Witch Hunts

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In the broadest sense: history, sociology, fiction, protests, polemics urging their eradication. Thumb up useful, interesting books. Thumb down the boring and dull. If possible, remove books that don't apply.
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witch hunts
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The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts
by Arthur Miller
15,681 members
162 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda
2
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
by Elizabeth George Speare
11,445 members
210 reviews
4
2 Members
lquilter, ManWithAnAgenda
3
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
by Madeleine L'Engle
12,163 members
106 reviews
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
4
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
by Carl Sagan
7,192 members
105 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
5
The Bear and the Nightingale
by Katherine Arden
5,099 members
288 reviews
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
6
Witch Week
by Diana Wynne Jones
1,910 members
44 reviews
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
7
Malleus Maleficarum
by Heinrich Institoris
1,629 members
14 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
lquilter
8
The Doorbell Rang
by Rex Stout
1,401 members
30 reviews
4.1
Member
aulsmith
9
The Greenlanders
by Jane Smiley
1,154 members
34 reviews
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
10
The Last Witchfinder
by James Morrow
1,035 members
49 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
lquilter
11
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
by Maryse Condé
928 members
16 reviews
3.9
Member
Dilara86
12
The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
by Carol F. Karlsen
916 members
6 reviews
3.9
Member
AnnaClaire
13
The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials
by Marion L. Starkey
788 members
13 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
aulsmith
14
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers
by Barbara Ehrenreich
782 members
7 reviews
4.1
Member
lquilter
15
Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft
by Paul S. Boyer
742 members
8 reviews
3.9
Member
AnnaClaire
16
The Witchcraft of Salem Village
by Shirley Jackson
730 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
17
The Betrayal
by R. L. Stine
545 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
18
Witchcraze
by Anne L. Barstow
475 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
lquilter
19
The Lady's Not for Burning
by Christopher Fry
463 members
7 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
aulsmith
20
Kepler's Witch
by James A. Connor
396 members
3 reviews
3.8
Member
AnnaClaire
21
Homosexuality and Civilization
by Louis Crompton
384 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
aulsmith
22
Fellow Travelers: A Novel
by Thomas Mallon
318 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
aulsmith
23
The Remaking: A Novel
by Clay Chapman
264 members
10 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
24
The Scapegracers
by H.A. Clarke
247 members
12 reviews
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
25
In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer
by Heinar Kipphardt
226 members
4 reviews
3.8
Member
aulsmith
26
Satan's Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt
by Debbie Nathan
129 members
1 review
3.8
Member
aulsmith
27
The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal
by Barry Werth
125 members
3 reviews
4
Member
aulsmith
28
Making Monsters
by Richard Ofshe
72 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
aulsmith
29
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
by Katherine Howe
4,619 members
342 reviews
½ 3.7
30
The Hangman's Daughter
by Oliver Pötzsch
2,906 members
175 reviews
½ 3.6
31
The Devils of Loudun
by Aldous Huxley
1,541 members
26 reviews
3.9
32
Witch Child
by Celia Rees
2,389 members
62 reviews
½ 3.7
33
Europe's Inner Demons
by Norman Cohn
324 members
5 reviews
3.9
34
The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe
by Brian P. Levack
427 members
8 reviews
4
35
The Heretic's Daughter
by Kathleen Kent
2,466 members
184 reviews
3.8
36
Year of Wonders
by Geraldine Brooks
8,819 members
420 reviews
4
37
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation
by Silvia Federici
1,027 members
17 reviews
½ 4.3
38
In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
by Mary Beth Norton
900 members
19 reviews
3.9
39
The Minister's Daughter
by Julie Hearn
554 members
30 reviews
½ 3.7
40
Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft
by Robin Briggs
382 members
5 reviews
3.9
41
Hour of the Witch: A Novel
by Chris Bohjalian
952 members
43 reviews
3.8
42
Daughters of the Witching Hill
by Mary Sharratt
567 members
44 reviews
3.8
43
Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy
by Malcolm Gaskill
312 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
44
Witch Hunt: History of a Persecution
by Nigel Cawthorne
299 members
1 review
3.9
45
Servants of Satan
by Joseph Klaits
129 members
1 review
4.1
46
Salem Falls
by Jodi Picoult
4,456 members
73 reviews
½ 3.7
47
Last Rituals
by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
1,106 members
65 reviews
½ 3.4
48
Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials
by Marc Aronson
354 members
39 reviews
½ 3.7
49
Witch Hunt: It Happened in Salem Village
by Stephen Krensky
178 members
1 review
½ 3.4
50
Häxornas försvarare : ett historiskt reportage
by Jan Guillou
167 members
1 review
3.8
51
The Witching Tide
by Margaret Meyer
144 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
52
The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology
by Rossell Hope Robbins
514 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
53
A History of Witchcraft - Sorcerers, Heretics, & Pagans
by Jeffrey B. Russell
435 members
1 review
½ 3.7
54
Dragonswood
by Janet Lee Carey
411 members
41 reviews
3.8
55
The Witch's Trinity
by Erika Mailman
350 members
24 reviews
½ 3.6
56
Witchcraft in the Middle Ages
by Jeffrey Burton Russell
288 members
1 review
½ 3.6
57
The Witch of Blackbird Pond and Related Readings [study guide]
by Elizabeth George Speare
280 members
20 reviews
4
58
Naming Names
by Victor S. Navasky
279 members
4 reviews
½ 3.4
59
The Last Witch of Langenburg: Murder in a German Village
by Thomas Robisheaux
162 members
16 reviews
4
60
A Mass for Arras
by Andrzej Szczypiorski
136 members
3 reviews
½ 3.3
61
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Salem Witch!: Bizarre Accusations You'd Rather Not Face
by Jim Pipe
97 members
5 reviews
½ 4.4
62
Witch-Hunting In Seventeenth-Century New England: A Documentary History, 1638-1693
by David D. Hall
90 members
2 reviews
4.2
63
The Witches: Salem, 1692
by Stacy Schiff
2,729 members
71 reviews
½ 3.5
64
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
by Charles Mackay
2,714 members
41 reviews
3.8
65
The Witch's Daughter
by Paula Brackston
1,575 members
77 reviews
½ 3.4
66
Sorceress
by Celia Rees
919 members
16 reviews
½ 3.4
67
The Daylight Gate
by Jeanette Winterson
716 members
46 reviews
½ 3.5
68
The History of Witchcraft and Demonology
by Montague Summers
557 members
3.2
69
Satanism and Witchcraft: The Classic Study of Medieval Superstition
by Jules Michelet
515 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
70
A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials
by Frances Hill
461 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
71
The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World
by John Demos
251 members
11 reviews
3.2
72
Die Puppenspieler
by Tanja Kinkel
221 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
73
Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History
by Alan Charles Kors
215 members
2 reviews
4.1
74
Witchcraft and Sorcery
by Max Marwick
159 members
½ 3.6
75
Witchcraft
by Charles Williams
112 members
1 review
4.1
76
Witchcraft: The History and Mythology
by Richard Marshall
86 members
½ 3.3
77
The Witch Hunter's Tale
by Sam Thomas
74 members
1 review
½ 3.6
78
Heksen : opptegnelser fra en fjern fortid
by Bergljot Hobæk Haff
42 members
4
79
Pohjoisen noidat : oikeus ja totuus 1600-luvun Ruotsissa ja Suomessa
by Mirkka Lappalainen
33 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
80
Materials toward a history of witchcraft
by Henry Charles Lea
28 members
4
81
Het vuur van de wraak
by Karel Verleyen
11 members
4
82
Die Lichtfänger: Roman aus der Zeit der Hexenverfolgung
by Elmar Bereuter
11 members
1 review
½ 2.5
83
Vehmgerichte und Hexenprozesse in Deutschland
by Oskar Wächter
10 members
84
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
37,343 members
375 reviews
½ 3.4
85
The Once and Future Witches
by Alix E. Harrow
2,572 members
88 reviews
4.1
87
The Pillars of the World
by Anne Bishop
1,384 members
27 reviews
½ 3.7
88
A Break with Charity
by Ann Rinaldi
1,268 members
16 reviews
3.8
89
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture
by Marvin Harris
1,227 members
19 reviews
3.8
90
One Grave at a Time
by Jeaniene Frost
1,208 members
58 reviews
4
91
The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image
by Leonard Shlain
1,118 members
24 reviews
4
92
The Mercies
by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
1,077 members
52 reviews
3.9
93
Speaks the Nightbird
by Robert R. McCammon
992 members
38 reviews
4
94
The Familiars
by Stacey Halls
944 members
35 reviews
3.8
95
The Witches of New York
by Ami McKay
885 members
42 reviews
½ 3.7
96
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
by David Hajdu
854 members
27 reviews
½ 3.7
98
The Raging Quiet
by Sherryl Jordan
672 members
19 reviews
4.1
99
Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath
by Carlo Ginzburg
534 members
2 reviews
4
100
Scoundrel Time
by Lillian Hellman
472 members
8 reviews
3.9