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"If an octopus could palm" by Dan and Dave. One of the best books on palming . Super knuckle busting moves

Thankyou for making this video i spent an hour on Amazon trying to find the right books glad i found this video before I wasted my money on cheap junk books

Great video! It gave me some new books to buy. My two favorite magic books are Now You See It, Now You Don’t and Maximum Entertainment.

"Close up card magic" by Harry Lorayne is amazing. And if you can find it "The Commercial Magic of J.C. Wagner" is utterly amazing. Also, "The Collected Alex Elmsley" vols 1 and 2 are wonderful collections from one of the great classic magicians.

I just ordered The Royal Road to Card Magic. I cant wait!!!!!

That mark wilson book is really great. It's like a mini Tarbell. Whats amazing is how much relevant material you get for only $15!

Just looking at the cover if your Encyclopedia of card tricks tells me it's where I should start .Thanks ,great info as always ...

I am currently working through the full Card College series.. it is really thorough and I highly recommend it.

Focus by Phil Goldstein is a fantastic book. There are so many gems in there. Bound to Please and Simply Simon are 2 faves as well. Just looking at my bookshelf now, there are so many I could name 😄

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.

I agree with you on Mark Wilson & Royal Road, but I must say that I learned a great deal from “Now You See It, Now You Don’t I and II” and The first Nick Trost Card Magic. Solid choices! Great show!

Now You See It, Now You Don't!: Lessons in Sleight of Hand 1 and 2 blew my mind when I was a kid! They still hold up. It's where I learned French drop! :)

The first one is the first magic book I got! Gotta be like 20 years ago now

Reading books is the best way to learn fundamentals & build a good foundation in your particular area of magic

Thanks for the suggestion! My autographed copy of Mark Wilson's course, I found on eBay for 99¢ just got in! It looks really good.

'Beyond Secrets' by Jay Sankey. And 'win the crowd' by Steven Cohen. Both in the theory genre

I think people may like top 10 lists as much as they do for the simple reason that it's a lot of information in a very short time.

Expert at the Card Table has some of the best material if you're able to decipher it. There is a little tip on the pass (referred to as the two handed shift) that is very useful.

Hello! That is an efficient list! I have read some of those books and many more. Nonetheless, after some years of studying this art, I have come to the following conclusion: If one wants to learn and to master moves, shuffles, sleights, transformations, and color changes, the best way to do so is by following a visual approach. In order to fulfil this objective, I suggest getting these two remarkable DVD tutorials: Daryl's Enciclopedia of Card Sleights (eight volumes) and Ben Salinas' Hot Shot and Card Stunts. Once one manages to control all those techniques on those DVDs, which takes years of practice by the way, one will have sufficient tools to design and to execute a huge repertoire of tricks and illusions. On the other hand, when it comes to learning about the theorical and aesthetic elements behind card magic, books are and will be the path to take. There are two card magic theory books which in my opinion are essential: La Magia de Ascanio - Volume 1 (written in spanish) and Darwin Ortiz's Strong Magic. Perusing those masterpieces did help me to perform and to comprehend card magic scientifically and artistically. What do you think? I hope my opinion helps.

David, never apologize for a Top Ten Book list! This is very important! And a true investment! Yes, you can pay $120 to buy three good tricks, or you can spend that money to buy 4 great books to learn 1,000 new tricks! Along with the “how” and the “why”. Yeah!

These latest two videos are so helpful

I ordered some thanks

What if you where in a deserted island with a deck of cards and one book. What book would you pick? But at your present skill level, so you don’t have to pick an entry level book. What is your favorite current book?

Where's Mnemonica Miracles by Juan Tamariz

That Mark Wilson book was my very first, besides the library books.

I also bought Wilsons book from a man named Steve for my 1st book at an amazing little magic shop on a cobblestone old town main street. I wish so badly it was there

The big Mark Wilson was the fist book I got for Xmas one year years ago. I prefer the books these days. It's true what you say about a DVD. I prefer to have it in my hands instead of skipping a disc. I'm heading down the self working tricks at the moment. I know enough slights to get by. Good review.

Whiie I agree with many of your choices, you have excluded books by Walter B. Gibson, Harry Lorayne, Dai Vernon, Ed Marlo, Frank Garcia, Juan Tamariz and Paul Gordon (Gold Dust Series). BTW- The Pronunciation of Hugard is hughguard,

Thank you for this great video. You are helping me to create a top 10 library. I love card magic!

I got the Mark Wilson magic small edition. It's amazing and the price even more amazing.

I can't explain why, but I do love top ten lists! Maybe it's from all those years watching David Letterman...lol. Great list, and I put alot of these on my wish list, thanks for sharing.

Ordered four of them. Thanks for the direct links!

You should make an updated list! So many new books!

You should read Wuthering heights, Katherine, Heathcliff and Edgar are some of the best literary characters ever written:)

Love this review!

Stars of Magic

Drawing room deceptions?

What are your thoughts on Roberto Giobi's Card College? I've heard the five volumes are amazing and pretty easy to follow

thank you very much. this is so much of valuable information regarding books and their value.helped me a lot in the vedios and even in comments u answered .....keep posting more book reviews. hats off for ur other 2 vedios..care of cards and encyclopedia of card tricks review.

Wonderful list and I agree for the most part. This was a well thought out video and your advice was spot on. Have you modified the list since uploading this? How would you rank The Card Magic of Le Paul if you're familiar ? That book provided years and years of foundation and material for me. That, plus AoA, are superb.

I honestly have a low reading level embarrassingly enough all I have is expert. Card technique and expert at the card table and I wish someone just made detailed video collections of the content in these books as they are so hard for me to read :( I did learn some things with the help of someone helping me understand it

just to let people know, i ordered 3 of these books plus another 3 he didnt mention when all i really needed was royal road to card magic, expert card technique is really quite advanced, there's beauty in the simplicity

I'd highly recommend Strong Magic by Darwin Ortiz. It definitely changed my own perceptions of what good magic performance should be. Excellent read.

I was surprised to see my library has about half of these books, just got encyclopedia of card tricks, and holy smokes that's a lot of tricks!

i enjoyed some of this, but i have to say that no one should ever say that magic or anything might not be for someone if they have difficulty reading or something similar!! everyone should be encouraged to find there own way

So glad we have a good magic KZfaqr that supports books and not stupid theory11 and Ellusionist.

Card Control by Arthur Buckley

David Roth's maybe? :p i dont know i feel like it's one of the best living magician that has an enormous contribution to coin magic

wich book have the most powerful magic tricks that are not taught on youtube

I got royal road to card magic form Chris Ramsey I want to keep my reading skills sharp for 9th grade thank you

Great selection. Wish you had Mnemonica by Juan Tamariz though. Even if you don't do stack work, there is so much great info in there.

Just ordered expert card technique, the royal road, and encyclopedia of card tricks. Hopefully I can learn some good stuff. Do you have any recommendations for learning cardistry, such as flourishes?

11:45 I call BS on that analogy lol. Knowing where something came from vs knowing the basics are VERY different. At this point you can become an amazing magician by watching people on youtube, nostalgia is one thing, reality is another. Books vs Video is all personal preference... mine is certainly video. Not because I don't want to read, but the same reason I would rather a teacher stand in front of me and show me what to do versus reading it. It is much easier to show angles and flow with video for example.

this may have been my favorite upload of yours yet.(even if you forgot about bobo's)

wish i never watched this .... there goes all my money lol

dude thank you . im new to performing magic , and im trying to get my library going. if you could possibly do a must have video that would be awesome. thanks man !

Hi david, wondered if you ever would consider doing a review on greater magic ??

which one is the BEST ???....

there is 5 volumes of Card College by roberto G

Again! Great video! A little bit surprised that there is no Marlo and Vernon books, but its still great. I hope you do more book reviews in the future.

i would also say also mnemonica, drawing room deceptions and by forces unseen

I like very much your videos. Thank you so much!

Thanks for sharing! I would say my favourite magic book at this time of life is Mnemonica by Juan Tamariz; two another books I really like are 13 Steps to Mentalism, which I totally recommend if you do mentalism, and Psychological Subtleties by Banachek.

Hey, i was wondering about the book called "New Era Card Tricks - Magic with Cards" Originally published in 1897, came out in 2008 anny good ? And wath book would you recommend as first ever book for beginner :) ? Nice video!

TOP 10 MENTALISM BOOK PLEASE ??????❤️

Awesome video, I’m looking at getting Mnemonica: Symphony in Mnemonic Major . What is your thoughts on that book ? Is it worth it ?

So if you were telling a total newbie to buy one or two books to see if they want to dive in, it appears the two might be 1) Royal Road and 2) Expert Card Technique. Am I right?

I want the hard core magic tricks book but easy to read I'm a magician btw mentalist and card tricks but I want to learn more for my good future

Another great video! I just picked up Derren Brown’s “Absolute Magic” based on your recommendation but haven’t got to read it yet. Not that anyone cares, but I’ll list some of my favorite card magic books here: 1. Expert at the Card Table -It was my first Magic book, and I still find so much in it to this day. 2. Stars of Magic -It has Triumph, one of my favorite effects! Also a ton of other amazing tricks. 3. Expert Card Technique -Just so much great stuff in here, Dunbury Delusion is another of my favorites. 4. Dai Vernon’s Inner Card Trilogy. I think this is available as one volume from L&L, but I’m also pretty sure there is ebook versions on lybrary.com, a great resource for ebook versions of hard to find or expensive Magic books. 5. Carneycopia by John Carney. Just great tricks and sleights. I always find something interesting every time I open it. 6. Paul Harris Art Of Astonishment. Great, great stuff! 7. Drawing Room Deceptions by Guy Hollingworth. I love Guy’s work in card magic! All his effects are brilliant and this has the Reformation, in my opinion the best torn and restored card there is. 8. Roberto Giobbi’s Card College. I love this series! Not only is it an amazing instructional book for card magic, but I love to read the footnotes and they will also direct you to other great works of card magic. And this series just has sooooo many great tricks! 9. The Paper Engine by Aaron Fisher. An excellent book! Great tricks and Aaron’s Gravity Half Pass, an amazing sleight! 10. The Books Of Wonder by Tommy Wonder. Tommy Wonder was a genius who left us much too soon. There are some amazing tricks in these two volumes and also some very deep essays about magic. His ambitious card/card in ring box is my favorite Ambitious card routine of all time. His wild card is amazing and another gem of card magic in these volumes is Deja Reverse.

So if you already have expert card technique for the sleights what books have good full routines and completed magic tricks but isn't too complex and doesn't require very dificult sleights?

Just read my way through the Royal Road. (Love it and will be reading it over and over for years). Just ordered Scarne's book. Does the Card College Light, Lighter, and Lightest replace the original books or is it completely different? I've heard great things about the original volumes of Card College but I haven't seen them in anybody's top 10 lists.

My Dad was a magician and he swore by the Tarbell Course! He loved it. One that you didn’t mention was Garcia and Schindler Magic With Cards. I still have my Dad’s original copy. Are you familiar with it? Too basic? Good? I’d be curious to know your take. Thanks. Nice video.

I would include "Magic and Showmanship" by Henning Nelms

U know pdf of all these books are available free on google

cool waiting eagerly

Great video !!I loved this this has been my question for ages !! thank you ! Daniel Madison anthology? ??????? Keep up the Great work

What is best books for begginers ?

Any chance you'd review your top 10 favorite magic dvds?

If I already have Royal Road to Card Magic, do you think it’s pointless to get Expert Card Technique since they’re by the same author? Do they have the same tricks pretty much or are they different?

Awesome, are there any new favorites since u made this video?

Which books do u recommend for really knacks and expert level

Good list - but please look into the camera when you speak to your KZfaq audience. It will elevate your content immensely.

what is the best for magicians that are good beginner to intermidiate?

Which is better. Scarne on card tricks or royal road to magic..plz tell cause I'm gonna buy one

hello, I have a question regarding card magic is it possible to do card tricks if you have thin hands?

Any suggestions for great books on marked decks?

Hi, great video :) , what is the difference between the expert card technique and the royal road to card magic, I want to purchase one but idk which one, I would get s.w.e erdnase but I got the Daniel Madison version so maybe ill pass for it for now, so which one would you choose? I noticed the technique was a bit bigger so maybe more material? but royal card had higher rating for you, so which one would you choose? sorry for long comment!

I am a beginning card magic I only know a few tricks what book should I get and can I get these books in the library

Which one..royal road (or) encyclopaedia of card tricks

Hey just 1 tip Look at the lens it is more professional. BTW nice video thanks

how about some more intermidiate books? i'm interested in the drawing room deception..

hey where is by forces unseen or mnemonica? they are deffenetly one of the best books...

Mnemonica is seminal (and loads of fun).

Royal Road or Expert Card Technique if I had to choose one?

Great video👍 What is your top 10 magic product?

anyone can tell me which one is like the best for learning really powerful tricks

This video was helpful. I also subscribed to you

Great video!! What is your opinion of "The Amateur Magician's Handbook" by Henry Hay? I have the 4th edition. I had an earlier version of this book (Yellow cover jacket, hard cover, which I cannot find anywhere) )when I was much younger, and I miss the info there about splitting cards to make them thinner for back palming flourishes. Thoughts? Also, you did not mention The Card College 5 volume set by Roberto Giobbi. Thoughts? Surprised you made no mention of Dai Vernon! Thoughts?

Wich is the first book I should get?