“I don’t think magic belongs to one culture or another. It is a part of family, history, tradition – it is everywhere.”
– Alice Hoffman
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Recommendations
The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, Jorge Amado
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon, Jorge Amado
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter
The Magic Toyshop, Angela Carter
The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter
Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
Chocolat, Joanne Harris
The World to Come, Dara Horn
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
The Third Policeman, Flann O’Brien
The Famished Road, Ben Okri
Songs of Enchantment, Ben Okri
Stars of the New Curfew, Ben Okri
My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins
Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie
Of Bees and Mist, Erick Setiawan
The Girl with Glass Feet, Ali Shaw
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Patrick Süskind
Broken Things, Padrika Tarrant
Lighthousekeeping, Jeanette Winterson
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More magical writers
Kathleen Alcalá, Aimee Bender, Louis de Bernières, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, A.S. Byatt, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Peter Carey, Alejo Carpentier, Susanna Clarke, Julio Cortazar, Mia Couto, Katherine Dunn, Louise Erdrich, Jeffrey Eugenides, Connie May Fowler, Janet Frame, Carlos Fuentes, Neil Gaiman, Günter Grass, Mark Helprin, Alice Hoffman, Zora Neale Hurston, Franz Kafka, Kelly Link, Yann Martel, Zakes Mda, Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Audrey Niffenegger, Milorad Pavic, Lily Prior, Jonathan Safran Foer, José Saramago, Amy Tan, Luisa Valenzuela, Mario Vargas Llosa, Alice Walker, Virginia Woolf, Carlos Ruiz Záfon
