Witch Hunts

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In the broadest sense: history, sociology, fiction, protests, polemics urging their eradication. Thumb up useful, interesting books. Thumb down the boring and dull. If possible, remove books that don't apply.
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witch hunts
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The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts
by Arthur Miller
15,829 members
165 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda
2
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
by Elizabeth George Speare
11,568 members
211 reviews
4
2 Members
lquilter, ManWithAnAgenda
3
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
by Madeleine L'Engle
12,232 members
107 reviews
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
4
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
by Carl Sagan
7,282 members
106 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
5
The Bear and the Nightingale
by Katherine Arden
5,215 members
292 reviews
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
6
Witch Week
by Diana Wynne Jones
1,919 members
44 reviews
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
7
Malleus Maleficarum
by Heinrich Institoris
1,685 members
14 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
lquilter
8
The Doorbell Rang
by Rex Stout
1,409 members
30 reviews
4.1
Member
aulsmith
9
The Greenlanders
by Jane Smiley
1,161 members
34 reviews
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
10
The Last Witchfinder
by James Morrow
1,037 members
49 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
lquilter
11
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
by Maryse Condé
935 members
15 reviews
4
Member
Dilara86
12
The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
by Carol F. Karlsen
929 members
6 reviews
3.9
Member
AnnaClaire
13
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers
by Barbara Ehrenreich
795 members
7 reviews
4.1
Member
lquilter
14
The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials
by Marion L. Starkey
793 members
13 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
aulsmith
15
Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft
by Paul S. Boyer
749 members
8 reviews
3.9
Member
AnnaClaire
16
The Witchcraft of Salem Village
by Shirley Jackson
743 members
12 reviews
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
17
The Betrayal
by R. L. Stine
555 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
18
Witchcraze
by Anne L. Barstow
475 members
4 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
lquilter
19
The Lady's Not for Burning
by Christopher Fry
464 members
7 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
aulsmith
20
Kepler's Witch
by James A. Connor
399 members
2 reviews
3.8
Member
AnnaClaire
21
Homosexuality and Civilization
by Louis Crompton
387 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
aulsmith
22
Fellow Travelers: A Novel
by Thomas Mallon
327 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
aulsmith
23
The Remaking: A Novel
by Clay Chapman
270 members
10 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
24
The Scapegracers
by H.A. Clarke
252 members
12 reviews
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
25
In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer
by Heinar Kipphardt
230 members
4 reviews
3.8
Member
aulsmith
26
Satan's Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt
by Debbie Nathan
130 members
1 review
3.8
Member
aulsmith
27
The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal
by Barry Werth
126 members
3 reviews
4
Member
aulsmith
28
Making Monsters
by Richard Ofshe
71 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
aulsmith
29
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
by Katherine Howe
4,635 members
343 reviews
½ 3.7
30
The Hangman's Daughter
by Oliver Pötzsch
2,919 members
176 reviews
½ 3.6
31
The Devils of Loudun
by Aldous Huxley
1,551 members
26 reviews
3.9
32
Witch Child
by Celia Rees
2,406 members
61 reviews
½ 3.7
33
The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe
by Brian P. Levack
428 members
8 reviews
4
34
Europe's Inner Demons
by Norman Cohn
327 members
5 reviews
3.8
35
The Heretic's Daughter
by Kathleen Kent
2,476 members
184 reviews
3.8
36
A History of Witchcraft - Sorcerers, Heretics, & Pagans
by Jeffrey B. Russell
441 members
1 review
½ 3.7
37
Year of Wonders
by Geraldine Brooks
8,893 members
419 reviews
4
38
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation
by Silvia Federici
1,054 members
16 reviews
½ 4.3
39
In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
by Mary Beth Norton
906 members
19 reviews
3.9
40
The Minister's Daughter
by Julie Hearn
554 members
30 reviews
½ 3.7
41
Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft
by Robin Briggs
383 members
5 reviews
3.9
42
Hour of the Witch
by Chris Bohjalian
982 members
44 reviews
3.8
43
Daughters of the Witching Hill
by Mary Sharratt
568 members
44 reviews
3.8
44
Witch Hunt: History of a Persecution
by Nigel Cawthorne
304 members
1 review
3.9
45
Servants of Satan
by Joseph Klaits
130 members
1 review
4.1
46
Salem Falls
by Jodi Picoult
4,488 members
73 reviews
½ 3.7
47
Last Rituals
by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
1,120 members
65 reviews
½ 3.4
48
Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials
by Marc Aronson
357 members
39 reviews
½ 3.7
49
Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy
by Malcolm Gaskill
316 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
50
Witchcraft in the Middle Ages
by Jeffrey Burton Russell
290 members
1 review
½ 3.6
51
Witch Hunt: It Happened in Salem Village
by Stephen Krensky
183 members
1 review
½ 3.4
52
Häxornas försvarare : ett historiskt reportage
by Jan Guillou
168 members
1 review
3.8
53
The Witching Tide
by Margaret Meyer
164 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
54
The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology
by Rossell Hope Robbins
533 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
55
Dragonswood
by Janet Lee Carey
413 members
41 reviews
3.8
56
The Witch's Trinity
by Erika Mailman
353 members
24 reviews
½ 3.6
57
Naming Names
by Victor S. Navasky
285 members
4 reviews
½ 3.5
58
The Witch of Blackbird Pond and Related Readings [study guide]
by Elizabeth George Speare
280 members
20 reviews
4
59
The Last Witch of Langenburg: Murder in a German Village
by Thomas Robisheaux
163 members
16 reviews
4
60
A Mass for Arras
by Andrzej Szczypiorski
136 members
3 reviews
½ 3.3
61
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Salem Witch!: Bizarre Accusations You'd Rather Not Face
by Jim Pipe
99 members
5 reviews
½ 4.4
62
Witch-Hunting In Seventeenth-Century New England: A Documentary History, 1638-1693
by David D. Hall
90 members
2 reviews
4.2
63
Witchcraft and Magic in 16th and 17th-Century Europe
by Geoffrey Scarre
47 members
3.8
64
The Witches: Salem, 1692
by Stacy Schiff
2,775 members
70 reviews
½ 3.5
65
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
by Charles Mackay
2,745 members
41 reviews
3.8
66
The Witch's Daughter
by Paula Brackston
1,588 members
77 reviews
½ 3.4
67
Sorceress
by Celia Rees
926 members
16 reviews
½ 3.4
68
The Daylight Gate
by Jeanette Winterson
713 members
46 reviews
½ 3.5
69
The History of Witchcraft and Demonology
by Montague Summers
563 members
3.2
70
Satanism and Witchcraft: The Classic Study of Medieval Superstition
by Jules Michelet
520 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
71
A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials
by Frances Hill
466 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
72
The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World
by John Demos
252 members
11 reviews
3.2
73
Die Puppenspieler
by Tanja Kinkel
223 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
74
Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History
by Alan Charles Kors
219 members
2 reviews
4.1
75
Witchcraft and Sorcery
by Max Marwick
159 members
½ 3.6
76
Mysteries of the Unknown: Witches and Witchcraft
by The Editors of Time-Life Books
146 members
½ 3.6
77
Witchcraft
by Charles Williams
113 members
1 review
4.1
78
Witchcraft: The History and Mythology
by Richard Marshall
86 members
½ 3.3
79
The Witch Hunter's Tale
by Sam Thomas
74 members
1 review
½ 3.6
80
Heksen : opptegnelser fra en fjern fortid
by Bergljot Hobæk Haff
42 members
4
81
Pohjoisen noidat : oikeus ja totuus 1600-luvun Ruotsissa ja Suomessa
by Mirkka Lappalainen
33 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
82
Materials toward a history of witchcraft
by Henry Charles Lea
28 members
4
83
Het vuur van de wraak
by Karel Verleyen
11 members
4
84
Die Lichtfänger: Roman aus der Zeit der Hexenverfolgung
by Elmar Bereuter
11 members
1 review
½ 2.5
85
Vehmgerichte und Hexenprozesse in Deutschland
by Oskar Wächter
10 members
86
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
37,686 members
375 reviews
½ 3.4
87
The Once and Future Witches
by Alix E. Harrow
2,658 members
90 reviews
4.1
89
The Pillars of the World
by Anne Bishop
1,394 members
27 reviews
½ 3.7
90
A Break with Charity
by Ann Rinaldi
1,280 members
16 reviews
3.8
91
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture
by Marvin Harris
1,237 members
19 reviews
3.8
92
One Grave at a Time
by Jeaniene Frost
1,217 members
58 reviews
4
93
The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image
by Leonard Shlain
1,126 members
24 reviews
4
94
The Mercies
by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
1,110 members
53 reviews
3.9
95
Speaks the Nightbird
by Robert R. McCammon
1,006 members
38 reviews
4
96
The Familiars
by Stacey Halls
974 members
36 reviews
3.8
97
The Witches of New York
by Ami McKay
894 members
42 reviews
½ 3.7
98
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
by David Hajdu
859 members
27 reviews
½ 3.7
100
The Raging Quiet
by Sherryl Jordan
677 members
19 reviews
4.1