We have all been bewitched by reading stories about witches and their magic potions and broom rides. This particular section of fantasy is widely read, ranging from children to adults. If you are looking for some enchanting novels to capture your attention, The Bombay Circle Press is here with handpicked recommendations once again.
- The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
Mika Moon knows how to hide her magic and stay indiscernible by following all the rules, except–she has an online account where she posts videos about pretending to be a witch, thinking no one will take it seriously. Until someone does. An unexpected message arrives at her doorstep to train three young witches to control and hide their magic, in a mysteriously distant location named Nowhere house. This adventure breaks a lot of rules but she does it anyway and treats them like her found family, as she was orphaned at quite a young age. Jamie, the librarian at the House, is seemingly very concerned and apprehensive about Mika around the young ones, no matter how attracted he feels to her. A threat comes knocking on their door and Mika has to decide if she wants to risk it all to protect her found family.
- Disco Witches of Fire Island by Blair Fell
A gripping fantasy novel of magic, romance, and hope. It’s 1989, and Joe Agabian and his best friend Ronnie set out to spend their first summer working in the hedonistic gay paradise of Fire Island Pines. Joe is desperate to let loose and finally move beyond the heartbreak of having lost his boyfriend to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. But something seems off, and Joe starts to suspect the two older men of being up to something otherworldly. In truth, Howie and Lenny are members of a secret disco witch coven tasked with protecting the island—and young men like Joe—from the relentless tragedies ravaging their community. But Joe’s longing to find love is tripped up by his own troublesome past as well as the lure of a mysterious hunk he keeps seeing around the island. The Disco Witches need to find help—fast—if they’re to save Joe and the island from the Great Darkness.
- The Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Deep in the stacks of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and a few notes, she banishes the book to the stacks. But her discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring, and a horde of daemons, witches, and vampires soon descends upon the library. Diana has stumbled upon a coveted treasure lost for centuries–and she is the only creature who can break its spell. Diana is a bold heroine who meets her equal in vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont, and gradually warms up to him as their alliance deepens into an intimacy that violates age-old taboos.
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
They open a door and enter a world called NARNIA…the land beyond the wardrobe, the secret country known only to Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy…the place where the adventure begins. Lucy is the first to find the secret of the wardrobe in the professor’s mysterious old house. At first, no one believes her when she tells of her adventures in the land of Narnia. But soon Edmund and then Peter and Susan discover the Magic and meet Aslan, the Great Lion, for themselves. In the blink of an eye, their lives are changed forever. This fantasy series will have you sobbing into your blanket and open your imagination to another world.
If you liked these fantasy recommendations, check out Fated to Love Him by Luna Lee, from The Bombay Circle press.