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Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.28 — 472,096 ratings — published 1986
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,136,746 ratings — published 2011
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.95 — 237,597 ratings — published 2023
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,099,207 ratings — published 2020
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.30 — 331,574 ratings — published 2023
Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.04 — 88,223 ratings — published 2020
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,601,577 ratings — published 1943
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,624,095 ratings — published 1937
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.02 — 412,402 ratings — published 2022
Stardust (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.09 — 488,792 ratings — published 1999
Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.06 — 768,262 ratings — published 2021
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.06 — 623,208 ratings — published 1871
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.27 — 963,154 ratings — published 1973
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,792,591 ratings — published 1997
The Spellshop (Spellshop, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.99 — 180,895 ratings — published 2024
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.03 — 356,973 ratings — published 2022
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.25 — 845,796 ratings — published 1990
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.23 — 116,666 ratings — published 2024
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.20 — 572,399 ratings — published 2020
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.23 — 223,565 ratings — published 1812
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.13 — 803,637 ratings — published 2002
Caraval (Caraval, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.97 — 975,182 ratings — published 2016
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Fairyland, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,968 ratings — published 2011
The Graveyard Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.15 — 571,261 ratings — published 2008
The Secret Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,336,931 ratings — published 1911
Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.07 — 110,424 ratings — published 2007
Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.09 — 240,089 ratings — published 2024
The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.48 — 552,813 ratings — published 2022
Wildwood Dancing (Wildwood, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.10 — 33,055 ratings — published 2006
The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.99 — 432,828 ratings — published 1983
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.88 — 262,516 ratings — published 2004
The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.16 — 127,492 ratings — published 1968
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.88 — 139,162 ratings — published 2001
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,663,290 ratings — published 1998
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.58 — 5,031,814 ratings — published 1999
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.20 — 207,433 ratings — published 2021
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.01 — 666,177 ratings — published 2013
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,074,238 ratings — published 1979
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,380,071 ratings — published 2011
Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.16 — 568,869 ratings — published 1996
Matilda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,149,634 ratings — published 1988
Where the Wild Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,087,781 ratings — published 1963
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,917,933 ratings — published 2003
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales (Emily Wilde, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.07 — 67,443 ratings — published 2025
Peter Pan (Peter Pan, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.03 — 379,080 ratings — published 1911
Under the Whispering Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.10 — 341,237 ratings — published 2021
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,866,063 ratings — published 2018
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.27 — 139,613 ratings — published 2017
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.84 — 242,604 ratings — published 2019
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.08 — 245,041 ratings — published 2017
“And then she landed, coming to a momentary rest. Just like that, she was done with the jumping and the skipping and the singing and the shouting and anything else to do with the superpowers that held all that was comprehensible into precarious alignment.”
― The Subtle Cause
― The Subtle Cause
“To have endured horrors, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that honorable and brave— that was magical.”
― Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
― Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
