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
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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