Fairy Tales

Fairy tale is a type of short narrative that typically features such folkloric characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments. However, only a small number of the stories thus designated explicitly refer to fairies.

Fairy tales are high fantasy based on stories that are not only not true, but that couldn't possibly be true, while Legends are sometimes perceived as real or plausible. Fairy tales may merge into legends, where the narrative is perceived both by teller and hearers as being grounded in historical truth. However, unli
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The House Saphir
Seven Deadly Thorns
The Wolf and His King
Deadly Ever After
Never Ever After (Never Ever After, #1)
The Isle in the Silver Sea
Cinder House
Kill the Beast
The Changeling Queen
Huntsman (Hunted Kingdom, #1)
The Demon and the Light (The Floating World, #2)
F*cked Up Fairy Tales: Sinful Cinderellas, Prince Alarmings, and Other Timeless Classics
Witchkiller
Angelica and the Bear Prince
How to Survive a Fairy Bargain (Fairies and Familiars, #2)
Hansel and Gretel
Fairy Tale
Hemlock & Silver
A Sorceress Comes to Call
The Summer War
Cinder House
A Curse of Shadows and Ice
Gilded (Gilded, #1)
A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)
Angelica and the Bear Prince
A Forgery of Fate
Grimm Curiosities
Never Ever After (Never Ever After, #1)
Cursed (Gilded, #2)
Huntsman (Hunted Kingdom, #1)
Cinder by Marissa MeyerElla Enchanted by Gail Carson LevineCress by Marissa MeyerScarlet by Marissa MeyerWinter by Marissa Meyer
Fairy tales & Retellings
636 books — 490 voters
Cinder by Marissa MeyerScarlet by Marissa MeyerElla Enchanted by Gail Carson LevineCress by Marissa MeyerBeastly by Alex Flinn
Fairy Tales Retold
551 books — 566 voters

American Gods by Neil GaimanDaughter of the Forest by Juliet MarillierGood Omens by Terry PratchettThe Once and Future King by T.H. WhiteElla Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Myth and Folktale Retellings
628 books — 580 voters
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson LevineCinder by Marissa MeyerBeastly by Alex FlinnPrincess Academy by Shannon HaleThe Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
YA Modern Retellings
429 books — 823 voters


Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, #2)
Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)
Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3)
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4)
Uprooted
Spinning Silver
The Goose Girl (The Books of Bayern, #1)
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
Cruel Beauty
Beastly (Beastly, #1)

W.H. Auden
The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.
W.H. Auden

G.K. Chesterton
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
G.K. Chesterton

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