Reading List
Salem has featured prominently in novels and stories since before America existed. Here is a reading list of works set in Salem or inspired by Salem.
Salem is a city steeped in stories, bewitching tales of love and loss, murder and mystery. This is a non-comprehensive list of published works set in, and inspired by Salem. Read our stories and start writing your own!
Our Reading List
Salem Witch Trials
A Modest Enquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft
The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronical of a Community Under Seige
Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritain Fantasies
A Salem Witch: The Trial, Execution, and Exoneration of Rebecca Nurse
Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem
What Were the Salem Witch Trials
Satan and Salem: The Witch-Hunt Crisis of 1692
Non-Fiction
Maritime Salem in the Age of Sail
Our Silent Neighbors: A Study of Gravestones in the Old Salem Area
Salem Cornerstones: Cornerstones of a Historic City
Salem Serves: Sites and Stories from the Military and Patriotic Heritage of Salem, Massachusetts, 1626-WWII
The Peabody Sisters
Hidden History of Salem
The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten: A Free Negro in the Slave Era
Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers: How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea Changed American Life
When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail
If These Stones Could Speak
The Founding of Salem: City of Peace
Salem's Cookin
What Salem Dames Cooked
HausMagick: Transform Your Home with Witchcraft
Reading the Leaves: An Intuitive Guide to the Ancient Art and Modern Magic of Tea Leaf Divination
Lighting the Wick
Death of an Empire: The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America's Richest City
Deliberate Evil
The Little Locksmith
Fiction
The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs
The Heretic's Daughter
The Lace Reader
The Fifth Petal
The Physic Book of Deliverance Dane
Map of True Places
The Traitor's Wife
The White Raven
Wicked Appetite
Death in Salem
The House of the Seven Gables
Hester
Witch City
How to Hang a Witch
Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem
Conversions
Hocus Pocus and the All New Sequel
Carry on Mr. Bowditch
The Scarlett Letter
Piece by Piece
The Good Witch of Salem
Misery Islands
Rewilding
Underlife (New Voices)
Jap Herron: A Novel Written from the Ouija Board
Black Cat Tales: History and Hauntings of Old Salem
The Good Thief
The Crucible
Magic Lessons