I like to read Wiccan/Pagan related fiction as much as nonfiction. Some of my favorites are:

Isobel Bird's Circle of Three YA series about three teenage girls learning what Wicca and Paganism is all about as they study to become real modern-day Witches.

Cate Tiernan's Sweep YA series, a more fantasy-like version of teens studying Witchcraft, but with enough reality to keep it interesting.

Cate Tiernan's Balefire YA series, same line as Sweep, about twin sisters learning the family religion of Witchcraft.

Elizabeth Spier's "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" about the Puritan witch hunts.

Kathryn Lasky's "Beyond the Burning Times" about the Salem Witch trials

Carol Matas's "The Burning Time" YA fiction about the witch trials

Celia Rees's "Witch Child" a great YA work about a young girl who is hunted by Puritans because she just might really be a real Witch.

Rosemary Edghill's "Bell Book and Murder" mystery trilogy about a detective who happens to be Wiccan.

M.R. Sellars Rowan Gant mystery series about a Wiccan detective and Wiccan-themed cases.

Any others you would suggest? Feel free to add any suggestions here, too: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/593.W...

Wendy Mewes "The Moon Garden" is great.

"Whittlewood" by Suzanne Ruthven is a great occult mystery.

Ly de Angeles has written two great pagan fictions: "Quickening" and "Shining Isle".

Also, Brian Bates book "Way of Wyrd" is a great story, well worth re-reading from time to time.

Are you aware, there is a pagan fiction group here at Goodreads?

Has anyone read Starhawk's The Fifth Sacred Thing?

theLadyShannon wrote: "Has anyone read Starhawk's The Fifth Sacred Thing?"

It's actually the only book of hers I ever finished. I enjoyed it, but it's not a book I would read over and over again.

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I found this Joyce Graham book entertaining.

Jitterbug Perfume is another good pagan fictional book.

To Ride A Silver Broomstick New Generational Witchcraft... not really fictional, but more of an informational thing.

I really liked Alice Hoffman's Practical Magic. The movie is NOT what the book is at all. A lot of Hoffman's books have what I call greenwitchy touches; characters carry special charms or have superstitions that are really just little majicks.

I love Chocolat and its sequel, The Girl with No Shadow A Novel, as well. The movie/book thing is the same with this one. Lots of chocolate and magic abound in this.

Then I definitelly need to pick up a copy of Chocolat, which is magical enough on film.

Count wrote: "Then I definitelly need to pick up a copy of Chocolat, which is magical enough on film."

I was so afraid to read the book because I enjoyed the movie so much. Well, not only did I love the book and the sequel, but I found it did not take away at all from my enjoyment of the movie.

is that the sensual DVD that's end with the wife's in to a wild frenzy buy eating a certain brand of chocolate....? or are you taking about the Martial-arts movie full of action and kungf-fu..

On the surface, the premise of Chocolat is a simple one. We follow a woman, France (Mireille Perrier) as she travels through the now independent roads of Northern Cameroon. Leafing through her father's notebook, she reflects upon her childhood on a colonial outpost some thirty years earlier, where her father Marc Dalens (François Cluzet) worked as an administrator for the French government. Frequently away on business, Dalens leaves the running of the household to native servants, while the needs of young France (Cécile Ducasse) and her mother Aimée (Giulia Boschi), are met by trusted houseboy Protée (Isaach De Bankolé).

The mere naming of Denis' central character, France, seems to suggest this is a film whose imagery will be painted with broad strokes. Even when read as a fitting act of patriotism on the part of the Dalens' allowing them to have a little of their country with them wherever they go, the symbolism feels heavy. However, to simply suggest this is a film which solely explores (the social and moral intricacies of the relationship between coloniser and the colonised) is to reduce the inherent depth and subtlety Denis weaves into the main narrative structure.

There is much more here than meets the eye. While Chocolat does explore large themes: memory; voyeurism; sexual-desire ,... it is the way in which Denis approaches these concepts which makes the film such an engaging mix of visual and emotional potency. The impact of the former undoubtedly heightens that of the latter, working in tandem to great effect. It is no coincidence that some of the film's most visually striking moments are also times where the emotions of the characters run at their highest level. It is easy to imagine the story taking the form of a silent film. Much of its power comes from looks and gestures rather that what is said aloud. In many ways, what is unsaid between these characters is as important as what is, sometimes more so.


Always positioned as an observer, often silent as she watched, listened and learned on the periphery, peeking behind doors, clinging onto posts, France is never able to fully engage with the world around her. She is both an insider to the culture and simultaneously an outsider, feels affection for where she grew up, but remains confused and isolated from it: she masks the sound of the sea with headphones, brushes the sand from her feet, and takes a bus rather than a taxi in an attempt to feel more authentic. Her attempts to connect as both child and adult are thwarted in varying degrees.

Perhaps it is this strange relationship that makes France's journey so enthralling, and Denis' work so impressive – we can engage in France's world in a way she cannot. Her constant search for something it feels like she can quite never find, as elusive as the horizon line itself. Chocolat is a film which will consistently draw in the viewer, rewarding us each time with new images, questions to consider. Debut status notwithstanding, its achievements cannot be understated. Its richness and complexity have certainly not diminished.

Nope. I'm referring to the Joanne Harris books and the movie with Johnny Depp.

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Hi! I'm new around here. I noticed this thread right after coming across The Pagan Anthology of Short Fiction. I haven't read it yet, but I'm going to find it (since I'm in the Bible Belt, I'll probably have to order it online).

"The Shipping News A Novel" by Annie Proulx has a magic to it.

Kit Berry writes a series of books about a fictional, pagan community cut-off from the rest of the modern world. The series starts with "Magus Of Stonewylde Book One"

I noticed that Omega A novel by Stewart Farrar is not listed yet. I rather enjoyed that book.

I enjoyed the Sweep series so much that I would have to buy the next book every 3 days to keep it going. My second choice is the Wicked series, (witch and curse, legacy and spellbound and the newest resurrection).
Of course one the best on my shelf is Wicca - A Guide for the Solitary Practioner.

I did read The Fifth Sacred Thing, but enjoy her non-fiction much better. She is working on a screenplay for TFST; not sure how it will translate to the screen.

I am in the process of reading The Goat-Foot God by Dion Fortune. So far quite an enjoyable book.

Hugh, a man of money; Mona, a hungry artist; and Jelkes, a book dealer, agree to convert an ancient monastery into a temple for the worship of Pan. That is about as far as I have gotten as I write this.

Dion, herself, was quite interesting. She was a British occultist living from 1890 to 1946. Among other things she took part in the group effort by occultists in Britain to magically aid the country against the Germans in WWII.

I had previously read both The Sea Priestess and Moon Magic. They are also quite good.