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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe 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
Lois the Witch
Elizabeth Gaskell · 160 pages
Fear of Satan becomes murder in the name of God.Newly orphaned, the God-fearing and heart-broken Lois is sent across the Atlantic to live with her uncle's family in Salem, but on her arrival she finds herself the object of cruel hostility, potent jealousy and mad desire.When the local Pastor's daughters are contorted and convulsed by apparently satanic powers, the whole town is whipped into a hyst
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.
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.
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.
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
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
The Minister's Daughter
Julie Hearn · 263 pages
In 1645 in England, the daughters of the town minister successfully accuse a local healer and her granddaughter of witchcraft to conceal an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, but years later during the 1692 Salem trials their lie has unexpected repercussions.
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
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
Brom · 305 pages
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
Maryse Conde · 227 pages
Offered here for the first time in English is I, Tituba Black Witch of Salem, by Guadeloupean writer Maryse Conde. This wild and entertaining novel, winner of the 1986 Grand Prix Litteraire de la Femme, expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches two y
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 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 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.
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.
Beyond the Burning Time
Kathryn Lasky · 272 pages
When, in the winter of 1691, accusations of witchcraft surface in her small New England village, twelve-year-old Mary Chase fights to save her mother from execution.
Daughters of the Witching Hill
Mary Sharratt · 333 pages
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 Burning Times
Jeanne Kalogridis · 400 pages
The Witchfinder's Sister
Beth Underdown · 368 pages
"A debut literary historical thriller based on the witch hunts in 1640's England--the most intense in English history--in which Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder General, convicted more than a hundred women of witchcraft. In 1645, Alice Hopkins returns to her brother's house in disgrace, husbandless and pregnant. The brother she remembers is now a grown man and he's hunting witches: women who live
The Beast Is an Animal
Peternelle van Arsdale · 352 pages
A girl with a secret talent must save her village from the encroaching darkness in this haunting and deeply satisfying tale.