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magic realism novels

Description: literary authors stealing the toys from fantasy genre while keeping an alibi of "being ironic" about it. The poseurs.
Members: 11 participating members
nessreader, ahef1963, Myyst, KimarieBee, mpdurga, inge87, jeffza, exvano, olonec, hjiouij

Rank Title Author Added

1

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

by Patrick Süskind

17,571 members

432 reviews

3.9

4 Members: KimarieBee, nessreader, Myyst, ahef1963

2

Memories of a Butterfly

7 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: exvano, olonec

3

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

12,102 members

253 reviews

4.1

3 Members: nessreader, Myyst, ahef1963

4

by José Saramago

2,690 members

63 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Myyst, mpdurga

5

The Third Policeman

by Flann O'Brien

4,130 members

121 reviews

4

2 Members: nessreader, ahef1963

6

42,568 members

995 reviews

3.9

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

7

The Night Circus

by Erin Morgenstern

17,487 members

1,233 reviews

4.1

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

8

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

by Haruki Murakami

17,390 members

372 reviews

4.2

2 Members: Myyst, ahef1963

9

Evolution Man: Or, How I Ate My Father

1,117 members

31 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: nessreader, mpdurga

10

by José Saramago

12,630 members

379 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Myyst, ahef1963

11

The House of the Spirits

by Isabel Allende

13,433 members

232 reviews

4.1

Member: jeffza

12

by Leslie Marmon Silko

3,407 members

58 reviews

3.8

Member: inge87

13

The Hearing Trumpet

by Leonora Carrington

1,028 members

34 reviews

3.9

Member: nessreader

14

by Megan Lindholm

233 members

9 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: KimarieBee

15

Kafka in Tangier

by Mohammed Said Hjiouij

16 members

9 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: hjiouij

16

Inés of My Soul

by Isabel Allende

2,551 members

90 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: inge87

17

The New Moon's Arms

by Nalo Hopkinson

299 members

15 reviews

4

Member: mpdurga

18

The Aversive Clause

by B.C. Edwards

8 members

½ 3.5

Member: nessreader

19

Wizard of the Pigeons

by Megan Lindholm

557 members

27 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: KimarieBee

20

Worming the Harpy and Other Bitter Pills

27 members

1 review

3.9

Member: nessreader

21

The Baron in the Trees

by Italo Calvino

4,452 members

62 reviews

4

Member: nessreader

22

by George Saunders

2,303 members

54 reviews

4

Member: nessreader

23

by Toni Morrison

22,019 members

399 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

24

by Haruki Murakami

15,655 members

353 reviews

3.9

Member: Myyst

25

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

9,187 members

171 reviews

3.9

Member: Myyst

26

Invisible Cities

by Italo Calvino

9,023 members

198 reviews

4.1

Member: Myyst

27

Still Life with Woodpecker

5,677 members

74 reviews

3.9

Member: Myyst

28

The Autumn of the Patriarch

by Gabriel García Márquez

3,835 members

42 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Myyst

29

Death with Interruptions

by José Saramago

2,980 members

115 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Myyst

30

by José Saramago

2,866 members

64 reviews

3.9

Member: Myyst

31

The Cloven Viscount

by Italo Calvino

1,332 members

25 reviews

3.8

Member: Myyst

32

431 members

27 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: nessreader

33

The God of Small Things

by Arundhati Roy

19,183 members

361 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

34

Orlando: A Biography

by Virginia Woolf

10,192 members

163 reviews

3.9

Member: nessreader

35

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

43,157 members

681 reviews

4.2

Member: nessreader

36

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

13,548 members

241 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

37

Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen: A Novel

by Marilyn Chin

115 members

5 reviews

3.1

Member: nessreader

38

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

12,865 members

474 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

39

Nights at the Circus

by Angela Carter

2,584 members

50 reviews

3.9

Member: nessreader

40

Daughter of Fortune

by Isabel Allende

8,514 members

189 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

41

The Tiger's Wife

5,237 members

329 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

42

All My Friends Are Superheroes

by Andrew Kaufman

573 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: nessreader

43

A Tale for the Time Being

4,160 members

241 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

44

The Child in Time

2,505 members

44 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

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Started: nessreader
December 2013
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