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Book Recommendations for Each Degree of Realism

Updated: Apr 25, 2021

Grounded Realism:

Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee


















Slightly Grounded Realism:

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien






















Realism:

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky























Slightly High Realism:

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
























High Realism:

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
























Higher Realism:

Life of Pi by Yann Martel






















Magical Realism:

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
























Surrealism:

Froth on the Daydream by Boris Vian



















More surreal surrealism:

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

















Lower Fantasy:

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde


















Low Fantasy:

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs


















Lower High Fantasy:

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman


















High Fantasy:

Six of Crows


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