Seven titles about people accused of being witches

J. Nicole Jones received an M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia University in 2012. She has held editorial positions at VICE magazine and VanityFair.com. Her essays and writing have appeared in VICE, VanityFair.com, the Harper's magazine website, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, the Paris Review Daily, and elsewhere.

Her first book, Low Country: A Memoir, was published in 2021.

Jones's new novel is The Witches of Bellinas.

At Electric Lit she tagged seven books that "are not just about being a witch—they’re about people who have been accused of being witches—and what that happens afterward." One title on the list:

The Manningtree Witches by A.K. Blakemore

This novel perfectly illustrates what a woman living alone risks when she has agency, means, and a mind to follow her own path: In 17th-century Manningtree, an English town where men are scarce following a war, a strange man dressed in black arrives calling himself the Witchfinder General. Soon, witch trials are underway, and Rebecca West, the narrator, must navigate suspicion, accusations, and worse.

Read about another title on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue