Books like “Practical Magic”

What to read after “Practical Magic” by Alice Hoffman: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern · 2011
Similar atmosphere: “Magical Realism”
- Magical Realism
- Star-Crossed Lovers
A black-and-white circus arrives without warning and opens only at night. Behind its rivalry of illusions stand two young magicians, Celia and Marco, bound by a contest neither chose. As they fall in love, the circus and everyone in it becomes the stakes.
2
The Astonishing Color of After
Emily X.R. Pan · 2018
Similar atmosphere: “Magical Realism”
- Magical Realism
After her mother's death, Leigh travels to Taiwan to meet grandparents she has never known, convinced her mother has returned as a red bird. Grief, a family silence and a friendship she left behind come together as she learns what she can and cannot hold on to.
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The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
Leslye Walton · 2014
Similar atmosphere: “Magical Realism”
- Magical Realism
Born with wings she cannot fly, Ava grows up in a Seattle house where the women carry a long history of love that ends badly. As she longs to be an ordinary girl, her family's sorrows keep shaping everyone around her.
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V. E. Schwab · 2020
Similar atmosphere: “Magical Realism”
- Magical Realism
- Star-Crossed Lovers
In 1714 France, Addie LaRue makes a desperate deal to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. For three hundred years she drifts through history unseen, until in a New York bookshop a young man tells her that he remembers her.
5
Kingdom of the Wicked
Kerri Maniscalco · 2020
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
Witch sisters Emilia and Vittoria live secretly among humans, hiding from those who would kill them. When Vittoria is found murdered, Emilia swears to hunt down the killer, even using forbidden magic. Her search brings her to Wrath, a prince of Hell she cannot trust and cannot look away from.
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The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger · 2003
Similar atmosphere: “Magical Realism”
- Magical Realism
- Star-Crossed Lovers
Henry has a genetic condition that pulls him through time without warning, so his life with the artist Clare never runs in the usual order. They meet again and again at different ages, and their love must hold through long absences and a future neither of them can change.
7
Blood & Honey
Shelby Mahurin · 2020
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
With the witch hunts still burning, Lou and Reid flee and try to gather allies against the church. They bargain with people they do not trust and hide a bond more dangerous than any enemy. As the threat grows, Lou senses that the darkness inside her is not as harmless as she believed.
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Uprooted
Naomi Novik · 2015
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
Every ten years the wizard known as the Dragon takes one girl from Agnieszka's valley. When he chooses her instead of her best friend, she is carried to his tower, where she discovers a talent for magic, a growing bond with her cold teacher and the corrupted Wood that threatens them all.
9
Cemetery Boys
Aiden Thomas · 2020
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
- Star-Crossed Lovers
Yadriel, a trans boy, wants his traditional family to accept him as a brujo. When his initiation goes wrong he raises the ghost of a murdered classmate, and together they search for answers while Yadriel hides the truth from everyone he loves.
10
Stardust
Neil Gaiman · 1999
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
- Star-Crossed Lovers
A young man promises to retrieve a fallen star for the girl he loves and crosses a wall into the land of Faerie. There he finds the star is a woman pursued by witches and princes, and his errand becomes a journey of its own.
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A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness · 2011
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
Diana Bishop, a historian and reluctant witch, calls up an enchanted manuscript that every creature in Oxford wants. When the vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont offers his help, their alliance defies the laws that keep witches, vampires, and daemons apart.
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A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness · 2011
Similar atmosphere: “Magical Realism”
- Magical Realism
Thirteen-year-old Conor is visited at night by a monster shaped like a yew tree, who promises to tell him three stories in exchange for a fourth, one Conor must tell himself. Meanwhile his mother is ill, and Conor struggles with grief, anger and guilt.