Best Witchy books of 2022 — A guide to your spooky season reads.

Spooky Season is here and we all are in the mood to read some witchy magic tales. Out of so many books that we have been seeing over the years again and again, here are the best-handpicked books with Witch Stories for you all — which are all released in #2022!

1. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

In this book, witches believe in the motto`” Alone is how we survive” so for a witch to be safe and keep her powers in balance she needs to be alone. Now Mica our lead witch is living her life by the rules, moving houses every few months, staying alone and having a social media account of a witch, where she pretends to be a witch in others’ eyes. To her surprise one day she is approached to be a Tutor Witch n when she lands the job she witnesses too much magic dust in the air and 3 little ones running in the garden. She immediately has a red flag because so much power with her power is bound to create an imbalance. But even the thought of leaving them in this state to face the world creates panic in her heart. So she decides to go ahead with her job. But as she gets entangled in their lives, she discovers the chaos they have created and is now stuck between the decision to get out of this mess had saved her life or save the life of little ones and face a bigger punishment herself.

2. The Ones We Burn by Rebecca Mix

The second book is the one I read recently as an ARC and is coming out on 8th November so it can be read as a post-Halloween read.
The book is about a witch who has just managed to survive and is suddenly announced as the chosen one for Bloodwinn Treaty. And she is supposed to be the next witch bride for the human kingdom of Isodal.
Coming to Isodal with a single directive from her coven to kill the prince, she lands in the human kingdom. No sooner than she arrived, witches started to die of an unknown plague and she is stuck with the prince and her sister to find the cure but in return, she has to teach them how to contain her magic. In the journey to save other witches from this plague, she is at the crossroads of whether to support the people who helped her become this monster self or be with the human rulers and find the cure.
The book comes with elements of LGBT in it and a great writing style of which I am the biggest fan, a few of my fav quotes from the book are:

3. Once we were Witches by Sarah Driver

It's a new middle-grade series but can also be read as a standalone and has its comparisons made with some of the best magic books in this age category ;
Years ago magic was banished and the witches were hunted and burned, the two sisters’ Spel and Egg grow up in Miss Mouldheel’s School for Wicked Girls, where they are secretly being brainwashed like all other witch kids. One day a message arrives, with a job offer at the funeral parlour and they obviously cannot resist. Once they start to work there they find the 4 hidden worlds under that parlour and suddenly Egg has vanished into one of the deadliest — or shall I say for the dead ones! It’s up to Spel now to get her sister- her only living family that she knows of back alive.
packed with found family, sisterhood and magic this witchy tale is a great one to read this season and I basically loved everything about the book except the name of one of the sisters: EGG. how can you name that to a character, now I am vegetarian and I have my own reservations about the name EGG, but I do understand some people find it cute,- so okay we can all have our own reactions to the name EGG.

4. The Witch Haven by Sasha Peyton Smith

A combination of historical fiction and Witchy fantasy — this book is for lovers of dark academia. Set up in 1911 in New York, Frances is mourning the death of her brother when she is attacked by a man, whom she ends up killing in defence!
Instead of being convicted as a murderer, she is instead being taken to a sanitorium. — which is later on revealed to be a Witch School! A story of found family, hunger for power and choosing sides are all in the cards for this young witch! So think Hogwarts, and the secrets of Dumbledore coming together.

5. Wild is the Witch by Rachel Griffin

And the final one that I have for you is by the Author of The Nature of Witches- Wild is the Witch!
If the phrase from Macbeth: Double double toil and trouble/Fire burn and cauldron bubble’ was ever to be used again — it would be to describe this book, full of witch councils, spells, amplifiers and trekking.
Here’s a witch who has just settled in Washington, trying to safeguard her secrets by never letting anyone too near and takes out all her frustration by writing curse spells.
Otherwise, she works with a new intern Pike who hates witches, and once upon a subtle moment she finds the perfect curse for him — tun the witch hater into a witch, but when she tries to de-spell it, a bird takes the paper away. Now everything is haywire, she has to keep this a secret from the council and also convince pike to help her find the bird.
It's a light magical tale of witches for people who have had enough of intense reads and want a break — this might be the one for you!

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1. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna:
2. The Ones We Burn by Rebecca Mix
3. Once we were Witches by Sarah Driver
4. The Witch Haven by Sasha Peyton Smith
5. Wild is the Witch by Rachel Griffin

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