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American Folklore Books
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Seventh Son (Tales of Alvin Maker, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as american-folklore)
avg rating 3.88 — 37,691 ratings — published 1987
The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as american-folklore)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,574 ratings — published 1989
Scary Stories Treasury (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as american-folklore)
avg rating 4.31 — 11,470 ratings — published 1981
Summerland (Library Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as american-folklore)
avg rating 3.57 — 12,756 ratings — published 2002
Paul Bunyan's Lawsuit: The Bureau of Impossible Things: Book Five (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Monster Slayer: A Navajo Folktale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 4.00 — 30 ratings — published 1991
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 3.77 — 157,869 ratings — published 1820
Day of the Dead: Illustrated history of Día de los Muertos traditions across Mexico and beyond. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 3.71 — 7 ratings — published
Chasing North American Monsters: A Guide to Over 250 Creatures from Greenland to Guatemala (Chasing Monsters, 2)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 3.92 — 13 ratings — published
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,275 ratings — published 1897
American Indian Myths and Legends (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,438 ratings — published 1984
A Treasury of American Folklore (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 4.23 — 82 ratings — published
Latin American Folktales (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 3.75 — 252 ratings — published 2001
The Courtship Of Miles Standish (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 3.66 — 516 ratings — published 1858
Wenjack (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 4.27 — 7,216 ratings — published 2016
The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,074 ratings — published 1981
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (Never Whistle at Night, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 3.84 — 34,968 ratings — published 2023
Here's Audacity: American Legendary Heroes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1911
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 4.39 — 635 ratings — published 1995
The Penguin Dictionary of American Folklore (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 3.85 — 13 ratings — published 2000
The American Songbag (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 4.47 — 66 ratings — published 1927
Gingerbread for Liberty!: How a German Baker Helped Win the American Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 3.99 — 991 ratings — published 2015
The Girl Who Helped Thunder and Other Native American Folktales (Folktales of the World)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 4.15 — 241 ratings — published 2008
From Sea to Shining Sea: A Treasury of American Folklore and Folk Songs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 4.22 — 114 ratings — published 1993
The Many Lives of Benjamin Franklin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 4.08 — 24 ratings — published 1988
Passing Strange: True Tales of New England Hauntings and Horrors – Well-Documented Ghost Stories from America's Darkest Hills and Coasts (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 325 ratings — published 1996
Native American Legends: Southeastern Legends -- Tales from the Natchez, Caddo, Biloxi, Chickasaw, and Other Nations (American Folklore Series)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 3.94 — 35 ratings — published 1955
Snakebite (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 3.55 — 11 ratings — published 1991
Flatlanders and Ridgerunners: Folktales from the Mountains of Northern Pennsylvania (Regional)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 4.14 — 44 ratings — published 1983
Black Woods Blue Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 3.72 — 24,465 ratings — published 2025
American Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,789 ratings — published 1901
American Folklore and Legend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 3.91 — 149 ratings — published 1981
Little Gold Star: A Spanish American Cinderella Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 3.87 — 357 ratings — published 2000
Appalachian Folklore Unveiled: Mysterious Happenings of Folk Spirits and Mystic Shades from the Ancient Foothills (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 3.16 — 231 ratings — published 2024
Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 4.15 — 13 ratings — published
The Annotated African American Folktales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 4.54 — 162 ratings — published 2017
Afro-American Folktales (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 4.00 — 120 ratings — published 1985
New England Legends & Folklore (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 3.46 — 71 ratings — published 1901
Every Tongue Got to Confess (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 3.99 — 793 ratings — published 2001
Legends and Tales of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 3.71 — 75 ratings — published 1991
Haunted Places: The National Directory: Ghostly Abodes, Sacred Sites, UFO Landings and Other Supernatural Locations (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 4.22 — 343 ratings — published 1994
Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 4.34 — 263 ratings — published 1995
The Mansion (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,437 ratings — published 1887
Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 3.68 — 60 ratings — published 1917
Native American Stories for Kids: 12 Traditional Stories from Indigenous Tribes Across North America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 4.18 — 158 ratings — published
Arizona Legends and Lore: Tales of Southwestern Pioneers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 4.00 — 26 ratings — published 1991
Native American Stories: Told by Joseph Bruchac (Myths and Legends)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 4.01 — 103 ratings — published 1991
Navajo Legends (Leveled Reader Library)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Long Ago Told Legends of the Papago Indians (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as american-folklore)
avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published 1929
