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Magical realism treats the extraordinary as ordinary — in these novels, the miraculous and the mundane share a page without comment. Born in Latin America, the mode now belongs to world literature.

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One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez · 1967 Editor's Choice Get it on Amazon →

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Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel · 1989 Recommended Get it on Amazon →
The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern · 2011 Recommended Get it on Amazon →
All the Crooked Saints Maggie Stiefvater · 2017 Recommended See details →
Hadriana dans tous mes rêves René Depestre · 1988 Recommended See details →
Instant Karma Marissa Meyer · 2020 Recommended See details →
Konrad Klapheck Konrad Klapheck · 1966 Recommended See details →
Little, Big John Crowley · 1981 Recommended See details →
Magical realism and the postcolonial novel Christopher Warnes · 2009 Recommended See details →
Mothers and other clowns Magdalene Redekop · 1992 Recommended See details →
Other Birds Sarah Addison Allen · 2022 Recommended See details →
Sister Mine Nalo Hopkinson · 2013 Recommended See details →
Sudden Traveler Sarah Hall · 2019 Recommended See details →
The Bravest Princess Elizabeth Dawson Baker · 2014 Recommended See details →
The Changeling Victor D. LaValle · 2017 Recommended See details →
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman Angela Carter · 1972 Recommended See details →
The People in the Trees Hanya Yanagihara · 2013 Recommended See details →
The Weird Ann VanderMeer · 2011 Recommended See details →
The rest of us just live here Patrick Ness · 2001 Recommended See details →
Things They Lost Okwiri Oduor · 2022 Recommended See details →

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