44 Books About Witches to Read at Halloween 2024

Last updated on 1 September 2025

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Ready to devour these books about witches this Halloween?

It’s nearly the spooky season and with that comes all the wonderfully Halloween-themed decor, pumpkin spice lattes, scary movies, and, of course, supernatural books. If you’re anything like me then you love nothing more than picking up books that match each season of the year. Christmas books in December, summer reads in January (or July if you’re in the Northern Hemisphere), and books about witches and wizards at Halloween.

Or books about magic. Or books about werewolves and vampires. The options are endless. Especially these days. There are so many incredible books out there that centre around the supernatural and the paranormal. So much so that we bloggers can make entire lists of them (and struggle to actually read the long list ourselves!).

Speaking of which, here is a list of 44 books about witches to read at Halloween this year. Some of them have been around for decades, some are more recent ones, published in the last year or two. There are books about romance, or adventure, or deep friendships; some are books set in magical schools or books set in fantasy worlds.

And there are so many more to discover!

The books below are split into three sections: Young Adult books about witches, adult books, and Children’s and Middle-Grade books. This is by no means a complete list, but it’s something to get you started on your spooky reads!

Young Adult books about witches

The Babysitters Coven by Kate Williams

“Adventures in Babysitting meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer in this funny, action-packed novel about a coven of witchy babysitters who realize their calling to protect the innocent and save the world from an onslaught of evil.”

Age: Young Adult

Genres: Witches, Urban Fantasy, Contemporary

The Witch Haven by Sasha Peyton Smith

“The Last Magician meets The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy in this thrilling and atmospheric historical fantasy following a young woman who discovers she has magical powers and is thrust into a battle between witches and wizards.”

Age: Young Adult

Genres: Witches, Paranormal, Historical Fiction

The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin

“Practical Magic meets Twister in this debut contemporary fantasy standalone about heartbreaking power, the terror of our collapsing atmosphere, and the ways we unknowingly change our fate. ”

Age: Young Adult

Genres: Witches, Romance, Urban Fantasy

Blood Like Magic by Liselle Sambury

“A rich, dark urban fantasy debut following a teen witch who is given a horrifying task: sacrificing her first love to save her family’s magic. The problem is, she’s never been in love—she’ll have to find the perfect guy before she can kill him.”

Age: Young Adult

Genres: Witches, Romance, Contemporary

Witches Steeped in Gold by Ciannon Smart

“This Jamaican-inspired fantasy debut about two enemy witches who must enter into a deadly alliance to take down a common enemy has the twisted cat-and-mouse of Killing Eve with the richly imagined fantasy world of Furyborn and Ember in the Ashes.”

Age: Young Adult

Genres: Witches, High Fantasy, Paranormal

Bad Witch Burning by Jessica Lewis

“For fans of Us and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina comes a witchy story full of black girl magic as one girl’s dark ability to summon the dead offers her a chance at a new life, while revealing to her an even darker future.”

Age: Young Adult

Genres: Witches, Horror, Urban Fantasy

Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin

“The war between witches and Church is an ancient one, and Lou’s most dangerous enemies bring a fate worse than fire. Unable to ignore her growing feelings, yet powerless to change what she is, a choice must be made. And love makes fools of us all.”

Age: Young Adult / New Adult

Genres: Witches, Romance, Magic

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

“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 ballot box…”

Age: Young Adult

Genres: Witches, Historical Fiction, Paranormal

Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco

“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 beloved twin…desecrated beyond belief. Devastated, Emilia sets out to find her sister’s killer and to seek vengeance at any cost-even if it means using dark magic that’s been long forbidden.”

Age: Young Adult

Genres: Witches, Romance, Historial Fiction

Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly

“Isabelle should be blissfully happy – she’s about to win the handsome prince. Except Isabelle isn’t the beautiful girl who lost the glass slipper and captured the prince’s heart. She’s the ugly stepsister who’s cut off her toes to fit into Cinderella’s shoe … which is now filling with blood.”

Age: Young Adult

Genres: Witches, Retelling, Fairy Tale

These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling

“Hannah’s a witch, but not the kind you’re thinking of. She’s the real deal, an Elemental with the power to control fire, earth, water, and air. But even though she lives in Salem, Massachusetts, her magic is a secret she has to keep to herself. If she’s ever caught using it in front of a Reg (read: non-witch), she could lose it. For good. So, Hannah spends most of her time avoiding her ex-girlfriend (and fellow Elemental Witch) Veronica, hanging out with her best friend, and working at the Fly by Night Cauldron selling candles and crystals to tourists, goths, and local Wiccans.”

Age: Young Adult

Genres: Witches, LGBT, Romance

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

“Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who’s ever been chosen. That’s what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he’s probably right.”

This is more Witch-adjacent, as the characters are technically mages, but use magic like a witch might.

Age: Young Adult

Genres: Witches, Mages, LGBT

The Near Witch by Victoria Schwab

“The Near Witch is only an old story told to frighten children. If the wind calls at night, you must not listen. The wind is lonely, and always looking for company. And there are no strangers in the town of Near.”

Age: Young Adult

Genres: Witches, Fiction, Mystery

The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco

“When Tea accidentally resurrects her brother, Fox, from the dead, she learns she is different from the other witches in her family. Her gift for necromancy means that she’s a bone witch, a title that makes her feared and ostracized by her community. But Tea finds solace and guidance with an older, wiser bone witch, who takes Tea and her brother to another land for training.”

Age: Young Adult

Genres: Witches, Romance, Supernatural

The Graces by Laure Eve

“Everyone said the Graces were witches. They moved through the corridors like sleek fish, ripples in their wake. Stares followed their backs and their hair. They had friends, but they were just distractions. They were waiting for someone different. All I had to do was show them that person was me.”

Age: Young Adult

Genres: Witches, Mystery, Contemporary

Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins

“Three years ago, Sophie Mercer discovered that she was a witch. It’s gotten her into a few scrapes. Her non-gifted mother has been as supportive as possible, consulting Sophie’s estranged father—an elusive European warlock—only when necessary. But when Sophie attracts too much human attention for a prom-night spell gone horribly wrong, it’s her dad who decides her punishment: exile to Hex Hall, an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, a.k.a. witches, faeries, and shapeshifters.”

Age: Young Adult

Genres: Witches, Supernatural, Romance

Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

“Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she’s struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.”

Age: Young Adult

Genres: Witches, Romance, Paranormal

Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood

“Everybody knows Cate Cahill and her sisters are eccentric. Too pretty, too reclusive, and far too educated for their own good. But the truth is even worse: they’re witches. And if their secret is discovered by the priests of the Brotherhood, it would mean an asylum, a prison ship—or an early grave.”

Age: Young Adult

Genres: Witches, Romance, Historical Fiction

Half Bad by Sally Green

“Sixteen-year-old Nathan lives in a cage: beaten, shackled, trained to kill. In a modern-day England where two warring factions of witches live amongst humans, Nathan is an abomination, the illegitimate son of the world’s most terrifying and violent witch, Marcus. Nathan’s only hope for survival is to escape his captors, track down Marcus, and receive the three gifts that will bring him into his own magical powers—before it’s too late. But how can Nathan find his father when there is no one safe to trust, not even family, not even the girl he loves?”

Age: Young Adult

Genres: Witches, LGBT, Urban Fantasy

Jinx by Meg Cabot

“Misfortune seems to follow her everywhere she goes—even to New York City, where Jinx has moved to get away from the huge mess she caused in her small hometown. Her aunt and uncle welcome her to their Manhattan townhouse, but her beautiful cousin Tory isn’t so thrilled. . . .”

Age: Young Adult

Genres: Witches, Chick Lit, Supernatural

Toil and Trouble edited by Jessica Spotswood & Tess Sharp

“A young adult fiction anthology of 15 stories featuring contemporary, historical, and futuristic stories featuring witchy heroines who are diverse in race, class, sexuality, religion, geography, and era.”

Age: Young Adult

Genres: Witches, LGBT, Anthologies

Truthwitch by Susan Dennard

“Young witches Safiya and Iseult have a habit of finding trouble. After clashing with a powerful Guildmaster and his ruthless Bloodwitch bodyguard, the friends are forced to flee their home.”

Age: Young Adult

Genres: Witches, Romance, Adventure

Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

“Sunny Nwazue lives in Nigeria, but she was born in New York City. Her features are West African, but she’s albino. She’s a terrific athlete, but can’t go out into the sun to play soccer. There seems to be no place where she fits in. And then she discovers something amazing—she is a “free agent” with latent magical power. And she has a lot of catching up to do.”

Age: Young Adult

Genres: Witches, Urban Fantasy, Fiction

When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie Mclemore

“To everyone who knows them, best friends Miel and Sam are as strange as they are inseparable. But as odd as everyone considers Miel and Sam, even they stay away from the Bonner girls, four beautiful sisters rumored to be witches. ”

Age: Young Adult

Genres: Witches, LGBT, Magical Realism

The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernslaw

“Welcome to the cursed town of Sparrow…Where, two centuries ago, three sisters were sentenced to death for witchery. Stones were tied to their ankles and they were drowned in the deep waters surrounding the town.”

Age: Young Adult

Genres: Witches, Romance, Mystery

Kingdom of Souls by Rena Barron

“A girl with no gifts must bargain for the power to fight her own mother’s dark schemes—even if the price is her life. Heir to two lines of powerful witchdoctors, Arrah yearns for magic of her own. Yet she fails at bone magic, fails to call upon her ancestors, and fails to live up to her family’s legacy. Under the disapproving eye of her mother, the Kingdom’s most powerful priestess and seer, she fears she may never be good enough.”

Age: Young Adult

Genres: Witches, Mythology, Paranormal

Mooncakes by Wendy Xu and Suzanne Walker

“A story of love and demons, family and witchcraft. Nova Huang knows more about magic than your average teen witch. She works at her grandmothers’ bookshop, where she helps them loan out spell books and investigate any supernatural occurrences in their New England town.”

Age: Young Adult

Genres: Witches, Graphic Novel, LGBT

Grimoire Noir by Vera Greentea & Yana Bogatch

“Bucky Orson is a bit gloomy, but who isn’t at fifteen? His best friend left him to hang out with way cooler friends, his dad is the town sheriff, and wait for it―he lives in Blackwell, a town where all the girls are witches.”

Age: Young Adult

Genres: Witches, Graphic Novel, Mystery

How to Hang a Witch by Adriana Mather

“It’s the Salem Witch Trials meets Mean Girls in a debut novel from one of the descendants of Cotton Mather, where the trials of high school start to feel like a modern day witch hunt for a teen with all the wrong connections to Salem’s past.”

Age: Young Adult

Genres: Witches, Mystery, Romance

Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Page

“Sure, I’ve read the books. I’ve seen the movies. I know the song about the rainbow and the happy little bluebirds. But I never expected Oz to look like this. To be a place where Good Witches can’t be trusted, Wicked Witches may just be the good guys, and winged monkeys can be executed for acts of rebellion. There’s still a yellow brick road—but even that’s crumbling.”

Age: Young Adult

Genres: Witches, Retelling, Fairy Tale

Adult Books About Witches

The Witches of New York by Ami McKay

“The beloved, bestselling author of The Birth House and The Virgin Cure is back with her most beguiling novel yet, luring us deep inside the lives of a trio of remarkable young women navigating the glitz and grotesqueries of Gilded-Age New York by any means possible, including witchcraft…”

Age: Adult

Genres: Witches, Paranormal, Historical Fiction

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

“A world of witches, daemons and vampires. A manuscript which holds the secrets of their past and the key to their future. Diana and Matthew – the forbidden love at the heart of it.”

Age: Adult

Genres: Witches, Vampires, Romance

The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike

“Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorcées with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Their happy little coven takes on new, malignant life when a dark and moneyed stranger, Darryl Van Horne, refurbishes the long-derelict Lenox mansion and invites them in to play.”

Age: Adult

Genres: Witches, Literature, Horror

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

“People have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it’s only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day. But what if, for once, the predictions are right, and the apocalypse really is due to arrive next Saturday, just after tea?”

Age: Adult

Genres: Witches, Humor, Science Fiction Fantasy

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

“On the veranda of a great New Orleans house, now faded, a mute and fragile woman sits rocking… and The Witching Hour begins.”

Age: Adult

Genres: Witches, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

“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 about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, with their musty house and their exotic concoctions and their crowd of black cats. But all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape.”

Age: Adult

Genres: Witches, Chick Lit, Paranormal

A Secret History of Witches by Louisa Morgan

“An ancient and dangerous power is being handed down from mother to daughter through some of the most consequential historic events of the last two centuries.”

Age: Adult

Genres: Witches, Historical Fiction, Magical Realism

The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec

“When a banished witch falls in love with the legendary trickster Loki, she risks the wrath of the gods in this moving, subversive debut novel that reimagines Norse mythology.”

Age: Adult

Genres: Witches, LGBT, Retelling

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

“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?”

Age: Adult

Genres: Witches, Classics, Retelling

A Witch in Time by Constance Sayers

“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.”

Age: Adult

Genres: Witches, Time Travel, Historical Fiction

Middle Grade and Children’s Books About Witches

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

“Dorothy thinks she’s lost forever when a tornado whirls her and her dog, Toto, into a magical world. To get home, she must find the wonderful wizard in the Emerald City of Oz. On the way she meets the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion. But the Wicked Witch of the West has her own plans for the new arrival… will Dorothy ever see Kansas again?”

Age: Middle Grade

Genres: Witches, Adventure, Classics

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling

“Harry Potter’s life is miserable. His parents are dead and he’s stuck with his heartless relatives, who force him to live in a tiny closet under the stairs. But his fortune changes when he receives a letter that tells him the truth about himself: he’s a wizard. A mysterious visitor rescues him from his relatives and takes him to his new home, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.”

Age: All ages

Genres: Witches, Wizards, Adventure

The Witches by Roald Dahl

“This is not a fairy tale. This is about real witches. Real witches don’t ride around on broomsticks. They don’t even wear black cloaks and hats. They are vile, cunning, detestable creatures who disguise themselves as nice, ordinary ladies. So how can you tell when you’re face to face with one? Well, if you don’t know yet you’d better find out quickly because there’s nothing a witch loathes quite as much as children and she’ll wield all kinds of terrifying powers to get rid of them.”

Age: Children / Middle Grade

Genres: Witches, Humour, Fiction

Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis

“Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy find their way through an old wardrobe into the world of Narnia. There, they unite with Aslan to fight the White Witch and save Narnia from perpetual Darkness.”

Age: Children / Middle Grade / All Ages

Genres: Witches, Adventure, Classics

There are plenty of books about witches out there in the world, and we’ve merely scraped the surface! So what are you waiting for? Make a list of books to read this Halloween and do the spooky season right!

Have you read any of these spooky reads?