14 Witchy YA Books To Read This Fall (Including New For 2024 Releases)

Spells To Forget Us by Aislinn Brophy

Read it if you want: a more witchy love story

A powerful witch and a mortal get stuck in a loop of meet-cutes and breakups as a result of a spell that backfires and leaves BOTH of the girls with no memory of their relationship once they break up — that is until they get back together and regain all the memories realizing this meet cute they had isn’t the first time it has happened.

Out September 17.

The Lies We Conjure by Sarah Henning

Read it if you want: a locked room murder mystery but with witches

This sounds so fun — especially for someone (me!) who will jump at any book that says for fans of Clue or The Inheritance Games. Doubly so considering it involves a witch society and two humans who get themselves tangled in it.

It’s about two sisters who have been hired to impersonate a woman’s grandchildren at a private dinner at a lavish mansion. It’s not until the host is murdered that the sisters realize the predicament they are in — the host was the leader of a secret witch society and now magic has trapped them in this mansion until the murder is solve. While the sisters try to keep their real identities hidden from the witches in attendance, they also try to solve the riddles left by the host and successfully find the killer so they can leave this party alive.

Out September 17.

Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin

Read it if you want: a dark fantasy enemies-to-lovers romance between a witch and a witch hunter

An on-the-run witch who left her coven and has remained undetected until an unfortunate situation arises and is thrown into a sham marriage-of-convenience to one of the Church’s witch hunters who has no idea that his new bride is a witch.

Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins

Read it if you want: old school YA paranormal witches that is SO FUN!

This is one of my all time favorite YA witch books from back in the day and one that, in re-reading the series this past year, I still recommend if you want a good witchy read from the early 2010’s.

It’s set at a reform/boarding school for magical teens and follows a teen girl — who found out that she was a witch a few years ago — and who has gotten herself in too much trouble which lands her at this reform school.

As she has some bumps settling into a new school, she finds herself in over her head when she’s caught up in a mystery surrounding students being attacked at the school.

It’s SUCH a fun paranormal series!!

Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco

Read it if you want: a dark fantasy about a witch on a revenge mission after her sister is murdered

Emilia and Vittoria are witches who live in secret amongst humans to avoid unwanted attention or persecution but one night Vittoria doesn’t show up to dinner and Emilia soon finds out she’s been murdered.

This murder sets her off on a path of revenge and destruction to find her sister’s killer at whatever cost — even if it means she uses forbidden magic and aligns herself with one of the Wicked Princes of Hell to do that.

It’s a deliciously dark fantasy, the enemies-to-lovers romantasy is fantastic (and really picks up in the sequel) and I loved the Italian setting.

The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw

Read it if you want: some Hocus Pocus vibes with sisters seeking revenge yearly for their untimely death due to witchery accusations

I immediately picked this one up because of the Hocus Pocus vibes because I LOVED the Sanderson sisters and was ready for another sister story surrounding witches and curses.

The town of Sparrow has been cursed for the last 200 years after three sisters were accused of witchcraft and drowned for it.

They have sought revenge yearly since then — for a short window of time until the summer solstice — in which they possess three bodies of local girls and use them to seduce young men to their death at the same place they were drowned centuries before.

Their story intersects with a local girl living in Sparrow in the present — our narrator — and finds herself falling for a mysterious new boy (unaware of the town’s history) who rolls into town and must risk everything to protect him from the sisters.

Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood

Read it if you want: a witchy YA paranormal romance in an alternate 19th-century New England

If you loved the YA paranormal books that came out after Twilight and dominated the early 2010’s, you might have heard of this one but it’s possible it went under the radar with the slew of YA paranormals that were being fed to us in this era.

This one was one of the few of that era that featured witches and I really enjoyed this series. I haven’t re-read it so I don’t know how it holds up but if you are craving that type of paranormal from that era — I really recommend this!!

It is set in an alternate New England in the 1890’s and witches are actively hunted and persecuted. It follows the story of a teen witch who must protect her sisters from their identity (and their more lax approach to keeping their magic under-wraps) and dark family secrets that threaten their future. At the same time she has a short deadline to make a decision about her future — getting engaged or joining the Sisterhood (the sister group to the men who control everything).

It was such a page-turner full of dark magic and some forbidden romance even!

These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling

Read it if you want: the OG Sabrina the Teenage Witch vibes but if it were on CW

It’s about a teen witch living in Salem, MA who is certain that a Blood Witch is responsible for the dark magic that is being used recently around town but her coven isn’t as convinced.

She’s forced to team up with her ex-girlfriend to figure out who the Blood Witch is while also sorting out her love life when she starts crushing on the new girl in town — you know, all while trying to save the day as things get deadlier by the day.

The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin

Read it if you want: a unique take on witches full of self-discovery and environmentalism

This one was so unique! The witches in this book control the weather/climate with their magic but lately climate change has made it a lot harder for the witches to control. Most witches have their own season that they are in control of but the main character is a rare witch who is connected to all of the seasons.

She knows she’s the key to be able to save the world but the problem is that her magic is just too uncontrollable and she’s scared of what it has done in the past and how it could harm those she loves if she tries to harness its full potential.

It’s just such an interesting take on witches and there’s romance (with a guy trying to help her control her power) which is a struggle for her as her personality/emotions change with the seasons making any relationship very difficult.

Wild is the Witch by Rachel Griffin

Read it if you want: an atmospheric witchy read very connected to nature

Okay another witchy book by this author on this list, I know, but she writes such good ones! She even has a more recent one (Bring Me Your Midnight) that I have yet to read but plan to this Fall and no doubt will end up adding to this list.

Anyways, this one is about a witch who is trying to keep her identity as a witch under-wraps after an incident that forced her to move to the PNW. Now she is trying to keep a low profile while working at her mother’s animal refuge.

But one of her witch-hating co-workers infuriates her so much that, to combat her frustration, she writes out yet another curse she never intends to cast — a curse that would turn him into a witch and one she never intends to go anywhere.

That is until an injured owl flies away with the curse and she must find the owl before he dies — alongside her nemesis in the name of animal rescue — in order to covertly save him and the whole area that will be cursed once the owl dies.

Blood Like Magic by Liselle Sambury

Read it if you want: a more futuristic witchy read full of Black Girl Magic

I’m mad this one hasn’t gotten more hype because it is so good and unique!

It’s about a witch who, like those before her, must complete a trial in order to gain her magic. When she fails, she’s giving an unprecedented second chance by the ancestor assigning her trial and is faced with an impossible task — sacrifice her first love or her family will lose their magic.

With no love life to speak of, she grapples with finding her first love alongside the morality of killing him to save her bloodline’s magic.

It’s set in a near future Toronto and there’s a lot of interesting tech aspects to the story and world.

How to Succeed in Witchcraft by Aislinn Brophy

Read it if you want: an academic rivalry between two witches with a magic school setting

This is a newer one I’ve enjoyed after feeling like my witchy lit was more in the fantasy realm lately.

Set at an elite magic school, it’s all about a young witch in a heated competition for a prestigious scholarship so she can get into the university of her dreams.

The head of the scholarship committee is also the drama teacher who wants her to be the lead in his latest musical — opposite her rival — and she begrudgingly agrees hoping she’ll be able to impress him enough to get the scholarship.

But when her rival is nothing like she thought and her teacher’s conduct is worrisome, she starts to wonder just what the cost of winning the scholarship is.

Chime by Franny Billingsley

Read it if you want: a haunting and beautifully written YA paranormal that very fairy-tale Gothic feeling

Back when this came out in the early 2010’s, I remember it was very much a book that you either were fully obsessed with or you just didn’t get the hype (or maybe gave up due to the slower pace).

I was one that was fully obsessed with it because it was just so different and unlike anything I’d ever read as well as the fact that the writing was so gorgeous and enchanting.

Set in a small town by the swamp in 1910’s England, we meet Briony who is a witch (which will get you hanged in her town) and she hates that about herself — especially her stepmother blamed her for everything when she died.

She lives in guilt and fear of being caught, while also caring for her sister, but her whole world changes when a boy from London comes into town and his presence slowly makes her question everything she’s ever been told.

I don’t want to say too much but it’s such a great Fall read featuring a witch with its setting and vibe if you are looking for something outside of the typical YA paranormal witch scene.