Magical Realism

Magical realism is a fiction genre 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. ...more

The Someday Garden
Tropesick
The Children
Romantic Hero
If Books Could Kill
In Every Possible Way
The Jellyfish Problem
Rottenheart
We Hexed the Moon
Little Wild
Our Sister's Keeper
Feast
Rabbit, Fox, Tar
Twenty Something Else
Ghost-Eye
Remarkably Bright Creatures
The Midnight Train (The Midnight World, #2)
The Seven Year Slip
The Astral Library
Land
The Someday Garden
Katabasis
Twice
Babel
The Do-Over
Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)
Weyward
The Lost Bookshop
Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)
The Measure
The Goddess of Nothing At All by Cat RectorMist Bound by Daryl KhoA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil GaimanThe Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
Magic and Myth in Fiction
179 books — 37 voters

The Fifth Season by N.K. JemisinWyrd Sisters by Terry PratchettRemnant Population by Elizabeth MoonTehanu by Ursula K. Le GuinPaladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
Old(er) Women in SF/F
215 books — 115 voters
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovSolaris by Stanisław LemThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Translated Speculative Fiction
405 books — 214 voters

The Three Privileges by A.V. DavinaThe Raven Boys by Maggie StiefvaterBone Gap by Laura RubyBlue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie StiefvaterThe Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater
YA Magical Realism
91 books — 102 voters
The Night Circus by Erin MorgensternJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónOutlander by Diana GabaldonMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Historical Fiction With a Dash of Magic
473 books — 754 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
Kafka on the Shore
The House of the Spirits
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
The Night Circus
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Piranesi
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Like Water for Chocolate
The Master and Margarita
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
Beloved
Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1)

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