Reading List

Here is the ever-growing list of texts we hope to read and discuss for future episodes, as well as recommendations for witchy media from our minisodes. Let us know if you have any suggestions or requests!

Adult Fiction

• A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness (Episode 1.1)
• Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness (Episode 2.5)
• Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett (Episode 1.4)
• Tiffany Aching books by Terry Pratchett (Episode 3.2)
• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (Episode 1.5)
• The Witches of New York by Ami McKay
• Witches of East End by Melissa de la Cruz
• The Witch’s Daughter by Paula Brackston
• The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
• Circe by Madeline Miller
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
• Witchmark by C.L. Polk
• The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

Young Adult Fiction

• Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor (Episode 1.2)
• Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor
• The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco
• Sorcery and Cecelia by Patricia C. Wrede
• The Changeover by Margaret Mahy
• Spellcaster by Claudia Gray
• The Witch Hunter by Virginia Boecker
• The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
• Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova (Episode 3.6)
• Bruja Born by Zoraida Córdova
• Witchtown by Cory Putman Oakes
• These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling
• Sandry’s Book by Tamora Pierce

Middle Grade Fiction

• The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill (Episode 1.7)
• The Witch’s Boy by Kelly Barnhill
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (Episode 2.2)
• The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste (Episode 2.3)
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
• The Magic Bed-Knob: Or How to Become a Witch in Ten Easy Steps by Mary Norton
• Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones
• Howl’s Moving Castle By Diana Wynne Jones

Adult Non-Fiction

• Basic Witches by Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman
• Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers by Taisia Kitaiskaia
• The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem by Stacy Schiff
• Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials by Marc Aronson
• A Year and a Day of Everyday Witchcraft by Deborah Blake
• Toil and Trouble: 15 Tales of Women and Witchcraft by Jessica Spotswood and Tess Sharpe
• The Witches are Coming by Lindy West

Drama/ Poetry/ Comics

• The Crucible by Arthur Miller
• the witch doesn’t burn in this one by Amanda Lovelace (Episode 2.4)
• Hex Wives #1 (DC Vertigo) by Ben Blacker and Mirka Andolfo (Episode 3.4)

Films/ TV Shows

• Wonder Woman (Episode 1.3)
• Hocus Pocus (Episode 1.6)
• Into the Woods (Episode 2.1)
• A Wrinkle in Time (Episode 2.2)
• Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (Episode 2.6)
• Siempre Bruja (Episode 3.1)
• Kubo and the Two Strings
• Penelope
• Practical Magic
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Madoka Magica (Episode 3.3)
• Stranger Things 2

Historical Sites/ Magical Places/ Cultural Objects

• Salem Witch Museum, Salem, MA (Minisode 1.1)
• The Magic Castle, Los Angeles, CA
• Any of the museums on this list

 

Recommendations (from our Minisodes)

From Minisode 2.1:

• The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw
• The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
• The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic by Leigh Bardugo
• Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
• Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman
• The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
• Mysterium (board game)

From Minisode 2.2:

• Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman
• Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland by Lisa Schneidau
• Llewellyn’s Witches’ Datebook 2018
• Louisiana State Museum
• The Jacobite Steam Train (“Hogwarts Express”)
• Witchy things to do in Edinburgh

From Minisode 2.3:

• Circe by Madeline Miller
• The Encore by Charity Tillemann-Dick
• Caraval by Stephanie Garber
• Legendary by Stephanie Garber
• An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard

From Minisode 3.1:

• Witchy Kitty (board game)
• Chrono Trigger (video game)
• Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
• Native American Tarot Deck
• Southwest Museum
• Binge Mode
• The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
• King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo
• Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Season 2
• Us