2014 Witches & Witchcraft Reading Challenge

This challenge is being hosted by Melissa at Melissa's Eclectic Bookshelf!

Here are the details copied from Melissa's blog:

2014 Witches & Witchcraft Reading Challenge

Challenge Rules:

• This challenge will run from Jan 1, 2014 – Dec 31, 2014. I will be posting a place to link up a sign-up post (below), reviews and a wrap-up post. (Note: You do not have to review the books to participate, but only those who link up reviews will be entered for the prize)
• Grab the reading challenge button (code & button below) and post this reading challenge on your blog to track your progress. Please include a link back to this sign-up post so others can join the reading challenge too. You do not have to be a book blogger to participate- you could track your progress and post reviews on Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Smashwords, etc.
• Any full length book that includes a witch as a main character or includes major witchcraft elements counts. They may be fiction or non-fiction. However, they should not be reference books which are not read cover to cover-I will leave this to your discretion.
• Books can be any format (bound, eBook, audio).
• Re-reads and crossovers from other reading challenges are allowed.
• You can list your books in advance or just put them in a wrap-up post. If you list them, feel free to change them as the mood takes you.
• When you sign up in the linky put the direct link to your post about joining the 2014 Witches & Witchcraft Reading Challenge, not just a link to your blog.
• You can move up levels, but no moving down.
• Sign-ups will be open until Dec 15, 2014, so feel free to join at any time throughout the year.
• Have some Witchy Good Fun !!!

The Levels:

Initiate: Read 1 – 5 Witchy Books
Maiden: Read 6 – 10 Witchy Books
Mother: Read 11 – 15 Witchy Books
Crone: Read 16 – 20 Witchy Books

The Prize:

Witchy book of choice up to $10 from The Book Depository!
Participants who have officially signed up by linking up a sign-up post declaring their level will be given one entry for every review they link up. The more reviews you write and link up, the more entries in the contest! Link up your reviews on that month’s Review Link Up Post. Winner will be chosen on Jan 11th 2015 to give everyone a chance to link up their end of year reviews. All Challenge Posts can be accessed from my menu bar under my header!

Link Up Reviews Here:

January 2014 Reviews

Some book suggestions to get you started (for series’ I’ve just listed the 1st book):

Fiction:
Practical Magic – Alice Hoffman
Garden Spells – Sarah Addison Allen
Lonely Souls (Witch Avenue #1) – Karice Bolton
Pies and Prejudice (Charmed Pie Shoppe Mystery #1) – Ellery Adams
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy #1) – Deborah Harkness
From Beltane Magic (Magic Seasons #1) – Jacqueline Paige
Second Hand Spirits (A Witchcraft Mystery, #1)- Juliet Blackwell
Going Back for Romeo – LL Muir
Audrey’s Guide to Witchcraft (Audrey’s Guides #1)- Jody Gehrman
The Night Strangers – Chris Bohjalian
Veil Between Worlds (Grimoire Chronicles #1) – Sally Dubats
Entangled (Spellbound #1) – Nikki Jefford
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane – Katherine Howe
Brownie & Broomsticks (Magical Bakery Mystery #1)- Bailey Cates
The Demon Lover (Fairwick Chronicles #1) – Juliet Dark
Casting Spells (Sugar Maple #1)- Barbara Bretton
Born Wicked (The Cahill Witch Chronicles, #1)- Jessica Spotswood
Second Hand Spirits (A Witchcraft Mystery, #1)- Juliet Blackwell
It Takes a Witch (A Wishcraft Mystery #1)- Heather Blake
Witchstruck – Victoria Lamb
A Modern Witch – Debora Geary
The Flower Bowl Spell – Olivia Boler
The Trouble With Magic (Bewitching Mysteries #1) – Madeline Alt
The Book of Shadows (Herculine #1) – James Reese
New England Witch Chronicles (New England Witch Chronicles #1) – Chelsea Bellingeri
The Near Witch (Near Witch #1) – Victoria Schwab
The Witches of East End (The Beauchamp Family #1) – Melissa de la Cruz
Witchlanders by Lena Coakley
Once a Witch (Witch #1) – Carolyn MacCullough
Book of Shadows (Wicca #1) – Cate Tiernan
Random Magic – Sasha Soren
The Witch and the Wolf ( The Merriweather Witches #1) – Tricia Schneider
Witch Way to Murder (Ophelia & Abby #1) – Shirley Damsgaard
Hex Hall (Hex Hall #1) – Rachel Hawkins
The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches #1) – Anne Rice
Dark Dates ( Cassandra Bick Chronicles #1) – Tracey Sinclair
Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble (Jolie Wilkins #1) – HP Mallory
Burn Mark ( Burn Mark #1) – Laura Powell
Dead Witch Walking (The Hollows #1) – Kim Harrison
A Witch in Winter (Winter Trilogy #1)- Ruth Warburton
The Witchlings – Midnight Curse (The Witchlings #1) – Amanda Turner
Jinx – Meg Cabot
Would-Be Witch (Southern Witch #1) – Kimberly Frost
Eliza’s Shadow – Catherine Wittmack
Girl’s Guide to Witchcraft (Jane Madison #1) – Mindy Klasky
50 Ways to Hex Your Lover (Jazz Tremaine #1) – Linda Wisdom
The Heretic’s Daughter – Kathleen Kent
Crushed (The Witch-Game #1) – KC Blake
The Burning of Isobel Key – Jen McConnel
Non-Fiction:
Bucklands’s Complete Book of Witchcraft – Raymond Buckland
Mrs. B’s Guide to Household Witchery – Kris Bradley
Drawing Down the Moon – Margot Adler
Wicca for Beginners – Thea Sabin
Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner – Scott Cunningham
Natural Witchery: Intuitive, Personal & Practical Magick – Ellen Dugan
Magick in Theory and Practice – Aleister Crowley
The Spiral Dance – Starhawk
The Golden Bough – James Frazer
A Witch’s Bible: the Complete Witch’s Handbook – Janet & Stewart Farrar
Wheel of the Year: Living the Magical Life – Pauline Campanelli
Witch Crafting – Phyllis Curott
Witchcraft Today – Gerald Gardner
A History of Witchcraft – Jeffrey Russell

If you would like to join me in the challenge, click on the challenge badge at the beginning of this post.

I am aiming for INITIATE LEVEL (read 1-5 witchy books).

I will keep track of my progress below and link up my reviews (and list some witchy books that I have on my shelves):

1. A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy, #1) - Deborah Harkness
2. Witchlanders by Lena Coakley
3. Hex Hall (Hex Hall #1) - Rachel Hawkins
4. Dead Witch Walking (The Hollows #1) - Kim Harrison