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The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,099,394 ratings — published 2011
Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.28 — 448,295 ratings — published 1986
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.36 — 971,382 ratings — published 2020
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.32 — 285,853 ratings — published 2023
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.96 — 211,658 ratings — published 2023
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,481,511 ratings — published 1943
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,459,276 ratings — published 1937
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.03 — 378,656 ratings — published 2022
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.27 — 948,379 ratings — published 1973
Stardust (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.10 — 481,698 ratings — published 1999
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,425,571 ratings — published 1997
Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.06 — 663,855 ratings — published 2021
Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.05 — 78,929 ratings — published 2020
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.25 — 825,563 ratings — published 1990
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.06 — 609,660 ratings — published 1871
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.04 — 330,309 ratings — published 2022
Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.12 — 191,181 ratings — published 2024
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Fairyland, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,639 ratings — published 2011
The Graveyard Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.15 — 566,289 ratings — published 2008
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.23 — 221,343 ratings — published 1812
The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.99 — 422,401 ratings — published 1983
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.87 — 255,316 ratings — published 2004
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.88 — 137,307 ratings — published 2001
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.13 — 783,041 ratings — published 2002
Peter Pan (Peter Pan, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.03 — 373,975 ratings — published 1911
The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.49 — 479,944 ratings — published 2022
Caraval (Caraval, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.97 — 878,902 ratings — published 2016
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,017,492 ratings — published 1979
Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.16 — 561,860 ratings — published 1996
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,498,137 ratings — published 1998
Matilda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,111,030 ratings — published 1988
Where the Wild Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,064,448 ratings — published 1963
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,847,031 ratings — published 1999
The Spellshop (Spellshop, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.01 — 146,427 ratings — published 2024
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.25 — 101,775 ratings — published 2024
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,734,776 ratings — published 2018
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.84 — 234,512 ratings — published 2019
The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.02 — 570,924 ratings — published 1999
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.01 — 657,891 ratings — published 2013
The Secret Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,297,360 ratings — published 1911
The Wind in the Willows (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.02 — 240,889 ratings — published 1908
The Phantom Tollbooth (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.19 — 307,025 ratings — published 1961
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,798,279 ratings — published 2003
A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.16 — 413,693 ratings — published 2023
Under the Whispering Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.11 — 320,640 ratings — published 2021
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.22 — 185,547 ratings — published 2021
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.21 — 472,144 ratings — published 2020
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,506,986 ratings — published 2020
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,463,226 ratings — published 2020
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.28 — 135,394 ratings — published 2017
“She’s away today.
The breeze borrowed her
for a dance among the leaves.”
―
The breeze borrowed her
for a dance among the leaves.”
―
“Show me the telegrams they sent you, one every day for six days while they were walking six hundred miles on their pigeon toes."
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1. Feet are as good as wings if you have to. Chickamauga. ...
3. In the night sleeping you forget whether you have wings or feet or neither. Chattahoochee. ...
6. Pity me. Far is far. Near is near. and there is no place like home when the yellow roses climb up the ladders and sing in the early summer. Pity me. Wednesday Evening In The Twilight And The Gloaming.
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Well, Wednesday Evening was the only one I noticed making any mention of the yellow roses in her telegram," Hatrack the Horse explained.
Then the old man and the girl sat on the cracker box saying nothing, only listening to the yellow roses all on fire with early summer climbing up th ecrooked ladders, up and down and crossways, some of them leaning out and curving and nearly falling.”
― Rootabaga Stories
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1. Feet are as good as wings if you have to. Chickamauga. ...
3. In the night sleeping you forget whether you have wings or feet or neither. Chattahoochee. ...
6. Pity me. Far is far. Near is near. and there is no place like home when the yellow roses climb up the ladders and sing in the early summer. Pity me. Wednesday Evening In The Twilight And The Gloaming.
..
Well, Wednesday Evening was the only one I noticed making any mention of the yellow roses in her telegram," Hatrack the Horse explained.
Then the old man and the girl sat on the cracker box saying nothing, only listening to the yellow roses all on fire with early summer climbing up th ecrooked ladders, up and down and crossways, some of them leaning out and curving and nearly falling.”
― Rootabaga Stories
