dickson 
• The Deathgate Cycle by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman

Do you like our list?  Was there any we missed?  Which do you agree with?  Which do you not agree with?  Your feedback is appreciated and we can update this list as we go!   We are always up for additions!