One type of book that I will always love are the ones all about magic and witches. Here are 13 books with different styles, settings and for different age groups all about witches!
A Discovery of Witches – Deborah Harkness
Diana Bishop is a witch that has always refused to use her magic. But one day she calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript from deep in the stacks at Oxford’s Bodleian Library and everything changes.
All of a sudden, witches, vampires and daemons descend on the library. The manuscript has been lost for centuries and for some reason she’s the only one that can find it.
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The Secret Circle – L.J. Smith
Cassie is forced to move from California to a gloomy small New England town and all she wants is to go home. Until she meets a terrifying group of teenagers that draw her into the Secret Circle, a coven that she feels a strange kinship with. But she also begins to feel an odd connection with another member of the coven, Adam… except he already has a girlfriend.
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The Worst Witch – Jill Murphy
If you’re looking for a book for your kid then check this one out! Mildred Hubble is a student at Miss Cackle’s Academy for Witches but she is the worst witch at the school. She constantly gets spells wrong, accidentally turns her enemy into an animal, but she might just be about to save the day!
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Mooncakes – Suzanne Walker + Wendy Xu
Nova Huang is a young witch who spends her time working in her grandmother’s bookshop and investigating strange occurrences in her small town. One evening, she hears reports of a white wolf and comes across her childhood crush, Tam, battling a horse demon in the woods.
Tam is a werewolf who has spent their time wandering around but now dark forces are eager to claim the magic of the wolves so Tam turns to Nova for help.
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Hex and the City – Kate Johnson
Poppy is a witch with magical hair that lives next to Highgate cemetery and works at a magic shop in Covent Garden. One day she accidentally (and drunkenly) curses a pendant at the shop and sells it to gorgeous celebrity magician, Axl Storm. Poppy needs to find Axl and stop the curse before all hell breaks loose.
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All Our Hidden Gifts – Caroline O’Donoghue
While cleaning out a closet at her Catholic Girls School, Maeve finds an old pack of tarot cards and begins giving her classmates scarily accurate readings. But then Maeve’s ex best-friend, Lily, draws an unsettling card that no one has seen before called The Housekeeper, and a few days later, Lily has disappeared.
Alongside Lily’s sibling, Roe, Maeve must attempt to find out the connection between her and the cards and search for clues about Lily’s disappearance that the police would never be able to find, as well as fend off a religious cult that has shown up in town to attempt to recruit local teenagers.
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The Ex Hex – Erin Sterling
When Vivienne’s boyfriend, Rhys Penhallow, breaks up with her she drunkenly curses him even though she knows she shouldn’t use her magic like this. But fortunately, nothing happens.
Until 9 years later when Rhys returns to town and the curse is activated.
They’re forced to work together to reverse the curse before all hell breaks loose.
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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches – Sangu Mandanna
Mika Moon is one of the few witches left in Britain and knows that she has to hide her magic and stay away from other witches so their powers don’t attract attention. Mika follows most of the rules but posts online videos using her magic assuming no one will notice.
But someone does. She gets a message asking her to travel to Nowhere House to teach 3 young witches to control their magic. She knows it’s against the rules for so many witches to be so close… but she can’t say no. So she travels to Nowhere House where she begins to form a bond with the children as well as their caretakers.
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Serpent & Dove – Shelby Mahurin
2 years ago, Louise le Blanc fled her coven and took shelter in the city, forsaking all magic and living off whatever she could steal. But witches like Lou are hunted there.
Sworn to the church, Reid has lived his life by one principle: thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. He was never supposed to meet Lou… but then their paths cross in an unexpected way – they’re forced into marriage.
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The Near Witch – V.E. Schwab
There are three things that Lexi has heard her entire life.
The Near Witch is only a story told to scare children.
If the wind calls at night, you must ignore it.
And, there are no strangers in the town of Near.
But one day, a stranger shows up, and children begin disappearing from their beds.
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The Invocations – Krystal Sutherland
A supernatural serial killer who leaves no evidence is killing young witches.
Zara’s sister was one of the victims and she’s not willing to let her sister go that easily – even if it means learning necromancy.
Jude is the daughter of a billionaire who made a bad deal with a demon and now her soul is slowly turning necrotic.
Emer is the daughter of a witch who sells spells to desperate young women in exchange for part of their souls, and she’s the solution to both of their problems.
They come together to attempt to stop the serial killer before they end up on his hit list
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A Deadly Education – Naomi Novik
El is a student at Scholomance, a school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death. This is a school with no teachers, no holidays, and no way of leaving until you graduate… or die.
El has a dark power that she does her best to keep secret, but that’s easier said than done when the hallways are full of monsters and students that are your enemy.
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Spellbinder – L.J. Smith
Thea is a witch that lives with her cousin Blaise, a witch of the black arts, and when Blaise sets her sights on a student at their school Thea does everything she can to protect him. And she ends up falling in love with him… but falling for a human is against every rule of her world.
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