Category: Book Recommendations: Magic-Based Memoirs and Novels

Book reviews and recommendations about memoir, essay collections, novels, and short stories that focus on magic and the speculative.

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The Best Books About Magic for Adults - 2024

Do you love magic, but don’t typically read fantasy? Literature-lovers rejoice: there’s enchantment to be found in the everyday world (of fiction). Supernatural and mythic abilities, creatures, beasts, and fairies, and even magic portals. You’ll recognize the worlds the characters of these novels inhabit, but be charmed and enchanted out of your own. Here are […]

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Witch Stories: Where to Start with Some of the Most Magical Writers and Storytellers

Who says witches have to be villains? Some of the greatest modern storytellers certainly don’t think so. Authors like Pam Grossman and Madeline Miller are flipping the script on witch stories, offering empowering and nuanced alternatives to the stereotype of the old hag in the woods who curses princesses with spindles. It’s important to tell […]

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