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Literary Witches

Description: These are suggested readings in the book, Literary Witches, which I'll also add to the list.

Rank Title Author Added

1

by Mary Shelley

42,779 members

714 reviews

3.8

4 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, arwa-fm

2

by Octavia E. Butler

8,426 members

354 reviews

4.2

4 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, arwa-fm

3

by Shirley Jackson

1,173 members

43 reviews

4

4 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, arwa-fm

4

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

52,122 members

705 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by Toni Morrison

22,894 members

408 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

by Virginia Woolf

20,672 members

331 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

19,157 members

346 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie

10,033 members

325 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

9,796 members

433 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

8,173 members

424 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Yellow Wallpaper - story

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

3,213 members

145 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

by Gertrude Stein

2,693 members

43 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, arwa-fm

13

by Shirley Jackson

413 members

11 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda, arwa-fm

14

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

17,628 members

271 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

15

Murder on the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie

17,187 members

422 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

16

A Room of One's Own

by Virginia Woolf

12,419 members

168 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

17

Complete Stories

by Flannery O'Connor

6,701 members

68 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

18

A Murder Is Announced

by Agatha Christie

4,683 members

92 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

19

by Sylvia Plath

4,132 members

51 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

20

by Flannery O'Connor

3,859 members

112 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

21

by Octavia E. Butler

2,844 members

83 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, arwa-fm

22

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

2,610 members

70 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

23

Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories

by Sandra Cisneros

1,848 members

36 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, arwa-fm

24

by Jamaica Kincaid

1,543 members

29 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

25

Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography

by Zora Neale Hurston

1,370 members

17 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, arwa-fm

26

by Jamaica Kincaid

1,109 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

27

Life Among the Savages

by Shirley Jackson

1,020 members

41 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

28

The Autobiography of My Mother

by Jamaica Kincaid

846 members

15 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

29

Eros the Bittersweet

793 members

6 reviews

4.2

2 Members: sturlington, arwa-fm

30

Love in a Fallen City

by Eileen Chang

632 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

31

Janet Frame: The Complete Autobiography

460 members

14 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: sturlington, arwa-fm

32

Women and Economics

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

212 members

2 reviews

2.9

2 Members: sturlington, arwa-fm

33

by Toni Morrison

13,462 members

239 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

34

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

10,858 members

124 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

35

The House on Mango Street

by Sandra Cisneros

10,677 members

230 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

36

by Toni Morrison

7,674 members

98 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

37

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

by Angela Carter

5,525 members

149 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

38

by Leslie Marmon Silko

3,567 members

60 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

39

Nights at the Circus

by Angela Carter

2,670 members

52 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

40

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

2,640 members

29 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: sturlington

41

Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

2,135 members

36 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: sturlington

42

by Angela Carter

1,916 members

40 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

43

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

1,874 members

22 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: sturlington

44

by Gertrude Stein

1,744 members

17 reviews

3

Member: sturlington

45

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

1,679 members

42 reviews

3.2

Member: sturlington

46

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

1,499 members

28 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: sturlington

47

by Jamaica Kincaid

1,294 members

29 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

48

by Zora Neale Hurston

1,093 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

49

Almanac of the Dead

by Leslie Marmon Silko

941 members

14 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

50

by Gertrude Stein

888 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

51

The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition

by Emily Dickinson

761 members

5 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: sturlington

52

Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica

by Zora Neale Hurston

746 members

13 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

53

Glass, Irony and God

625 members

11 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

54

The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History

by Angela Carter

608 members

7 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

55

Loose Woman: Poems

by Sandra Cisneros

593 members

8 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

56

by Anna Ahkmatova

515 members

8 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

57

Bloodchild and Other Stories

by Octavia E. Butler

511 members

16 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

58

Under a Glass Bell

492 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

59

by Leslie Marmon Silko

485 members

3 reviews

4.2

Member: sturlington

60

463 members

9 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

61

House of Incest

452 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

62

At the Bottom of the River

by Jamaica Kincaid

425 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

63

Crazy Brave: A Memoir

396 members

14 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

64

The Black Unicorn: Poems

379 members

5 reviews

4.2

Member: sturlington

65

She Had Some Horses: Poems

339 members

6 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

66

280 members

9 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

67

Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers

by Taisia Kitaiskaia

256 members

7 reviews

4.2

Member: sturlington

68

Cities of the Interior

253 members

3.8

Member: sturlington

69

How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2001

237 members

2 reviews

4.2

Member: sturlington

70

Lust, Caution: The Story

by Eileen Chang

190 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

71

Half a Lifelong Romance

by Eileen Chang

167 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

72

by Eileen Chang

126 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

73

The Lagoon: A Collection of Short Stories

112 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

74

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

by Emily Brontë

85 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

75

Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems

69 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

76

Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad

by Forugh Farrokhzad

67 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: sturlington

77

The Woman With the Flying Head: And Other Stories (Japanese Women Writers in Translation)

by Yumiko Kurahashi

48 members

1 review

3.8

Member: sturlington

78

The Rice Sprout Song

by Eileen Chang

47 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

79

Red Rose, White Rose

by Ailing Zhang and Eileen Chang

47 members

1 review

3

Member: sturlington

80

El infierno musical

by Alejandra Pizarnik

41 members

1 review

4.2

Member: sturlington

81

The Mortal Immortal: The Complete Supernatural Short Fiction of Mary Shelley

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

38 members

3.9

Member: sturlington

82

Maria Sabina: Selections

by María Sabina

35 members

3

Member: sturlington

83

The Diaries of Anais Nin

32 members

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

84

The adventures of Sumiyakist Q

by Yumiko Kurahashi

17 members

½ 4.5

Member: sturlington

85

When I Was a Witch

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

5 members

Member: sturlington

86

Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

by Yvette Siegert

1 member

Member: sturlington

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December 2019
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