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Katherine Howe · 2009 · US · historical fiction · fantasy
★ 3.73 Goodreads · 59,770 ratings

Clearing out her grandmother's abandoned house near Salem, a Harvard graduate student finds a key with a name on it, and the search for a lost 17th-century spellbook leads back to the witch trials.

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12 books for readers of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

Practical Magic

Alice Hoffman · 1995 · US 96% match ★ 3.69 Goodreads · 188,919 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Practical Magic
shares: witches, New England, romantic · 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.

A Discovery of Witches

Deborah Harkness · 2011 · US 96% match ★ 4.02 Goodreads · 573,955 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in All Souls
shares: academic, commercial, witches · 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.

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Elizabeth George Speare · 1958 · US 94% match ★ 4.03 Goodreads · 163,270 ratings
shares: witches, New England, romantic · easy read, earnest

In 1687 Kit Tyler leaves Barbados for her aunt's strict Puritan household in Connecticut, and her friendship with an old Quaker woman the town calls a witch puts her in danger.

The House of the Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1851 · US 94% match ★ 3.45 Goodreads · 44,412 ratings
shares: Salem, New England, romantic · earnest, exterior

A curse laid during the Salem witch trials hangs over the Pyncheon family's gloomy house, where an impoverished old maid opens a cent shop and waits for her brother to come home from prison.

I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

Maryse Condé · 1986 · France 94% match ★ 4.07 Goodreads · 17,322 ratings
shares: Salem, witches · easy read, intimate

Tituba, born on Barbados to an enslaved mother, learns healing from an old woman of the island and is sold to a Puritan minister in Massachusetts, where she is among the first accused in the Salem trials.

Beastly

Alex Flinn · 2007 · US 94% match ★ 3.82 Goodreads · 178,849 ratings
shares: witches, romantic · easy read, earnest

Kyle Kingsbury, the arrogant, handsome son of a New York news anchor, humiliates a girl at school who turns out to be a witch, and she turns him into a beast with two years to find love.

The Lions of Fifth Avenue

Fiona Davis · 2020 · US 92% match ★ 3.89 Goodreads · 88,838 ratings
shares: mystery, dual timeline · easy read, earnest

In 1913 Laura Lyons lives in an apartment inside the New York Public Library, where her husband is superintendent, and is drawn into a club of radical women. In 1993 her granddaughter Sadie, a curator there, faces a run of thefts of rare books.

A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

Sangu Mandanna · 2025 · UK 92% match ★ 3.92 Goodreads · 132,605 ratings
shares: witches, romantic · easy read, earnest

At fifteen, Sera Swan used forbidden magic to try to bring back the aunt who raised her and lost most of her power; fifteen years later she runs Batty Hole, an enchanted inn in Lancashire full of eccentric long-term guests.

The Historian

Elizabeth Kostova · 2005 · US 90% match ★ 3.80 Goodreads · 282,087 ratings
shares: academic, dual timeline · earnest, easy read

A teenager finds a strange book and a letter addressed 'To my dear and unfortunate successor' in her father's study, and follows his old academic quest for Vlad the Impaler across Cold War Europe.

Possession

A. S. Byatt · 1990 · UK 89% match ★ 3.90 Goodreads · 86,887 ratings
shares: academic, mystery, dual timeline · hopeful, clear-cut

Two modern academics discover a cache of love letters between two Victorian poets and become entangled in a parallel romance of their own.

The Once and Future Witches

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

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.

The Honey Witch

Sydney J. Shields · 2024 · US 89% match ★ 3.53 Goodreads · 31,948 ratings
shares: witches, romantic · easy read, earnest

Twenty-one-year-old Marigold Claude agrees to train as the next Honey Witch on the tiny Isle of Innisfree, though the Honey Witch is cursed so that no one can fall in love with her, and then Lottie Burke, a grumpy sceptic who does not believe in magic, arrives at the cottage.