Magical Realism

The miraculous woven into the everyday without apology or explanation. Reality bends — ghosts sit at dinner tables, time folds — and no one finds this particularly strange.

On the The Literary Shelf shelf.

Books shelved as Magical Realism

• Vile Lady Villains — Danai Christopoulou
• The River Has Roots — Amal El-Mohtar
• The Full Moon Coffee Shop — Mai Mochizuki
• Sputnik Sweetheart — Haruki Murakami
• Bad Cree — Jessica Johns
• Nothing to See Here — Kevin Wilson
• Good Spirits — B.K. Borison
• The Secret Life of Insects — Bernardo Esquinca
• Ciertas cosas oscuras — Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Lord of the Shadows — Darren Shan
• Lobizona — Romina Garber
• The Antidote — Karen Russell
• Remarkably Bright Creatures — Shelby Van Pelt
• The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories — Ken Liu
• Like Water For Chocolate — Laura Esquivel
• La amortajada — María Luisa Bombal
• Boy's Life — Robert McCammon
• The Last White Man — Mohsin Hamid
• Sing, Unburied, Sing — Jesmyn Ward
• Nadie recuerda su propia muerte — Berenice Andrade Medina
• Mapping the Interior — Stephen Graham Jones
• The Hole — Hiroko Oyamada
• The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea — Maggie Tokuda-Hall
• In These Gilded Ghostly Hearts — Gwendolyn Kiste

Related genres

• Literary Fiction
• Classics
• Psychological Fiction
• Contemporary Fiction
• Short Fiction
• Philosophical Fiction
• Experimental & Avant-Garde
• Cult Fiction
• Anthology
• Metafiction
• Surrealism
• Epistolary Fiction
• Existential
• Postmodern
• Modernist
• Symbolist
• Hopeful Fiction

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