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Emma Törzs · 2023 · US · fantasy
★ 3.99 Goodreads · 67,333 ratings

Joanna Kalotay guards her family's collection of magical books alone in rural Vermont, while her half-sister Esther moves every year to a new remote place, as their father always told her to. When he dies suddenly, the sisters are drawn back together.

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12 books for readers of Ink Blood Sister Scribe

Practical Magic

Alice Hoffman · 1995 · US 94% match ★ 3.69 Goodreads · 188,919 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Practical Magic
shares: sisterly, magic, family, siblings · easy read, earnest

Raised by their witch aunts in a Massachusetts town that both fears and needs them, the Owens sisters grow up and leave, until one turns up on the other's doorstep with a dead man in her car.

The Sirens

Emilia Hart · 2025 · Australia 94% match ★ 3.69 Goodreads · 82,211 ratings
shares: sisterly, mysterious, siblings, sisters · earnest, easy read

Lucy wakes up with her hands around her boyfriend's neck and flees to her sister Jess's house on the cliffs of an Australian coastal town, to find Jess gone. In 1800 two Irish sisters, Mary and Eliza, are sent to Australia on a convict ship.

The Darkest Part of the Forest

Holly Black · 2015 · US 93% match ★ 3.86 Goodreads · 91,627 ratings
shares: magic, family · earnest, speculative

In Fairfold, a town where humans live alongside the fae, Hazel and her brother Ben have always loved the horned boy asleep in a glass coffin in the woods, until one day he wakes.

Three Dark Crowns

Kendare Blake · 2016 · US 92% match ★ 3.78 Goodreads · 120,059 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Three Dark Crowns
shares: sisterly, magic, siblings, sisters · earnest, speculative

On the island of Fennbirn, every generation of queens is born as triplets, each with a different gift, and when they turn sixteen they must fight to the death for the crown: Mirabella the elemental, Katharine the poisoner and Arsinoe the naturalist.

A Discovery of Witches

Deborah Harkness · 2011 · US 91% match ★ 4.02 Goodreads · 573,955 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in All Souls
shares: library, magic · earnest, easy read

Diana Bishop, a historian and reluctant witch, calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in Oxford's Bodleian Library, and the creatures who want it, among them a vampire geneticist, start circling.

Darkfever

Karen Marie Moning · 2006 · US 91% match ★ 4.05 Goodreads · 192,699 ratings
Book 1 of 11 in Fever
shares: sisterly, mysterious · easy read, earnest

MacKayla Lane, a Georgia bartender who loves pink and pop music, flies to Dublin to find out who murdered her sister and discovers she can see the Fae who hide among humans, which makes her valuable to the enigmatic Jericho Barrons.

Caraval

Stephanie Garber · 2017 · US 91% match ★ 3.97 Goodreads · 992,140 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Caraval
shares: sisterly, magic, siblings, sisters · earnest, easy read

Scarlett Dragna has always dreamed of Caraval, a once-a-year performance where the audience plays along, and when she and her sister Tella finally reach the island, Tella is taken by the game's master and finding her becomes this year's game.

The Astral Library

Kate Quinn · 2026 · US 90% match ★ 3.56 Goodreads · 103,579 ratings
shares: library, bibliophile · easy read, earnest

Alix Watson, who grew up in foster care and is barely getting by on odd jobs, stumbles into the Astral Library, a magical refuge where people go to live inside books, just as something attacks it and its Librarian needs her help.

Wicked Lovely

Melissa Marr · 2007 · US 90% match ★ 3.70 Goodreads · 167,104 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in Wicked Lovely
shares: mysterious, magic · earnest, speculative

Aislinn, who has always been able to see faeries and has kept it secret, is chosen by Keenan, the Summer King, as the mortal girl who may become his queen.

Brown Girl in the Ring

Nalo Hopkinson · 1998 · Canada 90% match ★ 3.84 Goodreads · 7,731 ratings
shares: magic, family · earnest, easy read

In a near-future Toronto whose core has been abandoned by the rich, Ti-Jeanne, a young mother, lives with her grandmother, a healer who works with the spirits, while a crime lord hunts for a human heart for a politician's transplant.

The Once and Future Witches

Alix E. Harrow · 2020 · US 89% match ★ 4.02 Goodreads · 115,907 ratings
shares: sisterly, magic · earnest, easy read

In 1893, three estranged sisters arrive separately in the city of New Salem and get swept up in the suffrage movement, which they intend to win with witchcraft people thought had been burned out of the world.

Shadowshaper

Daniel José Older · 2015 · US 89% match ★ 3.74 Goodreads · 11,009 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Shadowshaper Cypher
shares: magic, family · earnest, fast-paced

Sierra Santiago, starting her summer painting a mural in Brooklyn, notices the murals in her neighbourhood fading and weeping, and learns her family has a secret that ties spirits to art.