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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Witch's Daughter
Paula Brackston · 432 pages
Witnessing the death of her witch mother in the spring of 1628, Bess Hawksmith turns to secluded warlock Gideon Masters for protection and learns formidable powers, including immortality, skills she begins teaching to a new apprentice centuries later.
Witch Child
Celia Rees · 261 pages
In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare · 249 pages
Orphaned Kit Tyler knows, as she gazes for the first time at the cold, bleak shores of Connecticut Colony, that her new home will never be like the shimmering Caribbean island she left behind. In her relatives' stern Puritan community, she feels like a tropical bird that has flown to the wrong part of the world, a bird that is now caged and lonely. The only place where Kit feels completely free is
Daughters of the Witching Hill
Mary Sharratt · 333 pages
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
Brom · 305 pages
The Witches of Cambridge
Alice Hoffman
*Once upon a time, women were drowned in the river and the only witnesses were the crows in the trees. The Puritans blamed Eve for the sins of the world. That was when we began to meet in the name of Lilith, Adam’s first wife—banished for refusing to do as she was told.* ***We Fly Together…*** By the 1950s, Cambridge, Massachusetts feels far removed from the legendary witch trials that marke
The Betrayal
R.L. Stine · 168 pages
The saga of the feud between the Goode and Fier families begins during the witch hunts in Massachusetts in the late seventeenth century.
Tituba of Salem Village
Ann Petry · 263 pages
A captivating historical fiction book about the Salem witch trials told in the voice of the Putnam's slave Tituba. She is the only one to admitted to witchcraft, and the only one not to be executed. Tituba, the minister's slave, gazed into the stone watering trough. She did not see her own reflection. Instead, she saw a vision of herself, surrounded by angry people. The people were staring at
A Break With Charity: A Story of the Salem Witch Trials
Ann Rinaldi · 272 pages
While waiting for a church meeting in 1706, Susanna English, daughter of a wealthy Salem merchant, recalls the malice, fear, and accusations of witchcraft that tore her village apart in 1692.
Speaks the Nightbird
Robert McCammon · 792 pages
In 1699, a traveling magistrate and his clerk, Matthew, come to Fount Royal to try a woman charged with witchcraft.
Witchfall
Victoria Lamb · 316 pages
In order for magic-wielding Meg to keep the outcast Princess Elizabeth and her secret betrothed, the Spanish priest Alejandro de Castillo, safe in the court of Queen Mary, she needs to make the ultimate sacrifice.
Time of the Witches
Anna Myers · 197 pages
Orphaned Drucilla finds a home with the beautiful but troubled Mistress Putnam as accusations of witchcraft start to swirl in Salem Village.
I Walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembley, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1691
Lisa Rowe Fraustino · 240 pages
Deliverance Trembley lives in Salem Village where she must take care of her sickly sister, Mem, and where she does her daily chores in fear of her cruel uncle's angry temper. But after four young girls from the village accuse some of the local women of being witches, the town becomes increasingly caught up in a witch hunt. When the villagers begin to realize that Deliverance is a clever girl who p
Susannah Morrow
Megan Chance · 409 pages
Seeking to build a new life for herself in late-seventeenth-century Massachusetts, the beautiful and sensuous Susannah falls victim to the religious fervor, hysteria, and repression of the Salem witch trials.
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Katherine Howe · 384 pages
***A spellbinding, beautifully* written novel that moves between contemporary times and one of the most fascinating and disturbing periods in American history--the Salem witch trials.** Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie's grandmother's abandoned home near Salem
The Witch's Trinity
Erika Mailman · 289 pages
No one escapes suspicion when a famine afflicts a medieval German village. Eager to identify a scapegoat, the starving residents of Tierkinddorf fall under the spell of an itinerant friar claiming to be able to extract confessions of witchcraft from transgressors. When elderly Güde Müller begins to experience blackouts and confusing visions, her daughter-in-law Irmeltrud seizes the opportunity to
The Betrayal of Maggie Blair
Elizabeth Laird · 423 pages
In seventeenth-century Scotland, sixteen-year-old Maggie Blair is sentenced to be hanged as a witch but escapes to the home of her uncle, placing him and his family in great danger as she risks her life to save them all from the King's men.
The Daylight Gate
Jeanette Winterson · 224 pages
Alice Nutter fights for justice when a group of Pendle women are accused of witchcraft during the reign of England's James I, when being Catholic is considered an act of treason and the Latin High Mass is comparable to the satanic Black Mass.
The Sacrifice
Kathleen Benner Duble · 211 pages
The Sacrifice is a historical fiction, but relating greatly to the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. In the late 16th century, witches are believed to be real, and Salem Village will stop at nothing to bring them to trial and more than likely-execute them. When the Faulker family's servant girl, Sarah Phelps, accuses the families two oldest daughters, 10 year old Abigail Faulker and her sister, Dorothy,
The Burning Times
Jeanne Kalogridis · 400 pages
Wicked Girls
Stephanie Hemphill · 408 pages
A fictionalized account, told in verse, of the Salem witch trials, told from the perspective of three young women living in Salem in 1692--Mercy Lewis, Margaret Walcott, and Ann Putnam, Jr.
Star Cursed
Jessica Spotswood · 384 pages
Cate Cahill goes into an asylum in order to meet her godmother and another oracle as she continues to try to learn about the prophecy and protect her sisters from the oppressive Brotherhood in an alternate New England of 1900.
Hiding from the Light
Barbara Erskine · 684 pages
Stunning repackage of a gripping tale of witchcraft and romance, past and present, as modern-day characters are caught up in a battle that has been raging for hundreds of years.Across the peninsula the mist rolled in, its icy fingers curling up the cliffs. Inside their houses people stirred in their sleep and children cried in the dark.The parish of Manningtree and Mistley has a dark history. In 1