Magical Realism Bucket List

Explore magical realism by Gabriel García Márquez

An angel lands face-down in a courtyard after a storm, and the village starts charging admission to look at him.

A runaway boy and an old man who talks to cats; fish fall from the sky.

Two moons over Tokyo in 1984 and a cult; three volumes.

A distillery family in Shandong during the Japanese invasion; Mo Yan's Nobel novel behind Zhang Yimou's film.

A missing cat, a missing wife and a dry well in a Tokyo suburb; Murakami's big one.

Four generations of the Trueba family and a coup; Allende's debut.

Florentino waits fifty-one years, nine months and four days for Fermina; Garcia Marquez's romance.

A man arrives in Comala looking for his father and finds a town of the dead; the book that taught Garcia Marquez.

Oskar stops growing at three and drums through Danzig's twentieth century; Grass's Nobel.

Saleem Rushdie, born at the stroke of Indian independence, and a thousand children like him; the Booker of Bookers.

Milkman Dead searches for gold and finds his family's past; Morrison's flying men.

A delivery driver on a secret highway under Kentucky; magical realism in five acts.