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A fierce, supernatural exploration of female friendship forged in the crucible of competitive team sports. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with We Ride Upon Sticks.
- spirited
- mysterious
- empowering
- fierce
- 01
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Katherine Howe
A dual-timeline mystery steeped in the smell of old paper, hidden magic, and the lingering ghosts of New England's dark past.
- 02
Year of the Witching
Alexis Henderson
A claustrophobic, blood-soaked descent into a dark wood where female rage blooms into terrifying power.
- 03
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
Rivka Galchen
A wry, darkly comic, and quietly devastating portrait of an eccentric woman caught in the absurd machinery of a seventeenth-century witch hunt.
- 04
The Once and Future Witches
Alix E. Harrow
A fierce, autumnal fairy tale about fractured sisters weaving forgotten magic into a revolution.
- 05
New Amsterdam
Elizabeth Bear
A gaslit, world-weary magical procedural where a formidable sorceress and an immortal exile seek justice in a shadowy alternate America.
- 06
The witches of Eastwick
John Updike
A lush, darkly satirical plunge into the intoxicating and destructive power of female desire in a stifling New England town.
- 07
What Lies in the Woods
Kate Alice Marshall
A dark, tangled exploration of childhood secrets and the devastating cost of keeping them buried.
- 08
Cackle
Rachel Harrison
A cozy, darkly funny exploration of heartbreak that asks what happens when you stop playing nice and start embracing your inner monster.
- 09
Down among the sticks and bones
Seanan McGuire
A dark, lyrical fairy tale about the monstrous expectations placed on little girls and the terrifying, beautiful worlds they escape to.
- 10
My best friend's exorcism
Grady Hendrix
A neon-soaked, blood-spattered love letter to the fierce, terrifying, and life-or-death intensity of teenage female friendship.
- 11
The Winter People
Jennifer McMahon
A bone-chilling, dual-timeline ghost story where the desperate weight of maternal grief bleeds through the frozen Vermont earth.
- 12
Hex
Thomas Olde Heuvelt
A claustrophobic descent into communal madness where modern technology fails to contain an ancient, festering evil.
