Tis the season for spooky stories and magic. Let’s take a moment to remember the icons of autumn, a favorite being witches. While green-skinned wicked witches may be some people’s cup of pumpkin-spiced tea, others may prefer a lighter tale with more modern witches, like Gillian and Sally, the iconic sisters from Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman. If you like magic, romance, and family curses of Practical Magic, along with some dark twists and turns, you must read these fun, witchy stories this fall.

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

Growing up ostracized by the town for suspicion of witchcraft is one thing. Growing up cursed by your witch ancestors is another. Sally and Gillian Ownes have stared down this curse their entire lives, each with their own way of coping with the fact that they are destined to bring about the death of any man who falls in love with them. While they have solace in each other and their aunts, they are both looking for a way out of the curse so they may one day be free to live normal lives, but where is the fun in that?

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Marigold Mind Laundry by Jungeun Yun

Jieun has always been special, with gifts she cannot control. One day, she accidentally wishes her family out of existence. In repentance, she works at a magical laundry mat where people bring their sorrows to her, and she turns them into stains on clothes that can be easily washed away and heal the people who come in. After hearing five emotional stories from customers, each with their own wounds, Jieun realizes her powers are meant to heal, and that healing people is not a rare gift, but a responsibility and power we all share.

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The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz

Now that her former husband’s plagiarism scandal has been handled, Anna is ready to live her life as a literary widow and claim his royalty checks, and even begin her own journey into novel writing. But when she starts receiving excerpts from a manuscript that should no longer exist, she knows trouble is coming. Whoever is sending these knows far too much about her life that makes her skin crawl. Anna has worked far too hard to let this fly and will stop at nothing to find out who is doing this and end it.

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A Dark and Secret Magic by Wallis Kinney

Kate’s life as a hedge witch is as perfect as can be, with only her black cat for company, she is quite content with her routine, which gets completely upended when her sister asks her to plan their coven’s Halloween gathering. Her head is already spinning when Matthew, a practitioner of dark magic, asks for sanctuary in her home. After taking him in, she finds a book on dark magic that her recently deceased mother would practice in secret. Now Kate must trust Matthew to help her understand the strange spells and the book, why her mother would have had this, and make sure everything gets back to normal by Halloween.

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Casket Case by Lauren Evens

After a handful of missteps and misguidance, Nora ends up back in her small hometown taking over her family’s mortuary. One day, as she is drearily wondering about her bleak-looking future in Rabbittown, Garrett Bishop wanders into her store to ask for directions and ends up leaving with a date! As she grows closer to him, he seems perfect, almost. When a few deaths occur in town, it seems Garrett has a loose explanation for why he was near the scene, but Nora is suspicious. A truth Nora never would have guessed comes out and now she must find a way to reconcile her feelings for a man she just may love with his occupation: a logistics coordinator for Death.

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The Witches of Eastwick John Updike

When three women discover they have magic powers, it is not long until they become the talk of their small Rhode Island town. Each woman already bewitching in their beauty, and after separating from their husbands, finds their new powers to be a form of self-reclamation. Alexandra can summon storms, Jane can float in the air, and Sukie has the power of transformation. But when a wealthy stranger comes to town and refurbishes a mansion, he invites them to it and takes the talk of the town to a full-blown scandal.

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Rewitched Lucy Jane Wood

Belle always had a spark for magic, but lately, something has been off. She has no desire to cast spells or brew potions, she goes about her day dealing with her obnoxious boss and tries her best to keep her bookstore afloat. But when she gets a summons from her coven for a trial to prove her worthiness to be a witch or have her magic revoked, Belle has only one month to try to perfect spells she’s never attempted and prove to the coven she deserves her powers. She turns to all the witches in her life for help and finds some in unexpected places, like the handsome and annoying coven watchman sent to protect her.

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We Need No Wings by Ann Dávila Cardinal

Stricken with grief of her husband’s passing, Tere Sanchez decides to take a little time off from teaching to focus on healing. Soon, that “little time off” turns into a year with no end to her heartbreak in sight. One day, she sees her feet lifting higher and higher off the ground until she is floating completely in the air. After some research, she discovers a levitating mystic in her family line and heads to Spain to find out more. She must decide if she will remain chained to her grief or learn to carry it with her, so one day she may truly fly.

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Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson

Established by Queen Elizabeth I, Her Majesty’s Royal Coven was created to protect and heal those in need. Four friends, Helena, Leonie, Niamh, and Elle, all joined HMRC when they were young, but now, decades later, all left in the wake of a civil war among witches. All but Helena, the High Priestess of the turbulent organization. When a young and powerful warlock is captured, it is up to Helena to convince her old friends to help her one last time for the future of the witches’ world.

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Weyward by Emilia Hart

Kate is running from London and her abusive partner straight for her great aunt’s decaying cottage in the woods where she discovers the small home could be hiding many more secrets than she thought. Generations before, Altha’s mother taught her two things; One, people are always suspicious of unusual women, and two while witchcraft can protect you, it may also be the one thing that gets you hanged. Lastly, Violet is suffocating in her family’s estate. While World War II rages on outside, she only hopes for a chance at a future, one with an education, but the only clue she has out is her mother’s locket and the word “Weyword” scratched into a baseboard of her room. Each of these women is trapped and must reconnect with their magical histories to claim their power.

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Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova

Though she is the most powerful witch of her generation, Alex wants nothing to do with magic. In an effort to have a normal life, she casts a spell to get rid of her powers, but the spell does not work and instead makes her entire family disappear. Now she must work with Nova, a brujo, or sorcerer, she does not know if she can trust, but she will do anything it takes to bring her family back.

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The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon

After a devasting night with his prince fiancé, a trans witch Wyatt runs away from his home, Asalin, a world of fae creatures, to live in the mortal world. But Emyr, his fiancé, is not ready to give up on their betrothal as quickly, so he follows Wyatt into the human world telling him they marry now or risk the fate of Asalin. Wyatt refuses and strikes up a new deal. As they spend more time together in the mortal world, he realizes the friend he once knew in Emyr might still be in there, but it may all be a trick to get him to return to the fae realm. Wyatt must face his difficult past, find a way to control his magic, and decide what is more important, his freedom of the freedom of Asalin.

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Black Water Sister by Zen Cho

Jessamyn is broke, jobless, and more or less a failure to her parents, so she is moving back home to Malaysia for a fresh start and to reconnect with her family. That connection runs much deeper than she originally hoped it would when she starts hearing the ghost of her grandmother in her head. In life, she was a spirit medium, and in death she is just as connected to these spirits, like the Black Water Sister spirit that wants Jess to help her and her grandmother take revenge on a business tycoon who offended the gods. Dragged into a world of ghosts and gods, Jess soon finds herself trapped between two worlds, and her grandmother threatens to blow her secret at every turn, not to mention commit felonies via possession of Jess. Jessamyn must learn to fight for control and take back her destiny, or the Black Water Sister may bring about her end.

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The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

Women have always had to fight hard for the same respect, privileges, and rights, their male counterparts have. But in the “modern” era of change in 1893, the suffragette movement is going strong and will be making a big difference in the upcoming elections. But three sisters have another way of making a change that could really catch some attention, but they must heal their bond and work together for their plan to be successful. They must be careful though, while burning witches is not common anymore, it does not mean a witch hunt and trail ending in death is off the table for the sisters.

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The Bone WitchThe Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco

Tea comes from a long line of powerful witches, so it is not surprising she would take after them in power level. But when she accidently resurrects her brother, she is immediately ostricised by her community and family, earning her the title of the bone witch. To escape the judgement and dangers of her town, she runs away with her brother and another bone witch who offers her guidance and understanding no one else can. While she is getting settled into her new life and studying to wield elemental magic, a dark force is closing in that threatens to ruin everything.

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House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

Three sisters, Grey, Vivi, and Isis have always been strange. From their dark hair turning white, to going missing for a month with no memory of it happening, there is no telling what is going to happen next to these girls. Isis is trying her best to have a normal life and graduate high school, but when Grey goes missing, Isis and Vivi must unravel her strange clues to figure out what happened, but they soon realize, other, supernatural forces, are also looking for Grey. The sisters race against time as they are slowly pulled back into the world they tried to leave behind years ago to save Grey before someone, or something, finds her.

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The Memory of Lavender and Sage by Aimie K. Runyun

All of the heart of Practical Magic meets Under the Tuscan Sun in this novel about self-discovery and the importance of family. After Tempèsta’s mother dies, she is given a small inheritance she uses to move to her mother’s home, a small village in Provence, France. While her welcome from the mayor and other townsfolk is anything but warm, she stubbornly sticks out her stay to learn more about her mother, where her family come from, and discovers the magic in everyday. Learning to have confidence, trust, and love for you community and yourself can be hard, but all Tempèsta needs is a little faith, luck, and determination to find her place in Provence.

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