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Whimsical Books
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The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,125,996 ratings — published 2011
Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle, #1)
by (shelved 105 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.28 — 463,984 ratings — published 1986
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,559,428 ratings — published 1943
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,062,608 ratings — published 2020
Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.06 — 734,216 ratings — published 2021
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.31 — 318,489 ratings — published 2023
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.95 — 230,304 ratings — published 2023
Caraval (Caraval, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.97 — 945,001 ratings — published 2016
A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)
by (shelved 44 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.17 — 461,907 ratings — published 2023
The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)
by (shelved 39 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.48 — 528,646 ratings — published 2022
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.20 — 537,280 ratings — published 2020
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,672,461 ratings — published 1997
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.84 — 240,179 ratings — published 2019
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.03 — 402,951 ratings — published 2022
Stardust (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.09 — 486,411 ratings — published 1999
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)
by (shelved 33 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.24 — 112,563 ratings — published 2024
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,823,481 ratings — published 2018
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.01 — 663,677 ratings — published 2013
Legendary (Caraval, #2)
by (shelved 32 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.09 — 495,646 ratings — published 2018
The Spellshop (Spellshop, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.00 — 171,230 ratings — published 2024
Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.04 — 85,478 ratings — published 2020
Finale (Caraval, #3)
by (shelved 30 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.12 — 412,435 ratings — published 2019
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.06 — 619,149 ratings — published 1871
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.03 — 349,786 ratings — published 2022
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,569,074 ratings — published 1937
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.27 — 138,414 ratings — published 2017
How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)
by (shelved 26 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.13 — 280,860 ratings — published 2020
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,480,097 ratings — published 2022
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.08 — 242,657 ratings — published 2017
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.99 — 447,573 ratings — published 1865
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.17 — 945,231 ratings — published 1964
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.08 — 100,734 ratings — published 2022
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.65 — 747,309 ratings — published 2015
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.27 — 958,825 ratings — published 1973
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales (Emily Wilde, #3)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.08 — 63,955 ratings — published 2025
The Wishing Game (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.02 — 195,247 ratings — published 2023
Nettle & Bone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.07 — 153,056 ratings — published 2022
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,596,917 ratings — published 2020
The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,017,999 ratings — published 2019
The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.11 — 118,363 ratings — published 2016
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Fairyland, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,926 ratings — published 2011
Water Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.77 — 59,019 ratings — published 2025
A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.06 — 96,749 ratings — published 2022
Under the Whispering Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.10 — 335,019 ratings — published 2021
Heartless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.08 — 273,439 ratings — published 2016
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,141,692 ratings — published 1908
The Ten Thousand Doors of January (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.01 — 175,669 ratings — published 2019
The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.05 — 408,130 ratings — published 2012
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 20 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,296,582 ratings — published 2000
The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.16 — 125,891 ratings — published 1968
“Chaos Cocktail by Stewart Stafford
Herky-jerky's hanky-panky,
Wakey-wakey, eggs n' bakey!
Cosmic Mercury's retrograde trick,
Nilsson's Brandy Alexander kick.
John heard Bermuda's jingle-jangle,
Storm surge in an Exorcist Triangle!
Sea shanties upending Behan's hive,
All stout hornets jigged and jived.
Yoko's "Oh, no!" on firmer ground,
Her ageing mariner didn't drown,
Lonely Ringo plays bingo bongo,
Paul, mugged down near the Congo.
© 2024, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
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Herky-jerky's hanky-panky,
Wakey-wakey, eggs n' bakey!
Cosmic Mercury's retrograde trick,
Nilsson's Brandy Alexander kick.
John heard Bermuda's jingle-jangle,
Storm surge in an Exorcist Triangle!
Sea shanties upending Behan's hive,
All stout hornets jigged and jived.
Yoko's "Oh, no!" on firmer ground,
Her ageing mariner didn't drown,
Lonely Ringo plays bingo bongo,
Paul, mugged down near the Congo.
© 2024, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
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