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Magical Realism
Fiction (often Latin American) that "...interweaves, in an ever-shifting pattern, a sharply etched realism in representing ordinary events and descriptive details together with fantastic and dreamlike elements, as well as with material derived from myth and fairy tales." (A Glossary of Literary Terms by M.H. Abrams)
Related Genres:
Unicorns in the Garden
Unreal Cities
Authors & Titles
- Ahern, Cecelia: There's No Place Like Here
- Ajvaz, Michal: The Other City
- Allende, Isabel: Aphrodite
- Allende, Isabel: Daughter of Fortune
- Allende, Isabel: Eva Luna
- Allende, Isabel: The House of the Spirits
- Alumit, Noel: Talking to the Moon
- Auster, Paul: The Book of Illusions
- Auster, Paul: Mr. Vertigo
- Auster, Paul: Timbuktu
- Baker, Tiffany: The Gilly Salt Sisters
- Barker, Clive: Coldheart Canyon
- Barton, Emily: The Testament of Yves Gundron
- Base, Ron: Magic Man
- Berry, Bertice: Jim & Louella's Homemade Heart-Fix Remedy
- Blackburn, Julia: The Leper's Companions
- Block, Stefan Merrill: The Story of Forgetting
- Borges, Jorges Luis: Collected Fictions
- Borges, Jorges Luis: Labyrinths
- Borges, Jorges Luis: The Aleph and other stories
- Bosworth, Beth: Tunneling
- Boyne, John: The Thief of Time
- Brunkhorst, Alex: The Mating Season
- Brockmeier, Kevin: The Brief History of the Dead
- Bryers, Paul: In A Pig's Ear
- Burroughs, William S.: Interzone
- Burroughs, William S.: Ghost of Chance
- Byatt, A.S.: Angels and Insects
- Bynum, Sarah Shun-Lien: Madeleine is Sleeping
- Callaghan, Mary Rose: I Met a Man Who Wasn't There
- Carey, Edward: Alva & Irva
- Carroll, Jerry Jay: Bogey series
- Top Dog
- Dog Eat Dog
- Carroll, Jonathan: The Marriage of Sticks
- Carroll, Jonathan: Sleeping in Flame
- Carroll, Jonathan: White Apples
- Carroll, Jonathan: The Wooden Sea
- Carson, Ciaran: Shamrock Tea
- Carter, Angela: Burning Your Boats
- Channer, Colin: Satisfy My Soul
- Childress, Mark: Gone for Good
- Coelho, Paulo: The Devil and Miss Prym
- Cohen, Stuart: Invisible World
- Coover, Robert: John's Wife
- Davidson, Catherine Thelma: The Priest Fainted
- Davies, Robertson: Murther and Walking Spirits
- Davis, Kathryn: The Thin Place
- deBernieres, Louis: The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
- Delany, Samuel R.: Dhalgren
- Dexter, Kathleen: Fifth Life of the Catwoman
- Dickinson, Charles: A Shortcut in Time
- Disch, Thomas M.: The M.D.
- Diski, Jenny: The Dream Mistress
- Divakaruni, Chitra: The Mistress of Spices
- Doerr, Anthony: About Grace
- Doherty, Berlie: The Vinegar Jar
- Donohue, Keith: The Stolen Child
- Easterbrook, Greg: The Here and Now
- Ellis, Alice Thomas: Fairy Tale
- Esquivel, Laura: Like Water for Chocolate
- Esquivel, Laura: The Law of Love
- Eugenides, Jeffrey: The Virgin Suicides
- Favorite, Eileen: The Heroines
- Fitzpatrick, Nina: Daimons
- Flanagan, Richard: Death of a River Guide
- Fowles, John: The Collector
- Fowles, John: The Magus
- Fuentes, Carlos: Constancia and Other Stories for Virgins
- Fuentes, Carolos: Inez
- Fuentes, Carlos: The Old Gringo
- Garcia-Marquez, Gabriel: The Autumn of the Patriarch
- Garcia-Marquez, Gabriel: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
- Garcia-Marquez, Gabriel: Collected Stories
- Garcia-Marquez, Gabriel: The General in His Labyrinth
- Garcia-Marquez, Gabriel: Love in the Time of Cholera
- Garcia-Marquez, Gabriel: One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Garcia-Marquez, Gabriel: Strange Pilgrims
- Garcia y Robertson, Rodrigo: American Woman
- Garland, Alex: The Beach
- Garland, Alex: The Coma
- Gilchrist, Ellen: The Courts of Love
- Girardi, Robert: Madeleine's Ghost
- Gloss, Molly: Wild Life
- Gould, Sandra Lee: Faraday's Popcorn Factory
- Graham, Philip: How to Read an Unwritten Language
- Grant, Richard: Kaspian Lost
- Grass, Gunter: The Tin Drum
- Grass, Gunter: The Call of the Toad
- Greer, Andrew Sean: The Confessions of Max Tivoli
- Hamill, Pete: Forever
- Hardie, Kerry: The Bird Woman
- Harris, Joanne: Blackberry Wine
- Harris, Joanne: Chocolat series
- Chocolat
- The Girl With No Shadow
- Hautmann, Chad: Billie's Ghost
- Helprin, Mark: Winter's Tale
- Hepinstall, Kathy: The House of Gentle Men
- Hite, Sid: Dither Farm
- Hoffman, Alice: The Ice Queen
- Hunt, Samantha: The Seas
- Jennings, Luke: Beauty Story
- Jensen, Jane: Dante's Equation
- Johnson, Denis: Already Dead
- Kay, Terry: To Dance With the White Dog
- Kennedy, A.L.: So I Am Glad
- King, Michael: Lorien Lost
- King, Stephen: The Green Mile series
- The Two Dead Girls
- The Mouse on the Mile
- Coffey's Hands
- The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix
- Night Journey
- Coffey on the Mile
(published in one volume as The Green Mile )
- King, Tabitha & McDowell, Michael: Candles Burning
- Kinsella, W.P.: Shoeless Joe
- Kinsella, W.P.: Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa: Stories
- Klein, Marjorie: Test Pattern
- Komarnicki, Todd: Famine
- Kotzwinkle, William: The Bear Went Over the Mountain
- Kundera, Milan: Identity
- Kundera, Milan: The Joke
- Kundera, Milan: Slowness
- Kundera, Milan: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Kureishi, Hanif: Gabriel's Gift
- LaFarge, Paul: Haussmann, or the Distinction
- Lessing, Doris: Ben Lovatt series
- The Fifth Child
- Ben, in the World
- Livesey, Margot: Eva Moves the Furniture
- Lynch, Sarah-Kate: Blessed Are the Cheesemakers
- Marias, Javier: Dark Back of Time
- McMahon, Thomas: Ira Foxglove
- McNulty, Bridget: Strange Nervous Laughter
- Melville, Pauline: The Migration of Ghosts
- Mestre, Ernesto: The Lazarus Rumba
- Millet, Lydia: Oh Pure and Radiant Heart
- Millhauser, Steven: Enchanted Night
- Moore, Christopher: A Dirty Job
- Moore, Christopher: Fluke
- Moore, Jeffrey: Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain
- Morrow, Bradford: Ariel's Crossing
- Murakami, Haruki: After Dark
- Murakami, Haruki: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
- Mustian, Mark: The Return
- Nabokov, Vladimir: The Defense
- Nahai, Gina B.: Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith
- Naipaul, V.S.: Miguel Street
- Nesmith, Michael: The Long Sandy Hair of Neftoon Zamora
- Nicholson, Geoff: Flesh Guitar
- Niemi, Mikael: Popular Music from Vittula
- Niffenegger, Audrey: Her Fearful Symmetry
- Niffenegger, Audrey: The Time Traveler's Wife
- Oates, Joyce Carol: Wild Nights!
- O'Connell, Jack: The Resurrectionist
- O'Leary, Patrick: The Impossible Bird
- Oyeyemi, Helen: The Icarus Girl
- Paretsky, Sara: Ghost Country
- Parks, Tim: Morris Duckworth series
- Juggling the Stars
- Mimi's Ghost
- Pearson, T.R.: Polar
- Petrie, Graham: Seahorse
- Phillips, Caryl: The Nature of Blood
- Phillips, Kate: White Rabbit
- Plascencia, Salvador: The People of Paper
- Priest, Christopher: Prestige
- Ragen, Naomi: The Ghost of Hannah Mendes
- Ransom, Roberto: A Tale of Two Lions
- Reed, Kit: Dogs of Truth
- Reidy, Sue: The Visitation
- Reig, Rafael: Blood on the Saddle
- Restrepo, Laura: Leopard in the Sun
- Restrepo, Laura: A Tale of the Dispossessed
- Reynolds, Sheri: A Gracious Plenty
- Roffey, Monique: August Frost
- Rogers, Jane: Island
- Runcie, James: The Discovery of Chocolate
- Rushdie, Salman: The Ground Beneath Her Feet
- Rushdie, Salman: Midnight's Children
- Rushdie, Salman: The Moor's Last Sigh
- Rushdie, Salman: Satanic Verses
- Ryman, Geoff: Lust
- Setiawan, Erick: Of Bees and Mist
- Sguiglia, Eduardo: Fordlandia
- Shepard, Lucius: Viator
- Sherrill, Steven: The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
- Somoza, Jose Carlos: The Athenian Murders
- Stevens, Brooke: The Circus of the Earth and the Air
- Stollman, Aryeh Lev: The Far Euphrates
- Stollman, Aryeh Lev: The Illuminated Soul
- Tambour, Anna: Monterra's Deliciosa & Other Tales &
- Thomas, Scarlett: The End of Mr. Y
- Toscana, David: Tula Station
- Touré: Soul City
- Trapido, Barbara: Temples of Delight
- Updike, John: Eastwick series
- The Witches of Eastwick
- The Widows of Eastwick
- Urrea, Luis Alberto: The Hummingbird's Daughter
- Wallace, Daniel: Ashland, Alabama series
- Big Fish
- The Watermelon King
- Wallace, Daniel: Ray in Reverse
- Warner, Marina: The Leto Bundle
- Wexler, Robert Freeman: Circus of the Grand Design
- Whyte, Christopher: The Warlock of Strathearn
- Winterson, Jeanette: The PowerBook
- Wolfe, Swain: The Parrot Trainer
- Zeltserman, Dave: The Caretaker of Lorne Field
- Zevin, Gabrielle: Margarettown
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