Originally published August 16, 2019
Booyah! Our third installment of the Basic Bitches’ Summer Reading List! This time we're discussing spellcasters! Cultural Intern Z read like, all the books, and Eris helped! Why do witches and wizards have so many dead parents??
Novels discussed in this episode:
- A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
- How to Hang a Witch by Adriana Mather
- Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (and pretty much all of the Harry Potter series is discussed in this episode.)
- Song of the Lioness Series
- The Immortals / Wild Magic Series
- Protector of the Small Quartet
- Daughter of the Lioness (a/k/a the Trickster Series)
- Beka Cooper Series
- Provost's Dog Series
all by Tamora Pierce
- Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
- Copper and Gold by Jessica D. Coplen
- Copper and Cobalt by Jessica D. Coplen
- The Magicians by Lev Grossman
- The Magician King by Lev Grossman
- Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison
- Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski
And the faery book Eris couldn't remember the title nor author of (that she'll read for the next episode) is called The Treachery of Beautiful Things by Ruth Frances Long.
(Year 1, Episode 18)
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