Interested in expanding your understanding of the yellow brick road? Included here are just a few of the Oz and Oz related books that make up part of my personal library.
Baum Biographies:
L. Frank Baum, Creator of Oz: Katherine Rogers; St. Martin’s Press
Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story; Evan I. Schwartz; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The Real Wizard of Oz: The Life and Times of L. Frank Baum; Rebecca Loncraine; Gotham Books
Oz and Ozzy fiction:
The Annotated Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum); ed. Michael Patrick Hearn; Norton
WAS; Geoff Ryman; Penguin Books
Wicked: The life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West; Gregory Maguire; Harper Collins
All about Oz – from politics to psychological
Oz: Before the rainbow – from original stage production to screen to 1939: Mark Evan Swartz; Johns Hopkins
The Historian’s Wizard of Oz: Reading L. Frank Baum’s classic as a political and monetary allegory; Ranjit S. Dighe; Preager Press
Lost in the Land of Oz: Befriending your inner orphan and heading for home; Madonna Kolbenschlag; Harper and Row
Oz Power: How to click your heels and take total charge of your life: Bill Bauman; A Center for Soulful Living Publication
Secrets of the Yellow Brick Road: A map for the modern spiritual journey; Jesse Stewart; SunShine Press Publications
The Wizard of Oz: the symbolic quest to find your inner heroes, face your worst enemies…; Charles K. Bunch; iUniverse
The Oz Syndrome: Finding contentment in your family; Michael O’Donnell; HillCrest Publications
The Yellow Brick Road; a story teller’s approach to the spiritual journey; William J. Bausch; Twenty-Third Publications
Spiritual Journeys along the yellow brick road; Darren John Main; Findhorn
The Wisdom of Oz; Gita Dorothy Morena; Inner Connections Press (Gita Morena is L. Frank Baum’s great-granddaughter)
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