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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as fable)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,802,078 ratings — published 1945
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as fable)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,748,795 ratings — published 1988
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as fable)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,603,531 ratings — published 1943
The Lion and the Mouse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as fable)
avg rating 4.23 — 24,571 ratings — published 2009
Fable (The World of the Narrows, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as fable)
avg rating 3.99 — 120,768 ratings — published 2020
Namesake (The World of the Narrows, #2)
by (shelved 43 times as fable)
avg rating 4.01 — 71,682 ratings — published 2021
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as fable)
avg rating 4.05 — 131,029 ratings — published -560
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as fable)
avg rating 3.86 — 279,527 ratings — published 1970
Fables (Library Binding)
by (shelved 20 times as fable)
avg rating 4.15 — 8,897 ratings — published 1980
The Tortoise & the Hare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as fable)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,760 ratings — published 2013
The Giving Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as fable)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,263,649 ratings — published 1964
The Last Legacy (The World of the Narrows, #3)
by (shelved 17 times as fable)
avg rating 3.90 — 13,342 ratings — published 2021
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as fable)
avg rating 3.98 — 22,701 ratings — published 2000
Lousy Rotten Stinkin' Grapes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as fable)
avg rating 3.99 — 558 ratings — published 2009
The Grasshopper & the Ants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as fable)
avg rating 3.78 — 750 ratings — published 2015
The Wind in the Willows (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as fable)
avg rating 4.03 — 248,180 ratings — published 1908
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as fable)
avg rating 4.55 — 251,367 ratings — published 2019
Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as fable)
avg rating 4.10 — 514,778 ratings — published 1972
Saint (The World of the Narrows, #0)
by (shelved 12 times as fable)
avg rating 4.15 — 14,747 ratings — published 2022
The Buried Giant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as fable)
avg rating 3.59 — 128,191 ratings — published 2015
The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as fable)
avg rating 4.23 — 33,317 ratings — published 1996
The Time Keeper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as fable)
avg rating 3.90 — 126,395 ratings — published 2012
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as fable)
avg rating 4.32 — 55,741 ratings — published 2009
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as fable)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,004,942 ratings — published 2006
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as fable)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,787,007 ratings — published 2001
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as fable)
avg rating 4.23 — 223,589 ratings — published 1812
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as fable)
avg rating 4.13 — 133,766 ratings — published 2013
The Fate of Fausto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as fable)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,548 ratings — published 2019
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as fable)
avg rating 4.01 — 666,296 ratings — published 2013
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as fable)
avg rating 4.32 — 197,126 ratings — published 1989
The Tortoise and the Hare: An Aesop Fable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as fable)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,043 ratings — published 1984
Once a Mouse... (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as fable)
avg rating 3.78 — 3,140 ratings — published 1961
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as fable)
avg rating 3.99 — 452,761 ratings — published 1865
The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as fable)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,752 ratings — published 2017
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as fable)
avg rating 3.88 — 190,036 ratings — published 1996
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as fable)
avg rating 3.39 — 65,872 ratings — published 2010
Squids Will be Squids: Fresh Morals, Beastly Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as fable)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,283 ratings — published 1998
Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as fable)
avg rating 3.98 — 144,653 ratings — published 2002
Charlotte’s Web (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as fable)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,104,614 ratings — published 1952
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as fable)
avg rating 4.11 — 143,949 ratings — published 2002
The Mysteries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as fable)
avg rating 3.76 — 6,352 ratings — published 2023
The Tiger Who Would Be King (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as fable)
avg rating 3.59 — 279 ratings — published 2015
Fable: the Balverine Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as fable)
avg rating 3.73 — 911 ratings — published 2010
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as fable)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,226,120 ratings — published 1950
The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Hogwarts Library, #3)
by (shelved 8 times as fable)
avg rating 4.03 — 517,620 ratings — published 2008
Seven Blind Mice (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as fable)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,427 ratings — published 1992
The Thief of Always (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as fable)
avg rating 4.21 — 38,590 ratings — published 1992
The Snow Child (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as fable)
avg rating 4.02 — 182,769 ratings — published 2012
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as fable)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,374,242 ratings — published 1952
“In the specially Christian case we have to react against the heavy bias of fatigue. It is almost impossible to make the facts vivid, because the facts are familiar; and for fallen men it is often true that familiarity is fatigue. I am convinced that if we could tell the supernatural story of Christ word for word as of a Chinese hero, call him the Son of Heaven instead of the Son of God, and trace his rayed nimbus in the gold thread of Chinese embroideries or the gold lacquer of Chinese pottery, instead of in the gold leaf of our own old Catholic paintings, there would be a unanimous testimony to the spiritual purity of the story. We should hear nothing then of the injustice of substitution or the illogicality of atonement, of the superstitious exaggeration of the burden of sin or the impossible insolence of an invasion of the laws of nature. We should admire the chivalry of the Chinese conception of a god who fell from the sky to fight the dragons and save the wicked from being devoured by their own fault and folly. We should admire the subtlety of the Chinese view of life, which perceives that all human imperfection is in very truth a crying imperfection. We should admire the Chinese esoteric and superior wisdom, which said there are higher cosmic laws than the laws we know.”
― The Everlasting Man
― The Everlasting Man
“She whispered,
The fireflies came into my life just to dance. But they showed her something deeper.
They do not fight the dark. They accept the night as home and in that peace, they shine.
You do not have to escape the dark to glow. Your light is born within you.”
―
The fireflies came into my life just to dance. But they showed her something deeper.
They do not fight the dark. They accept the night as home and in that peace, they shine.
You do not have to escape the dark to glow. Your light is born within you.”
―
