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Magical Realism
"A... literary phenomenon characterized by the incorporation of fantastic or mythological elements matter-of-factly into otherwise realistic fiction."
Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature


Kobo Abe

Chinua Achebe

Sarah Allen
- Sugar Queen

Isabel Allende
- The House of Spirits
- The Stories of Eva Luna


Rudolfo Anaya
- Bless Me Ultima

Brian Aldiss

Jorge Amado
- Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
- Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
- Shepherds of the Night


Miguel Angel Asturias
-Men of Maize

John Barth

James P. Blaylock
- The Paper Grail

Jorge Luis Borges
- Ficciones
- Labyrinths


Italo Calvino
- If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Peter Carey

Alejo Carpentier
- The Harp and the Shadow

Angela Carter
- The Passion of New Eve

Sandra Cisneros
- The House on Mango Street

Dom DeLillo

Philip K. Dick
- The Man in the High Castle

E.L. Doctorow

Harriet Doerr
- Stones for Ibarra
- Consider This, Señora


Umberto Eco

Margarita Engle
- Singing to Cuba
- Skywriting: A Novel of Cuba


Louise Erdrich
- Tracks
- Love Medicine


María Amparo Escandón
- Esperanza's Box of Saints

Laura Esquivel
- The Law of Love
- Like Water for Chocolate


William Faulkner
- As I Lay Dying

John Fowles
- The Collector

Christina Garcia
- The Aguero Sisters
- Dreaming in Cuban


Carolina Garcia-Aguillar
- Bloody Waters

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Love in the Time of Cholera
- One Hundred Years of Solitude


Dagoberto Gilb
- The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuña

Günter Grass

Joanne Harris
- Chocolat

Mark Helprin
- Winter's Tale

Alice Hoffman

Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Unconsoled

William Kennedy
- Ironweed

W.P. Kinsella
- Shoeless Joe

Bernard Malamud
- The Natural

Yann Martel
- Life of Pi

Walter Miller
- A Canticle for Leibowitz

Toni Morrison
- Beloved
- Song of Solomon
- Tar baby


Haruki Murakami
- A Wild Sheep Chase

John Nichols
- The Milagro Beanfield War

Andrew Nicoll
- The Good Mayor

Tim O'Brien
- Going After Cacciatto

Thomas Pynchon
- The Crying of Lot 49

Ishmael Reed
- Mumbo Jumbo

Salman Rushdie
- Satanic Verses

John Sayles
- Los Gusanos

Leslie Marmom Silko
- Ceremony

Paco Ignacio Taibo II
- Return to the Same City

Emma Tennant

Amos Tutuola
- The Witch-Herbalist of the Remote Town

John Updike
- Brazil
- The Witches of Eastwick


Alfredo Vea Jr.
- La Maravilla

Niall Williams
- Four Letters of Love


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