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Literary Witches

Description: These are suggested readings in the book, Literary Witches, which I'll also add to the list.
Members: 3 participating members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda, ahef1963

Rank Title Author Added

1

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

49,923 members

669 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

by Mary Shelley

40,925 members

692 reviews

3.8

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by Toni Morrison

22,098 members

398 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by Virginia Woolf

19,941 members

322 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

18,490 members

334 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie

9,489 members

304 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

9,083 members

418 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

by Octavia E. Butler

7,848 members

332 reviews

4.2

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

7,638 members

410 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

The Yellow Wallpaper [short fiction]

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

3,086 members

139 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

by Shirley Jackson

1,079 members

37 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

17,027 members

257 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

13

Murder on the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie

16,233 members

400 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

14

A Room of One's Own

by Virginia Woolf

11,963 members

162 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

15

Complete Stories

by Flannery O'Connor

6,472 members

66 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

16

A Murder Is Announced

by Agatha Christie

4,455 members

90 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

17

by Sylvia Plath

3,983 members

50 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

18

by Flannery O'Connor

3,737 members

113 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

19

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

by Gertrude Stein

2,588 members

43 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

20

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

2,518 members

68 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

21

by Jamaica Kincaid

1,486 members

30 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

22

by Jamaica Kincaid

1,068 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

23

Life Among the Savages

by Shirley Jackson

971 members

41 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

24

The Autobiography of My Mother

by Jamaica Kincaid

821 members

15 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

25

Love in a Fallen City

by Eileen Chang

600 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

26

by Shirley Jackson

394 members

12 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

27

by Toni Morrison

12,966 members

227 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

28

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

10,485 members

119 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

29

The House on Mango Street

by Sandra Cisneros

10,247 members

227 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

30

by Toni Morrison

7,399 members

96 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

31

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

by Angela Carter

5,329 members

144 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

32

by Leslie Marmon Silko

3,413 members

58 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

33

by Octavia E. Butler

2,721 members

81 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

34

Nights at the Circus

by Angela Carter

2,585 members

51 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

35

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

2,458 members

26 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: sturlington

36

Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

2,009 members

35 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: sturlington

37

by Angela Carter

1,883 members

40 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

38

Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories

by Sandra Cisneros

1,788 members

36 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

39

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

1,781 members

21 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: sturlington

40

by Gertrude Stein

1,697 members

15 reviews

3

Member: sturlington

41

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

1,591 members

41 reviews

3.2

Member: sturlington

42

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

1,391 members

27 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: sturlington

43

Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography

by Zora Neale Hurston

1,314 members

18 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

44

by Jamaica Kincaid

1,240 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

45

by Zora Neale Hurston

1,048 members

11 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

46

Almanac of the Dead

by Leslie Marmon Silko

900 members

14 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

47

by Gertrude Stein

852 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

48

Eros the Bittersweet

751 members

6 reviews

4.2

Member: sturlington

49

The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition

by Emily Dickinson

730 members

5 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: sturlington

50

Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica

by Zora Neale Hurston

716 members

13 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

51

Glass, Irony and God

596 members

10 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

52

The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History

by Angela Carter

595 members

7 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

53

Loose Woman: Poems

by Sandra Cisneros

579 members

8 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

54

by Anna Akhmatova

508 members

8 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

55

Bloodchild and Other Stories

by Octavia E. Butler

499 members

16 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

56

Under a Glass Bell

481 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

57

by Leslie Marmon Silko

466 members

3 reviews

4.2

Member: sturlington

58

Janet Frame: The Complete Autobiography

447 members

14 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: sturlington

59

445 members

7 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

60

House of Incest

444 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

61

At the Bottom of the River

by Jamaica Kincaid

412 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

62

Crazy Brave: A Memoir

359 members

14 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

63

The Black Unicorn: Poems

356 members

5 reviews

4.2

Member: sturlington

64

She Had Some Horses: Poems

324 members

5 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

65

268 members

9 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

66

Cities of the Interior

248 members

3.8

Member: sturlington

67

Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers

by Taisia Kitaiskaia

236 members

4 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: sturlington

68

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

221 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: sturlington

69

Women and Economics

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

208 members

2 reviews

2.9

Member: sturlington

70

Lust, Caution: The Story

by Eileen Chang

180 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

71

Half a Lifelong Romance

by Eileen Chang

148 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

72

by Eileen Chang

119 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

73

The Lagoon: A Collection of Short Stories

106 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

74

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

by Emily Brontë

83 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

75

The Mortal Immortal (short story)

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

78 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

76

Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems

65 members

1 review

3.8

Member: sturlington

77

Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad

by Forugh Farrokhzad

63 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: sturlington

78

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

by Yumiko Kurahashi

47 members

1 review

3.8

Member: sturlington

79

The Rice Sprout Song

by Eileen Chang

45 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

80

Red Rose, White Rose

by Ailing Zhang and Eileen Chang

45 members

1 review

3

Member: sturlington

81

El infierno musical

by Alejandra Pizarnik

39 members

1 review

4.2

Member: sturlington

82

Maria Sabina: Selections

by María Sabina

34 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

16 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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