Books like The Rules of Magic
In 1960s Manhattan, Franny, Jet and Vincent Owens grow up under their mother's strict rules against magic and love, until a summer with their Aunt Isabelle in Massachusetts teaches them who they are.
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The Once and Future Witches
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.
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
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 Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
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.
Beastly
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.
A Discovery of Witches
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.
Family Lore
Flor Marte, who has always known when people are about to die, announces that she wants a living wake, and over the three days before it her sisters and their daughters gather in New York and wonder what she has foreseen.
The Witches of Eastwick
Three divorced women in a Rhode Island town discover their powers in the late 1960s and turn them to mischief, until a mysterious rich man buys the old mansion and seduces all three.
The Honey Witch
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.
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
An eighteenth-century French village girl trades her soul for immortality on the condition that everyone she meets forgets her, and three hundred years later a boy in a New York bookshop says hello.
The Shape of Water
In 1962 Elisa Esposito, a mute cleaner at a secret government laboratory in Baltimore, finds the creature kept in a tank there, an amphibian man captured in the Amazon.
Like Water for Chocolate
A woman forbidden to marry channels her passion into cooking that literally enchants those who eat it.
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
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.