Magical Realism
Listed below are selected novels which fall into this category. This list is not comprehensive; rather, it is a list of some of the more popular titles within this category.
Author |
Title |
|---|---|
Abe, Kobo |
Beyond the Curve |
Aitmatov, Chingiz |
The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years |
Alcalá, Kathleen |
Mrs. Vargas and the Dead Naturalist Spirits of the Ordinary |
Allende, Isobel |
Love and Shadows |
Amado, Jorge |
Dona Flor and her Two Husbands |
Anthony, Patricia |
Flanders |
Asturias, Miguel Angel |
Men of Maize |
Atxaga, Bernardo |
Obabakoak |
Ballard, J.G. |
The Unlimited Dream Company |
Barth, John |
Giles Goatboy |
Barthelme, Donald |
City Life |
Bellow, Saul |
Henderson the Rain King |
Bender, Aimee |
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt |
Ben-Jelloun, Tahar |
The Sand Child |
Birdsell, Sandra |
The Missing Child |
Bisson, Terry |
Talking Man |
Blaylock, James |
Paper Grail |
Bradbury, Ray |
Dandelion Wine |
Brown, Rebecca |
Annie Oakley's Girl |
Bryant, Dorothy |
The Kin of Ata are Waiting for You |
Bulgakov, Mikhail |
Heart of a Dog |
Byatt, A.S. |
Possession |
Calvino, Italo |
Numbers in the Dark |
Capek, Karel |
Crossroads |
Card, Orson Scott |
Enchantment |
Carey, Peter |
Bliss |
Carpentier, Alejo |
The Kingdom of this World |
Carroll, Jonathan |
A Child Across the Sky |
| Carter, Angela |
The Magic Toyshop |
Chamoiseau, Patrick |
Texaco |
Chandra, Vikram |
Red Earth and Pouring Rain |
| Chesterton, G. K. |
The Man Who was Thursday |
Cisneros, Sandra |
The House on Mango Street |
Coelho, Paulo |
The Alchemist |
Crowley, John |
Little, Big |
Dexter, Kathleen |
Fifth Life of the Catwoman |
Divakaruni, Chitra |
The Mistress of Spices |
Doctorow, E.L. |
Loon Lake |
Dunn, Katherine |
Geek Love |
Eco, Umberto |
Foucault's Pendulum |
Ellison, Harlan |
Slippage |
Erdrich, Louise |
The Beet Queen |
Esquivel, Laura |
Like Water For Chocolate |
Falconer, Delia |
The Service of Clouds |
Farah, Nuruddin |
Secrets |
Faulkner, William |
Go Down, Moses |
Findley, Timothy |
Famous Last Words |
Fowler, Connie May |
Sugar Cage |
Fowles, John |
A Maggot |
Fuentes, Carlos |
The Campaign |
Gadol, Peter |
Coyote |
García Márquez, Gabriel |
One Hundred Years of Solitude |
Gloss, Molly |
Wild Life |
Golding, William |
The Paper Men |
Goldstein, Lisa |
The Red Magician |
Grass, Günter |
Dog Years |
Hall, Rodney |
The Second Bridegroom |
Harris, Joanne |
Chocolat |
Harrison, Jim |
Sundog |
Helprin, Mark |
A Dove of the East and Other Stories Winter's Tale |
Hodgins, Jack |
The Invention of the Word |
Høeg, Peter |
The History of Danish Dreams |
Hoban, Russell |
The Medusa Frequency |
Hoffman, Alice B. |
The River King |
Holthe, Tess Uriza |
When the Elephants Dance |
Hospital, Janette T. |
The Last Magician |
Hudson, W.H. |
Green Mansions |
Hulme, Keri |
The Bone People |
Hurston, Zora Neale |
Their Eyes Were Watching God |
Infante, Guillerma Cabrera |
Three Trapped Tigers |
Kafka, Franz |
Metamorphosis |
Kawabata, Yasunari |
Beauty and Sadness |
Kis, Danila |
Early Sorrows |
Kotzwinkle, William |
The Bear Went Over the Mountain |
Kroetsch, Robert |
The Puppeteer |
Kundera, Milan |
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting |
Lerman, Rhoda |
God's Ear |
Lessing, Doris |
The Memoirs of a Survivor |
Lewis, C.S. |
Till We Have Faces |
Lightman, Alan |
Einstein's Dreams |
Manfred, Frederick |
The Manly-Hearted Woman |
McCammon, Robert |
A Boy's Life |
McCarthy, Cormac |
Blood Meridian |
McEwan, Ian |
The Child in Time |
Millhauser, Steven |
The Barnum Museum |
Mootoo, Shani |
Cereus Blooms At Night |
Morrison, Toni |
Beloved |
Munro, Alice |
Lives of Girls and Women |
Mutis, Álvaro |
The Admiral's Snow |
Oates, Joyce Carol |
Bellefleur |
O'Brien, Flann |
The Third Policeman |
O'Brien, Tim |
Going After Cacciato |
Ocampo, Silvina |
The Fury and Other Stories |
Oe, Kenzaburo |
Teach Us To Outgrow Our Madness |
Okri, Ben |
The Famished Road |
Olsen, Lance |
Live From Earth |
Onetti, Juan Carlos |
The Brief Life |
Pascoe, Judy |
Our Father Who Art In A Tree |
Pavic, Milorad |
Landscape Painted With Tea |
Pineda, Cecile |
The Love Queen of the Amazon |
Power, Susan |
The Grass Dancer |
Powers, Tim |
Earthquake Weather |
Pynchon, Thomas |
The Crying of Lot 49 |
Rhys, Jean |
Wide Sargasso Sea |
Rilke, Rainier Maria |
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids |
Robbe-Grillet, Alain |
In the Labyrinth |
Roy, Arundhati |
The God of Small Things |
Ruff, Matt |
The Fool on the Hill |
Rushdie, Salman |
Haroun and the Sea of Stories |
Saramago, José |
Blindness |
Singer, Isaac Bashevis |
Gimpel The Fool |
Skármeta, Antonio |
Burning Patience |
Skibell, Joseph |
A Blessing On The Moon |
Swift, Graham |
Waterland |
Tan, Amy |
The Kitchen God's Wife |
Thomas, D.M. |
The White Hotel |
Tolstaia, Tatiana |
On the Golden Porch |
Valenzuela, Luisa |
Open Door Stories |
Vargas Llosa, Mario |
Death in the Andes |
Vassanji, M.G. |
The Book of Secrets |
Vaz, Katherine |
Fado & Other Stories |
Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt |
Slaughterhouse Five |
West, Nathanael |
The Dream Life of Balso Snell |
White, T. H. |
The Elephant and the Kangaroo |
Winterson, Jeanette |
The Passion |
Wolfe, Gene |
There Are Doors |
Woolf, Virginia |
Orlando |

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