Ten Favorite Novels About Witches and Witchery

(alphabetically by author, with a soundtrack by Siouxsie and the Banshees)

 

for adults

  • April Witch by Majgull Axelsson

  • The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

  • (dis)Comfort Food by Brad Carter

  • Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen

  • Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugrešić

for children or young adults

  • Chime by Franny Billingsley

  • The Witches by Roald Dahl

  • Coraline by Neil Gaiman

  • The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan

  • The Golden Compass [and its sequels] by Philip Pullman

— July 8, 2021


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