Magical Realism

Dive into a world where the extraordinary blends into the everyday with this week's Midweek Reads selection of magical realism!

Updated March 5, 2025
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Get in trouble : stories
Link, Kelly
Paper Book
A new, much anticipated collection of stories from the inimitable Kelly Link. 'These nine stories may begin in familiar territory-a birthday party, a theme park, a bar, a spaceship-but they quickly draw readers into an imaginative, disturbingly ominous world of realistic fantasy and...
Quichotte
Rushdie, Salman
Paper Book
***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019*** In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling...
The golden house
Rushdie, Salman
Paper Book
When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult children assume new identities and reinvent themselves as Roman emperors living in a lavish house in downtown Manhattan. Arriving shortly after the inauguration of Barack...
The bear and the nightingale
Arden, Katherine
Paper Book
'Frost-demons have no interest in mortal girls wed to mortal men. In the stories, they only come for the wild maiden.' In a village at the edge of the wilderness of northern Russia, where the winds blow cold and the snow falls many months of the year, an elderly servant...
Midnight library, the
Haig, Matt
Paper Book
The touching, funny and heartwarming new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Stop Time and Reasons to Stay Alive.
A long petal of the sea
Allende, Isabel
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From theĀ author of The House of the Spirits, this epic novel spanning decades and crossing continents follows two young people as they flee the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in search of a place to call home. "One of the most...
Life of Pi
Martel, Yann.
Paper Book
The house in the Cerulean Sea
Klune, T J
Stand-alone player
The ten thousand doors of January
Harrow, Alix E.
Paper Book
The shape of water
Del Toro, Guillermo
Paper Book
It is 1962, and Elisa Esposito-mute her whole life, orphaned as a child-is struggling with her humdrum existence as a janitor working the graveyard shift at Baltimore's Occam Aerospace Research Center. Were it not for Zelda, a protective coworker, and Giles, her loving neighbor, she doesn't know how...

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