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 Time Hop Coffee Shop
Persephone's Curse
The Library of Fates
Seeing Other People
Cape Fever
Her Time Traveling Duke
Cursed Daughters
The Forget-Me-Not Library
The Bookshop Below
The Tortoise's Tale
Not You Again
I'll Find You Where the Timeline Ends
Gilded in Vengeance
The Glowing Life of Leeann Wu
The Great Work
Good Spirits (Ghosted, #1)
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
Remarkably Bright Creatures
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
In a Holidaze
The Seven Year Slip
Piranesi
Katabasis
Twice
Babel
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
In Five Years
The Lost Bookshop
The Seven Rings (The Lost Bride Trilogy, #3)
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Kafka on the Shore
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
The House of the Spirits
The Night Circus
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Like Water for Chocolate
Piranesi
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
The Master and Margarita
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1)

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