Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
1865
Books with the “Whimsical” trope
Playful, quirky fantasy with oddball characters and a light, fairy-tale sense of magic.
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Atmosphere and mood · Whimsical
Books with this trope
The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
2011
Howl's Moving Castle
Diana Wynne Jones
1986
Tress of the Emerald Sea
Brandon Sanderson
2023
Stardust
Neil Gaiman
1999
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
Jessica Townsend
2017
The House in the Cerulean Sea
T. J. Klune
2020
The Kamogawa Food Detectives
Hisashi Kashiwai
2013
Caraval
Stephanie Garber
2017
Anne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery
1908
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
1908
The Enchanted April
Elizabeth von Arnim
1922
Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons
1932
I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith
1948
The Princess Bride
William Goldman
1973
The Last Unicorn
Peter S. Beagle
1968
Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
M. C. Beaton
1992
Assistant to the Villain
Hannah Nicole Maehrer
2023
The Spirit Thief
Rachel Aaron
2010
Anansi Boys
Neil Gaiman
2005
Bridge of Birds
Barry Hughart
1984
Soulless
Gail Carriger
2009
The Colour of Magic
Terry Pratchett
1983
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Slow BurnRelated tropes
Dark Fantasy
A bleak fantasy world without clear good or evil, where magic always comes at a high price.
Cozy Mystery
A gentle whodunit full of tea, small towns, and amateur sleuthing rather than graphic violence.
Creeping Dread
Horror that slowly builds a quiet sense that something is terribly wrong, instead of using jump scares or gore.
Magical Realism
Magic and the strange are woven naturally into everyday, ordinary life.