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Books like The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
Loved The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from magical realism, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Seven generations of one family in a town where the magical is everyday; the defining novel of magical realism.
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Konrad Klapheck
Konrad Klapheck (Düsseldorf 1935) is one of the most important personalities of post-war German art history. In 1955, as an art student, he made his first still life, a magical realistic painting of a
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Little, Big
Winner of the 1982 World Fantasy Award for best novel.
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Hadriana dans tous mes rêves
"Takes place primarily during carnival in 1938 in the Haitian village of Jacmel. A beautiful young French woman, Hadriana, is about to marry a Haitian boy from a prominent family. But on the morning o
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Like Water for Chocolate
A young woman pours her forbidden love into her cooking, with magical results; sensual and bittersweet.
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Mothers and other clowns
"This is the first study of the work of Alice Munro to focus on her obsession with mothering, and to relate it to the hallucinatory quality of her magic realism. A bizarre collection of clowning mothe
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The rest of us just live here
What if you aren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever the heck this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you're li
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Magical realism and the postcolonial novel
Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel: Between Faith and Irreverence reinterprets the origins and nature of one of the most recognisable and important genres of twentieth century literature. Warn
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The Night Circus
A magical competition staged inside a circus that appears only at night; atmospheric and gorgeously imagined.
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The Weird
From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these stories fo