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42 of Your Favorite Witchy Reads

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This giveaway is sponsored by The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw. The Salem witchcraft trials meet Practical Magic and “Hocus Pocus” in this seductive tale about three sisters who return every summer in order to exact their revenge on the town that killed them for witchcraft two centuries ago.      
Did you see Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock on the red carpet reminiscing about playing sister witches in “Practical Magic”? Did it put you in the mood for some page-turners about witches? Us too! So we asked, and as always, the Riot readers came through. Below are just some of your picks. Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi The Near Witch by Victoria Schwab The Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch, translated by Lee Chadeayne Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales by Charles W. Chesnutt The Good House by Tananarive Due The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike The Witches by Roald Dahl Uprooted by Naomi Novik The Witchfinder’s Sister by Beth Underdown Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor The Graces by Laure Eve I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau by Jewell Parker Rhodes The Witch’s Trinity by Erika Mailman Daughters of the Witching Hill by Mary Sharratt The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare The Crucible by Arthur Miller The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne Outside the Bones by Lyn Di Iorio Witch Child by Celia Rees Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling The Witching Hour by Anne Rice The Witch’s Market by Mingmei Yip The Witch’s Daughter by Paula Brackston The Red of His Shadow by Mayra Montero Speaks the Nightbird by Robert McCammon The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco Captivated by Nora Roberts The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis