TOTAL BEGINNERS

  1. I Ching: Book of Changes / Wilhelm & Baynes Translation
  2. Understanding the I Ching: The Wilhelm Lectures on the Book of Changes
  3. Lectures on the "I Ching": Constancy and Change By Richard Wilhelm
  4. Change: Eight Lectures on the I Ching by Hellmut Wilhelm
  5. Heaven, Earth, and Man in The Book of Changes: Seven Eranos Lectures by Hellmut Wilhelm
  6. I ching: (The Book of Change) by John Blofeld
  7. Rediscovering the I Ching by Gregory Whincup
  8. Introduction to the study of the classic of change (I-hsüeh ch'i-meng) by Xi Zhu
  9. I Ching: by James Legge
This should keep you busy for the first 10 years.

EAGER BEGINNERS

  1. The Classic of Changes: A New Translation of the I Ching as Interpreted by Bi Wang (Richard John Lynn)
  2. I Ching By Edward L. Shaughnessy
  3. Unearthing the Changes by Edward L. Shaughnessy
  4. Fathoming the Cosmos and Ordering the World: The Yijing (I Ching, Or Classic of Changes) and Its Evolution in China by Richard Joseph Smith
  5. Sung Dynasty Uses of the I Ching By Kidder Smith Jr., Peter K. Bol, Joseph A. Adler, Don J. Wyatt
  6. A Companion to Yi jing Numerology and Cosmology By Bent Nielsen
  7. Divination, Order, and the Zhouyi by Richard Gotshalk
  8. Researches on the I Ching by Iulian Konstantinovich Shchutskii, Julian Konstantinovič Ščuckij, William L. MacDonald, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Hellmut Wilhelm
  9. Journal of Chinese Philosophy (tons of good articles on Yi Jing)
  10. The "I Ching": A Biography: A Biography By Richard J. Smith
  1. THE ORIGINAL "YIJING": A TEXT, PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION, TRANSLATION, AND INDEXES, WITH SAMPLE GLOSSES (I CHING, CHINA) by Kunst, Richard Alan, University of California, Berkeley, 1985, 686 pages; 8525020
  2. INTERPRETATIONS OF THE CENTRAL CONCEPT OF THE I-CHING DURING THE HAN, SUNG AND MING DYNASTIES by White, Douglass Alan, Harvard University, 1976; 0317295
  3. DIVINATION AND PHILOSOPHY: CHU HSI'S UNDERSTANDING OF THE I-CHING (CHINA, RELIGION) by Adler, Joseph Alan, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1984, 343 pages; 8428600
  4. PHILOSOPHY OF ACTION AND CHANGE: THE INTERPRETATION OF THE 'I CHING' BY WANG PI (226-249 A.D.) by Tung, Gea, The Claremont Graduate University, 1971; 0237808
  5. I Ching Compositional System: The symbolism, structures, and orderly sequence of the sixty-four hexagrams as compositional determinants by Chung, Yiu-Kwong, City University of New York, 1995, 116 pages; 9525241
  6. Tapping into the holographic universe: An intuitive inquiry using the "I Ching" by Duryea, Licia, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2004, 219 pages; 3158585
  7. Study of Confucius' I Ching learning by Wang, Yu Guo, Renmin University of China (People's Republic of China), 2004; H111131
  8. VISUAL METAPHORS FROM THE "I CHING." by PORTER, ROSEMARY MACIAS, California State University, Long Beach, 1977, 31 pages; 1310217
  9. METAPHOR AND ANALOGY IN THE "I CHING." by Tung, Gea, The Claremont Graduate University, 1975, 150 pages; 7615791
  10. METHOD AS PHENOMENON: THE CASE OF THE "I CHING." by Kaplan, Charles David, University of California, Los Angeles, 1973, 187 pages; 7332065
  11. THE "I CHING": AN ETYMOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE by Yu, Titus, California Institute of Integral Studies, 1983, 193 pages; 8400051
  12. PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC IMPLICATIONS OF CONSULTING THE YI JING (I CHING): A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH (ORACLE, DIVINATION, SYNCHRONICITY) by JUNG, SINLING, California School of Professional Psychology - Berkeley/Alameda, 1985, 199 pages; 8522980
  13. A heuristic enquiry into the I Ching consultation process by Ciesinski, Ted, California Institute of Integral Studies, 1996, 120 pages; 9704789
  14. The archetypal world of the "I Ching": The journey of the sage-ruler by Beckham, Carole, California State University, Dominguez Hills, 2007, 71 pages; 1445139
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CONFIDENT BEGINNERS

There is endless supply of good texts on I Ching/Yi Jing, especially in Chinese. One lifetime is not enough to go through only the most important ones. If/when you reach this stage of your Yi Jing development and research you will hardly need anyone to recommend books to you.

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