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
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,362 books — 4,704 voters
The Girl with No Reflection by Keshe ChowA Crane Among Wolves by June HurTo Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X. ChangA Song to Drown Rivers by Ann LiangSuch Lovely Skin by Tatiana Schlote-Bonne
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43 books — 77 voters

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison AllenA Discovery of Witches by Deborah HarknessThe Night Circus by Erin MorgensternPractical Magic by Alice HoffmanThe Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
Best Magical Realism: Witchy Fiction
293 books — 473 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLife of Pi by Yann MartelKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovMidnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Magic Realism Novels
178 books — 152 voters

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison AllenThe Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison AllenChocolat by Joanne HarrisLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelThe Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
Features Food Magic
70 books — 103 voters
The Night Circus by Erin MorgensternLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelGarden Spells by Sarah Addison AllenCirce by Madeline MillerKindred by Octavia E. Butler
[ATY 2024] Touch of Magic
432 books — 89 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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