Magical Realism

A subgenre of fantasy that blends fantasy and supernatural that is integrated into realistic or mundane settings often without explanation. It is characterized by a blurring of the lines between real and unreal.

Updated July 24, 2025
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Beloved
Morrison, Toni.
Paper Book
Discover Toni Morrison's most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in contemporary American literature. 'An American masterpiece' AS Byatt It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an...
Blindness
Saramago, José.
Ebook
No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order. Discover a chillingly powerful and prescient dystopian vision from one of Europe's greatest writers. A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An ophthalmologist tries to...
Exit west A Novel
Hamid, Mohsin
Paper Book
This is Nadia. She is fiercely independent with an excellent sense of humour and a love of smoking alone on her balcony late at night. This is Saeed. He is sweet and shy and kind to strangers. He also has a balcony but he uses his for stargazing. This is their story- a love...
Life of pi
Martel, Yann.
Paper Book
Now a major motion picture from Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee Winner of the Booker Prize
Like water for chocolate : a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies
Esquivel, Laura
Paper Book
THE INTOXICATING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ABOUT LOVE, COOKING AND MAGIC. PERFECT FOR FANS OF JOANNE HARRIS AND ISABEL ALLENDE. 'This magical, mythical, moving story of love, sacrifice and summering sensuality is something I will savour for a long time' MAUREEN LIPMAN
Love in the time of cholera
García Márquez, Gabriel
Paper Book
The water dancer A novel.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi.
Paper Book
Every slave plantation is a house of spies and intrigue. No slave walks a straight line or has a single story - deep within their hearts is rebellion. But against whom? Hiram Walker is a man with a gift and a curse. He was born between worlds- his father a white plantation master, his...

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