13 Witchy Spells to Enchant Your Spooky Season TBR

Checklist of books with a witchy theme

Lacey Christiansen

September 21, 2025

Witches, open your grimoires to page 94...

Welcome, bookish coven, to a list designed to enchant your spooky season TBR with 13 curated reads devoted to witches and other practitioners of magic. Peruse the list for inspiration, or download the printable as an Autumn reading challenge.

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Witchy Reads for Every Energy from Cozy Charms to Full Moon Chaos

  • Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Romance
  • Dual Timelines
  • Historical Fiction
  • Fairytale Retellings

Which witch book casts a spell on you? Find your match below, or try them all.

* I have read many, though not all of these books. Some are still haunting my TBR. 

🪄 Spell of Forbidden Knowledge

A Discovery of Witches 🧙‍♀️

A richly inventive novel about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and the mysterious manuscript that draws them together.

All Souls Series book 1 of 4.
Adapted to Netflix Drama.

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🌀 Curse of the Eternal Flame

A Witch in Time 🕰

A young woman in Belle Epoque France is cursed to relive a doomed love affair through many lifetimes, as both troubled muse and frustrated artist.

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🕯 Séance for the Skeptical Mind

The Witch of Napoli 👻

Inspired by the true-life story of controversial Italian medium Eusapia Palladino (1854-1918), The Witch of Napoli masterfully resurrects the bitter,19th-century battle between Science and religion over the possibility of an afterlife.

Stand Alone.
Historical Fiction, but make it Witchy

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⚖ Hex of Historical Reckoning

American Witches 📚

Entertainingly readable and rich in amazing details often left out of today’s texts, American Witches casts a flickering torchlight into the dark corners of American history.

Stand Alone.
Witches in American History. Non-Fiction.

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🪻 Cottagecore Cloak of Secrets

The Secret of Thistle Cottage 🏡

Tess is intrigued by the shadowy stories of witchcraft surrounding the mother and daughter who lived in the cottage centuries ago. But she quickly discovers modern-day witch hunts can be just as vicious: someone in town knows her secret – and they won’t let Tess forget it…

Stand Alone.
Dual Timeline Witchhunt Victims.

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💫 Retail Hex for the Heartbroken

The Hocus Pocus Magic Shop 🪙

When chemist Grace O’Leary finds a book of magic spells hidden in her Aunt Lucy’s run-down magic shop, the scientist in her itches to try them out. She mixes up a batch of love potions as a joke, and has to face the consequences when they actually seem to work.

The Southside Stories book 2 of 4.
Cozy, withcy, rom-com.

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🎃 Enchantment of the Hollow

The Spellbook of Katrina Van Tassel 🌙

In Alyssa Palombo’s The Spellbook of Katrina Van Tassel nothing is as it seems, and love is a thing even death won’t erase.

Stand Alone. Legend of Sleepy Hollow retelling through Katrinas POV. Love. Friendship. Supernatural. 

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🩸 Ancestral Blood Binding

The Witch’s Daughter 🌲

Fresh, compelling take on the magical, yet dangerous world of Witches. Readers will long remember the fiercely independent heroine who survives plagues, wars, and the heartbreak that comes with immortality to remain true to herself, and protect the protégé she comes to love.

Book 1 of 2.
Historical Romance x Modern Fantasy.

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🧪 Potion of Misunderstood Villains

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West 🧤

When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum’s classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil?

The Wicked Years Book 1 of 4.
Source Material for the Broadway Show & Movie

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🌹 Love Charm with a Warning Label

Practical Magic 🥣

The Owens sisters confront the challenges of life and love in this bewitching novel from New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman.

4 Book Series.
Inspired 1993 Comic Fantasy of the same name.

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🐺 Winter Ward for the Wildbound

The Bear and the Nightingale ❄️

As danger circles, Vasilisa must defy even the people she loves and call on dangerous gifts she has long concealed—this, in order to protect her family from a threat that seems to have stepped from her nurse’s most frightening tales.

Book 1 of 3. Winternight Trilogy.
A haunting fairytale.

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🗣 Incantation of Revolutionary Voices

The Once and Future Witches 📖

In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in this powerful novel of magic, family, and the suffragette movement.

Stand Alone.
Witchcraft for a Cause.

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🫖 Brew of Found Family

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches 🌊

A warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family–and a new love–changes the course of her life.

Stand Alone.
Quirky, Cozy, Witchy.

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Get your FREE printable copy of  13 Spells for a Witchy Reading Season: A Magical Reading Challenge from Lacey in the Library

Which of these witch tales have you read? What others would you recommend? Tell us in the comments!

May your life be as full as your bookshelf and as long as your TBR list.
Happy Reading!
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