Most Popular Magical Realism Books of the 2010s

All the Names They Used for God

Anjali Sachdeva

Magical Realism · Short Stories · Mainstream

February 19, 2018

My Cat Yugoslavia

Pajtim Statovci

Magical Realism · Translation · Mainstream

April 18, 2017

Nutcracked

Susan Adrian

Fantasy · Childrens · Fairy Tale Retellings · Magical Realism · Middle Grade

September 26, 2017

The Wounds of the Dead

Vikram Paralkar

Fantasy · Horror · Magical Realism

November 2017

Savage Theories

Pola Oloixarac

Magical Realism · Translation · Mainstream

December 2017

Himself

Jess Kidd

Fantasy · Magical Realism · Mystery

March 2017

A Million Junes

Emily Henry

Fantasy · Magical Realism · Young Adult

May 2017

Practical Magic

The Rules of Magic

Alice Hoffman

Magical Realism

October 2017

Exit West

Mohsin Hamid

Magical Realism · Mainstream

March 2017

Wild Beauty

Anna-Marie McLemore

Fantasy · Magical Realism · Young Adult

October 2017

A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars

Yaba Badoe

Fantasy · Magical Realism · Young Adult

September 2017

Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

Ruth Emmie Lang

Magical Realism

November 7, 2017

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

Helen Oyeyemi

Fantasy · Magical Realism · Short Stories · Mainstream

March 2016

A Song to Take the World Apart

Zan Romanoff

Magical Realism · Young Adult · Romance

September 2016

The Lost and Found

Katrina Leno

Magical Realism · Young Adult

July 2016

A Fierce and Subtle Poison

Samantha Mabry

Fantasy · Magical Realism · Young Adult

April 2016

When the Moon Was Ours

Anna-Marie McLemore

Fantasy · Magical Realism · Young Adult

October 2016

Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies

Lindsay Ribar

Fantasy · Magical Realism · Young Adult

January 2016

The Comet Seekers

Helen Sedgwick

Magical Realism · Mainstream

August 2016

Foxlowe

Eleanor Wasserberg

Magical Realism · Mainstream

June 2016

A Gambler's Anatomy

Jonathan Lethem

Magical Realism · Mainstream

October 18, 2016

She Weeps Each Time You're Born

Quan Barry

Magical Realism · Historical Fiction

February 2015

The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac

Sharma Shields

Fantasy · Magical Realism · Mainstream

January 2015

The Weight of Feathers

Anna-Marie McLemore

Fantasy · Magical Realism · Young Adult

September 2015

The Accident Season

Moïra Fowley-Doyle

Fantasy · Magical Realism · Young Adult

August 2015

The Sparrow Sisters

Ellen Herrick

Fantasy · Magical Realism

September 2015

Bayou Magic

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Magical Realism · Young Adult

May 2015

Time of the Locust

Morowa Yejidé

Magical Realism · Mainstream

June 2014

The Age of Magic

Ben Okri

Magical Realism

October 2014

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

Leslye Walton

Magical Realism · Young Adult

March 2014

The Untold Tales of Ozman Droom

Robin Spriggs

Fantasy · Horror · Magical Realism · Short Stories

2014

Girl on a Wire

Gwenda Bond

Magical Realism · Young Adult · Mainstream

October 2014

The Flower of Goronwy

Michael G. Coney

Magical Realism

December 2014

Teaching the Dog to Read

Jonathan Carroll

Magical Realism · Mainstream

November 2014

Season of Dragonflies

Sarah Creech

Magical Realism

August 2014

Ballads to the Burning Twins

Alexander Zelenyj

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Magical Realism

September 2014