In alphabetical order, a list of authors on Witchcraft and Wicca that might be worth checking out.  This list was originally in my post on Samhain.

Anderson, Victor and Anderson, Cora

Robin Artison  – Witchcraft Folklorist

Andrew Chumbley – Cultus Sabbati

Robert Cochrane – Clan of Tubal Cain

Patricia Crowther

Sorita d’Este – Hekate devotee and author/publisher

Gerald Gardner – Gardnerian Wicca

Gemma Gary – Lives and works in the far west of Cornwall and writes about ‘Old Style” Witchcraft

Michael Howard – Traditional Witchcraft

Paul Huson – Wrote the seminal Mastering Witchcraft

Judika Illes – Element Encyclopaedia of Witchcraft

Nigel Jackson

Nigel Pearson – (links to Treading the Mill – Practical Craft Working in Modern Traditional Witchcraft)

Daniel Schulke (links to his book Viridarium Umbris) – wortcunning master

Starhawk – “a theorist of feminist Neopaganism and ecofeminism”

Doreen Valiente

 

For people wanting to start out, these could suffice:

Raymond Buckland (I got my start as a teen with his Complete Book of Witchcraft)

Scott Cunningham

Silver RavenWolfe (adding her here for her Solitary Witch book)