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Witches

Women who hold power the world fears. Coven politics, ancient spells, and the cost of magic.

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    Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

    Grady Hendrix · Horror

    *‘I did an evil thing to be put in here, and I’m going to have to do an evil thing to get out.’* They call them wayward girls.

    gothic atmosphere · witches · coming of age · dark academia · haunted setting

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Bloom

    Delilah S. Dawson · Romance

    A sweet sapphic romance takes a deadly dark turn in this sharp-as-a-knife novella with the slow build menace of Angela Carter's The Bloody…

    dark romance · paranormal romance · slow burn · forbidden romance · witches

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    The Bewitching

    Silvia Moreno-Garcia · Horror

    “Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches”: That was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her great-granddaughter…

    gothic atmosphere · witches · haunted setting · multiple timelines · dark academia

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Hemlock & Silver

    T. Kingfisher · Fantasy

    Healer Anja regularly drinks poison.

    dark romance · grimdark · gothic atmosphere · twist ending · witches

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

    Sangu Mandanna · Fantasy

    What if love is the best magic of all?

    paranormal romance · cozy vibes · slow burn · second chance romance · witches

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    The Tapestry of Fate

    Shannon Chakraborty · Fantasy

    THE EPIC, ACTION-PACKED SEQUEL TO THE ADVENTURES OF AMINA AL-SIRAFI FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR SHANNON CHAKRABORTY Set sail into the second…

    quest · witches

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

    Sangu Mandanna · Fantasy

    “This is one of my coziest reads of the last year, and I find myself thinking about its enchanted setting all the time.”−Emily Henry, #1 New York…

    romantic comedy · cozy vibes · found family · slow burn · witches

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    A Vow in Vengeance

    Jaclyn Rodriguez · Fantasy

    In this enemies-to-lovers romantasy with tarot magic, a woman attends an academy in the Immortal realms, where she strikes a deal with a power-hungry…

    enemies to lovers · slow burn · revenge plot · magic academy · witches

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    The Eye of the World

    Robert Jordan · Fantasy

    The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend.

    chosen one · quest · found family · witches · magic academy

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Heartless Hunter

    Kristen Ciccarelli · Fantasy

    On the night Rune’s life changed forever, blood ran in the streets.

    enemies to lovers · dark romance · cat and mouse · witches · slow burn

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    Rebel Witch

    Kristen Ciccarelli · Fantasy

    **The stakes are even higher in this epic, romantic conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Crimson Moth duology.** A WITCH...

    enemies to lovers · slow burn · forced proximity · high stakes survival · witches · quest

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Songs of the Dead

    Brandon Sanderson · Fantasy

    A London rocker is faced with a life-or-death choice when he realizes that a powerful society of magic wielders are the only ones keeping London safe…

    urban fantasy · witches · high stakes survival · found family

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    City of Gods and Monsters

    Kayla Edwards · Fantasy

    PRE-ORDER THE HOUSE OF DEVILS SERIES NOW, AND ENTER THE CITY OF ANGELTHENE.

    paranormal romance · urban fantasy · slow burn · fish out of water · vampires · werewolves shifters · witches

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore

    Emily Krempholtz · Fantasy

    **A powerful plant witch and a grumpy alchemist must work together to save their quiet town from a magical plague in this debut cozy fantasy romance…

    slow burn · grumpy sunshine · found family · redemption arc · witches

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Cackle

    Rachel Harrison · Horror

    All her life, Annie has played it nice and safe.

    witches · dark romance · coming of age · forbidden romance

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    The Lies of Lena

    Kylie Snow · Fantasy

    Passionate and Dark. Enemies to Lovers. Forced Proximity. Angst. Lena Daelyra has always lived in fear, as do most Mages in Tovagoth. Mages are…

    enemies to lovers · dark academia · forced proximity · slow burn · witches

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Circe

    Madeline Miller · Fantasy

    In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born.

    coming of age · witches · grimdark · redemption arc

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Green and Deadly Things

    Jenn Lyons · Fantasy

    Centuries ago, necromancy almost destroyed the world.

    dark academia · grimdark · witches · demons · quest

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Wicked Onyx

    Debbie Cassidy · Fantasy

    In a ruthless magical academy where she's cursed and powerless, the last Onyx must unravel dark family secrets and navigate dangerous alliances to…

    dark academia · grimdark · revenge plot · morally grey character · witches

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    A Discovery of Witches

    Deborah E. Harkness · Fantasy

    Witch and Yale historian Diana Bishop discovers an enchanted manuscript, attracting the attention of 1,500-year-old vampire Matthew Clairmont.

    paranormal romance · urban fantasy · forbidden romance · slow burn · witches · vampires · demons

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Green & Deadly Things

    Jenn Lyons · Fantasy

    For fans of S.A. Chakraborty, Robin Hobb, and Martha Wells's Witch King, a page-turning standalone fantasy of necromancy and magical mayhem from Jenn…

    dark academia · grimdark · witches · demons · quest

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Practical Magic

    Alice Hoffman · Literary Fiction

    For more than two hundred years, the Owens women had been blamed for everything that went wrong in their Massachusetts town.

    forbidden romance · witches · magical realism · coming of age

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Bloodsinger

    Juliette Cross · Fantasy

    Juliette Cross returns with a new scorching dark romantasy in her The Fire That Binds trilogy.

    dark romance · witches · dragons · fated mates · obsessive love

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    The Enchanted Greenhouse

    Sarah Beth · Fantasy

    Terlu Perna broke the law because she was lonely.

    cozy vibes · romantic comedy · found family · slow burn · witches

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    In the Company of Witches

    Auralee Wallace · Mystery & Thriller

    The cozy, magical TikTok sensation, now in trade paperback with exclusive bonus content!

    magical realism · found family · witches

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    Juniper & Thorn

    Ava Reid · Horror

    From highly acclaimed, bestselling author Ava Reid comes a gothic horror retelling of The Juniper Tree, set in another time and place within the…

    dark academia · gothic atmosphere · dark romance · redemption arc · trauma recovery · witches

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Children of Blood and Bone

    Tomi Adeyemi · Fantasy

    Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic.

    coming of age · chosen one · revenge plot · quest · witches

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    Talonsister

    Jen Williams · Fantasy

    Uncover a magical past that refuses to be forgotten in a world of mythical creatures and ruthless religion in this brand-new duology from the…

    grimdark · chosen one · amnesia · trauma recovery · witches

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    A Resistance of Witches

    Morgan Ryan · Fantasy

    AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER RESISTANCE IS MAGIC “War II meets A Discovery of Witches…I raced through this one.” —Kate Quinn, New York Times…

    historical fiction · grimdark · witches · revenge plot

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    A Sorceress Comes to Call

    T. Kingfisher · Fantasy

    From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T.

    dark academia · gothic atmosphere · dark romance · forbidden romance · witches

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    The Late-Night Witches

    Auralee Wallace · Fantasy

    Cassie Beckett’s life is anything but magical.

    witches · found family · romantic comedy · urban fantasy · friends to lovers

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Human Rites

    Juno Dawson · Fantasy

    With Her Majesty’s Royal Coven in shambles and the fate of the world hanging in the balance, the sisterhood of friends and witches must find a new…

    urban fantasy · found family · witches · high stakes survival

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    The Lighthouse Witches

    C. J. Cooke · Fantasy

    A Most Anticipated Novel by Pop Sugar * Book Riot * Betches * Bustle * and more!

    witches · gothic atmosphere · multiple timelines · twist ending

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    A Forest, Darkly

    A.G. Slatter · Fantasy

    Perfect for fans of Ava Reid and Lucy Holland, this is a page-turning dark fantasy of persecuted witches, snatched children, twisted magic,…

    witches · grimdark · gothic atmosphere · revenge plot · trauma recovery

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    The Women of Wild Hill

    Kirsten Miller · Fantasy

    A witty, spectacular, and timely tale of modern-day witches waging war on the patriarchy, from fan favorite Kirsten Miller, the author of The Change…

    urban fantasy · found family · witches · grimdark

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Rewitched

    Lucy Jane Wood · Fantasy

    In this spellbinding warm and cozy debut novel, a burned-out witch will need to turn to her friends and trust in herself to find the magic in her own…

    paranormal romance · found family · cozy vibes · witches · slow burn

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    Weyward

    Emilia Hart · Fantasy

    **KATE, 2019** Kate flees London – abandoning everything – for Cumbria and Weyward Cottage, inherited from her great-aunt.

    found family · historical fiction · witches · slow burn · trauma recovery

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Bound

    Alexandra Blackwood · Fantasy

    What if loving him meant defying an entire world that wants you dead?

    forbidden romance · paranormal romance · urban fantasy · slow burn · werewolves shifters · witches

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus