spell books

Reading through a couple times gives you knowledge (book contents), obviously. None of them is enough to turn you into a sorcerer outright. If you gather a few tomes you can kitbash dark majikks from their combined wisdom. Two books together (referencing specific chapter headings please!) will net you one spell (or knowledge and skills equivalent to a spell). If you can reasonably argue using Book A through Book B to invoke Book C then you can probably do something mildly gamebreaking.

BOOKS:

1. The Chemistry of Cooking
2. A Practical Guide to Lens Making
3. Dream Interpretation for the Modern Woman
4. The Faerie Almanac
5. Pig Medicine: 20 Years of Porcine Surgery
6. Non-Earth Metallurgy (Condensed Edition)
7. Smoke, Mirrors, Sleight-Of-Hand: Magic Without the Magic
8. The Secret: Empower Yourself with Positive Thinking
9. The Illusion of History
10. Phlogiston, Aether and Leylines: Reconciling the Great Mystics
11. Memoirs of a Murderess
12. Handbook for Young Wiccans
13. Abridged Dictionary of Treespeech
14. Skincare for the Discerning Gentleman
15. Introduction to Sacred Geometry
16. Bigfoot Among Us
17. 12 Kinds of Darkness
18. Hagiography of Hell
19. Wheeling Heavens: 2000 Years of Celestial Observation
20. The Big Book of Trolls (for kids!)
21. The Big Big Book of Mazes (for adults!)
22. Conic Tensors: A New Mathematics
23. Boxing With God: My Story
24. Alchemy Unlocked: Lead to Gold in 10 Easy Steps!
25. Owners Manual for Human and Near-Human Bodies
26. Hidden Science Magazine, pg. 28-33 (Fall Issue)
27. Composing for Jazz Piano
28. Alternative Engines: Thermo-Agnostic Engineering
29. Seasonal Mycology
30. The Goblin, Gremlin & Goolie Fieldguide
31. Materiality Thrice Revised: Aesculpe's Annotations Annotated
32. Environmental Culture: the Ecological Crisis of Reason
33. Advanced Sailmaking
34. Temples of Ur: Architecture of a Lost World
35. Channelling Desire: Sex Magic and Magical Sex
36. Astral Projection for Insomniacs
37. Breathing Exercises for Better Health
38. Have Your Cake And Eat It: A New Weightloss Paradigm
39. Crochet for Absolute Beginners
40. Soil Mechanics and Hydrodynamics
41. The Genealogy of Almost Everybody
42. The Complete Plays of Gilliam Quakesphere
43. Birds of the Western North Coast
44. Advanced Carpentry
45. Worm Breeder's Compendium
46. Testing Standards for Precognition, Psychometry and ESP
47. Biodynamic Agriculture
48. Freakonomics
49. Tao Te Ching
50. Croatoan

Goooooooooooooosh I guess if you're running actual fantasy you maybe want:

1. Meditations on the Natures of Air
2. The Layman's Autopsy
3. Stolen Sunbeams: A Charlatan's Reminiscence
4. Urdakken, Cathedral of Stone
5. Smokeless Flame
6. Ooze Anatomy
7. Horologic Machines
8. Psychopathology
9. Building Soils for Better Crops
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