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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as real-magic)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,119,069 ratings — published 1967
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as real-magic)
avg rating 4.11 — 154,198 ratings — published 1985
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as real-magic)
avg rating 3.97 — 133,977 ratings — published 1981
Sharks in the Time of Saviors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as real-magic)
avg rating 3.82 — 21,711 ratings — published 2020
Orphan Island (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as real-magic)
avg rating 3.68 — 11,952 ratings — published 2017
The Book Witch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,624 ratings — published 2026
Gods of Want: Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,969 ratings — published 2022
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 3.60 — 103,690 ratings — published 2018
Sister Snake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 3.76 — 4,927 ratings — published 2024
Blue Futures, Break Open: A Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published
Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 4.43 — 8,791 ratings — published 2024
Swamplandia! (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 3.28 — 60,572 ratings — published 2011
Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon (Lost Souls #1)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,822 ratings — published 2010
The Monsters We Defy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,599 ratings — published 2022
The Island of Last Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 3.45 — 2,303 ratings — published 2025
The Wayfinder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,328 ratings — published 2025
DallerGut Dream Department Store (DallerGut Dream Department Store, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 3.64 — 42,763 ratings — published 2020
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 3.64 — 14,485 ratings — published 2016
The Cemetery of Untold Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 3.61 — 16,601 ratings — published 2024
The Age of Calamities (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 3.41 — 512 ratings — published 2026
Nightbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 3.85 — 7,406 ratings — published 2015
The Key to Extraordinary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,810 ratings — published 2016
Sklepy cynamonowe / Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,638 ratings — published 1989
Daughter of Fortune (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 3.95 — 141,640 ratings — published 1998
The Secret Ingredient of Wishes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,221 ratings — published 2016
Unspoken Magic (Unseen Magic, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 4.15 — 142 ratings — published 2023
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 3.78 — 491,381 ratings — published 2018
A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 3.46 — 832 ratings — published 2023
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 3.90 — 61,620 ratings — published 2022
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 4.06 — 450,031 ratings — published 2016
The Orphan Master's Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 4.07 — 104,807 ratings — published 2012
The Penelopiad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 3.71 — 90,210 ratings — published 2005
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 4.14 — 318,123 ratings — published 1994
Poor Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 3.92 — 42,745 ratings — published 1992
Shalimar the Clown (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 3.92 — 14,962 ratings — published 2005
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,727,707 ratings — published 1977
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,918,052 ratings — published 1890
The Tin Drum (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 3.95 — 47,006 ratings — published 1959
The City and Its Uncertain Walls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 3.75 — 41,157 ratings — published 2023
The Last Magician (The Last Magician, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 4.02 — 23,599 ratings — published 2017
Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Khalifa Brothers, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 3.98 — 38,120 ratings — published 1990
The Love of My Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 4.04 — 84,664 ratings — published 2024
All This & More (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 3.38 — 6,034 ratings — published 2024
The Dream Peddler (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 3.41 — 1,046 ratings — published 2018
Gold Diggers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 3.57 — 11,754 ratings — published 2021
The All You Can Dream Buffet (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,987 ratings — published 2014
A Sprinkling of Murder (A Fairy Garden Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,506 ratings — published 2020
A Constellation of Roses (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,130 ratings — published 2019
Church of the Dog (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 3.92 — 608 ratings — published 2001
A Conjuring of Light (Shades of Magic, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as real-magic)
avg rating 4.29 — 197,285 ratings — published 2017
“That is the funny thing about reality, a more reasonable part of you can always find just the right thing to say. There will always be, if you look hard enough, reason to doubt everything. But for now, let us pretend that we are truly insane and that in
trying to teach you my insanity, to answer your questions about the kind of insanity that I adhere to, I must tell you about the un-manifest and the manifested. In doing so you will begin to understand the true nature of reality for a raving lunatic like me.
But I must tell you that this form of insanity is not mine alone, there are others who walk a path that is like my own and the key component of that lunacy is called transmutation.”
― The Art of Transmutation
trying to teach you my insanity, to answer your questions about the kind of insanity that I adhere to, I must tell you about the un-manifest and the manifested. In doing so you will begin to understand the true nature of reality for a raving lunatic like me.
But I must tell you that this form of insanity is not mine alone, there are others who walk a path that is like my own and the key component of that lunacy is called transmutation.”
― The Art of Transmutation
“There's a lot of loose thinking about magic. People go around talking about mystic harmonies and cosmic balances and unicorns, all of which is to real magic what a glove puppet is to the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Real magic is the hand around the bandsaw, the thrown spark in the powder keg, the dimension-warp linking you straight into the heart of a star, the flaming sword that burns all the way down to the pommel. Sooner juggle torches in a tar pit than mess with real magic. Sooner lie down in front of a thousand elephants.”
― Moving Pictures
Real magic is the hand around the bandsaw, the thrown spark in the powder keg, the dimension-warp linking you straight into the heart of a star, the flaming sword that burns all the way down to the pommel. Sooner juggle torches in a tar pit than mess with real magic. Sooner lie down in front of a thousand elephants.”
― Moving Pictures
