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Loved Hadriana dans tous mes rêves by René Depestre? 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

    Gabriel Garcia Marquez · 1967 · Magical Realism

    Seven generations of one family in a town where the magical is everyday; the defining novel of magical realism.

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    Like Water for Chocolate

    Laura Esquivel · 1989 · Magical Realism

    A young woman pours her forbidden love into her cooking, with magical results; sensual and bittersweet.

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    Little, Big

    John Crowley · 1981 · Magical Realism

    Winner of the 1982 World Fantasy Award for best novel.

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    Mothers and other clowns

    Magdalene Redekop · 1992 · Magical Realism

    "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

    Patrick Ness · 2001 · Magical Realism

    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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    The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

    Angela Carter · 1972 · Magical Realism

    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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    Magical realism and the postcolonial novel

    Christopher Warnes · 2009 · Magical Realism

    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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    Konrad Klapheck

    Konrad Klapheck · 1966 · Magical Realism

    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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    The Night Circus

    Erin Morgenstern · 2011 · Magical Realism

    A magical competition staged inside a circus that appears only at night; atmospheric and gorgeously imagined.

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    The Weird

    Ann VanderMeer · 2011 · Magical Realism

    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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