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Witchy or just plain good book recommendations
« on: May 08, 2012, 08:25:33 PM »

I've just about read up all the Joanne Harris books in our library, but I was happy to see she has a third in the series that started with Chocolat coming out in October. I've also read all the Paulo Coehlo and Carlos Castaneda books in our library. I like these three authors because they touch on witchy/spiritual topics. Anybody have any recommendations for titles with similar themes?

Feel free to post recommendations even if they don't meet the witchy theme criterion. I'm getting rather desperate for an entertaining read.

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Re: Witchy or just plain good book recommendations
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2012, 09:08:58 PM »

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Re: Witchy or just plain good book recommendations
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2012, 09:58:02 PM »

Thanks, GW.  ()
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Re: Witchy or just plain good book recommendations
« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2012, 01:07:35 AM »

Have you read any of Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon series?
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Re: Witchy or just plain good book recommendations
« Reply #4 on: May 09, 2012, 10:11:43 AM »

I'll throw Patricia Briggs out there - I love love love her Mercy Thompson series, and her Alpha and Omega series is set in the same universe. She also has several other series-based books that are entertaining.
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Re: Witchy or just plain good book recommendations
« Reply #5 on: May 09, 2012, 10:51:48 AM »

You did NOT just post this. I'm warning you, you did ask for this.  :crazylaugh:

Ilona Andrews - Kate Daniels series - semi-apocolyptic world with lots of magic and a focus on shapeshifters

Keri Arthur - Riley Jenson, Guardian series - modern paranormal with a focus on werewolves and vampires

Eileen Wilkes - World of the Lupi - mostly focus on werewolves, but does have more than just that

Michelle West (aka Michelle Sagara) - two separate series, one is the Cast series which is pure fantasy in a unique world with dragons and various other races of magical beings, the other is also a unique fantasy series that deals with more magic and has a lot of basis in myth, but on a wholly unique take - this series actually covers several series, but they are all tied together - Hunt Brothers, House Wars, and Broken Crown (I'll be glad to list the individual books if you'd like - there are a LOT)

C.E. Murphy - The Walker Papers series - I have only read the first in this series, but I really liked it and am on the waiting list at the library for the next ones.

Kelley Armstrong - Women of the Otherworld series - this series is a modern paranormal series and is sort of grouped by 2 or 3 book throughout a larger series.  Each grouping focusing on different characters in the same world and all are tied together.  They range from witches to werewolves to demons and vampires.

Anne Bishop - Black Jewels series - unique world fantasy with a heavy focus on magic; Ephemera series - unique world fantasy that also has a heavy focus on magic, but from an entirely different viewpoint

Kate Forsyth - Witches of Eileanan - fantasy world with a heavy influence of fae and magic (in my opinion, very much based on the concepts of Wicca)

Of those, Kate Forsyth, Anne Bishop's Ephemera series, and Michelle West's longer series are the ones that are probably more what you are looking for EM.  I have a whole slew of others I could recommend, but I think they'd probably fall more into paranormal trash (entertaining, but still kinda trash).
 
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Re: Witchy or just plain good book recommendations
« Reply #6 on: May 09, 2012, 02:21:19 PM »

I thought that Foxy might have a few recommendations with the major reading she's been doing lately.  :D Thanks, sweetie! And thanks everyone who has responded. Keep 'em coming. I like to read.
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Re: Witchy or just plain good book recommendations
« Reply #7 on: May 09, 2012, 04:31:37 PM »

Who?  Me?  I've only read 97 books so far this year.  :cutie: 
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Re: Witchy or just plain good book recommendations
« Reply #8 on: May 09, 2012, 11:36:00 PM »

She's not a "witchy" author so to speak, but Nora Roberts has the Key Trilogy, which is kind of fantasy/myth based and has some good erotic tid bits in it.
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Re: Witchy or just plain good book recommendations
« Reply #9 on: May 10, 2012, 10:53:08 AM »

Talking about Nora Roberts, she has other trilogies about ghosts, witches, etc.

The Sign of Seven Trilogy- How 3 friends, when they were younger, spilled their blood on a Pagan Stone and released a demon, and every 7 years, bad things happen to the town.  Its very good read. IMO

The Key Trilogy: Mythology based as jenxd09 has said.

The Garden Trlogy: This involves ghosts.

Three Sisters Island Trilogy: this involves witches.

Circle Trilogy: involves shapeshifters, vampires, withches, time travel, etc.

The Gallaghers of Ardmore: Involves withches.

There are of course, romance in each trilogy, but they are very good read to me.

I love my Kindle, so I am reading all the time. Enjoy your reading time.
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Re: Witchy or just plain good book recommendations
« Reply #10 on: May 10, 2012, 11:30:53 AM »

Ooo! I didn't know about those ones! Thanks for posting :)
Talking about Nora Roberts, she has other trilogies about ghosts, witches, etc.

The Sign of Seven Trilogy- How 3 friends, when they were younger, spilled their blood on a Pagan Stone and released a demon, and every 7 years, bad things happen to the town.  Its very good read. IMO

The Key Trilogy: Mythology based as jenxd09 has said.

The Garden Trlogy: This involves ghosts.

Three Sisters Island Trilogy: this involves witches.

Circle Trilogy: involves shapeshifters, vampires, withches, time travel, etc.

The Gallaghers of Ardmore: Involves withches.

There are of course, romance in each trilogy, but they are very good read to me.

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Re: Witchy or just plain good book recommendations
« Reply #11 on: May 10, 2012, 12:13:19 PM »

I love my Kindle, so I am reading all the time.

Understatement of the year for me!  :crazylaugh:
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Re: Witchy or just plain good book recommendations
« Reply #12 on: May 14, 2012, 07:28:25 AM »

Am I seriously this late to the game and no one's mentioned:

Emberverse (Dies the Fire) by S.M. Stirling : Post-apocalyptic series where electricity and gunpowder no longer work. By book four it really gets into the spiritual side of things

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The Iron Druid Chronoicles by Kevin Hearne : Irreverent (I lost track of the number of times he told a god/goddess to shove it where the sun don't shine), but hilarious and magical
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Re: Witchy or just plain good book recommendations
« Reply #13 on: May 14, 2012, 01:59:26 PM »

I LOVE the Stirling books!
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« Reply #14 on: May 14, 2012, 05:38:13 PM »

My hubby had those and I read the first book but for some reason could not get into the second book....
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« Reply #15 on: May 19, 2012, 08:50:01 PM »

Have to copy down this list so I can go to the library and see if I can find some of these next week when it is open. I just finished Holy Fools by Joanne Harries and, IMO, it is her best book. I just love her writing!
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« Reply #16 on: May 21, 2012, 01:31:17 PM »

EM, I just started on the second book in the C. E. Murphy Walker Papers series and I think you may really like this one.   The main character is a shaman (or struggling with becoming one) and this second book (which I'm only just in the very beginnings of) is starting to work with power animals.  I'd love to get your take and opinions on the validity and accuracy of some of the things they are talking about.
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« Reply #17 on: May 21, 2012, 02:07:52 PM »

Cool! I will see if I can find those.
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« Reply #18 on: May 22, 2012, 12:45:17 PM »

All of Juliet Marillier's books (that I have read so far) are both wonderfully written and full of Pagan themes. Be warned, though: these are the types of books that once you get about a third of the way through, you can't stop reading until the end!
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Re: Witchy or just plain good book recommendations
« Reply #19 on: June 07, 2012, 11:32:49 AM »

I knew I was forgetting another really good series.  I think I got this one confused a bit with the Kate Forsyth books which is more about witches and magic.   :whistle:

Anne Bishop - Tir Alainn Trilogy - This is the one that has a huge basis on fae and what I see as based on Wicca ideals.
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Re: Witchy or just plain good book recommendations
« Reply #20 on: June 07, 2012, 12:22:56 PM »

I highly recommend author Amanda Ashley. She writes romance with a fantasy/metaphysical / paranormal theme.

I read Nora Roberts' The Sister Island trilogy about 10 yrs ago. Think I would pick up on more/enjoy it more as a young adult Pagan? I am in need of good fiction to read this summer and I really did the paranormal/ fantasy romances!
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Re: Witchy or just plain good book recommendations
« Reply #21 on: July 18, 2012, 12:05:29 AM »

Ooh, what fun!  Books!  :groovin: My favorite things in existence...second only to my wife.   :squeezes:

Here are a few I would recommend for the solitaries out there, and some just for fun:

A Witch Alone: Thirteen Moons to Master Natural Magic, by Marian Green.  I hear that she is a well-respected Wiccan practitioner, and though I have yet to double-check her historical information, this one is a very interesting read, and has good meditative techniques.  This would be a good companion for beginners to Wicca.

Grimoirium Verum.  This particular volume predates Wicca by a few hundred years, and has instructions on summoning demons, angels and other spirits for specific purposes.  I have yet to try anything in this book, since I tend to have an aversion to ritualistic sacrifice of animals. It is not a volume for the faint of heart, but a good one to have for a fascinating insight into how the Craft was done during this time period.  It was supposedly written in 1517, but the oldest surviving copies are from 1817 onward.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, by William Blake.  His poetry is always so beautiful and vivid, with wonderful imagery.  I adore poetry, and recommend this to other fans of poetry, even though it has a lot to do with Christian characters and mythology, as is implied in its title.

Wizard's First Rule, by Terry Goodkind, the first book in the Sword of Truth series.  This is my all-time favorite fantasy series next to Lord of the Rings.  And in case any of you ever saw the TV show based on this series, titled Legend of the Seeker, I assure you, the books make much more sense and are infinitely better.  I highly recommend this to any fantasy genre fan.

I would add more, but it is my bedtime and my wife is not well, so I probably shouldn't keep her up any later than necessary.  Goodnight, all.
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Re: Witchy or just plain good book recommendations
« Reply #22 on: July 18, 2012, 01:44:37 AM »

I LOVED The Fault in Our Stars by John Green - amazing, heartbreaking story.  Written for young adults but I really enjoyed it (then again, at 24 am I considered a YA?).  Anything my John Green is good, really.

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Re: Witchy or just plain good book recommendations
« Reply #23 on: July 18, 2012, 01:59:23 AM »

then again, at 24 am I considered a YA?

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Re: Witchy or just plain good book recommendations
« Reply #24 on: July 18, 2012, 05:58:12 AM »

Sage, on that Grimorium Verum... there are a lot of scholars who consider it to be pure junk. The earliest form is in French, and dated 1811... and I find it interesting to note the man who published it at that time... was NOTORIOUS for shady work.
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