recommendations of fantasy, magical realism books — or just stories shaped by the perception of characters, giving reality an odd touch. which one is it?
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last updated January, 2026
A Study in Drowning
Ava Reid
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
The Yellow Wall-Paper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Babel
R.F. Kuang
Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun
Guillermo del Toro
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
Machado de Assis
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson
The Lathe of Heaven
Ursula K. Le Guin
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