Pithy Books: witches https://pithybooks.com/tags/witches/ Latest Pithy Books summaries tagged “witches”. en Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:12:11 GMT A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness: summary https://pithybooks.com/books/a-discovery-of-witches/ https://pithybooks.com/books/a-discovery-of-witches/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Historian Diana Bishop calls up a lost alchemical manuscript in Oxford's Bodleian Library and draws vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont, plus every creature hunting the book's secret. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire: summary https://pithybooks.com/books/wicked/ https://pithybooks.com/books/wicked/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Elphaba is born green in Oz and called wicked for refusing the Wizard in Maguire's 1995 novel.