Series
Practical Magic
Alice Hoffman · 4 novels · 1995–2021
Practical Magic follows sisters Sally and Gillian Owens, raised by witch aunts in Massachusetts after their parents' deaths, as they try — and fail — to outrun both magic and love, with Sally's daughter Kylie later inheriting the family's uncanny "Sight." Alice Hoffman returned to the 1995 original decades later, adding two prequels (The Rules of Magic, Magic Lessons) and a direct sequel (The Book of Magic) that follow the Owens family's inheritance back and forward across generations.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Practical Magic at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1990s1
- 2000s0
- 2010s1
- 2020s2
Shape
Mood
Grim and intense: 75% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Magic Lessonsdarkest · most intense
- The Book of Magicbrightest
- The Rules of Magiccalmest