Practical Magic Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Practical Magic | 1995 | Buy |
| The Rules of Magic | 2017 | Buy |
| Magic Lessons | 2020 | Buy |
| The Book of Magic | 2021 | Buy |
Water Tales Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Aquamarine | 2001 | Buy |
| Indigo | 2002 | Buy |
Green Angel Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Green Angel | 2003 | Buy |
| Green Witch | 2010 | Buy |
Alice Hoffman writes novels that exist at the intersection of magic and everyday life. Across decades of work, she has created stories where witches live next door, where grief can make things grow, and where the line between the possible and the improbable disappears. Her prose carries the weight of fairy tales while staying anchored in real human emotions.
The Practical Magic books began with a standalone novel that became a cultural touchstone. When sisters Sally and Gillian Owens navigate love and curses, witchcraft and redemption, readers fell in love with a world where magic feels like another sense some people are born with. The prequels that follow, expanding backward into the family’s history, reveal where the magic came from and how it has shaped generations of women determined to forge their own paths.
Her work for younger readers, particularly the Green Angel novels, shows the same gift for combining emotional truth with imagined possibilities. These books take on loss, isolation, and the long road back to connection, using metaphorical worlds to process very real experiences of grief and survival.
Her literary fiction spans historical eras and settings, from Puritan New England to contemporary Cape Cod. What ties everything together is her fascination with transformation—how people change, how love changes them, and how loss can sometimes open doors we never expected. Readers come to Hoffman for the magic, but stay for her understanding of what it means to be human.