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Flavorwire's 50 Excellent Fabulist Books Everyone Should Read

So, here you’ll find 50 excellent novels and short story collections by fabulists, fantasists, and fairy-tale-tellers, literary books that incorporate the irreal, the surreal, and the supernatural, which have no unironic dragons, very few (if any) self-serious necromancers, but lots of delightful, magical, humane, real-as-all-get-out storytelling.
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Cosmicomics
Cosmicomics
1
Mr. Fox (Helen Oyeyemi)
Mr. Fox
2
Helen Oyeyemi
Magic for Beginners (Kelly Link)
Magic for Beginners
3
Kelly Link
The Woman in the Dunes (Kobo Abe)
The Woman in the Dunes
4
Kobo Abe
Willful Creatures
Willful Creatures
5
Safe as Houses
Safe as Houses
6
Duplex
Duplex
7
Sharp Teeth
Sharp Teeth
8
A Guide to Being Born
A Guide to Being Born
9
The Bloody Chamber (Angela Carter)
The Bloody Chamber
10
Angela Carter
The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
The Metamorphosis
11
Franz Kafka
In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods
In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods
12
The Vanishers
The Vanishers
13
Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World
Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World
14
Dangerous Laughter
Dangerous Laughter
15
The Isle of Youth
The Isle of Youth
16
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Master and Margarita
17
Mikhail Bulgakov
The Dead Father
The Dead Father
18
Madeleine Is Sleeping
Madeleine Is Sleeping
19
Crystal Eaters
Crystal Eaters
20
Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges)
Ficciones
21
Jorge Luis Borges
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
22
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
23
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1Q84 (Haruki Murakami)
1Q84
24
Haruki Murakami
The Breast
The Breast
25
Giles Goat-Boy
Giles Goat-Boy
26
The Changeling
The Changeling
27
The Last Illusion
The Last Illusion
28
The Gold Family Tales
The Gold Family Tales
29
Pastoralia
Pastoralia
30
One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses
One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses
31
Eva Luna (Isabel Allende)
Eva Luna
32
Isabel Allende
Ghosts
Ghosts
33
Museum of the Weird
Museum of the Weird
34
City of Saints and Madmen
City of Saints and Madmen
35
The Age of Wire and String
The Age of Wire and String
36
American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
American Gods
37
Neil Gaiman
The City & the City (China Miéville)
The City & the City
38
China Miéville
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children
39
Salman Rushdie
The Snow Child
The Snow Child
40
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