Big Books of 2026
Genres > Nonfiction > Folklore

Most Read This Week In Folklore

Folklore (or lore) consists of legends, myths, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group.

Folk literature features folkloric elements in the form of novels, short stories, children tales, poetry or other narratives.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Folklore"

Hansel and Gretel
When Among Crows (Curse Bearer, #1)
Something in the Walls
The Dead of Winter: Beware the Krampus and Other Wicked Christmas Creatures
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas
Where the Dark Stands Still
Greenteeth
The Skull
A House Between Sea and Sky
The Wax Child
Grimm Curiosities
To Clutch a Razor (Curse Bearer, #2)
The Fox Wife
The Bog Wife
Audition for the Fox
The Invisible Parade
The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)
Christmas and Other Horrors: A Winter Solstice Anthology
The Wolf and the Woodsman
Maggie's Grave
His Black Tongue
Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire
Thistlefoot
The Words of Kings and Prophets (Gael Song, #2)
Pan
Nowhere
Upon a Starlit Tide
The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song, #1)
The Whistler
The Maiden and Her Monster
Old Country
The Last Witch of Scotland
Once Was Willem
Scuttler's Cove
The Wild Huntress
The Last Girl To Die
Atlas of Unknowable Things
Sister Snake
North Is the Night (Tuonela Duet, #1)
The Burial Tide
When You Trap a Tiger
All the Murmuring Bones
The Legend of the Christmas Witch
The Cold House
Knock Knock, Open Wide
The Witches of Vardø
Bowling with Corpses & Other Strange Tales from Lands Unknown
A Snake Falls to Earth
Treacle Walker
Hagstone
Foul Days (The Witch's Compendium of Monsters, #1)
Beast of the North Woods (Monster Hunter, #3)
Stay in the Light (The Watchers, #2)
The Nesting
Withered Hill
Build Your House Around My Body
The Ghost Woods
The Golem of Brooklyn
The Curse of Penryth Hall (Ruby Vaughn, #1)
The Creeper
The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
Spellbound
The Daughters of Ys
A Haunting in the Arctic
They Fear Not Men in the Woods
The Vessel
Anzu and the Realm of Darkness
Suomaa
Nettle (Faery Realms, #1)
The Witch and the Tsar
The Snow Song
House of Frost and Feathers
(S)Kin
Barrowbeck
The Paranormal Ranger: A Navajo Investigator's Search for the Unexplained
Mister Lullaby
Curse of the Night Witch (Emblem Island, #1)
Strange Folk
Rare Flavours
The Shadow Key
Once There Was (Once There Was #1)
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
A History of Magic, Witchcraft, and the Occult (Esoteric Histories)
The Door on the Sea (The Raven and Eagle, #1)
The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster
Hampton Heights: One Harrowing Night in the Most Haunted Neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The Last Witch in Edinburgh
Greek Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook: From Aphrodite to Zeus, a Profile of Who's Who in Greek Mythology (World Mythology and Folklore Series)
The Gate, the Girl, and the Dragon
A Sweet Sting of Salt
The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters
The Morningside
Hollow: The Woman in White
The Morrigan
The Fox Maidens
Godfather Death
The Forbidden Book
Mere
A Crown So Silver (Fair Folk, #2)

Related Genres

Nonfiction
Mythology
Fairy Tales
Urban Legends

Quotes Tagged “Folklore”

Erin Forbes
“ Behind her gentle character, the strength of armor was found. ”
― Erin Forbes, Fire & Ice: The Kindred Woods
14 likes

Colin Thubron
“ Once, at the dreaming dawn of history -- before the world was categorized and regulated by mortal minds, before solid boundaries formed between the mortal world and any other -- fairies roamed freely among men, and the two races knew each other well. Yet the knowing was never straightforward, and the adventures that mortals and fairies had together were fraught with uncertainty, for fairies and humans were alien to each other. ”
― Colin Thubron, Fairies and Elves
3 likes

More quotes...

Videos Tagged “Folklore”

On a Wing and a Tear Road Trip
On a Wing and a Tear Road Trip
Extract from WHEN THE SPRING COMES: Prologue
Extract from WHEN THE SPRING COMES: Prologue
More videos...

Groups Tagged "Folklore"

swifties who also read join this if you love taylor swift and books -- Welcome to the group! This is your mod, Neena. T…more
46,371 members, last active an hour ago
book club gals!! we read!
7 members, last active 55 days ago
An online book club inspired by our Summer Reading Program's theme, "Imagine Your Story." Books …more
7 members, last active 5 years ago
Once Upon a Time... Exploring the magic and fantastical. We read traditional fairy tales, mythology, folklore, fract…more
434 members, last active 10 days ago