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Books like Mothers and other clowns
Loved Mothers and other clowns by Magdalene Redekop? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from magical realism, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
10 books · ranked
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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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2
Like Water for Chocolate
A young woman pours her forbidden love into her cooking, with magical results; sensual and bittersweet.
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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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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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Little, Big
Winner of the 1982 World Fantasy Award for best novel.
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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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8
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
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The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman
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10
Sister Mine
SISTER MINE We'd had to be cut free of our mother's womb. She'd never have been able to push the two-headed sport that was me and Abby out the usual way. Abby and I were fused, you see. Conjoined twin