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Witching Hour Wonders

Embrace the enchantment of the season with this captivating collection of books that celebrates the mystical and the macabre! Each book in this list weaves together tales of witches, spells, and the supernatural, inviting readers to explore realms where magic and reality intertwine. From spellbinding adventures to haunting charm, these stories are filled with strong heroines, dark secrets, and transformative journeys. Perfect for curling up with as the nights grow longer, this collection promises to ignite your imagination and transport you to worlds where the witching hour is a time of wonder and mystery.

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  • Dragon fire no longer blisters the skies over Penterra, but inside the lavish palace, life is still perilous…especially for Tamsyn. Raised in the glittering court alongside the princesses, it's her duty to be punished for their misdeeds. Treated as…
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — JORDAN
  • For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked…
    Book, 1995New York : Putnam, [1995] — FIC HOF
  • Deep in the stacks of Oxford's Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with…
    Book, 2011New York : Viking, [2011] — FIC HAR
  • Ruby and her sister, Wren, are normal, middle-class Colorado high school students working a summer job at the local Renaissance Fest to supplement their meager college savings. So when an eccentric old lady asks them to impersonate her long-absent…
    Book, 2024New York : Tor Teen/Tor Publishing Group, 2024. — T FIC HENNING
  • After Grandmére Ursule gives her life to save her tribe, her magic seems to die with her. Even so, her family keeps the Old Faith, practicing the spells and rites that have been handed from mother to daughter for generations. Until one day,…
    Book, 2017New York : Redhook, 2017. — F MOR
  • Delia Merriweather does not believe in magic. But she does believe in family, and her family happens to identify as witches. Their lack of magic doesn’t dampen this heartfelt belief, because according to lore and legend, they’re hexed. Convenient?…
    Book, 2024New York : Forever, 2024. — SCI BLO
  • The year is 1880. Two hundred years after the trials in Salem, Adelaide Thom has left her life in the sideshow to open a tea shop with another young woman who feels it's finally safe enough to describe herself as a witch: a former medical student…
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Harper Perennial, [2017] — FIC MCKAY
  • On the night Rune’s life changed forever, blood ran in the streets. Now, in the aftermath of a devastating revolution, witches have been diminished from powerful rulers to outcasts ruthlessly hunted due to their waning magic, and Rune must hide what…
    Book, 2024New York : Wednesday Books, 2024. — Y CIC #1
  • In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the…
    Book, 2020New York : Redhook, 2020. — FIC HARROW
  • Kiela has always had trouble dealing with people. Thankfully, as a librarian at the Great Library of Alyssium, she and her assistant, Caz—a magically sentient spider plant—have spent the last decade sequestered among the empire’s most precious…
    Book, 2024New York : Bramble, Tor Publishing Group, 2024. — FIC DUR
  • Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe - witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the family's renowned Sicilian restaurant. Emilia soon finds the body of her…
    Book, 2020New York : Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2020. — YA MANISCALCO
  • 1. Never get involved with magic, 2. If you must get involved, do not enter a competition to win the biggest magical fortune in England, and 3. Definitely don't fall for Callan Hawthorne, the sexy billionaire mage who you've hated for years So how…
    Book, 2023[Place of publication not identified] : Bonnie Doon Press Inc., [2023] — ROM HALL
  • Nine years ago, Vivienne Jones nursed her broken heart like any young witch would: vodka, weepy music, bubble baths…and a curse on the horrible boyfriend. Sure, Vivi knows she shouldn’t use her magic this way, but with only an “orchard hayride”…
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2021. — STERLING EX HEX #1
  • Mariel Spark is prophesied to be the most powerful witch seen in centuries of the famed Spark family, but to the displeasure of her mother, she prefers baking to brewing potions and gardening to casting hexes. When a spell to summon flour goes very…
    Book, 2023New York : Berkley Romance, 2023. — FIC HAWLEY
  • Emery Blackwood’s life changed forever the night her best friend was found dead and the love of her life, August Salt, was accused of murdering her. Years later, she is doing what her teenage self swore she never would: living a quiet existence on…
    Book, 2022New York : Delacorte Press, [2022] — FIC YOU
  • When Breen Kelly was a girl, her father would tell her stories of magical places. Now she’s an anxious twentysomething mired in student debt and working a job she hates. But one day she stumbles upon a shocking discovery: her mother has been hiding…
    Book, 2020New York : St. Martin's Press, 2020. — ROBERTS DRAGON HEART #1
  • All her life, Annie has played it nice and safe. After being unceremoniously dumped by her longtime boyfriend, Annie seeks a fresh start. She accepts a teaching position that moves her from Manhattan to a small village upstate. She’s stunned by how…
    Book, 2021New York : Berkley, c2021. — HARRISON
  • As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don't mingle and draw attention. And as an orphan who lost her parents at a young age and was…
    Book, 2022New York : Berkley, 2022. — FIC MAN