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Books like The rest of us just live here
Loved The rest of us just live here by Patrick Ness? 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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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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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 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
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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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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
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The People in the Trees
In 1950, a young doctor called Norton Perina signs on with the anthropologist Paul Tallent for an expedition to the remote Micronesian island of Ivu'ivu in search of a rumored lost tribe. They succeed
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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 Bravest Princess
Sleeping Beauty's younger, non-magical sister, Annie, still can't rest while trouble in the kingdom threatens her good friend, Snow White. Snow White's evil stepmother has disappeared, and her father