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The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,131,572 ratings — published 2011
Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle, #1)
by (shelved 107 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.28 — 467,913 ratings — published 1986
Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.06 — 751,851 ratings — published 2021
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,579,277 ratings — published 1943
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.95 — 233,966 ratings — published 2023
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,081,672 ratings — published 2020
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.30 — 324,974 ratings — published 2023
Caraval (Caraval, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.97 — 960,599 ratings — published 2016
A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)
by (shelved 47 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.17 — 473,274 ratings — published 2023
The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)
by (shelved 41 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.48 — 541,605 ratings — published 2022
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.20 — 552,396 ratings — published 2020
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,731,254 ratings — published 1997
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.84 — 241,328 ratings — published 2019
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)
by (shelved 36 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.24 — 114,618 ratings — published 2024
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.03 — 407,301 ratings — published 2022
Stardust (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.09 — 487,653 ratings — published 1999
The Spellshop (Spellshop, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.00 — 175,889 ratings — published 2024
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,845,113 ratings — published 2018
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.01 — 664,882 ratings — published 2013
Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.04 — 86,822 ratings — published 2020
Legendary (Caraval, #2)
by (shelved 32 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.09 — 504,156 ratings — published 2018
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.06 — 621,120 ratings — published 1871
Finale (Caraval, #3)
by (shelved 30 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.12 — 419,722 ratings — published 2019
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.03 — 353,129 ratings — published 2022
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,595,564 ratings — published 1937
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.27 — 138,986 ratings — published 2017
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,532,069 ratings — published 2022
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.08 — 243,745 ratings — published 2017
How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)
by (shelved 26 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.13 — 283,966 ratings — published 2020
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.99 — 449,917 ratings — published 1865
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales (Emily Wilde, #3)
by (shelved 25 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.08 — 65,722 ratings — published 2025
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.17 — 948,225 ratings — published 1964
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,630,703 ratings — published 2020
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.65 — 758,807 ratings — published 2015
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.27 — 960,914 ratings — published 1973
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.08 — 101,935 ratings — published 2022
The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3)
by (shelved 23 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,030,395 ratings — published 2019
The Wishing Game (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.02 — 196,518 ratings — published 2023
Nettle & Bone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.07 — 154,929 ratings — published 2022
The Ten Thousand Doors of January (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.01 — 176,787 ratings — published 2019
The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.11 — 119,088 ratings — published 2016
Heartless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.08 — 277,473 ratings — published 2016
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Fairyland, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,941 ratings — published 2011
Water Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.77 — 61,280 ratings — published 2025
A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.05 — 97,879 ratings — published 2022
Under the Whispering Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.10 — 338,271 ratings — published 2021
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,147,926 ratings — published 1908
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 21 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,317,788 ratings — published 2000
The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,142,827 ratings — published 2019
An Enchantment of Ravens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.64 — 110,655 ratings — published 2017
“Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books.”
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“But one thing he did know. They were sure going to miss these days when the world and their lives in many cases nearly came to an end.”
― The Subtle Cause
― The Subtle Cause
