The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V. E. Schwab
2020
Books with the “Magical Realism” trope
Magic and the strange are woven naturally into everyday, ordinary life.
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Atmosphere and mood · Magical Realism
Books with this trope
The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
2011
The Cat Who Saved Books
Sosuke Natsukawa
2017
Life of Pi
Yann Martel
2001
Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse
1927
A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness
2011
Practical Magic
Alice Hoffman
1995
Beloved
Toni Morrison
1987
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold
2002
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger
2003
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
Leslye Walton
2014
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
2017
The Astonishing Color of After
Emily X.R. Pan
2018
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
2020
Frankenstein in Baghdad
Ahmed Saadawi
2013
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
2015
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
1967
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
1988
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