How to Make a Wish by Ashley Herring Blake (bi f/f)
The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake (bi f/f)
Style by Chelsea M. Cameron (lesbian f/f)
All the Things We Do in the Dark by Saundra Mitchell (pan f/f)
Small Town Hearts by Lillie Vale (bi m/f)
Bonus: For a trans girl MG set in Maine, check out Zenobia July by Lisa Bunker!
Maurice by E.M. Forster
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
Swearing Off Stars by Danielle Wong
The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
The Charioteer by Mary Renault
This doesn’t include any of the titles recently posted under Queer Necromancy, Ghostly Queer YA, or New and Upcoming Witches in YA, so definitely check those out too! And make sure you catch up on older Halloween reads as well!
Wilder Girls by Rory Power (YA Horror)
His Hideous Heart ed. by Dahlia Adler (YA Poe Retellings)
Out of Salem by Hal Schrieve (Paranormal YA)
Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh (Adult Fantasy)
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling (Adult Horror)
Bonus: It’s a smaller POV, but the character of Poe’s muse Lenore in The Raven’s Tale by Cat Winters is definitely into the ladies!
Missing, Presumed Dead by Emma Berquist
The Dark Beneath the Ice by Amelinda Bérubé
Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall
Shallow Graves by Kali Wallace
Now Entering Addamsville by Francesca Zappia
Bonus: If you’ve read Shadowshaper, definitely check out Ghost Girl in the Corner by Daniel José Older, which is a related Sapphic ghostly novella.
Double Bonus: If you like to keep an eye on upcoming titles, definitely make sure Ghost Wood Song by Erica Waters (2020) and The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould (2021) are on your radar!
For even more YA witches, click here. And yes, this post has seven 2019-20s, not just five. What can I say? We’ve been blessed.
The Lost Coast by Amy Rose Capetta
These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling (sequel coming in 2020)
Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu
Witches of Ash and Ruin by E. Latimer (Upcoming in 2020)
When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey (Upcoming in 2020)
The Mermaid, The Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall (Upcoming in 2020)
The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke (Upcoming in 2020)
Bonus: It doesn’t yet have a title, and it isn’t out until 2021, but it’s never too early to get Adrienne Tooley’s debut on your TBR! And though they’re yet not on Goodreads to add, The Contemporary Witches of Salem by Sol Santana and The Witches of Silverlake by Simon Curtis will be arriving then as well!
Double Bonus: You can also catch a sorceress in Reverie by Ryan La Sala, a wizard in I’m a Gay Wizard by V.S. Santoni, and a strega in The Storm of Life by Amy Rose Capetta, sequel to The Brilliant Death!
Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard
Past Tense by Star Spider
The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow
Way to Go by Tom Ryan
That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. Johnston
Bonus: Coming in 2020, check out When You Get a Chance by Tom Ryan and Robin Stevenson, set at Toronto Pride!
Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst (f/f YA fantasy)
The Rules of Ever After by Killian B. Brewer (m/m YA fantasy)
Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins (f/f YA contemporary)
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (m/m NA contemporary)
A Prince on Paper by Alyssa Cole (bi m/f contemporary)
Reign of the Fallen by Sarah Glenn Marsh
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
For a Muse of Fire by Heidi Heilig
Runebinder by Alex Kahler
The Impossible Contract by K.A. Doore
Cinders by Cara Malone
Firestorm by Radclyffe
Hot Head by Damon Suede
Burning it Down by Christopher Koehler
What Remains by Garrett Leigh
The Best Bad Thing by Karina Carrasco
The Whale by Mark Beauregard
Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
Bittersweet by Nevada Barr
Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller
