Magical Realism

Reality bends like a river in these enchanting tales where the extraordinary mingles with everyday life, from ghostly lovers appearing in crowded cafes to borrowed library books that alter the course of destiny. Here, the impossible feels natural and necessary, weaving seamlessly through stories of love, loss, memory and time in ways that illuminate deeper truths about what it means to be human.

Magical Realism Book Summaries

One Hundred Years of Solitude Summary

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel García Márquez 1967 417 pages

Magical Realism

Water Moon Summary

by Samantha Sotto Yambao 2025 384 pages

Magical Realism

Remarkably Bright Creatures Summary

Remarkably Bright Creatures

by Shelby Van Pelt 2022 368 pages

A Monster Calls Summary

A Monster Calls

by Patrick Ness 2011 226 pages

The Life Impossible Summary

The Life Impossible

by Matt Haig 2024 324 pages

Magical Realism

The Midnight Library Summary

The Midnight Library

by Matt Haig 2020 288 pages

The Book of Doors Summary

The Book of Doors

by Gareth Brown 2024 408 pages

Magical Realism

The Unmaking of June Farrow Summary

The Unmaking of June Farrow

by Adrienne Young 2023 320 pages

Magical Realism

Life of Pi Summary

by Yann Martel 2001 460 pages

Before the Coffee Gets Cold Summary

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi 2015 213 pages

Magical Realism

Men Without Women Summary

Men Without Women

by Haruki Murakami 2014 242 pages

Japanese Literature

The Lost Bookshop Summary

The Lost Bookshop

by Evie Woods 2023 432 pages

Historical Fiction

The Seven Year Slip Summary

The Seven Year Slip

by Ashley Poston 2023 336 pages

Magical Realism

Beloved Summary

by Toni Morrison 1987 325 pages

Historical Fiction

Magical Realism

Chronicle of a Death Foretold Summary

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

by Gabriel García Márquez 1981 120 pages

Magical Realism

Kafka on the Shore Summary

Kafka on the Shore

by Haruki Murakami 2002 467 pages

Magical Realism

Japanese Literature

The Sirens Summary

by Emilia Hart 2025 337 pages

Historical Fiction

Magical Realism

by Mona Awad 2019 307 pages

Every Day Summary

by David Levithan 2012 322 pages

The Night Circus Summary

The Night Circus

by Erin Morgenstern 2011 506 pages

I Am Not Jessica Chen Summary

I Am Not Jessica Chen

by Ann Liang 2025 320 pages

You've Reached Sam Summary

You've Reached Sam

by Dustin Thao 2021 296 pages

The Other Valley Summary

The Other Valley

by Scott Alexander Howard 2024 290 pages

Science Fiction

The City and Its Uncertain Walls Summary

The City and Its Uncertain Walls

by Haruki Murakami 2023 449 pages

Magical Realism

Torto Arado Summary

by Itamar Vieira Junior 2019 280 pages

Historical Fiction

Motorcycles & Sweetgrass Summary

Motorcycles & Sweetgrass

by Drew Hayden Taylor 2010 368 pages

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Summary

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

by Junot Díaz 2007 335 pages

Magical Realism

The Master and Margarita Summary

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov 1967 372 pages

Russian Literature

The Love of My Afterlife Summary

The Love of My Afterlife

by Kirsty Greenwood 2024 369 pages

Magical Realism

by Haruki Murakami 2009 944 pages

Magical Realism

Weyward Summary

by Emilia Hart 2023 329 pages

Historical Fiction

Magical Realism

The Amalfi Curse Summary

The Amalfi Curse

by Sarah Penner 2025 336 pages

Historical Fiction

The Husbands Summary

by Holly Gramazio 2024 352 pages

Magical Realism

En agosto nos vemos Summary

En agosto nos vemos

by Gabriel García Márquez 2024 142 pages

Spanish Literature

The Lantern of Lost Memories Summary

The Lantern of Lost Memories

by Sanaka Hiiragi 2019 208 pages

Magical Realism

The Satanic Verses Summary

The Satanic Verses

by Salman Rushdie 1988 561 pages

Magical Realism

The Memory Police Summary

The Memory Police

by Yōko Ogawa 1994 274 pages

Science Fiction

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Summary

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

by Haruki Murakami 1994 607 pages

Magical Realism

Japanese Literature

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler Summary

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino 1979 260 pages

Italian Literature

Magical Realism

A Love Song for Ricki Wilde Summary

A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

by Tia Williams 2024 352 pages

Magical Realism

Historical Fiction

Piranesi Summary

by Susanna Clarke 2020 272 pages

Magical Realism

Shark Heart Summary

by Emily Habeck 2023 416 pages

Magical Realism

The Factory Summary

by Hiroko Oyamada 2010 116 pages

Japanese Literature

Magical Realism

Rosarita Summary

by Anita Desai 2024 112 pages

Literary Fiction

A Tale for the Time Being Summary

A Tale for the Time Being

by Ruth Ozeki 2013 432 pages

Magical Realism

by Paulo Coelho 1990 264 pages

Tales from the Café Summary

Tales from the Café

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi 2017 192 pages

Magical Realism

Love in the Time of Cholera Summary

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel García Márquez 1985 348 pages

Historical Fiction

Magical Realism

The Keeper of Lost Things Summary

The Keeper of Lost Things

by Ruth Hogan 2017 288 pages

The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris Summary

The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris

by Evie Woods 2014 352 pages

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