Most Popular Magical Realism Books

Southwest Gothic #1

The Harvesting Angel of the Plains

Bladen Mercutio

Magical Realism

October 18, 2025

These Long Teeth of the Night: The Best Short Stories 1999-2019

Alexander Zelenyj

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Magical Realism · Short Stories

2022

The Binding

Bridget Collins

Fantasy · Magical Realism

January 8, 2019

A Test Tube Family

Alexander Zelenyj

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Magical Realism · Short Stories

December 2018

Blacker Against the Deep Dark

Alexander Zelenyj

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Magical Realism · Short Stories

December 2018

Who Killed the Poet?

Luis de Miranda

Magical Realism · Translation · Mainstream

October 2017

The Conduit and Other Visionary Tales of Morphing Whimsy

Richard Gessner

Fantasy · Magical Realism · Short Stories

September 1, 2017

Cloud Farming in Wales

Rhys Hughes

Fantasy · Magical Realism

July 10, 2017

In Calabria

Peter S. Beagle

Fantasy · Magical Realism

January 2017

The Woman Behind the Waterfall

Leonora Meriel

Magical Realism · Mainstream

October 2016

Clark

Brendan Connell

Fantasy · Magical Realism · Mainstream

November 21, 2016

God Help the Child

Toni Morrison

Magical Realism · Mainstream

2015

Forgotten Hymns of the Death Angels

Alexander Zelenyj

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Magical Realism · Short Stories

September 2014

The Fairy Wren

Ashley Capes

Fantasy · Magical Realism

October 31, 2014

Songs for the Lost

Alexander Zelenyj

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Magical Realism · Short Stories

September 2014

Black God #15

Black God: Volume 15

Dall-Young Lim, Sung-Woo Park

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Magical Realism · Comics

January 24, 2012

The Dandelion Trilogy #1

The Ascent of Isaac Steward

Mike French

Fantasy · Magical Realism · Mainstream

2011

Complete Short Story Omnibus

H. G. Wells

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Magical Realism · Short Stories

May 2011

Touch

Alexi Zentner

Magical Realism

March 30, 2011

Experiments at 3 Billion A.M.

Alexander Zelenyj

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Magical Realism · Short Stories

March 2009

Black God #1

Black God: Volume 1

Dall-Young Lim, Sung-Woo Park

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Magical Realism · Comics

October 31, 2007

The General in His Labyrinth

Gabriel García Márquez

Magical Realism · Translation

1989

Desolation Road

Ian McDonald

Science Fiction · Magical Realism · Locus Award

1988

The Book of Sand

Jorge Luis Borges

Magical Realism · Short Stories · Translation

1977

Temps

Neil Gaiman, Alex Stewart

Fantasy · Magical Realism · Anthology

1991

Black God #14

Black God: Volume 14

Dall-Young Lim, Sung-Woo Park

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Magical Realism · Comics

October 25, 2011

Black God #12

Black God: Volume 12

Dall-Young Lim, Sung-Woo Park

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Magical Realism · Comics

March 29, 2011

Killing Commendatore

Haruki Murakami

Magical Realism · Translation

October 8, 2018

Chocolat #4

The Strawberry Thief

Joanne Harris

Magical Realism

April 2, 2019

The Lost Bookshop

Evie Woods

Fantasy · Magical Realism · Historical Fiction

June 22, 2023

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books #4

The Labyrinth of the Spirits

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Magical Realism · Translation · Mainstream

September 17, 2018

The Magus

John Fowles

Magical Realism

1966

The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

Keigo Higashino

Magical Realism · Movie · Translation · Mystery

September 24, 2019

Nights at the Circus

Angela Carter

Fantasy · Magical Realism

1984

Galveston

Sean Stewart

Fantasy · Magical Realism · World Fantasy Award

2000

The Night Watch

Sean Stewart

Fantasy · Magical Realism

1997