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magic realism novels

Description: literary authors stealing the toys from fantasy genre while keeping an alibi of "being ironic" about it. The poseurs.

Rank Title Author Added

1

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

by Patrick Süskind

18,232 members

453 reviews

3.9

4 Members: KimarieBee, nessreader, Myyst, ahef1963

2

Memories of a Butterfly

7 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: exvano, olonec

3

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

12,609 members

260 reviews

4.1

3 Members: nessreader, Myyst, ahef1963

4

by José Saramago

2,789 members

63 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Myyst, mpdurga

5

The Third Policeman

by Flann O'Brien

4,251 members

124 reviews

4

2 Members: nessreader, ahef1963

6

43,766 members

1,013 reviews

3.9

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

7

The Night Circus

by Erin Morgenstern

18,673 members

1,270 reviews

4.1

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

8

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

by Haruki Murakami

17,963 members

370 reviews

4.2

2 Members: Myyst, ahef1963

9

Evolution Man: Or, How I Ate My Father

1,158 members

32 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: nessreader, mpdurga

10

by José Saramago

13,112 members

391 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Myyst, ahef1963

11

The House of the Spirits

by Isabel Allende

14,016 members

247 reviews

4.1

Member: jeffza

12

by Leslie Marmon Silko

3,588 members

60 reviews

3.8

Member: inge87

13

The Hearing Trumpet

by Leonora Carrington

1,124 members

42 reviews

3.9

Member: nessreader

14

by Megan Lindholm

242 members

9 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: KimarieBee

15

Kafka in Tangier

by Mohammed Said Hjiouij

16 members

9 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: hjiouij

16

Inés of My Soul

by Isabel Allende

2,634 members

90 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: inge87

17

The New Moon's Arms

by Nalo Hopkinson

306 members

16 reviews

3.9

Member: mpdurga

18

The Aversive Clause

by B.C. Edwards

8 members

½ 3.5

Member: nessreader

19

Wizard of the Pigeons

by Megan Lindholm

589 members

27 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: KimarieBee

20

Worming the Harpy and Other Bitter Pills

27 members

1 review

3.9

Member: nessreader

21

The Baron in the Trees

by Italo Calvino

4,633 members

67 reviews

4

Member: nessreader

22

by George Saunders

2,374 members

56 reviews

4

Member: nessreader

23

by Toni Morrison

23,032 members

409 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

24

by Haruki Murakami

16,381 members

357 reviews

3.9

Member: Myyst

25

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

9,584 members

175 reviews

3.9

Member: Myyst

26

Invisible Cities

by Italo Calvino

9,438 members

205 reviews

4.1

Member: Myyst

27

Still Life with Woodpecker

5,801 members

75 reviews

3.9

Member: Myyst

28

The Autumn of the Patriarch

by Gabriel García Márquez

3,963 members

45 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Myyst

29

Death with Interruptions

by José Saramago

3,119 members

108 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Myyst

30

by José Saramago

2,976 members

66 reviews

3.9

Member: Myyst

31

The Cloven Viscount

by Italo Calvino

1,406 members

26 reviews

3.8

Member: Myyst

32

440 members

27 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: nessreader

33

The God of Small Things

by Arundhati Roy

19,760 members

373 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

34

Orlando: A Biography

by Virginia Woolf

10,707 members

174 reviews

3.9

Member: nessreader

35

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44,647 members

699 reviews

4.2

Member: nessreader

36

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

13,979 members

245 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

37

Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen: A Novel

by Marilyn Chin

120 members

6 reviews

3.1

Member: nessreader

38

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

13,157 members

489 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

39

Nights at the Circus

by Angela Carter

2,688 members

52 reviews

3.9

Member: nessreader

40

Daughter of Fortune

by Isabel Allende

8,772 members

192 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

41

The Tiger's Wife

5,420 members

338 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

42

All My Friends Are Superheroes

by Andrew Kaufman

596 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: nessreader

43

A Tale for the Time Being

4,513 members

254 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

44

The Child in Time

2,579 members

45 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

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Started: nessreader
December 2013
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