45 books
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12 voters
Whimsical Books
Showing 1-50 of 5,300
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,099,394 ratings — published 2011
Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.28 — 448,291 ratings — published 1986
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,481,506 ratings — published 1943
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.36 — 971,371 ratings — published 2020
Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.06 — 663,846 ratings — published 2021
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
by (shelved 64 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.32 — 285,847 ratings — published 2023
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.96 — 211,655 ratings — published 2023
Caraval (Caraval, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.97 — 878,894 ratings — published 2016
A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)
by (shelved 42 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.16 — 413,682 ratings — published 2023
The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)
by (shelved 36 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.49 — 479,941 ratings — published 2022
Stardust (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.10 — 481,698 ratings — published 1999
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,425,571 ratings — published 1997
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.21 — 472,144 ratings — published 2020
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.03 — 378,653 ratings — published 2022
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.84 — 234,511 ratings — published 2019
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.01 — 657,891 ratings — published 2013
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,734,764 ratings — published 2018
Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.05 — 78,926 ratings — published 2020
Finale (Caraval, #3)
by (shelved 28 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.13 — 380,198 ratings — published 2019
Legendary (Caraval, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.10 — 458,460 ratings — published 2018
The Spellshop (Spellshop, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.01 — 146,420 ratings — published 2024
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.04 — 330,305 ratings — published 2022
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.06 — 609,656 ratings — published 1871
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)
by (shelved 25 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.25 — 101,774 ratings — published 2024
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,459,263 ratings — published 1937
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.99 — 437,264 ratings — published 1865
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.17 — 931,538 ratings — published 1964
How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)
by (shelved 24 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.14 — 267,393 ratings — published 2020
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.66 — 693,880 ratings — published 2015
The Wishing Game (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.03 — 188,549 ratings — published 2023
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.08 — 234,467 ratings — published 2017
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.28 — 135,394 ratings — published 2017
The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.11 — 115,239 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 — 41,639 ratings — published 2011
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.08 — 95,478 ratings — published 2022
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.27 — 948,376 ratings — published 1973
Under the Whispering Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.11 — 320,640 ratings — published 2021
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,114,591 ratings — published 1908
Remarkably Bright Creatures (ebook)
by (shelved 19 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,241,212 ratings — published 2022
Nettle & Bone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.07 — 142,824 ratings — published 2022
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,463,207 ratings — published 2020
The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3)
by (shelved 19 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.33 — 966,952 ratings — published 2019
The Ten Thousand Doors of January (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.01 — 168,340 ratings — published 2019
Water Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.78 — 45,763 ratings — published 2025
Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.16 — 561,860 ratings — published 1996
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.00 — 512,444 ratings — published 1900
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 18 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,197,477 ratings — published 2000
The Phantom Tollbooth (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.19 — 307,023 ratings — published 1961
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales (Emily Wilde, #3)
by (shelved 17 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.09 — 53,676 ratings — published 2025
A Winter's Promise (The Mirror Visitor, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.01 — 123,457 ratings — published 2013
“I have only known two men's souls in my life, one the devil, the other the the bird's wings which picked me up and carried me back to the freedom of being.”
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“absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird”
― The Time Traveler's Wife
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