Gordon at Rune Soup has presented a "game" that has been firing up the magickal blogosphere. Here is the idea:
Let's say you would like to introduce someone to the world of magick using only books. This person is going to be in a deserted house with no outside communication for a month and they've agreed to read whatever you tell them, in the order that you tell them. Here, quoted from Rune Soup, are the rules:
Fiction is allowed.
You have to specify what brand of magician you want to build beforehand. (Hermeticist, chaos, etc.)
You can’t tell the subject this.
You must include books from at least three disciplines. (This is to stop you just giving the Complete Golden Dawn