Witchy Books in Every Genre 🧙‍♀️

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[@cuppa.books.]

For non-fiction, I'd recommend Ashes & Stones by Allyson Shaw. I'm currently rereading The Witching Hour by Anne Rice & I would recommend her Mayfair Witches series 🖤

[@JeansThoughts]

Ooh I've never read any Anne Rice but I understand she's prolific. Maybe this is the place I should start with!?

[@cuppa.books.]

@JeansThoughts You can absolutely start here - there's an eventual overlap with her vampire chronicles but the original Mayfair trilogy is its own thing. She does delve into some taboo subjects at times - so maybe check up on that if you have any particular triggers. Her sense of place & atmosphere is fantastic though.

[@Jessticulates]

I must admit I'm quite fussy when it comes to witch books, despite loving witch stories, but you've reminded me I need to read Kissing the Witch! The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow is one of my all-time favourites, and I'd also recommend The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland. I also really enjoyed The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe, though I'm not sure I'd still love it as much if I read it now. Oh and I have to mention another all-time favourite: Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, which is set in Mexico City in the 1980s and follows three teenagers who discover how to cast spells with their vinyl records.

[@danielleeadie7124]

This video was amazing. Books about witches are my fav and it made me realise KZbin has not been showing me any of your videos recently!

[@JeansThoughts]

Aaaaah KZbin is so annoying when it does this. I've had it happen to people I follow too. Especially if they don't post for a week or two then come back. I'm so glad you found this video and enjoyed it though!!!

[@LiteratureLindsi]

This is a SUPER comprehensive rec list, thanks so much for all the titles!!!

[@Factotum1975]

Loved this video and your recommendations! Would love to know your thoughts on Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches trilogy. Also, could you make a video of your favorite witch movies / tv shows? I just watched The Love Witch last night and would love to hear your thoughts on it as well!

[@thelovelymadbs]

This video is a dream!! Thank you for the wonderfully comprehensive intro and all of the recs!!

[@nanimaonovi2528]

Thank you for bringing your brilliant mind to booktube. I wandered over to drink my tea while my hair dries and I don't deserve you.

[@AinhoaVDCY]

Love the video, thanks for the recommendations! I must recommend the book series of A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness. It is one of my favourite book series of all times. (I also love your top btw)

[@JeansThoughts]

@@AinhoaVDCY I’ve had book one on my shelves for years I NEED to finally take the plunge

[@lizzie3991]

Great recommendations! I have a lovely middle grade fiction novel to recommend: The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill. It's a well-crafted fairytale revolving around old magic and the witches who practice it.

[@JeansThoughts]

@@lizzie3991 oooooh I have this on my bookcase but haven’t read it yet so this is the perfect reminder!

[@mxrumphius]

@@JeansThoughts Oh you will LOVE the Girl Who Drank the Moon!

[@kenneddyy340]

The Burnings is another historical fiction based on the north Berwick witch trials and it was incredible! Intrigued by the Kings witches as I’m in a right witch book reading phase. Which light by Susan Fletcher is also amazing!

[@nmartin5096]

A very Witchy Vlog.🎃 Thank you for listing titles in the Description box, it's so helpful! Happy October Reading!🍁📚🍁

[@badfaith4u]

Thank you for recommending witch books. 🧙🏼‍♀️🧙🏼‍♀️🧙🏼‍♀️

[@JeansThoughts]

@@badfaith4u glad you enjoyed the recs ☺️

[@mxrumphius]

Ooh yay I love witchy books!! You might've mentioned these in other videos previously, but if you haven't read these I think you might like them: When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey, Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson, The Factory Witches of Lowell by C. S. Malerich, Lilla the Accidental Witch by Eleanor Crewes, and the Witches of Brooklyn series by Sophie Escabasse 🥰

[@readcreaterepeat7727]

Great video!!! I added way too many to my wishlist.

[@nymeria941]

I LOVE Witch Hat Atelier! I’m not usually a big manga reader, but this series is one I’ll buy as soon as a new volume comes out.

[@anasky00]

Just found your chanel, so happy you said you love Julliet Marilier books!! I love her books, I've read them all! She never gets mentioned when people talk about fantasy, I don't understand why, she's great!

[@JeansThoughts]

100%. She is so amazing. Everyone else is missing out aha.

[@angelikicoletsou4463]

Wow that was the most thorough witching video I ever watched. Thank you so much for the recommendations. i definitely found things I want to check out

[@silkemaria7339]

Thank you so much for that range of books, they were so many to add to my wish list, especially the Taschen one looks so fascinating. For now I've downloaded the Ruin of all witches as an audiobook and am really looking forward to listening to it.

[@juliequick5526]

A timely video for me as I have been inspired to get some Witch fiction in th least few days. In fact I started A discovery of Witches yesterday and am loving it! Proof that you are never to mature to look at something new! After i read this series then on to your recommendations 💖

[@cassandrasivapalan1519]

thank you so much for this range of books! I'm slowly getting back into reading and really appreciate your book related content. also love the podcast. x

[@kimj8540]

Great video, my cart was bursting at the seams by the end. I'd have to add "Circe" by Madeline Miller and Foxfire by Sharon Blackie

[@JeansThoughts]

@@kimj8540 aaaah I almost included Circe so you’re totally right! I’ll have to look up foxfire though I’ve never heard of it :D

[@RonnieTheReader]

Will definitely by checking some of these out. Especially some Nom-Fiction Recs

[@tanyaroberts919]

Loved this video! I'm always in awe of our wonderfully you summarize history to introduce your videos. ✨️🌙🌒

[@alishamarie8]

This was such a great video! I love the blend of history and book recs; two of my favorite things 🧙‍♀️

[@gillibluejay1150]

Great recommendations! Some books that have themes of witchcraft I've read and loved are : The Familiars by Stacey Halls, Slewfoot by Brom, Witch Child by Celia Rees, The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell and The Hedgewitch of Fox Hall by Anna Bright

[@JamieAlice92]

A person can only be a witch if they weigh the same as a duck.

[@JeansThoughts]

Aaah Monty Python coming out with all the wisdom aha.

[@Gillian.Ashcroft.66]

Only super models then..

[@claireeymin8239]

I’m about to finish Lolly Willowes based on your recommendation and I’m enjoying it. I kinda wish there was a bigger proportion of witchy stuff though. I’ve also devoured both Emily Wilde books also based on your recommendation and I’m looking forward to the third.

[@katiemaki5740]

The best witch recommendations ever!

[@JeansThoughts]

@@katiemaki5740 oh thank you that’s so nice!!

[@dragonrambles]

I recommend Witches of Eileanan by Kate Forsyth. A series of 5 books (fantasy). History of the world is that witches left Scotland through a portal back when they were being persecuted and settled on this world to live safely. Of course, it is now a long time later, and witches are persecuted (and outlawed) again thanks to who is currently in power. This doesn’t explain what the series is about, just gives background.

[@cdf228]

Can I just say I love you in your natural hair color. It suits you so well. ❤❤❤

[@justkajsa529]

Loved this video, so many great recommendations!

[@lissavanhouten6628]

Some "classic" nonfiction wiccan/pagan/goddesss books: Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshipers and Other Pagans in America by Margot Adler; Witches by Erica Jong (coffee table book); anything by ecofeminist and Wiccan activist Starhawk, including The Spiral Dance, Truth or Dare, Twelve Wild Swans, The Earth Path, among others, and her two novels, The Fifth Sacred Thing and the sequel City of Refuge (which I haven't read the latter). Oh, and not really Wiccan per se: Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Women Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes.

[@katgreer7122]

“All the Birds in the Sky” by Charlie Jane Anders is a book with a sci-fi plot which also features a witch! 🖤

[@nanimaonovi2528]

And also animal harm. TW.

[@annar7184]

I think this is my sign to finally check out Lolly Willowes 👀🙏 One excellent historical witch book is Regrettably, I am About to Cause Trouble by Amie McNee.

[@melodiesandmemories7739]

I’m currently reading We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry and loving it!!

[@JeansThoughts]

@@melodiesandmemories7739 I don’t this one but love the title aha - will have to look it Up!

[@melodiesandmemories7739]

@@JeansThoughtsit’s about a field hockey team near Salem, Massachusetts in the 1980s who uses witchcraft to win games 😅 it’s super funny and also a little dark!

[@untitledmanuscript]

This has nothing to do with the topic of the video but can you recommend a book that has the story of Orpheus and Eurydice?

[@Mermaidbear313]

Sangu Mandanna's The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches is ❤❤❤

[@jamgart6880]

I just read Lolly Willows last month, I’d never heard of it before but I loved it! I could so run off and live in a cottage in the forest and wander through nature for the rest of my life 😁 Arthur Millers The Crucible is in my top 5 books of all time. I wasn’t sure what it was really about when I picked it up but it was just amazing and scary (because it was based on real happenings at the Salem witch trials) and I could see how lies escalate and how people jump on the band wagon especially in certain political parties in modern times. So scary to think how easy it is to persuade the masses without any factual evidence.

[@tjpieraccini]

The only books of SF that come immediately to mind featuring witchcraft are The Warlock In Spite of Himself series, by Christopher Stasheff. Also featuring a robot horse! - but a bit dated in atitudes to women, so don't consider this an especially strong recommendation...

[@Thehennies]

You know when you find a video that matches your interests - etymology, history, magic, and a bit of feminism -sooo perfectly? Ya this it.

[@JeansThoughts]

This makes me so happy!!!

[@AnastaciyaSh]

I was going to write that Gideon the Ninth is kind of a sci-fi witch book, but then remembered they are all necromancers there 🙈

[@juliettechaplin2685]

I mean, I feel like it still kinda counts? 😂