| MIDNIGHTS | ___ Children 1981 Booker Prize-winning Salman Rushdie novel featuring themes of magical realism |
| PIRANESI | 2020 Susanna Clarke novel featuring themes of magical realism that won the Women's Prize for Fiction |
| THESHORE | Kafka on ___ 2002 World Fantasy Award-winning Haruki Murakami novel featuring themes of magical realism: 2 wds. |
| LIFE | ___ of Pi 2001 Yann Martel novel featuring themes of magical realism that has an eponymous film adaptation |
| LANE | The Ocean at the End of the ___ 2013 Neil Gaiman novel featuring themes of magical realism that was nominated for a Nebula Award |
| SOLITUDE | One Hundred Years of ___ 1967 Gabriel Garcia Marquez magnum opus featuring themes of magical realism |
| KEANE | Molly ?, author of 1981 Booker Prize-nominated novel Good Behaviour (5) |
| MRQUEZ | His epic tale of seven generations is an example of the genre of magical realism |
| MIDNIGHTSCHILDREN | Salman Rushdie novel; 1981 Man Booker Prize winner |
| CHILDREN | Salman Rushdie novel; 1981 Man Booker Prize winner |
| SHAME | 1983 Salman Rushdie novel shortlisted for the Booker Prize (5) |
| RUSHDIE | Winning the Booker Prize with his novel Midnight's Children (1981), who was stabbed in 2022 as he was about to begin his Chautauqua Institution lecture? (7) |
| RUSHD | Indian-born writer of the 1981 Booker Prize |
| SATANIC | Title of the 1988 Salman Rushdie novel that provoked a Muslim backlash, The ... Verses |
| SALMANRUSHDIE | Novelist who won the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children (1981) |
| CITY | Victory ___, 2023 Salman Rushdie novel (4) |
| WAS | 1992 Geoff Ryman novel exploring the themes of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum (3) |
| ADAMS | Author whose epic tale of anthropomorphic bunnies in the Hampshire countryside features themes of betrayal, death, ecocide, totalitarianism and violence, despite having been written for children (5) |
| GENRE | Magical realism, e.g. |
| INCEST | One of the themes of "Oedipus Rex" |
