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Whimsy Books
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Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.28 — 466,468 ratings — published 1986
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,129,401 ratings — published 2011
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.95 — 232,470 ratings — published 2023
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,074,208 ratings — published 2020
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.31 — 322,326 ratings — published 2023
Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.04 — 86,289 ratings — published 2020
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,571,152 ratings — published 1943
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,584,651 ratings — published 1937
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.03 — 405,544 ratings — published 2022
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.06 — 620,362 ratings — published 1871
Stardust (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.09 — 487,158 ratings — published 1999
Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.06 — 745,020 ratings — published 2021
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,707,778 ratings — published 1997
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.27 — 960,092 ratings — published 1973
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.03 — 351,846 ratings — published 2022
The Spellshop (Spellshop, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.00 — 174,058 ratings — published 2024
Good Omens (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.25 — 840,313 ratings — published 1990
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.24 — 113,784 ratings — published 2024
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.20 — 545,974 ratings — published 2020
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.23 — 223,124 ratings — published 1812
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.13 — 799,063 ratings — published 2002
Caraval (Caraval, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.97 — 954,581 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 — 41,936 ratings — published 2011
The Graveyard Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.15 — 570,252 ratings — published 2008
The Secret Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,328,065 ratings — published 1911
Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.07 — 109,896 ratings — published 2007
Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.10 — 229,907 ratings — published 2024
Wildwood Dancing (Wildwood, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.10 — 32,938 ratings — published 2006
The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.99 — 430,536 ratings — published 1983
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.88 — 261,076 ratings — published 2004
The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.16 — 126,362 ratings — published 1968
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.88 — 138,789 ratings — published 2001
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,628,612 ratings — published 1998
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,991,405 ratings — published 1999
The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.48 — 536,971 ratings — published 2022
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.20 — 203,137 ratings — published 2021
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,061,289 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 — 1,375,359 ratings — published 2011
Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.16 — 567,429 ratings — published 1996
The Wind in the Willows (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.02 — 246,552 ratings — published 1908
Matilda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,140,939 ratings — published 1988
Where the Wild Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,082,644 ratings — published 1963
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,892,039 ratings — published 2003
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales (Emily Wilde, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.08 — 65,029 ratings — published 2025
Peter Pan (Peter Pan, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.03 — 378,051 ratings — published 1911
Under the Whispering Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.10 — 336,999 ratings — published 2021
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,836,845 ratings — published 2018
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.27 — 138,773 ratings — published 2017
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.84 — 240,855 ratings — published 2019
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.08 — 243,312 ratings — published 2017
“Joshua took another small sip from his wine glass as his gaze and his thoughts drifted away from the flat-screen television mounted above the marbled fireplace to ponder a roomful of sports jackets and pantsuits and in some cases cocktail dresses but only of neutral tones and minimal detailing if for no other reason than to avoid becoming the subject of the next petty scandal that would nevertheless send shockwaves through their haughty and insular world. The way they stood in their intimate clusters. Their drink glasses held in various poses of sophistication. And whenever they did bring glass to mouth in accordance with judiciously preset intervals it was also for show, as he believed was true of their subdued conversations, which, from where he was sitting, appeared to be nothing more than the unintelligible murmurings of barely moving lips. A whole list of observations came to mind. Not one of them flattering in any way. The atmosphere thick with that certain stuffiness and elitist redolence of an ivy league alumni fundraising gala. Of course, he readily admitted to himself that out of everyone in the room he was very likely the most materially bereft and least credentialed and that this stinging truth undoubtedly inflamed his plebeian impulse. But that’s not what was bugging him.”
― The Subtle Cause
― The Subtle Cause
“a paper star that has been unfolded and refolded into a tiny unicorn but the unicorn remembers the time when it was a star and an earlier time when it was part of a book and sometimes the unicorn dreams of the time before it was a book when it was a tree and the time even longer before that when it was a different sort of star”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
