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The Complete Sweep Series.
Half Bad
Practical Magic
Witch and Wizard
And there are some Sabrina the Teenage Witch novelizations, such as Showdown at the Mall.
Half Bad
Practical Magic
Witch and Wizard
And there are some Sabrina the Teenage Witch novelizations, such as Showdown at the Mall.


Half Bad
Practical Magic
Witch and Wizard
And there are some Sabrina the Teenage Witch novelizations, such..."
Thanks for the recommendations! Haha TV show books are my guilty pleasure. Sweep sounds really good!
Kirstin wrote: "I second the Sweep series. Based on what you like I think you'd really like it. Also Old Magic by Marianne Curley"
Oh thanks! I am going to check out Sweep for sure.

Deborah Harkness, The Discovery of Witches. Love the storyline and characters. Book 1 & 2 are long but great. Book 3 is the final of the trilogy and is very long... and a bit of a cop-out IMO. She's obviously sold it as a trilogy and has to wrap it up as such... but the storyline and characters were too big and needed more, so she appears to have tied little bows on each of them so she can either, just add to the story later, or create spinoffs as needed. Again, still love the characters and storyline, just frustrating as hell that she and her editors didn't get their shit together.
Surprisingly - cause I love witches - they are the only ones I can think of right now. Will keep an eye on your thread tho to see what everyone comes up with :)

Again, don't think this is the light hearted type you're looking for, but Katherine Kerr, Daggerspell (Deverry Series) is all based around magic and reincarnation.



I certainly second Tammy's recommendation for the Hollows series that starts with Dead Witch Walking -- although the witches aren't the usual fairy tale sort nor the funner sort like in Sabrina The Teenage Witch. The first book was very good but didn't stand out that much from other urban fantasy books, then the next thing I knew the series really gripped me where there was a book hangover of world and characters hanging in your head and heart well after you finished that book as you preordered the next one.
For fans of Hex Hall, Fictfact.com recommends the series: House of Night by Kristin Cast, P C Cast; Fallen by Lauren Kate; Beautiful Creaturesby Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl; Iron Fey by Julie Kagawa (I don't actually remember witches); Matched by Allyson B Condie; Darkest Powers by Kelley Armstrong; Paranormalcy by Kiersten White; Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan; Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr; Bloodlines by Richelle Mead

Kelley Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld series features witches in Dime Store Magic, Industrial Magic, and Waking The Witch
Yasmine Galenorn's Otherworld series, it starts with Witchling.
Kim Harrison's Rachel Morgan series, it starts with Dead Witch Walking.
Faith Hunter's Jane Yellowrock series, it starts with Skinwalker. The title character is a shapeshifter, but her best friend is a witch.
Deborah Harkness's All Souls trilogy, it starts with A Discovery of Witches
Mercedes Lackey's Diana Tregarde trilogy, it starts with Burning Water
Bailey Cates's A Magical Bakery Mystery series, it starts with Brownies and Broomsticks
C.C. Finlay's Traitor to the Crown trilogy, it starts with The Patriot Witch
Christine Warren's The Others PNR series, it starts with One Bite With a Stranger, features witches among other paranormal beings
Heather Blake's Wishcraft Mystery series, it starts with It Takes a Witch
Juliet Blackwell's A Witchcraft Mystery series, it starts with Secondhand Spirits
Justin Gustainis's Quincey Morris series, it starts with Black Magic Woman
Linda Wisdom's Jazz Tremaine PNR series, it starts with 50 Ways to Hex Your Lover
Melissa De La Cruz's The Beauchamp Family series, it starts with Witches of East End
Molly Harper's Half Moon Hollow series features a witch in A Witch's Handbook of Kisses and Curses
Nora Roberts Circle trilogy, it starts with Morrigan's Cross
Vicki Thompson's Babes on Brooms series, it starts with Blond with a Wand
If you are looking for realistic fiction-themed Witches A.K.A. Wiccans, you might like, in no particular order:
M. R. Sellars Rowan Gant mystery series, it starts with Harm None: A Rowan Gant Investigation
Madelyn Alt's Bewitched Mystery series, it starts with The Trouble With Magic
Isobel Bird's Circle of Three young adult series, it starts with So Mote It Be
Bell, Book, and Murder: The Bast Mysteries by Rosemary Edghill
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
Cate Tiernan's Sweep young adult series, it starts with Book of Shadows
Beneath a Mountain Moon and Murder at Witches' Bluff by Silver Ravenwolf
Historical Fiction witches, in no particular order:
Corrag by Susan Fletcher
The White Witch by Elizabeth Goudge
The Witch of Blackbird Pond a YA by Elizabeth George Speare.
Witch Child and Sorceress YA by Celia Rees
The White Witch a YA by Janet Graber
Beyond the Burning Times a YA by Kathryn Laskey
The Gallows Hill a YA by Lois Duncan

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
I have read at least one from many of the top-ranked series listed and enjoyed them. The Listopia may help you find books that lead you to similar books to the point that that's all you'll be reading!
Wiccan author-written series about three contemporary teens exploring Wicca and dealing with teen everyday life. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Starts with:

Teen explores changes in her life https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
First book:

Also, a classic 5-book series on a young wizard. Starts with:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
BTW, I read all of these electronically through my public library's e-book and audiobook service. Perhaps yours has one, also?










As for witch books for the OP - well, I was going to list some of my favorites, but Joseph has pretty much covered all that and more! What a great list of suggestions.
A few I want to particularly second: The Witchcraft series by Juliet Blackwell - starting with Secondhand Spirits. I'm reading these right now, actually, and am happily on the fifth in the series. If you judge them from their cover, you might expect them to be more of a cozy type mystery (with some witchcraft thrown in) but I actually found them to be a bit more meaty than I expected. Not super serious tomes or anything, but a bit more substantial than the light read I thought they would be.
I also highly recommend The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane - I loved that book!
And here's just a few to add:
Arcadia Falls - not "witches" exactly, but it's about an artists' commune/school that has lots of rumors of witchcraft going on; a great read
The Native Star - the first in a series, this is a fun Western/Steampunk take on witches and warlocks
Beautiful Creatures - first in the Caster Chronicles, a fun read. I haven't read all of the books in the series, as I sort of lost interest while waiting for the newest books to be published, but I did really enjoy the first one. Worth a read (and the movie adaptation wasn't actually that awful either.)
Clean Sweep - I absolutely loved this book. The main character isn't named an actual "witch", but she has what I would consider witchy powers. Completely with broomstick! Such a fun read. And the author published this one and the sequel a chapter at a time on her blog for free. :)
Other than that, all the suggestions listed here already are fantastic. I'm definitely adding a lot of these to my own to read list. :)






Emma Mills, Witchblood

I haven't read it yet myself, but I was told it was really good. Maybe you'd like to give it a shot.


I like the Elemental Assassin books with Gin; I'm on book 4 and so far not really getting the romance vibe. Maybe that's later in series.

Sabriel, by Garth Nix. YA. Fantasy zombies abound (they are due to magic, not a plague or scientific experiment). The heroine is a zombie hunter, basically, and has to return their spirits to the underworld.
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke. Adult (but not "adult"). If Jane Austen had written epic fantasy, it might be something like this. Bonus: The BBC has an adaptation of it coming out soon.
The Dark is Rising Sequence, by Susan Cooper. MG/YA.
The Goose Girl (first of The Books of Bayern), by Shannon Hale. YA. Based on the fairy tale.
A Wizard of Earthsea (first of the Earthsea books), by Ursula K. Le Guin.
The Amulet of Samarkand, first of the Bartimaeus books. YA. MC is a snarky djinni.

Sycorax from Shakespeare's play The Tempest has gotta be #1 the lady doesn't even appear in the play but is scary enough that her son is hideous and her mere name frightens.
You might also like to read Old Magic by Marianne Curley the witch there is a young girl from Australia
You're probably a little young to really enjoy Anne Rice's Mayfair witches but when you're ready be sure to check out The Witching Hour and Lasher
You might also enjoy trying my "Which Witch is Which?" quiz https://www.goodreads.com/quizzes/179...

I loved A Discovery of Witches and its follow ups.



If you don't mind fantasy world's Anne Bishop is great. She has several books in the Black Jewels world. Another fantasy series she wrote is her Tir Alainn Trilogy. Both series are very well written but are definitely not all sweetness and light. More like a definite fight between good and evil with the bad things that these fights cause an integral part of the plots of the main trilogies.


The Witch Hunter by Nicole R. Taylor
The Secert Trinity Series by Jenna Bernel
Genevieve by Emma Mills
Witch and Werewolf by Sage Domini
Of Witches and Warlocks by Lacey Weatherford
Witch Avenue Series by Karice Bolton
The Black Act: Witch Twin Saga by Louise Bohmer
High Witch by Mona Hanna
Bewitching Embrace by Sandra Ross
Deadly Beauty Series by C.M Owens


Except has no witches exactly. Lots of wizards and magic folk but M.C. is a mundane human working for a wizard with another wizard as love interest.
I love the series, it's a real hoot and anything with enchanted frogs, gargoyles, ogres and gnomes appeals to me. But, I don't consider it a witchy book. Humor, romance, magic -- but lacking "witchy.". I just finished book 6 so haven't completed the series and could be wrong if witches show up later.
I was able to read via public library ebook borrow if anyone wants to check the series out that way.


The Active-Enzyme, Lemon-Freshened Junior High School Witch by Edmund Hildick. Allison is bored and wants more control in her life, so when she discovers a book on witchcraft (it's clearly Paul Huson's Mastering Witchcraft: A Practical Guide for Witches, Warlocks & Covens) it seems just the ticket. Choosing the name Ariadne Atropos Arachne, she has a great time teaching herself out of the book and later mentoring her baby sister (who chooses the name Jezebel).
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth by E.L. Konigsburg. Shy, stubborn Elizabeth befriends new girl Jennifer, a practicing witch who instructs her in the art. Everything goes wonderfully until they start preparing to make flying ointment. Another classic, with an understated message about people who are different.
J.R. Lowell, Daughter of Darkness. Little Willie Connolly is the super-intelligent daughter of rich and famous parents. Such a perfect, darling child. Her collection of dolls from around the world seem to be just part of her interest in anthropology. People who get in her way have a way of taking ill, dying or going insane. But that's just coincidence, isn't it? No one suspects the truth, until it's too late.
Try the Witch World series by Andre Norton. 30 or so books, but it's not all the same characters. Some have romance, some don't. But definitely start with the book I linked, as it "sets" the story up. Some of them are dated--the first book in the series was published sometime around 1960 or so. The first book the MC is actually a man--but he is Cornish (an area of GB that has a lot of stories of witches, ghosts, ghoulies and long-legged-beasties) and has some powers of his own.
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The witches can be good fighting evil, or they can be the evil creatures (horror/mystery... ect) Basically anything with the main plot being about witches.(or the male equivalent)
Some examples that I like are: Charmed (TV show), Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV Show). Sabrina type books would be more light hearted (high school setting, young age, most like), books similar to Charmed would be more good fighting evil, bad ass female leads, witches struggling with good verses evil.
Books I already own or read:
So to recap:
Any setting is fine. Main plot about witchy stuff. Bad ass female characters. Romance is a plus! Any genre is fine (fantasy, sci-fi, horror, mystery, historical... ect)
Characters can be any age. Anything from children to mature adult books are fine! (Children, Middle grade, YA, new adult, adult)
Series or stand alones are fine. If you want, please tell me why you would suggest the book you are suggesting. (No spoilers please)