Alice Hoffman Books in Order

In 1950s Cambridge, Radcliffe students Ava and Lauren are drawn into the secret Lilith Society, a hidden circle of witches. As McCarthyism tightens and girls begin to vanish, power, friendship, and history turn dangerous.

Five years into their second chance, Isabel and Johnny are settled into life at the family bookstore until an extraordinary dream changes the ground beneath them. It is a gentle story about family, love, and making room for a new chapter.

Violet leaves Brinkley's Island for Paris to train as a pastry chef, only to find that chasing a dream does not quiet homesickness. When family news calls her back, she has to figure out where her future truly belongs.

This novel imagines Anne Frank's life before hiding, as Nazi occupation closes in on her family in Amsterdam. Hoffman focuses on the girl before the diary, showing fear, courage, and the making of a writer.

Back on Brinkley's Island, Isabel and Johnny cannot seem to make it to the altar, no matter how many dates they set. As old family pain resurfaces, the Gibson sisters have to decide what kind of future they can actually build.

Raised in an oppressive cult where books are forbidden, Mia Jacob is saved by The Scarlet Letter and pulled into a stranger kind of freedom. Hoffman's novel mixes time travel, romance, and the life-changing power of reading.

A mysterious letter pulls Isabel Gibson back to Brinkley's Island, Maine, and the struggling family bookstore she left behind. Returning home means facing her sister, her past, and the truths she has spent years avoiding.

With the Owens family curse still claiming lives, three generations of women race across Europe and England to end it at last. The final volume brings family secrets, new magic, and hard choices into one sweeping conclusion.

Maria Owens, abandoned as a baby and taught the Unnamed Arts in the English countryside, carries her broken heart to Salem. There she sets in motion the love curse that will shadow the Owens family for centuries.

In Berlin in 1941, a mother turns to a rabbi's daughter to help save her child, and a golem is created to protect her. The novel moves through Nazi-occupied Europe in a story of resistance, loss, and enduring love.

In early twentieth century Massachusetts, Adeline grows up under her mother's order to keep quiet, even when she sees too much. When a woman disappears near a lighthouse, finding her voice becomes its own kind of reckoning.

Part story collection and part craft book, this collaboration pairs fairy tales with knitting patterns inspired by them. It is a cozy, imaginative mix of making, magic, and the old pleasures of yarn and story.

In 1960s New York, siblings Franny, Jet, and Vincent Owens grow up under strict rules meant to keep them safe from love and magic. Family secrets, first passions, and the old curse prove harder to escape than their mother believes.

After a car accident leaves her best friend ruined and her own life fractured by guilt, Shelby Richmond drifts into New York City. What follows is a hard-won story of loneliness, dogs, bookstores, love, and recovery.

On St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel Pomié is pushed into a marriage meant to save her family. Her later love affair with Frédérick scandalizes the island and helps shape the life of her son, Camille Pissarro.

Twig Fowler grows up under a family curse in a town that whispers about monsters and witches. When new girls move into the old witch's cottage, friendship finally gives Twig a chance to break the spell.

In 1911 New York, Coralie, the mermaid performer in her father's sideshow, meets Eddie Cohen, a runaway photographer. Their love story unfolds alongside fire, labor unrest, and a mystery that cuts through Coney Island and the Lower East Side.

Rumors of an angel fallen in a thunderstorm draw two girls toward a field where wonder and danger blur together. This eerie short story turns a summer dare into a tense test of friendship and judgment.

Written out of Hoffman's experience with illness, this short nonfiction book offers clear, humane reflections on fear, beauty, friendship, and resilience. It is less a memoir than a companion for hard days.

Set in Blackwell, Massachusetts, this linked novel traces three centuries of passion, secrets, curses, and second chances. Each chapter stands on its own, but together they create a rich story about one town and the people marked by it.

At Masada in 70 CE, four women arrive by different paths, each carrying grief, skill, and dangerous secrets. As Roman forces close in, their intertwined lives become a fierce story of survival, faith, and love.

Still carrying loss after the disaster that changed her world, Green leaves home to search for love, hope, and the missing boy she cannot forget. Along the way, the stories of women called witches help her understand her own heart.

On Long Island, sisters Elv, Meg, and Claire build a private fairy-tale world to survive an experience they cannot speak about. As imagination and trauma blur, Hoffman turns their bond into a haunting family saga.

Three women, on different paths and in different decades, keep falling for the wrong men. Their stories meet in a London hotel, where old desire and one long shadowed accident still shape the present.

Arlyn Singer believes destiny will send her true love, but marriage leads her instead to a glass house full of ghosts, regret, and unruly longing. This family novel follows the Moodys as love and art unsettle every room.

Estrella lives as a secret Jew in Spain during the Inquisition, hiding her family's true faith behind a Catholic life. When those secrets are exposed, she must face betrayal, danger, and the cost of keeping her identity.

After surviving a lightning strike she once wished for, a woman finds herself changed in body and spirit. Her meeting with another survivor draws her into a dark romance about grief, desire, and starting over.

Raised among Amazons in an ancient world of war and prophecy, Rain is expected to become a queen and fighter. But a dark prediction makes her imagine a different life, one shaped by mercy, love, and forbidden questions.

Across generations on Cape Cod, the same house shelters people at turning points in love, loss, and reinvention. The linked stories make the house itself feel alive, watching families change as time moves on.

This omnibus gathers Aquamarine and Indigo, two water-soaked coming of age stories where magic meets friendship, loss, and longing. One follows a mermaid in a seaside summer, the other a trio of runaways pulled toward the sea.

In the Sparrow family, each woman comes into an unusual gift at thirteen. When Stella begins seeing how people will die, buried family rifts and hard truths rise to the surface.

Michael and Hazel think the puppy on their doorstep is pure luck, until the full moon reveals his wilder side. This playful picture book mixes Halloween atmosphere, neighborhood mystery, and a very unusual dog.

After a terrible disaster destroys her family and her city, fifteen-year-old Green retreats into ash, grief, and self-erasure. Strange encounters with a white dog and a mute boy slowly guide her back toward love and life.

In a dry town haunted by an old flood, Martha Glimmer joins Trout and Eel McGill, two brothers who seem called by the sea. Their escape becomes a magical journey toward grief, freedom, and finding where they truly belong.

Ethan Ford has spent thirteen years hiding who he really is, until one missed workday shatters his small town life. His wife and son are left to reckon with betrayal, identity, and the kind of truth that changes everything.

Best friends Hailey and Claire find a mermaid in the Capri Beach Club pool during their last summer together. As Aquamarine searches for love on land, the girls learn how friendship and goodbye can hurt, and heal.

An inexplicable death at the prestigious Haddan School cracks open the old divide between town and campus in Haddan, Massachusetts. As secrets surface, the novel becomes a haunting mystery about innocence, cruelty, and the stories people bury.

Jewel is terrified of horses until her grandfather asks her to care for a scrawny foal named Bug. When she learns Bug can fly, she has to face her fears to protect her remarkable friend.

Growing up on Long Island, Gretel watches her family and neighbors unravel under the pressure of love, divorce, disappointment, and grief. These linked stories build a sharp, intimate portrait of suburban lives that look calm from the outside.

In this illustrated story, a boy is dazzled by the natural world and learns that belonging starts with staying true to himself. It is a gentle, luminous tale about wonder, difference, and being seen.

Sisters Sally and Gillian Owens grow up as outsiders in a Massachusetts town that blames their family for everything. When trouble and old magic pull them back together, they have to face love, loss, and the curse that shadows the Owens line.

Robin Moore impulsively rescues a man raised in the wilderness and brings him into her orderly suburban life. Their bond upends her home and her certainty, turning this into a strange, tender Beauty and the Beast story.

Lucy Rosen moves to Verity, Florida, hoping for a fresh start with her son, Keith, during turtle season. Instead they enter a place where danger and desire run close to the surface, and nothing stays ordinary for long.

A quiet 1950s suburb starts to change when Nora Silk arrives, mysterious, bold, and determined to live on her own terms. Her presence wakes up buried desires and restless dreams all over town.

After nearly twenty years in California, March Murray returns to her Massachusetts hometown with her daughter and is pulled back toward Hollis, the love she never escaped. A funeral becomes the start of a dark story about obsession, memory, and survival.

Polly and Ivan's ordinary family is shattered when their eleven-year-old daughter, Amanda, is diagnosed with AIDS. Hoffman follows their fear, anger, and devotion with unusual tenderness, showing how crisis exposes both prejudice and love.

On Martha's Vineyard, a young couple, a troubled girl, an old woman, and other restless lives drift toward one another. Hoffman turns their longing, grief, and quiet hope into a shimmering novel of magic, mystery, and connection.

Pregnant and far from home, Rae meets Lila, a fortune teller haunted by the daughter she lost years earlier. In earthquake season, their lives collide in a story of mothers, daughters, and the futures people try to outrun.

Teresa grows up on dangerous family myths and a bond with her brother, Silver, that turns from fantasy to nightmare. To survive, she has to break the story she was given and rescue herself.

Natalie, a therapist in a small Long Island town, makes the worst possible mistake when she becomes involved with a client. What follows is a sharp, offbeat love story about mistaken identities, bad decisions, and real commitment.

On a North Shore Long Island estate, the imperious Esther tries to control a family already slipping from her grasp. As desire, escape, and old wounds surface, one summer threatens to overturn the whole household.

A lonely outsider is drawn into the violent world of the Orphans and falls hard for their doomed leader, McKay. This dark first novel is part gang story, part feverish coming of age tale about love, danger, and possession.