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Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle, #1)
by (shelved 112 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.28 — 475,521 ratings — published 1986
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,140,949 ratings — published 2011
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
by (shelved 76 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.30 — 336,395 ratings — published 2023
Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)
by (shelved 76 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.06 — 779,965 ratings — published 2021
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,616,695 ratings — published 1943
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,111,764 ratings — published 2020
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.95 — 240,498 ratings — published 2023
Caraval (Caraval, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.97 — 985,727 ratings — published 2016
A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)
by (shelved 48 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.18 — 491,479 ratings — published 2023
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.19 — 588,987 ratings — published 2020
The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)
by (shelved 42 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.48 — 560,758 ratings — published 2022
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.83 — 243,650 ratings — published 2019
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.02 — 421,823 ratings — published 2022
Stardust (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.09 — 489,687 ratings — published 1999
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,854,959 ratings — published 1997
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)
by (shelved 37 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.23 — 118,231 ratings — published 2024
The Spellshop (Spellshop, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.99 — 185,633 ratings — published 2024
Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.03 — 89,292 ratings — published 2020
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,880,964 ratings — published 2018
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.01 — 667,249 ratings — published 2013
Legendary (Caraval, #2)
by (shelved 33 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.08 — 517,707 ratings — published 2018
Finale (Caraval, #3)
by (shelved 31 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.12 — 431,397 ratings — published 2019
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.06 — 625,149 ratings — published 1871
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.02 — 360,262 ratings — published 2022
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.27 — 140,102 ratings — published 2017
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,644,961 ratings — published 1937
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,598,725 ratings — published 2022
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.08 — 246,049 ratings — published 2017
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales (Emily Wilde, #3)
by (shelved 26 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.07 — 68,762 ratings — published 2025
How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)
by (shelved 26 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.12 — 288,987 ratings — published 2020
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.99 — 454,505 ratings — published 1865
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.27 — 964,933 ratings — published 1973
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,692,819 ratings — published 2020
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.64 — 779,767 ratings — published 2015
The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3)
by (shelved 24 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,050,610 ratings — published 2019
Heartless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.08 — 283,560 ratings — published 2016
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.17 — 953,825 ratings — published 1964
The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.16 — 128,144 ratings — published 1968
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.07 — 103,842 ratings — published 2022
The Ten Thousand Doors of January (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.01 — 179,343 ratings — published 2019
The Wishing Game (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.02 — 198,952 ratings — published 2023
A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.05 — 99,927 ratings — published 2022
The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.11 — 120,291 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 — 42,013 ratings — published 2011
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,159,253 ratings — published 1908
Water Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.76 — 65,084 ratings — published 2025
Nettle & Bone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.06 — 159,337 ratings — published 2022
Under the Whispering Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.10 — 343,475 ratings — published 2021
The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)
by (shelved 21 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,165,273 ratings — published 2019
An Enchantment of Ravens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.64 — 111,531 ratings — published 2017
“You're not quite human, are you?”
― Do Not Be Afraid: A Whimsical Urban Fantasy About a Stranded Angel, a Hellhound Puppy, and a Second Chance on Earth
― Do Not Be Afraid: A Whimsical Urban Fantasy About a Stranded Angel, a Hellhound Puppy, and a Second Chance on Earth
“The Penultimate Hotel by Stewart Stafford
Enter sluggishly into the lobby,
A banquet is in progress in the restaurant,
They’re regurgitating reality from within,
And then eating their young.
An apocalyptic porter has radioactive cubes in the lift,
Housekeeping will have ten thousand years of light,
But the sheets in the rooms,
Will all turn to cream cheese.
The cooks in the kitchen are breaking bones and rules,
Creating a cake that stretches to infinity,
Babel babble with protesting eggs,
All baked in a hellfire oven.
The concierge gives out tips,
And tells guests they are awful and to leave,
While simultaneously tattooing diabolical potion recipes,
Inside a willing bellhop’s eyelids.
© 2021, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
Enter sluggishly into the lobby,
A banquet is in progress in the restaurant,
They’re regurgitating reality from within,
And then eating their young.
An apocalyptic porter has radioactive cubes in the lift,
Housekeeping will have ten thousand years of light,
But the sheets in the rooms,
Will all turn to cream cheese.
The cooks in the kitchen are breaking bones and rules,
Creating a cake that stretches to infinity,
Babel babble with protesting eggs,
All baked in a hellfire oven.
The concierge gives out tips,
And tells guests they are awful and to leave,
While simultaneously tattooing diabolical potion recipes,
Inside a willing bellhop’s eyelids.
© 2021, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
