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Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle, #1)
by (shelved 113 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.28 — 474,461 ratings — published 1986
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,139,848 ratings — published 2011
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
by (shelved 76 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.30 — 335,225 ratings — published 2023
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,613,456 ratings — published 1943
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.95 — 239,729 ratings — published 2023
Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.06 — 776,797 ratings — published 2021
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,108,653 ratings — published 2020
Caraval (Caraval, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.97 — 982,944 ratings — published 2016
A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)
by (shelved 47 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.18 — 489,447 ratings — published 2023
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.20 — 584,927 ratings — published 2020
The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)
by (shelved 41 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.48 — 558,679 ratings — published 2022
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.83 — 243,393 ratings — published 2019
Stardust (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.09 — 489,471 ratings — published 1999
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,842,405 ratings — published 1997
The Spellshop (Spellshop, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.99 — 184,284 ratings — published 2024
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)
by (shelved 37 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.23 — 117,849 ratings — published 2024
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.02 — 418,331 ratings — published 2022
Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.03 — 89,011 ratings — published 2020
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.01 — 666,952 ratings — published 2013
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,877,065 ratings — published 2018
Legendary (Caraval, #2)
by (shelved 33 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.08 — 516,269 ratings — published 2018
Finale (Caraval, #3)
by (shelved 31 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.12 — 430,058 ratings — published 2019
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.06 — 624,623 ratings — published 1871
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.02 — 359,324 ratings — published 2022
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.27 — 139,987 ratings — published 2017
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,639,347 ratings — published 1937
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,592,431 ratings — published 2022
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.08 — 245,780 ratings — published 2017
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.99 — 454,017 ratings — published 1865
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales (Emily Wilde, #3)
by (shelved 26 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.07 — 68,453 ratings — published 2025
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 — 288,463 ratings — published 2020
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.27 — 964,487 ratings — published 1973
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.17 — 953,457 ratings — published 1964
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,686,295 ratings — published 2020
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.64 — 777,572 ratings — published 2015
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.07 — 103,652 ratings — published 2022
The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3)
by (shelved 23 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,048,508 ratings — published 2019
The Ten Thousand Doors of January (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.01 — 179,119 ratings — published 2019
Heartless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.08 — 282,925 ratings — published 2016
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,157,879 ratings — published 1908
The Wishing Game (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.02 — 198,667 ratings — published 2023
The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.16 — 127,975 ratings — published 1968
Nettle & Bone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.06 — 158,510 ratings — published 2022
The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.11 — 120,153 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 — 41,995 ratings — published 2011
A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.05 — 99,716 ratings — published 2022
Under the Whispering Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.10 — 342,943 ratings — published 2021
Water Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.76 — 64,757 ratings — published 2025
The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,162,778 ratings — published 2019
An Enchantment of Ravens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.64 — 111,430 ratings — published 2017
“And so, they sat next to a birch tree, watching the butterflies spin around them.
Linetta leaned back, her dark hair falling against the grass until she lay there, looking up at the delicate flower creatures of the air.”
― Prince of Chandeliers
Linetta leaned back, her dark hair falling against the grass until she lay there, looking up at the delicate flower creatures of the air.”
― Prince of Chandeliers
“A CANDY-COATED CITY! There was a volcano that shot out a BLAST of melted chocolate. And there was a LAKE with a graham cracker boat.”
― The Quest for Paradise: The Return to the Kingdom of Fantasy
― The Quest for Paradise: The Return to the Kingdom of Fantasy
