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Whimsical Books
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The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,081,011 ratings — published 2011
Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.29 — 435,313 ratings — published 1986
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,415,295 ratings — published 1943
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 64 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.37 — 909,272 ratings — published 2020
Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.06 — 612,319 ratings — published 2021
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 56 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.33 — 264,065 ratings — published 2023
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
by (shelved 54 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.97 — 195,358 ratings — published 2023
Caraval (Caraval, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.97 — 828,879 ratings — published 2016
A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)
by (shelved 40 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.16 — 379,359 ratings — published 2023
The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)
by (shelved 35 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.49 — 445,167 ratings — published 2022
Stardust (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.10 — 478,217 ratings — published 1999
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.84 — 230,547 ratings — published 2019
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,199,260 ratings — published 1997
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.01 — 653,462 ratings — published 2013
Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.05 — 74,007 ratings — published 2020
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.22 — 433,162 ratings — published 2020
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.05 — 336,239 ratings — published 2022
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.26 — 92,763 ratings — published 2024
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,669,217 ratings — published 2018
Finale (Caraval, #3)
by (shelved 25 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.13 — 357,037 ratings — published 2019
Legendary (Caraval, #2)
by (shelved 25 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.10 — 431,253 ratings — published 2018
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.05 — 310,112 ratings — published 2022
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.99 — 428,796 ratings — published 1865
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.17 — 920,091 ratings — published 1964
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Fairyland, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,471 ratings — published 2011
How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.14 — 258,277 ratings — published 2020
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.06 — 602,585 ratings — published 1871
The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.11 — 112,903 ratings — published 2016
The Spellshop (Spellshop, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.02 — 121,907 ratings — published 2024
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,391,173 ratings — published 1937
The Wishing Game (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.03 — 182,724 ratings — published 2023
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.09 — 91,867 ratings — published 2022
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.28 — 133,746 ratings — published 2017
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.27 — 941,512 ratings — published 1973
Under the Whispering Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.11 — 310,924 ratings — published 2021
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,093,601 ratings — published 1908
Water Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.78 — 36,231 ratings — published 2025
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.09 — 227,290 ratings — published 2017
The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3)
by (shelved 18 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.34 — 933,523 ratings — published 2019
The Ten Thousand Doors of January (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.01 — 163,453 ratings — published 2019
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.00 — 503,866 ratings — published 1900
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 18 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,119,232 ratings — published 2000
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales (Emily Wilde, #3)
by (shelved 17 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.11 — 44,176 ratings — published 2025
The Midnight Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,356,633 ratings — published 2020
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as whimsical)
avg rating 3.66 — 652,801 ratings — published 2015
The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.05 — 398,456 ratings — published 2012
Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.16 — 558,307 ratings — published 1996
The Phantom Tollbooth (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.20 — 303,979 ratings — published 1961
The Lost Bookshop (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.00 — 317,514 ratings — published 2023
Nettle & Bone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as whimsical)
avg rating 4.08 — 134,263 ratings — published 2022
“She had poofy, teased-out brown hair that bounced off her shoulders with every high-flying skip and on her t-shirt was a spiraled sun with little wavy lines jumping off it to match the little wavy distortions in the air that were jumping off her. It was pure, unbridled energy and the sound of it hummed in his ears like when standing dangerously near a power transformer. Or maybe he was witnessing the origin story of the world’s first real superhero, and if so, she was probably going to draw her powers from the electromagnetic field itself.”
― The Subtle Cause
― The Subtle Cause
“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.”
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