Recommendations please - books about witches/magic

[WyrdSisterWeatherwax]

Can anyone recommend some good fiction books about witches?

I've recently read:
Practical Magic
The Rules of Magic
A Discovery of Witches trilogy
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Hex by Thomas Older Heuvelt
All the Harry Potters
Terry Pratchett's witch ones

I really loved the Rules of Magic, the bond between the sisters and the setting so something like that would be great but also interested in any decent fiction read with witches or folk magic set in any time, past or present.

I have A Secret History of Witches and The Wicked Deep on my Amazon wishlist - has anyone read them?

Thanks!

Zen Cho's Sorceror to the Crown is great fun. It's a Regency novel with sorcery, dragons, demons and Faery.

For more modern day witches - Paul Cornell's Lychford series is great but very different feel to the above - more gritty and bad things happen to good people.

Have you read any Diana Wynne Jones?

I really enjoyed Witchborn by Nicholas Bowling.

The catalogue for the current (almost over) Spellbound exhibition at the Ashmolean museum is good. The exhibition is great.

Do you watch any Thoughts on Tomes on YouTube? She's good on this topic.

Personally I enjoyed Truthwitch and am on to Windwitch. Great focus on the friendship bond between the two lead 'threadsisters'.

Have you read the Blood Magick Trilogy by Nora Roberts?

I read them a few years ago and found them engaging and page-turning, with characters you can really become attached to.

And Magick is spelt with a K - that’s not a typo!

The fourth Deborah Harkness is out which continues the story of Marcus and Phoebe.,

VE Schwab's The Near Witch might be one to watch out for, it's out of print but the new edition is due out in early 2019 I believe.

Have you read The Mists of Avalon? Not strictly witches but it does have magic and Arthurian legend. One of my favourite books of all time!

I'm currently reading The Bear & The Nightingale by Kathy Arden - genuinely cannot put it down

Kim Harrison's Hollows series

Dead Witch Walking is the first

All the creatures of the night gather in "the Hollows" of Cincinnati, to hide, to prowl, to party... and to feed.

Vampires rule the darkness in a predator-eat-predator world rife with dangers beyond imagining - and it's Rachel Morgan's job to keep that world civilized.

A bounty hunter and witch with serious sex appeal and an attitude, she'll bring 'em back alive, dead... or undead.

The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian is brilliant IMO - modern day and very much set in the real world, which I liked.

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Sorceror to the Crown (I mentioned above) is currently £1.19 on Kindle deal. Great fun and even though it's apparently now part of a trilogy it doesn't end on a cliffhanger so is standalone.

Rivers of London series? They're crime books but involve a branch of the met run by wizards who police the magic in modern day London. Pretty light, but I enjoy the humour in them (there are 7 I think, I'm still part way through)

Jodi Taylor’s new series starting with White Silence and then Dark Light has witches, (also strange government organisations, ghosts, mythology, real estate and romance); hard to go wrong really.

There is a series I read years ago by Jan Siegel: Prospero’s Children; Dragon Charmer and The Witch’s Honour. I recommended them to someone recently and she enjoyed them a lot. Quite an old series now, but none the poorer for that.

Jan Siegel is a pseudonym for Amanda Hemingway. Under that name the trilogy beginning with The Greenstone Grail is good; more old legends than witches though.

A really old one, but an absolute favourite of mine is Robert Neill’s Mist Over Pendle. And another old one is Mary Stewart’s gentle Thornyhold.