Read-alikes

Books Like The Once and Future Witches

The Once and Future Witches is rebellion, hidden world / portal & fierce heroine — sweet (1/5), multi-person, ending on a hard-won happy ending. These 12 romantasy read-alikes are ranked by how much they share with it, closest first — each one explained.

In alternate-history 1893 New Salem, three estranged sisters — James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna Eastwood — reunite inside the suffragist movement and discover that forgotten witchcraft still lives inside nursery rhymes, lullabies, and needlework. Hunted by a shadowy power that will not suffer a witch to vote, the sisters must heal the wounds their abusive father inflicted, build an unlikely coalition across race and class, and reclaim the Words and Ways erased by centuries of witch-burning. A lyrical feminist fantasy that asks what the women's movement might have looked like if the women had magic.