5 must-read witches books like The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk

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The Midnight Bargain

By: C.L. Polk

3.76

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

Beatrice Clayborn is a sorceress who practices magic in secret, terrified of the day she will be lo…

"If I can only use my magic when you deem it safe, does that magic belong to me, or you?"

-C.L. Polk, The Midnight Bargain

"If I can only use my magic when you deem it safe, does that magic belong to me, or you?"

-C.L. Polk, The Midnight Bargain

If you liked the witches plot in The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Bryony and Roses

By: T. Kingfisher

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Bryony and her sisters have come down in the world. Their merchant father died trying to reclaim hi… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Bryony and Roses book and C.L. Polk's The Midnight Bargain

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Oh dear God, no, stop!" Fumblefoot gave her a reproachful look. Stop what? I have broken into an enchanted manor house and my pony has crapped on the floor. Oh God. -Bryony and Roses by T. Kingfisher"

-T. Kingfisher, Bryony and Roses

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2. Thornhedge

By: T. Kingfisher

4.00

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone … read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Thornhedge book and C.L. Polk's The Midnight Bargain

  • romance
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Thorns die from the inside out, like priests."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"She was theirs; they were hers. The love of monsters was uncomplicated."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Two hundred years. It was immense—unthinkable—and ultimately meant nothing at all. Two years or two hundred or two thousand. The magic endures"

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Greenteeth did not slap one another—not out of any virtue, but because a slap was such a useless thing underwater. When greenteeth brawled, it was with teeth and strangling fingers, spines and claws."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

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3. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Witch King book and C.L. Polk's The Midnight Bargain

  • magic
  • fiction
  • witches
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

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4. A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

By: Freya Marske

3.91

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

Magic! Murder! Shipboard romance! Maud Blyth has always longed for adventure. She expected plent… read more

Similar categories in Freya Marske's A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2) book and C.L. Polk's The Midnight Bargain

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Hawthorn waved that aside. “My sister…"

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

"She hadn't anticipated Maud Blyth. She didn't know how anyone ever could."

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

"Maud, darling," she said, very soft. "You're worth more than this quest. I've told you that all along."

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

"The head of security for the Lyric had a sturdy figure and a kind face with a reddish moustache that was doing its best to engulf his upper lip, as though he'd inherited it from a larger relative and…"

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

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5. The Familiar

By: Leigh Bardugo

3.84

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and creator of the Grishavers… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Bardugo's The Familiar book and C.L. Polk's The Midnight Bargain

  • romance
  • historical
  • magic
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"There was nothing more dangerous than a woman witha pen in her hand."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"She was allowed to want more for herself. And even if she wasn't, she would find a way to get it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"And you're not afraid...of the devil? Of his minions? "Fear men, Luzia," he said. "Fear their ambition and the crimes they commit in its service. But don't fear magic or what you may do with it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

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6. Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

By: T. Kingfisher

4.32

Format: 446 pages, ebook

Marguerite Florian is a spy with two problems. A former employer wants her dead, and one of her new… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4) book and C.L. Polk's The Midnight Bargain

  • romance
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"They say the gods never give us more than we can handle, but let's just say that the gods had an overinflated sense of my abilities."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

"It's the thought that counts," said Marguerite. "Not with the explosives, it isn't," said Ashes, and on that point, Marguerite had to agree."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

"The whole world is made of words," said Marguerite irritably. "Treaties and contracts and secrets and laws are nothing but words, but everything runs on them. Of course they've got power."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

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7. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

By: Heather Fawcett

4.02

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and dis… read more

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1) book and C.L. Polk's The Midnight Bargain

  • romance
  • historical
  • magic
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"How was it that I suddenly had faerie kings, plural, demanding to marry me?"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"I could not tell if he was terrible at drawing cats or if he simply had a terrible cat."

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"Shadow padded up to me and put his head on my knee, all forgiven, as it always is with dogs. If I frightened my cat as I had Shadow, she'd ignore me for days, or possibly put a curse on me, but then …"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"And you shall shut yourself away forever in those old stones with your books and your mysteries like a dragon with her hoard, having as little association with the living as possible and emerging onl…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

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8. Swordheart

By: T. Kingfisher

4.15

Format: 426 pages, Hardcover

Halla is a housekeeper who has suddenly inherited her great-uncle's estate… and, unfortunately, his… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Swordheart book and C.L. Polk's The Midnight Bargain

  • romance
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Your god. Why a rat?"

-T. Kingfisher, Swordheart

"Zale steepled their fingers. “Do you want to talk about that?"

-T. Kingfisher, Swordheart

"Sarkis turned around and began to beat his forehead very gently against the wall. “The great god is punishing me,"

-T. Kingfisher, Swordheart

"The miller back home was like that,' she said. 'He had a little bit of power and he lorded it over everyone. Although there's less damage you can do with a mill than with a religious order."

-T. Kingfisher, Swordheart

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9. Ten Thousand Stitches (Regency Faerie Tales, #2)

By: Olivia Atwater

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Regency housemaid Euphemia Reeves has acquired a faerie godfather. Unfortunately, he has no idea wh… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Atwater's Ten Thousand Stitches (Regency Faerie Tales, #2) book and C.L. Polk's The Midnight Bargain

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"A faerie told me that true love's kiss could wake Miss Buckley," Effie told him. "I cannot think of any truer or more unconditional love than that of a dog."

-Olivia Atwater, Ten Thousand Stitches (Regency Faerie Tales, #2)

"Lady Panovar made mention of her French maid about a dozen times last night," Mrs Sedgewick informed the staff tiredly. "Lady Culver ended the night in a fury. She has insisted that I should find her…"

-Olivia Atwater, Ten Thousand Stitches (Regency Faerie Tales, #2)

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10. Paladin's Hope (The Saint of Steel, #3)

By: T. Kingfisher

4.23

Format: 300 pages, ebook

Piper is a lich-doctor, a physician who works among the dead, determining causes of death for the c… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Paladin's Hope (The Saint of Steel, #3) book and C.L. Polk's The Midnight Bargain

  • romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"If you have any enemies I'll kill them and you can dissect them. Would you like that?"

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Hope (The Saint of Steel, #3)

"Once a thing is made, it exists in the mind of the world. The next one is easier to make, and the next one after that. ... "The first takes a twisted genius. The hundredth can be done by any blacksmi…"

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Hope (The Saint of Steel, #3)

"The one advantage police had over paladins was that guards had no problem believing that someone would randomly shove pointy logs into other people. Paladins generally took a little longer to get the…"

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Hope (The Saint of Steel, #3)

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11. Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)

By: T. Kingfisher

4.23

Format: 445 pages, Kindle Edition

He’s a paladin of a dead god, tracking a supernatural killer across a continent. She’s a nun from a… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2) book and C.L. Polk's The Midnight Bargain

  • romance
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I somehow thought you had experience with stealth missions."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)

"Saints teeth, everyone gets younger every year I think. Except me."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)

"The larger part of power was understanding the power you had over others, even if you would rather not have had that much power in the first place."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)

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12. Starling House

By: Alix E. Harrow

3.83

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that ca… read more

Similar categories in Alix E. Harrow's Starling House book and C.L. Polk's The Midnight Bargain

  • romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You’re a pretty good liar"

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"Survival is a hard habit to break."

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"Maybe the truth is always messy that way."

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"the Bible only got it half right: there were demons aplenty, but no fire at all"

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

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13. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

By: Heather Fawcett

4.32

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wi… read more

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) book and C.L. Polk's The Midnight Bargain

  • romance
  • historical
  • magic
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"One of the guiding principles of dryadology,"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I may not be a miller's daughter, but you are not so different from the Folk as you think, Your Highness." I lifted her wineglass and dashed the remainder against her face, spilling it across her mou…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I brushed the hair from his face. It is very soft--- ludicrously so, in fact, more like rabbit down or dandelion seed than human hair--- and I found I could not stop stroking it. He murmured somethin…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"Dr. Farris Rose has served as Department Head for over a decade, taking over from Letitia Barrister, who was abducted by a bogle in the Hebrides and returned several weeks later aged to approximately…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

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14. Nettle & Bone

By: T. Kingfisher

4.13

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra—the shy, convent-… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Nettle & Bone book and C.L. Polk's The Midnight Bargain

  • magic
  • fiction
  • witches
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Our own flaws infuriate us in other people."

-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

"Run and be free. They cannot use what they cannot find."

-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

"Black dog, white dog, Live dog, dead dog, Yellow dog, run!"

-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

"Dogs have human names. It's what keeps them from being wolves."

-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

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15. Paladin’s Grace (The Saint of Steel, #1)

By: T. Kingfisher

4.12

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

Stephen's god died on the longest day of the year… Three years later, Stephen is a broken paladi… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Paladin’s Grace (The Saint of Steel, #1) book and C.L. Polk's The Midnight Bargain

  • romance
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I fear that I am not the best possible person for this, but I am the best possible person available at this time, which is much the same thing."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin’s Grace (The Saint of Steel, #1)

"There was something about poverty that was a little like war. Either you had been there or you hadn't, and it wasn't really possible to explain it to anyone who hadn't."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin’s Grace (The Saint of Steel, #1)

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16. Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)

By: Olivia Atwater

4.09

Format: 304 pages, ebook

It's difficult to find a husband in Regency England when you're a young lady with only half a soul.… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Atwater's Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1) book and C.L. Polk's The Midnight Bargain

  • romance
  • historical
  • magic
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"There is such a thing as evil in this world,"

-Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)

"It may be true that you have only half a soul, Dora,"

-Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)

"Every fish you throw back into the ocean is a triumph of the idea that human beings can be better. I do my best, every day, to throw at least one fish back into the ocean. I hope that you will join m…"

-Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)

"I think that Elias has been angry now for so long that he is scared to let it go - I think he is scared that if would make him too complacent, and he might become all of those things which he so desp…"

-Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)

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17. Deep Is the Fen

By: Lili Wilkinson

3.76

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Merry doesn’t need a happily-ever-after. Her life in the charming, idyllic town of Candlecott is fi… read more

Similar categories in Lili Wilkinson's Deep Is the Fen book and C.L. Polk's The Midnight Bargain

  • romance
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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18. The Midnight Bargain

By: C.L. Polk

3.76

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

Beatrice Clayborn is a sorceress who practices magic in secret, terrified of the day she will be lo… read more

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's The Midnight Bargain book and C.L. Polk's The Midnight Bargain

  • romance
  • historical
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • witches
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"If I can only use my magic when you deem it safe, does that magic belong to me, or you?"

-C.L. Polk, The Midnight Bargain

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19. Ink Blood Sister Scribe

By: Emma Törzs

4.03

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In this spellbinding debut novel, two estranged half-sisters tasked with guarding their family's li… read more

Similar categories in Emma Törzs's Ink Blood Sister Scribe book and C.L. Polk's The Midnight Bargain

  • magic
  • fiction
  • witches
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Cold was easier to bear when you'd never been warm."

-Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

"Secrets were currency and Isabel intended to stay rich."

-Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

"Nothing could be worse than being stared at by his own eye."

-Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

"...the closet of her sexual subconscious was full of petticoats."

-Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

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20. The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1)

By: Hannah F. Whitten

3.79

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

When Lore was thirteen, she escaped a cult in the catacombs beneath the city of Dellaire. And in th… read more

Similar categories in Hannah F. Whitten's The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1) book and C.L. Polk's The Midnight Bargain

  • romance
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"A moment, then Gabe sighed, as if finally resigning himself to what was about to happen. "Aim for the kneecaps." "Ah, yes." Bastian tied off the linen on her hands. "The kneecaps are the eyes of the …"

-Hannah F. Whitten, The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1)

"The air around him almost seemed to glimmer, gold dust in the dark. Moonlight made him more beautiful, yes, but in the same way that darkness emphasized a flame. He didn't belong in it; Bastian Arcen…"

-Hannah F. Whitten, The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1)

"Aim for the kneecaps." "Ah, yes." Bastian tied off the linen on her hands. "The kneecaps are the eyes of the legs." They both started at him. Then Gabe shrugged. "That's actually pretty good advice."…"

-Hannah F. Whitten, The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1)

"This is what I saw, in the reflections of the tomb." She whispered it almost to herself, broken-voiced. "It's what the goddess dreamed, but I thought I could prevent it. I thought you would choose th…"

-Hannah F. Whitten, The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1)

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21. A Sorceress Comes to Call

By: T. Kingfisher

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic… read more

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  • magic
  • fiction
  • witches
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

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