Best Books To Start With:
** indicates the top five to start with

• G. S. Arundale, Kundalini: An Occult Experience — a little book published in 1938 that epitomizes the West's characterization of Kundalini before the modern Kundalini movement
• Itzhak Bentov, Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness — the interesting and compelling theory of "physio-kundalini" by a Western researcher and technical writer
• ** Bonnie Greenwell, Energies of Transformation: A Guide to the Kundalini Process — a complete, general summary of Kundalini; it is well researched on the literature and case studies of Kundalini
• Penny L. Kelly, The Evolving Human: A True Story of Awakened Kundalini — autobiography by a mid-western housewife, who persists in uncovering and knowing her Kundalini
• ** Gopi Krishna, Kundalini: the evolutionary energy in man (a recent expanded edition is called Living with Kundalini) — autobiography by the Indian founder of the modern Kundalini movement in the West
• And any other writings by Gopi Krishna—he was a prolific, if sometimes uneven, writer, but everything of his has significant value
• ** Ajit Mookerjee, Kundalini: The Arousal of the Inner Fire — excellent overview of Kundalini, with wonderful illustrations. Start here.
• Hiroshi Motoyama, Theories of the Chakras: Bridge to Higher Consciousness — an important Japanese educator and laboratory researcher presents a variety of material on Kundalini and the chakras
• Swami Muktananda, Kundalini: The Secret of Life — a little book by an Indian guru of the siddha (occult powers) tradition
• Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho), The Mystic Experience — great reading about Kundalini in satsang question and answer format by an insightful and creative master
• ** Lee Sannella, Kundalini — Psychosis or Transcendence? (also called The Kundalini Experience in recent editions) — a "modern classic" by a Western physician; includes theory of "physio-kundalini" and case studies
• Swami Satyananda Saraswati, Kundalini Tantra — a significant book on Kundalini, published in India; it has a complete overview of Kundalini within a context of tantric yoga practice
• Mary Scott, Kundalini in the Physical World — Scott sees Kundalini connected to the wider world with a number of phenomena such as ley lines
• ** John White, editor, Kundalini, Evolution and Enlightenment — extensive anthology with diverse selections
• W. Thomas Wolfe, And the Sun Is Up: Kundaini Rises in the West — autobiography by an IBM technical writer, who delves deeply into his continuing Kundalini experience
• Sir John Woodroffe (Arthur Avalon), The Serpent Power — early 20th century English translation and commentary of classical Indian Sanskrit texts