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Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle, #1)
by (shelved 110 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.28 — 469,269 ratings — published 1986
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,133,488 ratings — published 2011
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,587,067 ratings — published 1943
Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.06 — 757,862 ratings — published 2021
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.95 — 235,299 ratings — published 2023
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,088,152 ratings — published 2020
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.30 — 327,310 ratings — published 2023
Caraval (Caraval, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.97 — 965,919 ratings — published 2016
A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)
by (shelved 47 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.17 — 477,036 ratings — published 2023
The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)
by (shelved 41 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.48 — 545,686 ratings — published 2022
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.20 — 559,319 ratings — published 2020
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,753,181 ratings — published 1997
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.84 — 241,740 ratings — published 2019
Stardust (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.09 — 488,081 ratings — published 1999
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)
by (shelved 36 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.24 — 115,384 ratings — published 2024
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.02 — 408,938 ratings — published 2022
The Spellshop (Spellshop, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.00 — 177,577 ratings — published 2024
Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.04 — 87,336 ratings — published 2020
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,852,596 ratings — published 2018
Legendary (Caraval, #2)
by (shelved 33 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.09 — 507,057 ratings — published 2018
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.01 — 665,330 ratings — published 2013
Finale (Caraval, #3)
by (shelved 31 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.12 — 422,209 ratings — published 2019
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.06 — 621,878 ratings — published 1871
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.03 — 354,402 ratings — published 2022
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.27 — 139,215 ratings — published 2017
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,605,442 ratings — published 1937
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,547,617 ratings — published 2022
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.99 — 451,014 ratings — published 1865
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.08 — 244,232 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 — 284,985 ratings — published 2020
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales (Emily Wilde, #3)
by (shelved 25 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.08 — 66,336 ratings — published 2025
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.17 — 949,378 ratings — published 1964
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,643,472 ratings — published 2020
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.65 — 763,268 ratings — published 2015
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.27 — 961,657 ratings — published 1973
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.07 — 102,335 ratings — published 2022
The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3)
by (shelved 23 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,034,619 ratings — published 2019
The Wishing Game (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.02 — 196,966 ratings — published 2023
Nettle & Bone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.07 — 155,607 ratings — published 2022
The Ten Thousand Doors of January (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.01 — 177,241 ratings — published 2019
The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.11 — 119,341 ratings — published 2016
Heartless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.08 — 278,762 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 — 41,958 ratings — published 2011
Water Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.77 — 62,088 ratings — published 2025
A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.05 — 98,286 ratings — published 2022
Under the Whispering Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.10 — 339,365 ratings — published 2021
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,150,197 ratings — published 1908
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 21 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,325,650 ratings — published 2000
The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,147,392 ratings — published 2019
An Enchantment of Ravens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.64 — 110,836 ratings — published 2017
“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
“But one thing he did know. They were sure going to miss these days when the world and their lives in many cases nearly came to an end.”
― The Subtle Cause
― The Subtle Cause
