Match BookHow to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women
Zoe Venditozzi
2025 · 320 pages · Narrative nonfiction
How it reads
How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women is narrative nonfiction (feminist cultural history, specifically), and its dominant mood is dark. It goes to difficult places and doesn't look away. The pace is moderate — neither a page-turner nor a slow burn — so it holds up whether you read it in long sittings or short ones.
It's set in several locations, in the historical past, told through letters, documents or mixed forms. Its central concerns are power and politics, justice and class and society. In weight it's heavy and literary — denser, more serious, and more demanding of you.
It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending resolves happily. At 320 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's a hidden gem — known to relatively few readers.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something dark
- you want something to chew on
- you like finding books before everyone else
Maybe not if…
- you need something cosy, heartwarming or funny
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- narrative nonfiction
- Author gender
- female
- Author experience
- early career
- Setting: place
- multiple locations
- Setting: time
- historical
- Mood / feeling
- dark
- Pace
- moderate
- Tone / weight
- heavy and literary
- Length
- medium
- Narrative style
- letters, documents or mixed forms
- Publication era
- new release
- Popularity
- hidden gem
- Series vs standalone
- standalone
- Themes
- power and politics, justice, class and society
- Ending style
- resolved and happy
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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