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78 past books matching Magical Realism
After their home is destroyed in post-revolutionary Iran, a family flees to a remote village, seeking safety and meaning.
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
Literary Fiction · Magical Realism
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After their home is destroyed in post-revolutionary Iran, a family flees to a remote village, seeking safety and meaning. In The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree, Shokoofeh Azar blends magical realism with Persian history, weaving a powerful story of loss, resilience, and the enduring strength of imagination in the face of oppression.
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When a grieving family’s home in Tehran is destroyed during the Islamic Revolution, killing their daughter Bahar, they flee to a remote village for refuge. Hoping to preserve their intellectual freedom, they instead become trapped in the turmoil sweeping their homeland. Bahar’s mother embarks on a poignant journey, searching for meaning amid the chaos.
Set against the backdrop of an ancient Persian culture and brutal political upheaval, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree explores the power of imagination and storytelling in the face of trauma. Shokoofeh Azar’s mesmerizing novel brings unforgettable characters to life in a tale of resilience, beauty, and survival.
Will this family find hope amid the devastation that surrounds them?
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What if a city came to life?
The City We Became
Magical Realism · Literary Fiction · People of Color · Speculative Fiction
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What if a city came to life? In The City We Became, N. K. Jemisin reimagines New York as a living, breathing force split across six avatars. With 4.3 stars on Amazon and Hugo-winning brilliance, this genre-bending urban fantasy blends mythology, magic, and resistance into an unforgettable love letter to a city under siege by forces beyond our world.
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Every great city has a soul. New York has six.
When Manhattan wakes up in the body of a confused young man, he realizes the city is alive—and it’s under attack. Across the boroughs, five others awaken to find strange powers coursing through them, each one embodying a piece of New York’s spirit. They are the avatars of the city, and together, they must fight to save it from a cosmic force threatening to erase it from existence.
From Harlem graffiti that speaks to your bones to subway echoes that carry more than sound, New York has never felt so alive.
The City We Became is a dazzling, genre-defying urban fantasy by three-time Hugo Award winner N. K. Jemisin. This is the city’s story, told by the city itself.
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A wildfire reveals a secret world beneath the forest floor.
The Canopy Keepers
Fantasy · Literary Fiction · Magical Realism · People of Color
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A wildfire reveals a secret world beneath the forest floor. Fire chief Syrah Carthan uncovers an ancient society divided between preservation and revenge, forcing her to choose between humanity and nature itself. The Canopy Keepers blends ecological fantasy with personal loss, earning 4.0 stars on Amazon and thousands of Goodreads ratings.
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What happens when nature will no longer stand by and accept its destruction? A female fire chief discovers an ancient world rooted with secrets that can save—or destroy—in the newest fantasy by Veronica G. Henry, author of Bacchanal.
Beneath the forest floor, they watch…
Syrah Carthan doesn’t know why she accepted a job as the first female fire chief at Sequoia National Park, where, decades earlier, a forest fire killed her parents. That day, her brother, Romelo, disappeared, as if pulled into the scorched earth itself. Syrah has always had an uncanny affinity for the natural wonders of the park she protects, but after she sanctions a prescribed burn that goes terribly wrong, she quits her position in disgrace.
However, when another devastating wildfire breaks out, Syrah, reluctantly pulled back into action, discovers an unknown world that has existed underground since the beginning of time. This secret society, built around the forest’s complex root system, is now divided into two factions. One is ruled by the Keeper, the giant sequoias’ benevolent caretaker. The other by a mysterious undoer, who’s determined to wage war on humanity. Through him, nature can retaliate and wipe out the earth’s careless ravagers for good.
Torn between human loyalty and preserving the delicate balance of nature, Syrah must make a choice—one that will change both her destiny and that of the world above and below forever.
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With 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, Adrienne Young’s Spells for Forgetting blends ancestral magic, buried secrets, and a romance scarred by tragedy.
Spells for Forgetting
Literary Fiction · Magical Realism · Portal Fantasy
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With 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, Adrienne Young’s Spells for Forgetting blends ancestral magic, buried secrets, and a romance scarred by tragedy. On Saoirse Island, nothing stays hidden forever. When August Salt returns, long-forgotten betrayals resurface, and the truth behind a girl’s murder threatens to tear the island, and two hearts, apart.
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Saoirse Island doesn’t forget. It buries secrets deep in its roots and waits for the tides to turn.
Fourteen years ago, a girl was found dead in the woods. August Salt was blamed. Emery Blackwood lost everything. Now August is back, drawn home by loss and by the one woman he never stopped loving.
As strange magic stirs the island and the trees shift overnight, old wounds reopen. Emery and August must face a past tangled in betrayal, family secrets, and a truth no one wanted to find.
Adrienne Young’s Spells for Forgetting is a haunting blend of folklore and second-chance romance, where love is tangled with grief, and magic weaves through every crack in the pavement.
Some places remember. Some hearts never forget.
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Ideal for readers looking for literary fantasy filled with hidden libraries, interwoven tales, puzzles, and dreamlike worldbuilding.
The Starless Sea
Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Historical Fantasy · Magical Realism · Portal Fantasy
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A national bestseller called “a gorgeously written epic love story, filled with magic and mystery” by Popsugar, graduate student Zachary Ezra Rawlins discovers a mysterious book containing a story from his own childhood. It leads him through a painted doorway into a hidden underground world devoted to stories, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 19,100 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers looking for literary fantasy filled with hidden libraries, interwoven tales, puzzles, and dreamlike worldbuilding.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world—a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea.
Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood.
Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues—a bee, a key, and a sword—that lead him to a masquerade party in New York, to a secret club, and through a doorway to an ancient library hidden far below the surface of the earth. What Zachary finds in this curious place is more than just a buried home for books and their guardians—it is a place of lost cities and seas, lovers who pass notes under doors and across time, and of stories whispered by the dead. Zachary learns of those who have sacrificed much to protect this realm, relinquishing their sight and their tongues to preserve this archive, and also of those who are intent on its destruction.
Together with Mirabel, a fierce, pink-haired protector of the place, and Dorian, a handsome, barefoot man with shifting alliances, Zachary travels the twisting tunnels, darkened stairwells, crowded ballrooms, and sweetly soaked shores of this magical world, discovering his purpose—in both the mysterious book and in his own life.
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A good pick for readers who like lyrical historical fantasy, portal magic, and stories about belonging.
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Literary Fiction · Magical Realism · Portal Fantasy
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A Los Angeles Times bestseller called “A gorgeous, aching love letter to stories” by Christina Henry, The Ten Thousand Doors of January follows January Scaller, a young woman in the early 1900s who finds a mysterious book about secret doors, other worlds, love, and danger, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 20,600 Amazon reviewers. A good pick for readers who like lyrical historical fantasy, portal magic, and stories about belonging.
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"A gorgeous, aching love letter to stories, storytellers, and the doors they lead us through...absolutely enchanting." —Christina Henry, bestselling author of Alice and Lost Boys
A young woman in the early 1900s embarks on a fantastical journey of self-discovery after finding a mysterious book in this captivating and lyrical novel.
In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place.
Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds, and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure, and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own.
Lush and richly imagined, a tale of impossible journeys, unforgettable love, and the enduring power of stories await in Alix E. Harrow's spellbinding debut—step inside and discover its magic.
Praise for The Ten Thousand Doors of January:
"One for the favorites shelf... Here is a book to make you happy when you gently close it. Here you will find wonder and questions and an unceasingly gorgeous love of words which compasses even the shape a letter makes against a page."―NPR Books
"Devastatingly good, a sharp, delicate nested tale of worlds within worlds, stories within stories, and the realm-cracking power of words."―Melissa Albert, New York Times bestselling author
"A love letter to imagination, adventure, the written word, and the power of many kinds of love."―Kirkus Reviews
A Los Angeles Times bestseller
Finalist for the 2020 Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards.
For more from Alix E. Harrow, check out The Once and Future Witches.
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