Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride by Marion Woodman Published: 1982 Tori said: “We’re taught how to balance our checking accounts but not how to scream at the teller. This teaches us how to handle our emotions.” [Seventeen - November 1999] Tori also said: “There are books out there that I recommend for people that want to go into the psyche. Anything by Marion Woodman, powerful stuff.” [AOL chat - September 29, 1999]
	Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
	American Gods by Neil Gaiman Published: 2001 Tori said: “Neil Gaiman is one of my favorite writers and has been a huge influence in my life. His book American Gods is right on the money as far as I’m concerened. Gods from other cultures that were brought over by the settlers and then abandoned and ended up as morticians somewhere, or gas station attendants (laughs).” [Performing Songwriter - January 2002]
	Animal-Speak: The Spiritual & Magicial Powers of Creatures Great & Small by Ted Andrews Published: 1993 Tori said: “I'm currently reading Animal-Speak: The Spiritual & Magicial Powers of Creatures Great & Small by Ted Andrews. I got this book when I was in South Dakota, and it's very popular with the Native American community. Whichever page you turn to, there's help and inspiration to keep your life in balance.” [Sunday Express - November 23, 2003]
	Balancing Heaven and Earth: A Memoir by Robert A. Johnson Published: 1998 Tori said: “Robert A. Johnson’s Balancing Heaven & Earth. He’s a Jungian mystic. I call him mystic because he’s about the age of Dalai Lama now, and he’s, to me, like Joseph Campbell. He’s one of our great thinkers.” [Performing Songwriter - January 2002]
	Bloodline of the Holy Grail: The Hidden Lineage of Jesus Revealed by Laurence Gardner Published: 1996 Tori said: “I’ve always been fascinated with bloodlines: family trees. I think of music this way and instruments this way. Like this book that I think is really stimulating, not just because of the content but because of the family tree, is Bloodline of the Holy Grail by a guy called Laurence Gardner. He’s quite the respected genealogist, and it’s the bloodline of Jesus and Mary Magdalene.” [All Music zine - October 1999]
	Bringers of the Dawn: Teachings from the Pleiadians by Barbara Marciniak Published: 1992 Tori said: “And there's one more book that is an absolute, absolute, absolute must. Bringers of the Dawn. It's a must.” [BAM - March 11, 1994]
	Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown Published: 1971 Tori said: “All these lost voices in our history -- this book was so important in rediscovering them. I used the book as a reference work while I was writing my album Scarlet's Walk last year.” [The Mercury News - April 3, 2003]
	The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath Published: 1981 Tori said: “That's the level I'm striving for.” [The Mercury News - April 3, 2003] Tori also said: “...The people who influence on a personal level, who turned you on to what artist, maybe that person is out of your life. Like, there are people I don't really know anymore who turned me on to, say, Sylvia Plath. It's strange how I have no idea where this person is, but my life would have taken a different turn if I didn't have it.” [Allmusic - October 1999]
	The Creation of Health by Caroline Myss and C. Norman Shealy Published: 1998 Tori said: “It’s about seeing your body as a special instrument and how to look at is as not a thing, but a gift.” [Seventeen - November 1999]
	The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self by Alice Miller Published: 1983
	The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels Published: 1979
	God Is Red: A Native View of Religion by Deloria Vine, Jr. Published: 1973
	Goddesses In Every Woman: A New Psychology of Women by Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. Published: 1984 Tori said: “It’s great to see how archetypes exist in each of us. You’ll begin to see yourself as part of a lineage.” [Seventeen - November 1999]
	Gods In Every Man: A New Psychology of Men's Lives and Loves by Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. Published: 1989
	The Gospel of Judas by Bart D. Ehrman, Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer and Gregor Wurst Published: 2006
	The Hero with a Thousand Faces (and other books) by Joseph Campbell Published: 1949 Tori said: “I was a big fan of Joseph Cambell and reading his works, and reading different mythologies, Celtic mythologies, Native American mythologies...Greek mythologies...” [Westwood One - February 27, 1992] Christopher Smith, writing for Performing Songwriter magazine said: “Tori would appreciate the comparison to another intellectual rebel of whom she is an avid reader, Joseph Campbell, the brilliant, scoffed at, and eventually respected anthropologist who saw universal threads in the timeless world tapestry of narrative.” [Performing Songwriter - September 1998]
	Holding the Tension of the Opposites (audio) by Marion Woodman
	Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln Published: 1982 Tori said: “Past the Mission is about a girl who refuses to be a victim anymore. But she has to face a lot of thought patterns to do that. I wrote this when I was reading the book Holy Blood, Holy Grail. It talks about different theories on Christ. It talks a lot about Mary Magdalene. It’s an underlying theme about how the church, the mission, has suppressed all this truth down through the years -- the Goddess energy. They refer to Mary Magdalene as the Black Madonna. She had this cult following in France. They believe that she came to the shores pregnant. When they say the Holy Grail, they mean the Holy Blood, the Blood Royal in her body, Jesus’ baby. And some scholars believe this. The other parts don’t necessarily ring right, but there have been these secret societies. That’s what I’m talking about also in Space Dog. There are loads of secret societies, this is only one of them.” [Really Deep Thoughts - Winter 1995]
	Iron John: A Book About Men by Robert Bly
	The Kiss: A Memoir by Kathryn Harrison
	The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis Tori said: “I'm reading this to my daughter Natashya -- she's 2½ -- and she seems very much drawn to the story and the pictures. If there's a scary lady involved anywhere, my daughter is right there with it.” [The Mercury News - April 3, 2003]
	The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
	Making the Gods Work for You by Caroline W. Casey Published: 1999
	Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum Published: 2001 Tori said: “Alvarez Bravo (1902-2002) was a great Mexican photographer. I surround myself by his photographs when I sit at the piano and compose.” [The Mercury News - April 3, 2003]
	The Moon Under Her Feet by Clysta Kinstler
	Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman Published: 1997 Tori said: “I didn't ever want this book to end... Hunter, Islington, Door--these characters are part of my life now... I'm over the moon about this book.” [from the Neverwhere book sleeve]
	The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter: Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa, and the Repressed Feminine - A Psychological Study by Marion Woodman Published: 1980
	Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche by Robert A. Johnson Published: 1991 Tori said: “Strange how we sometimes raise our hands when we're a part in achieving something because we can't see our value. Also strange how we can't raise our hand when there's an argument because of course we would never argue, we would never stir it up. We would never say something oh so subtly below the belt that nobody picked up on. Jung calls this working with your shadow. There are books out there that I recommend for people that want to go into the psyche. He's a Jungian. Robert Johnson, he wrote a book called Owning Your Own Shadow which I think is powerful.” [AOL chat - September 29, 1999] Tori also said: “This is about how not to put your monsters on other people or take on other people’s monsters. It’s about power.” [Seventeen - November 1999]
	Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker Published: 1992
	The Shamanic Way of the Bee by Simon Buxton Published: 2004
	She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb Published: 1992
	Sitting By the Well (audio) by Marion Woodman Tori has recommended to many people this 6-cassette set, which is about 9 hours of talks from Marion Woodman.
	The Sun and the Serpent by Hamish Miller and Paul Broadhurst
	Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Published: 1937 Tori said: “Yes. I have it right here. Zora Neal Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God, a novel. [Reads from back] 'There’s no book more important to me,' says Alice Walker, who wrote Possessing the Secret of Joy .” [BAM - March 11, 1994]
	The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness by Alice Miller Published: 1990
	The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides Published: 1993 Tori said: “I've read one recently I can't put down. It's called The Virgin Suicides. It's twisted, but it opened my eyes a lot. It brings me back to a time I remember really, really well .” [Take to the Sky - May 1996]
	Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives by Dan Millman Published: 1980
	A Woman’s Worth by Marianne Williamson Published: 1993
	The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail by Margaret Starbird Published: 1993
	Written On the Body by Jeanette Winterson Published: 1993