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  • Bibliography:
    45 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1977
  • Latest Book:
    September 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Green

1 - Green Angel (Oct-2003)
2 - Green Witch (Mar-2010)

Practical Magic

1 - The Rules of Magic (Oct-2017)
2 - Magic Lessons (Oct-2020)
3 - The Book of Magic (Oct-2021)
4 - Practical Magic (Jun-1995)

Multi-Author Series List

Fairytale Retellings: The Snow Queen

The Ice Queen (Apr-2005)

Book List in Order: 45 titles



  • The Night of the Wolf. On the Avenue in the bleak area where New York City blends into suburbia, the Orphans, their fast Fords and their Chevys 'coated by ice and leather and white dust', prepare to engage in deadly, intricately structured games of c...



  • The matriarch of a Long Island clan with a stubbornly suicidal son and a defiant, restless granddaughter, Esther has hired a Russian landscaper to watch over the family as well as the grounds of their secluded waterfront estate. But he has been wa...



  • [Read by Rebecca Mitchell]Alice Hoffman, the bestselling author of such beloved novels as Practical Magic and Seventh Heaven, has written a powerful story of love that show's why she has been called a ''born storyteller'' (Entertainment Weekly).Wh...



  • "This novel's great strength lies in its two heroines, who both find themselves drawn, without plans, hopes or full understanding, into the inevitably mythological process of pregnancy and childbirth....It is beautifully and matter-of-factly told."



  • "Subtle touches...make this intelligent novel shine. Ms. Hoffman knows how to tell a story."
    THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
    Set on Martha's Vineyard, here is a stunning novel that brings that beautiful island to vivid life--a novel that weaves ...



  • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic comes a “memorable...striking”(Village Voice) novel that vividly portrays an American family shattered by tragedy.

    Ivan and Polly Farrell have two bright and talented childre...



  • In SEVENTH HEAVEN, Alice Hoffman takes us to a typical suburban community in the typical suburban decade of the 1950s to explore what happens when Nora Silk comes to town. Nora is extraordinary. Strong, sexy, passionate, and mysterious, she is det...



  • A “captivating...truly original novel” (Cosmopolitan) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic.“Ms. Hoffman writes quite wonderfully about the magic in our lives and in the battered, indifferent world.” -- The New York...



  • While trying to cope with a divorce and a troubled teenaged son, Robin Moore impulsively decides to hide a institutionalized man in her suburban home, with dire consequences for the community and her own feelings. Reprint....






  • Longing to escape the Massachusetts hometown that has always blamed their family for whatever goes wrong, Gillian and Sally respectively marry and run away but are drawn back by a seemingly magical force. Reprint. NYT. ...



  • Offering new talent, fresh voices, and literary names of the future who are honing their talents at today's most prestigious writing workshops, this inaugural volume in an exciting new series presents the best short fiction from the U.S. and Canada...



  • In her first book for children, the acclaimed novelist explores what happens when one March, fireflies do not appear to herald the coming of spring, until the clumsiest boy in town discovers why and saves the village....



  • The bestselling author of Practical Magic and Turtle Moon in her most seductive and mesmerizing story. After nineteen years in California, March Murray returns to the small Massachusetts town where she grew up. For all this time, March has been her o...



  • The New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic is at her haunting, thought-provoking best with these interconnected stories about a Long Island family.Alice Hoffman casts her spell over a neighborhood filled with drea...



  • A story about a small town's surface appearance and the truths submerged below from the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic.People tend to stay in their place in the town of Haddan. The students at the prestigious prep school don'...



  • Alice Hoffman, the bestselling author of The Rules of Magic, asks how we can find the courage to face the unthinkable in this compelling New York Times Notable Book.

    When Ethan Ford fails to show up for work on a brilliant summer morning, none...



  • A SUMMER TO REMEMBER... Hailey and Claire are spending their last summer together when they discover something at the bottom of the murky pool at the Capri Beach Club. There in the depths is a mysterious and beautiful creature with a sharp tongue an...



  • Three friends in search of a place to belong find that home is truly where the heart is in this new tale of enchantment from best-selling master storyteller Alice Hoffman.13 year-old Martha Glimmer is convinced this is the worst time of her life. Her...



  • The women of the Sparrow family have lived in New England for generations. Each is born in the month of March, and at the age of thirteen, each develops an unusual gift. Elinor can literally smell a lie. Her daughter, Jenny, can see people's dreams a...






  • THIS IS HOW IT HAPPENED. Left on her own when her family dies in a terrible disaster, fifteen-year-old Green is haunted by loss and by the past. Struggling to survive physically and emotionally in a place where nothing seems to grow and ashes are ev...



  • With “incantatory prose” that “sweeps over the reader like a dream,” (Philadelphia Inquirer), Hoffman follows her celebrated bestseller The Probable Future, with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massa...



  • An irresistible Halloween tale by one of Scholastic Press' most gifted storytellers.

    Michael McKenzie and his sister Hazel are awakened a few nights before Halloween by growling and howling. The next morning, they find their front yard in sham...



  • A woman who leads a quiet life, keeping other people at a cool distance, one day utters an idle wish to be struck by lightning -- and her wish is granted. Instead of killing her, this cataclysmic event marks a strange and powerful new beginning as th...



  • New York Times Bestseller: A lyrical, suspenseful coming-of-age story based on Greek myths of the Amazons, woman warriors living near the Black Sea. Born out of sorrow in an ancient time of blood and war, Rain is a girl marked by destiny. Her mother,...



  • This kind of knowing you can never tell to anyone. If you want us to survive, you cannot trust a soul. Estrella de Madrigal thought she knew herself: daughter, granddaughter, dearest friend. But truth is rare in this cruel and unforgiving century in...



  • A stunning new novel about three generations of a family haunted by love from the bestselling author of Practical Magic and Here on Earth. Arlyn Singer believes in destiny and in love. But fate seems to be playing a trick on the night when John Moody...



  • Alice Hoffman is one of our most beloved writers. Here on Earth was an Oprah Book Club selection. Practical Magic and Aquamarine were both bestselling books and Hollywood movies. Her novels have received mention as notable books of the year by the Ne...



  • The Story Sisters charts the lives of three sisters -- Elv, Claire, and Meg. Each has a fate she must meet alone: one on a country road, one in the streets of Paris, and one in the corridors of her own imagination. Inhabiting their world are a charis...



  • From bestselling author Alice Hoffman, a resonant tale of overcoming grief and tragedy, as only she could tell it. In this powerful, lovely sequel to GREEN ANGEL, Green must learn the stories of a number of "witches" and free her true soul mate from...






  • The Red Garden introduces us to the luminous and haunting world of Blackwell, Massachusetts, capturing the unexpected turns in its history and in our own lives. In exquisite prose, Hoffman offers a transforming glimpse of small-town America, pr...



  • Over five years in the writing, The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing novel, a tour de force of imagination and research, set in ancient Israel. In 70 C.E., nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Rom...



  • A two-fold tale of grief and hope, loss and love, told as only Alice Hoffman can. When her family is lost in a terrible disaster, 15-year-old Green is haunted by loss and the past. Struggling to survive in a place where nothing seems to grow and a...



  • Mesmerizing and illuminating, Alice Hoffman’s The Museum of Extraordinary Things is the story of an electric and impassioned love between two vastly different souls in New York during the volatile first decades of the twentieth century. Coralie ...



  • Just when you think you know what's going to happen next, the world surprises you. This is especially true in Sidwell, small town in the Berkshires. Rumor has it that Sidwell is home to a monster, and tales of sightings draw in as many tourists as...



  • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a forbidden love story set on the tropical island of St. Thomas about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro -- the Fath...



  • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage of Opposites and The Dovekeepers comes a soul-searching story about a young woman struggling to redefine herself and the power of love, family, and fate. Growing up on Long Island, Shelby ...



  • From beloved author Alice Hoffman comes the spellbinding prequel to her bestseller, PRACTICAL MAGIC. Find your magic. For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man....



  • This instant New York Times bestseller and longlist recipient for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal takes place in 1941, during humanity’s darkest hour, and follows three unforgettable young women who must act with courage and love to survive. In B...








  • In an unforgettable novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source, beloved author Alice Hoffman unveils the story of Maria Owens, accused of witchcraft in Salem, and matriarch of a line of the amazing Owens women and men featured in Practical...



  • Master storyteller Alice Hoffman brings us the conclusion of the Practical Magic series in a spellbinding and enchanting final Owens novel brimming with lyric beauty and vivid characters. The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over t...



  • From New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman comes a heartfelt short story about family, independence, and finding your place in the world. Isabel Gibson has all but perfected the art of forgetting. She’s a New Yorker now, with nothing l...



  • From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage of Opposites and the Practical Magic series comes an enchanting novel about love, heartbreak, self-discovery, and the enduring magic of books. One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob...



  • Bestselling author Alice Hoffman delivers a stunning novel about one of contemporary history's most acclaimed figures, exploring the little-known details of Anne Frank's life before she went into hiding.Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl has capt...



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    The New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic offers “an affecting love story, laced with humor”(Booklist) that tells the tale of a man and a woman so consumed with helping others that they are in danger of failing in t...


Award-Winning Books by Alice Hoffman

Incantation
2007 Massachusetts Book Award (MassBook) -- Children/Young Adult


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Alice Hoffman has published 45 books.

The next book by Alice Hoffman, When We Flew Away, will be published in September 2024.

The first book by Alice Hoffman, Property of, was published in April 1977.

Yes. Alice Hoffman has 2 series.