Thursday 29 November 2012

Updated Reading List

Here is the list of magic realism books I will read and review on this blog over the next year. The intention is to read one book a week, with  two weeks off for holidays. The sharp-eyed among you will realise that there are more than 50 books on the list, this is because I intend saving some of the longer books for after the challenge and giving them the time they are due.

You will note too that there is only one book per author listed, which means I am missing out some major works by leading writers of magic realism. This is because of the nature of the challenge and I intend, having completed it, to read works by writers I have been impressed by. It is also my intention to keep adding reviews to the blog after the challenge is completed.
  • The Knife Thrower by Steven Millhauser
  • The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
  • The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman
  • Winter’s Tale by Mark Halpern
  • The Wood Wife by Terri Windling
  • Just Relations by Rodney Hall
  • Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
  • Love In The Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Beloved by Toni Morrison
  • Tales of Power by Carlos Castaneda
  • Chocolat by Joanne Harris
  • Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill
  • Girl With Glass Feet by Ali Shaw
  • Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
  • Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
  • Fludd - Hilary Mantel
  • Book Thief - Markus Zusak
  • Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
  • Nights At the Circus by Angela Carter
  • The Cure For Death By Lightning by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
  • The History of the Siege of Lisbon by Jose Saramago
  • Ruby Holler by Sharron Creech
  • House of Spirits by Isabelle Allende
  • Famished Road by Ben Okri
  • Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  • The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
  • Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke
  • Metamorphasis by Franz Kafka
  • Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffeneger
  • Orlando by Virginia Woolf
  • Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King
  • Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson
  • Garden Spells by Sarak Addison Allen
  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
  • The Magician and Other Stories by Murilo Rubiao
  • Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
  • The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
  • The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
  • The Book of Fathers by Miklos Vamos
  • Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
  • Magic For Beginners by Kelly Link
  • The Grass Dancer by Susan Power
  • Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado
  • The Silver Cloud Cafe by Alfredi Vea
  • The Scholar of Moab by Steven L Peck
  • The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
  • The Invisible Mountain by Carolina De Robertis
  • Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  • The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
  • Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
  • Holes by Louis Sacher
  • Cloud Street by Tim Winton
  • The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino
  • Skellig by David Almond
  • The Book of Fathers by Miklos Vamos
  • Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
  • Magic For Beginners by Kelly Link
  • The Grass Dancer by Susan Power
  • Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado
  • The Silver Cloud Cafe by Alfredi Vea
  • The Scholar of Moab by Steven L Peck
  • The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
  • The Invisible Mountain by Carolina De Robertis
  • Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  • The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
  • Holes by Louis Sacher
  • Cloud Street by Tim Winton
  • The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino
  • Skellig by David Almond
  • Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
  • The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
  • The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 
  •  Big Fish by Daniel Wallace
  • Coyote Cowgirl by Kim Antieau
  • I Heard The Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven
  • Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan
  • Forest of Hours by Kerstin Ekman
  • The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich
  • The Horseman on the Roof by Jean Giono
  • White Apples by Jonathan Carroll
  • The End of my Tether by Neil Astley
  • Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
  • Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes
  • The History of Danish Dreams by Peter Hoeg
  • Mysteries by Knut Hamsun
  • Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfi Anayo
  • Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
  • Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  • Jitterbug Perfume by Tim Robbins
  • Temple of my Familiar by Alice Walker
  • How to Travel Terra Incognita by Dean Francis Alfar
  • The Silence of Trees by Valya Dudycz Lupescu
  • The Story Trap by Masha du Toit

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