Here is the list of magic realism books I will read and review
here over the next year. The sharp-eyed among you will realise that
there are not 52 books on this list, that is because I am expecting to
find more to be added over the year. I welcome suggestions
- The Knife Thrower by Steven Millhauser
- The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
- The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman
- Winter’s Tale by Mark Halpern
- The Wood Wife by Terri Windling
- Just Relations by Rodney Hall
- Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
- Love In The Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Tales of Power by Carlos Castaneda
- Chocolat by Joanne Harris
- Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill
- Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Girl With Glass Feet by Ali Shaw
- Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
- Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- Fludd - Hilary Mantel
- Beyond Black - Hilary Mantel
- Book Thief - Markus Zusak
- Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
- Nights At the Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- The Cure For Death By Lightning by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
- The History of the Siege of Lisbon by Jose Saramago
- Ruby Holler by Sharron Creech
- House of Spirits by Isabelle Allende
- Famished Road by Ben Okri
- Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
- Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke
- Metamorphasis by Franz Kafka
- Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffeneger
- Orlando by Virginia Woolf
- Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King
- Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson
- Garden Spells by Sarak Addison Allen
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- The Magician and Other Stories by Murilo Rubiao
- Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
- The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold