Every autumn is time for a rewatch of Practical Magic, featuring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman drinking midnight margaritas. Add to your reading list the original series the film is based on: It’s just as magical as the movie.
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Diana Bishop doesn’t know she’s a descendant of witches until she happens upon an enchanted manuscript in Oxford’s library. The discovery sets off an epic fantasy, where she meets vampire Matthew Clairmont, as she races to solve the mysteries in the book’s pages.
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Witch Emma Harlow hasn’t been home to Thistle Grove in years, causing her magical powers to wane. But when a spell-casting tournament is held, which requires her family to serve as judge, she returns home, and begins to wonder why she left in the first place.
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This historical novel tells the story of enslaved women living on a plantation in the Civil War era-South. In the immediate aftermath of the war, Rue, a young woman who learned healing skills from her mother, May Belle, must navigate what happens when children in the community begin to fall ill.
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Popular culture knows the Witches of Eastwick as the film adaptation starring Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Susan Sarandon, but it’s also a novel by John Updike about three women whose coven in Eastwick, Rhode Island is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious man named Darryl.
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Journalist Alex Mar spends five years journeying through the occult in America, writing about real-life witches and witchcraft. “Witches are gathering,” begins Mar’s reported memoir. “Witches are gathering all across California, witches and their apprentices and little children and polyamorous collection of boyfriends and girlfriends…”
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The 2005 film Mr. & Mrs. Smith starred Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as rival spies assigned to kill each other. Mr. & Mrs. Witch is a similar premise: Savannah is a powerful witch, who is unknowingly marrying a witch hunter Griffin. At their wedding, all hell breaks lose—and they’re tasked with killing each other.
Set in the Gilded Age, a trio of witches (Adelaide, Eleanor, and Beatrice) run a tea shop where they tell fortunes and give secret cures to the women who find them.
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Lucky St. James is a Métis millennial, struggling to make ends meet and care for her grandmother, Stella. When she finds a silver spoon etched with the world ‘Salem’ she soon uncovers a network of witches, VenCo (an anagram of “coven”), and sets off on a road trip to New Orleans.
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Emily Burack (she/her) is the Senior News Editor for Town & Country, where she covers entertainment, culture, the royals, and a range of other subjects. Before joining T&C, she was the deputy managing editor at Hey Alma, a Jewish culture site. Follow her @emburack on Twitter and Instagram.
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