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The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,116,837 ratings — published 2011
Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.28 — 458,848 ratings — published 1986
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,036,316 ratings — published 2020
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.96 — 224,707 ratings — published 2023
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.31 — 308,693 ratings — published 2023
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,535,589 ratings — published 1943
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,532,482 ratings — published 1937
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.03 — 396,011 ratings — published 2022
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,593,492 ratings — published 1997
Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.04 — 83,477 ratings — published 2020
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.27 — 955,542 ratings — published 1973
Stardust (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.09 — 484,871 ratings — published 1999
Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.06 — 711,211 ratings — published 2021
Good Omens (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.25 — 833,567 ratings — published 1990
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.06 — 616,194 ratings — published 1871
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.03 — 344,371 ratings — published 2022
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Fairyland, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,830 ratings — published 2011
The Graveyard Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.15 — 568,613 ratings — published 2008
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.13 — 792,350 ratings — published 2002
Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.11 — 216,100 ratings — published 2024
Caraval (Caraval, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.97 — 923,952 ratings — published 2016
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.23 — 222,467 ratings — published 1812
The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.99 — 427,436 ratings — published 1983
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.87 — 258,705 ratings — published 2004
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.88 — 138,226 ratings — published 2001
The Spellshop (Spellshop, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.00 — 163,781 ratings — published 2024
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.24 — 109,327 ratings — published 2024
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.21 — 516,614 ratings — published 2020
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,043,491 ratings — published 1979
Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.16 — 565,235 ratings — published 1996
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,573,681 ratings — published 1998
Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.07 — 109,072 ratings — published 2007
Matilda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,128,846 ratings — published 1988
Where the Wild Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,075,170 ratings — published 1963
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 8 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,935,635 ratings — published 1999
Peter Pan (Peter Pan, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.03 — 376,426 ratings — published 1911
The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.49 — 513,139 ratings — published 2022
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.21 — 196,658 ratings — published 2021
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.84 — 238,404 ratings — published 2019
The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.03 — 576,983 ratings — published 1999
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.01 — 661,689 ratings — published 2013
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,653,640 ratings — published 1988
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,368,169 ratings — published 2011
The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.16 — 124,828 ratings — published 1968
The Secret Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,315,591 ratings — published 1911
The Wind in the Willows (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.02 — 244,189 ratings — published 1908
The Phantom Tollbooth (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.19 — 309,926 ratings — published 1961
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 7 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,856,374 ratings — published 2003
The Wishing Game (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.02 — 193,057 ratings — published 2023
Under the Whispering Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as whimsy)
avg rating 4.11 — 330,323 ratings — published 2021
“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
“You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.”
― Wild Geese
― Wild Geese
