Magic Realism

Magic realism or magical realism is an aesthetic style or genre of fiction in which magical elements blend to create a realistic atmosphere that accesses a deeper understanding of reality. The story explains these magical elements as normal occurrences, presented in a straightforward manner that places the "real" and the "fantastic" in the same stream of thought. It is a literary and visual art genre; creative fields that exhibit less significant signs of magic realism include film and music.
The term is broadly descriptive rather than critically rigorous: Matthew Strecher defines magic realism
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Kafka on the Shore
The House of the Spirits
The Night Circus
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Like Water for Chocolate
Love in the Time of Cholera
Midnight’s Children
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The Midnight Library
The Master and Margarita
Red Russia
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
After Zero by Christina  CollinsJake, Lucid Dreamer by David J. NaimanTuck Everlasting by Natalie BabbittThe Eye of Lariloth by Grace EgertThe Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Magic realism in children's books
36 books — 30 voters
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison AllenThe Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison AllenMagic America by C.E. MedfordThe Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison AllenPractical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Fun/Playful Magic Realism
50 books — 57 voters

Uzumaki by Junji ItoThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins GilmanFragments of Horror by Junji ItoBlack Hole by Charles BurnsHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Surreal Horror
84 books — 75 voters
The Midnight Library by Matt HaigIf Only by Melanie    MurphyThe Dark Tower #1-3 by Stephen  King
stories exploring parallel lives
3 books — 3 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Light of Eternal Spring by Angel Di ZhangThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Best Magic Realism
162 books — 319 voters
Life of Pi by Yann MartelLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeBeloved by Toni MorrisonOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Works of Magical Realism
95 books — 8 voters

Maya Realm
It is not hard, it is not easy — IT IS.
Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

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