8 Witchy Books for Fans of Agatha All Along

Ophelia Jensen was born with psychic abilities, but they've brought her nothing but trouble. They were no help when her best friend Brian was murdered, and she's been unable to find the culprit. Five years later, another friend is gone, killed in almost identical fashion. 

Her grandmother Abigail, a natural witch who loves her powers, is trying to stop a massive polluting pig farm from taking over their small Iowa hometown. Both she and Ophelia will have to take matters into their own hands to find a killer, stop a corporate evildoer, and find out what connects the two problems.

The Fallow sisters are a quartet of women with magical fey abilities who live very different lives from one another. Bee, the lynchpin of the family, still lives in the family home of Mooncote in Somerset. Stella is a DJ working on Ibiza who had vowed never to go back to Mooncote. 

Serena is a single mother and fashion designer living in Notting Hill, increasingly uncertain of her relationship with long-term boyfriend Ben. And Luna is a free spirited traveler who wanders the country in a horse-drawn van. The sisters are forced to unite to find their mother Alys, who disappeared a year ago. The spirits and stars will help them, but family drama is harder to deal with than magic.

Mariam Xi was created in the MEPHISTO lab to be the perfect psychic supersoldier, but she ran away as soon as she could and has spent most of her life on the run through space and the planets. It's just her, her terrifying powers, and an experimental pet named Seven. 

An encounter with a bounty hunter has left her hanging helpless in a dying spaceship, dependent on the mercy of strangers. Sick of running, Mariam wants to find out the truth of her past and discover who it was that sold her out to MEPHISTO in the first place. It'll require her to use all of her magical abilities, but she's worried that they might destroy her in the process.

As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic and avoid other witches lest her powers break out and cause havoc. She's used to being alone and following the rules, but then there's her little hobby where she posts videos pretending to be a witch. Nobody thinks it's real, right? 

But then an unexpected message arrives, begging her to travel to the remote and mysterious Nowhere House to teach three young witches how to control their magic. It breaks all the rules but now Mika is acting as the mentor to a trio of wayward witches and working alongside the prickly librarian Jamie. This might be where she truly belongs, but there are so many threats lurking around every corner. It's tough to be a witch.

When Reggie Johnson answers a job ad in the paper, she's astonished to find that she's actually applying to become a familiar for a real-life witch. Magic is real, and now Reggie is part of this strange world. The job is fascinating, though, even if her boss's black cat hates her. 

The biggest problem is warlock Ben Magnus, her employer's nephew. He's arrogant, insufferable, and constantly tries to order her around. And of course he's super handsome. When someone targets their house, Reggie and Ben are forced to work together to break a deadly curse that could doom them both. 

When they're not fighting, things get rather heated …

While she’s more famous for her vampires, Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches trilogy features some of her best work. Rowan Mayfair is a brilliant neurosurgeon with powers she cannot explain. After finding the drowned body of a man off the coast of California, brings him back to life and they begin a tempestuous love affair. 

The more she and this man, named Michael, are drawn to one another, the more her powers are revealed. She is soon drawn to New Orleans to discover her past. The Mayfair family is a powerful clan of witches whose story stretches back centuries. At its center is Lasher, a malevolent spirit who has haunted them for generations, and now he has his sights set on Rowan.

In the modern day, Kate flees her life and abusive partner in London for Weyward Cottage, a rundown place inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. This house holds centuries of her family's history and their magical secrets that have tormented them for generations. 

In 1619, Altha awaits trial for the murder of a local farmer who was stampeded to death by his herd. As a girl, Altha’s mother taught her their magic, but it's a dangerous time to be seen as a witch. 

In 1942, as the Second World War ravages England, Violet is trapped in her family's grand, crumbling estate while the bombs fall. She wants to be more than a genteel society girl, and to find out more about her mother, who was rumored to have gone mad before her death. The only traces Violet has of her are a locket bearing the initial W and the word “wayward” scratched into the baseboard of her bedroom...

Who better to write about witches than a Harkness woman? In A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness, Diana Bishop is descended from an old and distinguished line of witches. However, Diana has turned her back on her legacy to pursue a life of academic. 

Deep in the stacks of Oxford's famous Bodleian Library, she unwittingly discovers a legendary and long-lost manuscript that throws her back into the world of magic. Everyone wants to get their hands on this manuscript and it's up to Diana to uncover its truth. Joining her is Matthew Clairmont, a dashing vampire geneticist with whom she falls in love, but it's taboo for witches and vampires to be together. 

The old laws of magic and powers are about to be tested.