Airborn: Nadira is harassed in 1910 Paris for being a "gypsy." She irritably replies "I'm a Roma."
Bardic Voices: Several main characters are Gypsies, all of whom are the non-Guild version of Bards and have Magic Music.
In Born Behind Bars, Kabir befriends a Roma girl named Rani. Her father was killed by a mob that blamed his supposed magic for the lack of rain, and she ran away from her surviving family to prevent her uncle from marrying her off in her early teens. Now she's a Street Urchin who uses cold reading to tell people's fortunes.
Cal Leandros: Niko and Cal Leandros, the protagonists of the series, are full Rom and half-Rom, respectively. However, neither brother is accepted by their mother's clan, the Vayash, because Sophia accepted money not only to have the child of an abomination but to have a child who would inevitably be half-gadje (non-Roma), an insult to Roma tradition. Both brothers subvert Rom stereotypes: they have an apartment in New York, they drive cars rather than caravans, Niko works as a teacher's assistant at a college and as a dojo instructor while Cal is a bartender (and both of them work as bodyguards and investigators), and all in all, they're pretty thoroughly immersed in typical tech-savvy life in their version of alternate modern-day America.
The Canterville Ghost: A Romani caravan is suspected when a teenage girl goes missing. They're completely innocent of any wrongdoing, however, and join in the search for her.
"The Cats of Ulthar" makes the misconception that the Romani are from Egypt a plot point, with a Gypsie caravan worshipping the cat goddess Bast. The story is set in the Dreamlands, a Parallel Universe to the Earth.
Chrestomanci: A Romani caravan travel between different worlds.
Equal Rites: A town-based witch is worried they might kidnap Esk. Granny Weatherwax, who knows a bit about gypsies, finds this unlikely. The same book also has Zoons, who are barge-traveling merchants who find the concept of lying strange (the ones who are good at dealing with outsiders call themselves Liars because that's what they have to do). Zoons are, of course, distrusted, because there's nothing more suspicious than someone who's being honest.
The Tiffany Aching books feature widely distrusted nomads who wander from town to town in horse-drawn wagons. The twist? They're teachers, going from poor village to poor village trying to find people who really WANT to learn and to give them the opportunity to take a class or two, generally in exchange for food or other objects of barter. There's even a Discworld witchfinder—that is, a witch who tries to locate other witches so that they can be properly trained—who works as a nomadic teacher. Making Money reveals that traveling bands of accountants make their living in the same way.
Dracula portrays several different Eastern-European ethnic groups as 'gypsies', including Dracula's Szgany henchman, against whom the final battle of the book is fought. Naturally, this means that Roger Zelazny's Monster Mash homage A Night in the Lonesome October also had to feature some. It turns out that, while they do work for the Count, he's on the good guys' side this time.
The Family Under The Bridge, set in mid-twentieth-century Paris, depicts the "gypsy" population in a stereotypical but sympathetic manner, as part of a larger urban underworld — for instance, they're shown to steal at times, but stealing in general is treated as an inevitable result of poverty, and they're generous to their friends outside the immediate community. They more or less fulfill the "colorful vagrant" stereotype, and there are at least one fortune teller and a lot of tinkers.
Fern Hollow shows tortoises whose clothes and nomadic lifestyle suggest they are Romani, or at least that settings' equivalents. Unlike many depictions, though, they are nothing more sinister than a legitimate traveling fair. While they are accused of kidnapping two children, the evidence against them is the fact that one wagon left the village at top speed, rather than any actual prejudice against them. (The missing kids were stowaways, not kidnapped, and the "crazy driving" was the result of a spooked horse).
Guardian Cats and the Lost Books of Alexandria: The villain is a half-Romani man named Leo Chin. He hates the Romani part of his heritage because he lived in poverty and persecution, with an abusive father who is implied to have killed Leo's mother. This left Leo wanting to create a world where he's the sole ruler and no one can ever die. Leo's Romani heritage comes into play with his views on cats: he was raised with the superstition that cats are evil, plus he has a phobia of them because his mother was forced to drown a stray cat he took care of as a child. Leo has a knowledge of magic that stems from being raised amongst Romani.
The Gypsy is about a Romani wizard who fights a supernatural menace known as "The Fair Lady".
The Gypsy Game, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder, is based on the final line in The Egypt Game, "what do you know about gypsies?". It ends with kids deciding to abandon childish fantasies in favor of doing "real" work to help others. They also find out what happened to the real Romany and why playing "gypsies" is not a cool idea.
Gypsy Lover, by Edith Layton: The bastard son of a Romani and a noblewoman tries to save his foster father.
His Dark Materials: The Gyptians are portrayed in an archaic and "mysterious" way, but they are at least pretty damn heroic and invaluable allies of Lyra. They're a slight variant in that rather than having caravans, they live in barges on the East Anglian Fens and seem to have a strong Dutch influence in their language. It can be speculated that in the setting's Alternate History for whatever reason, they moved from the Netherlands to settle in East Anglia; in real life, a lot of Dutch people did migrate there. Alternatively, they moved to the water to become a seafaring culture.
Holes: Madame Zeroni fits the "Gypsie Fortune Teller" archetype, but she's explicitly said to be an actual Egyptian, or at least North African, rather than Romany stock. She also allegedly curses Stanley's ancestor (it's a bit ambiguous if there really is a curse or if the family just has horrid luck), but it's somewhat sympathetic, because Stanley's ancestor was an idiot who forgot to perform the simple task of carrying her up a mountain and letting her drink from a stream in exchange for her help. It's implied that her curse is broken when the conditions are fulfilled and Stanley carries her descendant up a mountain to drink from a stream.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame uses several negative stereotypes of Romani, though Quasimodo is sympathetic to them. Esmeralda is portrayed as a desirable teenage girl persecuted as a witch. Its revealed late that Esmeralda is not actually a Romani, being stolen and Switched at Birth with the Romani Quasimodo in infancy. The moment Esmeralda's mother learns that her child is alive, she renounces all of her hatred shouting how she "loves the egyptians". The other main Romani character is Clopin, the ''King'' of the lower class and is a violent Anti-Hero whose redeeming factor is his protectiveness of his subjects.
Jackdaws: Ruby is Roma. She's not particularly honest and was actually taken out of jail to help the unit, but she's one of the only members of the unit to make it out alive.
The Katitzi books, by Katarina Taikon, were based on the author's own WWII wartime Romani upbringing.
Ki And Vandien: Ki comes from the nomadic "Romni" people.
Kushiel's Legacy has a semi-historical fantasy setting featuring the Roma analogues, the Tsingani (which is the Russian word for "Gypsies") or "Travellers". They're pretty stereotypical (bright clothes, dancing, champion horse-breeders, stealing from the non-Travellers, and some Tsingani women can see the future) but the way they're treated is at least mentioned. Hyacinthe, the most important Tsingani character met in the first book (who's actually only half-Tsingani), actively plays on the stereotypical depictions of his people to promote his mother's fortune-telling business (as well as his own) and to become a fixer and owner of a horse stable.
"Land of the Great Horses", a humorous short story by R. A. Lafferty, pretends that the Romani were nomadic because extraterrestrials took their homeland (ripped it loose, apparently, right down to the bedrock) for geological examination, instilling a compulsion to wander so they wouldn't settle anywhere else. When the aliens bring the land back in the late 20th Century, everyone with a significant degree of Romani blood feels impelled to return to India. An epilogue reveals that the extraterrestrials sampled Los Angeles next.
The Last Rune: The Mournish are clearly a Fantasy Counterpart Culture version of the Roma. When one of them comes to Earth and needs to blend in, Travis decides calling them a gypsy is the best way to explain their ethnicity. For added Genius Bonus, the Mournish originally came from Morindu, a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of ancient Egypt, tying in with the Medieval belief that the Roma were of Egyptian origin.
Liaden Universe: The kompani, introduced in Necessity's Child and the short story "Eleutherios", are a band of secretive travelers who keep to themselves, have mystical powers, tell fortunes with decks of cards, have extremely good technological artificing skills, and disdain/steal from most outsiders.
Skyrider: Romani are heavily represented in the population of the Asteroid Belt; it's suggested that they found the lifestyle appealing. Skyrider herself tends to call them Gypsies, but she at least knows the term Romani, and knows a little of the language, which itself has become a large contributor to Belter pidgin.
Through The Eyes Of The Dead involves some Romani families living in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the protagonist ends up needing to learn quite a bit about Romani culture in order to proceed with her investigation.
Mercy Hollings, by Toni Andrews: The second and third books make references to Romani culture. Andrews shows that she has done some research on the Romani and makes a distinction between actual Romani people and a mysterious fictional possibly not-quite-human people called "the others" who are not of Romani descent, but possess genuine psychic powers and have tried to conceal their identities by masquerading as fortune tellers and even traveling with Romani tribes in the past.
Les Misérables: Inspector Javert is heavily implied to be of Romani descent; his mother is a fortune teller, and depending on the translation, his people are described as "Bohemian", "vagrant" etc.note "Bohemian" was sometimes used for French Romani because they were falsely believed to originally come from Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic) since some of the earliest in France did. In a complete reversal of the Gypsy stereotype, Javert is fanatically devoted to upholding law and order, and won't lie even when the consequences include being executed by angry revolutionaries. However, since he hates his race, this may have been deliberate.
Mulengro, by Charles De Lint, is set among Modern Roma in Canada who appear to be very well researched and portrayed. Many Romani words are used; mulengro is Romani for "ghost man".
The Name of the Wind: The family of the hero Kvothe is a band of Edema Ruh, traveling entertainers with a somewhat unsavory (and mostly unearned) reputation. They have very cordial relations with wandering tinkers, further establishing them as fantasy Roma.
Necroscope: The Szgany come actually from Another Dimension, the same one from where vampires (or the parasite that causes vampirism) are native. Both Szgany and Wamphiri crossed over using a Wormhole or "gray hole" located in Romania.
The Obernewtyn Chronicles: The heroine travels with a gypsy caravan for a while and becomes good friends with some of them. They're not Roma, though; they're descendants of a group of psychics who took up the lifestyle after The End of the World as We Know It and are mostly of African descent.
The Romani character Melquíades is also the local Great Gazoo.
It's strongly implied that Meme's Star Crossed Lover and local Jerk with a Heart of Gold Mauricio Babilonia has Romani blood. His gorgeous dark eyes surprise Meme's mother Fernanda and the narrator says she wouldn't have been so shocked had she seen the people of original Roma caravan.
Piers Anthony's Romani are often magical and are portrayed as lively dancers.
Foxes are stereotyped as sly, deceitful, vaguely magical tricksters and all-around manipulative types — many are fortune tellers with fashion choices seeming to prefer brightly colored skirts and headscarves, and bangles. Seeing as certain animal species are Always Chaotic Evil, this leads to a number of Unfortunate Implications. However, unlike other stereotypical Romani, foxes usually appear as advisers to the various evil warlords that try to conquer Redwall or Salamandastron, rather than wandering thieving bands. Not that that depiction is any better, mind you.
The Guosim are a roving community of shrews in Mossflower, actually referred to as gypsies once or twice. They wear brightly colored clothing and move around a lot, but they are regarded as trustworthy and invaluable allies to the woodlanders.
Rudyard Kipling wrote two poems about nomadic life as the pinnacle of freedom, The Gipsy Trail on romantic end and Gypsy Vans on acerbic (he had a habit of supplying "one view of the question" most Europeans preferred to omit).
Shannara: Rovers are mysterious and definitely play by their own roguish rules, but they're as likely to be heroic as opposed to the heroes, make fantastic scouts, traders, sailors, and rogues, and dominate the eventual airship trade with their bravery and acumen.
"Gipsies" are suspected of complicity in the sudden death of a young woman in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's ''The Adventure of the Speckled Band', but Sherlock Holmes proves they had nothing to do with it; it was her stepfather. The Red Herring is the assumption that the titular Speckled Band is a Romani neckerchief.
Local Romani bands were among the suspects whom the police speculated might've made off with Silver Blaze in another case, but Holmes correctly pointed out that they'd have had no motive for taking such a recognizable racehorse even if he'd wandered into their camp.
Somewhither: The reason nobody knows the Romani's origins is because they originally come from an Alternate Universe. Since then they've spread all over The Multiverse. One of the main characters (Foster Hidden) is a Romani as well.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Relaunch novel The Missing introduces the People of the Open Sky, a friendly group of nomadic travelers with little use for formality or regulations, who briefly settle on the station. The culture they left claims they kidnap children, which Dr. Crusher points out is exactly the sort of libel that used to be spread about the Romani.
Star Wars Expanded Universe: The Ryn live in roaming caravans of spaceships, run fortune-telling games (though this may be an expression of Force sensitivity), and are generally used as punching bags by the rest of everybody. This is the same 'Verse that spawned Han Solo, though, so they get a sympathetic portrayal, with family loyalty and ingenuity high on their list of traits. They also have a top-notch spy network, run on gossip. Their patchwork fleet comes through awesomely in one of the later NJO novels.
Thieves' World: The S'Danzo are the Fantasy Counterpart Culture of the Romani. They are very traditional, men are known to sometimes invoke curses on those who seriously annoy them, many women live on fortune-telling using Tarot-like cards and some are very good in this. A major difference is that the S'Danzo community we read most about are not nomads, but settled in the city of Sanctuary.
Thinner: One of the Romani clan knows magic and curses the main character after the latter became responsible for his daughter's death.
The Third Secret, by Steve Berry: Tough reporter Katerina Lew is a Transylvanian who is part Roma. Her origins and the tragic fate of her Roma grandparents under Ceausescu are described in detail. She was on the front lines in the 1989 revolution and at one point recounts her part in the protests at the December 21 speech.
Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding, has an incident with Romani being presented as a utopian community.
Villains by Necessity: Gypsies are portrayed stereotypically, living in painted wagons one of which deftly steals Sam's pouch (though he gives it right back) and with an old female fortune teller. However, they're portrayed really positively, and two protagonists lament that if the Light wins, they might vanish.
The Wheel of Time: Tinkers are a Fantasy Counterpart Culture to Roma, right down to being unfairly distrusted as thieves by other cultures. The key difference is the addition of pacifism.
Wuthering Heights: Heathcliff, the moody and sometimes violent Byronic Hero, is described in a few instances as "gipsy" or "dark boy" in an insulting manner.
Åshöjdens BK: Romani figure prominently throughout, and anti-Romani prejudice and racism are an ongoing theme throughout the book.
Jorma, the narrator, is casually and blisteringly racist against Romani in the early parts of the series. However, he is very young and it is clear that he is only parroting people around him. He gets better.
When it comes to the actual portrayal, the Romani family that live near Åshöjden live up to all the stereotypes, being drunk, violent, insular and supporting themselves through day labor and petty crime. However, they are never portrayed as malicious, but rather as victims of virulent prejudice and unwarranted persecution, who aren't welcome in straight society and will never hold steady jobs because "everyone knows what they are like". After Edward manages to earn their trust and offers them honest work, they jump at it, and prove themselves to be hard-working and loyal to a fault to their new boss.
Tales From Verania: The protagonist, Sam, is half Romani and the second book involves visiting his mother's homeland to find out about a prophecy he's in. Rather than being nomadic, they live in a highly insular desert city and dislike that Sam is biracial. The first four books use word "Gypsy" freely, but in the fifth book (published several years after the fourth), characters acknowledge the modern understanding of the word as a slur and stop using it.
Unfortunate Implications. However, unlike other stereotypical Romani, foxes usually appear as advisers to the various evil warlords that try to conquer Redwall or Salamandastron, rather than wandering thieving bands. Not that that depiction is any better, mind you.
on romantic end and Gypsy Vans