Survival Fabulation
Love casts a spell; the real monster is oppression. Modern magical realism, urban fantasy, and fabulism: books that use supernatural elements to explore themes of family, desire, history, and society.
created by kishmish
last updated May, 2026
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kishmishOP
(low-key also a favorites list, but) I’ve updated the name and description to hopefully make the theme/topic more clear 💖
omg i want to get into fabulism so badly! tysm for this list!!
kishmishOP
so, i actually didn’t know fabulism was also a genre, lol 🙃 but i looked it up after you commented, and most of these do fit. not all of them though—some are more urban fantasy. would it be more useful to have it be just fabulism & magical realism? i’m happy to make that change, if so! (it wouldn’t be a big change)
hmm, i don't think it matters! i think fabulism as a genre is intentionally pretty boundaryless, so it makes sense that it would crossover into magical realism too
Love this list!! Quite a few of these I’ve read or on my TBR 💓
kishmishOP
yesss! thank you! i was also brainstorming books for this list, like “wait, i love this genre?”
