Most Popular Magical Realism Books of the 2010s

Black God #9

Black God: Volume 9

Dall-Young Lim, Sung-Woo Park

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Magical Realism · Comics

May 31, 2010

Redemption in Indigo

Karen Lord

Magical Realism · Mythopoeic Awards

July 6, 2010

Bad Girls

Camila Villada

Magical Realism · Translation

March 1, 2019

They Both Die at the End #1

They Both Die at the End

Adam Silvera

Science Fiction · Magical Realism · Young Adult · Romance

September 4, 2017

Things We Lost in the Fire

Mariana Enríquez

Horror · Magical Realism · Short Stories · Translation · Mainstream

February 2017

Men Without Women: Stories

Haruki Murakami

Magical Realism · Short Stories · Translation

May 2017

The Old Drift

Namwali Serpell

Science Fiction · Magical Realism · Arthur C. Clarke Award · Historical Fiction

March 2019

Black God #8

Black God: Volume 8

Dall-Young Lim, Sung-Woo Park

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Magical Realism · Comics

February 28, 2010

Chocolat #3

Peaches for Monsieur le Curé

Joanne Harris

Magical Realism

2012

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

Magical Realism · Arthur C. Clarke Award · Historical Fiction

August 2016

The Tiger's Wife

Téa Obreht

Magical Realism

March 2011

The End of Days

Jenny Erpenbeck

Magical Realism · Translation

2014

The Explorer and Other Stories

Jyrki Vainonen

Magical Realism · Short Stories · Translation

2013

Inland

Téa Obreht

Magical Realism · Historical Fiction

August 13, 2019

Who Fears Death #1

Who Fears Death

Nnedi Okorafor

Science Fiction · Magical Realism · World Fantasy Award

June 1, 2010

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

Robin Sloan

Magical Realism · Mainstream

2012

Roar

Cecelia Ahern

Magical Realism · Short Stories · Mainstream

November 2018

The Water Dancer

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Magical Realism · Historical Fiction · Mainstream

September 2019

Shadows in the Stone

Jack Dann

Horror · Magical Realism · Weird Fiction · Adventure

November 1, 2019

Nothing to See Here

Kevin Wilson

Fantasy · Magical Realism · Young Adult

October 2019

The Dream Peddler

Martine Fournier Watson

Fantasy · Magical Realism · Mainstream

April 2019

The Woods

R. L. Toalson

Magical Realism · Young Adult

September 17, 2019

The Girl at the Window

Rowan Coleman

Magical Realism · Mainstream

August 2019

The Revisionaries

A. R. Moxon

Magical Realism · Mainstream

December 3, 2019

Dark Constellations

Pola Oloixarac

Magical Realism · Translation

April 15, 2019

American Saint

Sean Gandert

Fantasy · Magical Realism

August 20, 2019

Analiese Rising

Brenda Drake

Magical Realism · Young Adult · Romance

January 8, 2019

You Must Not Miss

Katrina Leno

Magical Realism · Young Adult

April 23, 2019

The Hoarder

Jess Kidd

Fantasy · Magical Realism · Mystery

February 2018

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock

Imogen Hermes Gowar

Fantasy · Magical Realism

January 2018

The Son of Black Thursday

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Magical Realism · Mainstream

November 6, 2018

Summer of Salt

Katrina Leno

Magical Realism · Young Adult

June 2018

The Looking Glass

Janet McNally

Magical Realism · Young Adult

August 2018

The Astonishing Color of After

Emily X. R. Pan

Fantasy · Magical Realism · Young Adult

March 2018

What Should Be Wild

Julia Fine

Fantasy · Magical Realism

May 2018

Blanca & Roja

Anna-Marie McLemore

Fantasy · Magical Realism · Young Adult

October 8, 2018