8 Witchy Books to Bask in Spooky Season’s Offerings

It’s only fitting we kick off this list with a classic. The basis for the movie starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, Practical Magic follows the Owens sisters as they navigate loss and, despite everything, continue to search for love.

For more than two hundred years, everything that has gone wrong in the small town of Massecheuts has been blamed on Gillian and Sally. Their ancestors, too, were routinely taunted and talked about, but now, the sisters attempt to escape that cycle: one by marrying, the other by running away. 

Yet, they always seem to be pulled back to each other, as if there’s a sort of magical force at play…

College professor Will Connor has put as much distance as possible between himself and his hometown, a village north of Boston. But now, he has had to return to help his mother, only to find himself looking into a past tragedy involving one of his mom’s old “spirit circles.” 

As Will looks into the town’s history, he quickly learns of a long tradition of New England witchcraft, which he once thought to be made up, but realizes is holding a power over the town. There are people, though, who would like to keep secrets buried, and will stop at nothing to do so…

The year is 1893, and witches, after being found out and burned at the stake, no longer exist. Now, if women want to have power, they must march to the ballot box. So, the Eastwood sisters—James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna—decide to join the suffragists of New Salem.

But when they begin to learn the lost words and ways of the witches, they might just turn this women’s movement on its head. Still, there are forces and people at bay who want to keep witches gone, and the girls must stoke old and new alliances to come into their own. 

With World War II coming to an end and the Allied forces' victory imminent, the Nazi Party desperately searches for a way to gain the upper hand. Across the English Channel, there is an organization for devil worshippers, where two young witches, Jane Blackwood and Miriam, are tutored by Jane's mother.

But when Miriam discovers that her parents have betrayed the society to the Nazis, she must work to clear their names. Meanwhile, Jane attempts not to succumb to dark practices, in the way of a lost, forbidden Art that could ruin everyone and everything.

Once one of the most powerful witches in Britain, Sera Swan lost her powers when she resurrected her great-aunt Jasmine from the dead and was thereby exiled from the Guild. Now, she helps her aunt run an inn in Lancashire, where she manages guests and plays with her talking fox. 

But when she finds out about an old spell that has the potential to return her powers, she turns to Luke Larsen—a charming, magical historian, who just so happens to be staying at the inn.

The last thing Luke wants is to get involved, but when he finds himself being inexplicably pulled to Sera, he may have no choice…

The conclusion to the three-book series Witch World: The Turning, this epic fantasy follows a community of witches as they work together to survive and confront hardship. 

With the invasion of Karsten imminent, the Witches of Estcarp combine their magic to prevent the world from falling into chaos. 

While in Oxford’s Bodleian Library one evening, young scholar Diana Bishop stumbles upon a powerful manuscript. From a long line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with witchcraft—or the powers to be found in this book.

But, it’s too late—Diana has unknowingly opened a magical underworld full of demons, witches, and vampires, that will soon fill the library. And now, she is the only person who can send them back where they came from…

It seems that the whole world loves the Graces, that is, Fenrin, Thalia, and Summer Grace. They are beautiful and wealthy, oh—and they have cast a spell over their whole high school and town. 

But when a new girl, River, appears, she seems different from the bunch—and maybe even magical. She desperately wants to be a Grace, and her arrival is no accident, as everyone will soon come to find out.