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The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as tale)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,624,762 ratings — published 1943
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as tale)
avg rating 4.27 — 965,736 ratings — published 1973
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as tale)
avg rating 4.05 — 83,881 ratings — published 1978
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as tale)
avg rating 3.50 — 698,224 ratings — published 1995
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as tale)
avg rating 4.23 — 224,030 ratings — published 1812
Stardust (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as tale)
avg rating 4.09 — 490,141 ratings — published 1999
Briar Rose (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as tale)
avg rating 3.80 — 15,263 ratings — published 1992
Spindle's End (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as tale)
avg rating 3.82 — 25,750 ratings — published 2000
Enchantment (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as tale)
avg rating 3.92 — 28,112 ratings — published 1999
Beastly (Beastly, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as tale)
avg rating 3.82 — 178,843 ratings — published 2007
The Goose Girl (The Books of Bayern, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as tale)
avg rating 4.15 — 150,067 ratings — published 2003
The Book of Lost Things (The Book of Lost Things, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as tale)
avg rating 3.96 — 87,508 ratings — published 2006
Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as tale)
avg rating 4.02 — 427,956 ratings — published 1997
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as tale)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,579,031 ratings — published 1985
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as tale)
avg rating 3.99 — 455,587 ratings — published 1865
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as tale)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,239,473 ratings — published 1950
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as tale)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,777,123 ratings — published 1988
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as tale)
avg rating 4.32 — 197,297 ratings — published 1989
Zel (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as tale)
avg rating 3.61 — 7,189 ratings — published 1996
Mirror Mirror (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as tale)
avg rating 3.30 — 32,320 ratings — published 2003
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.06 — 625,683 ratings — published 1871
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,037,531 ratings — published 1859
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.09 — 966,541 ratings — published 1843
Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.04 — 19,513 ratings — published 2013
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,038,872 ratings — published 2012
The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Hogwarts Library, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.03 — 518,737 ratings — published 2008
The Little Match Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.10 — 29,443 ratings — published 1845
Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.28 — 477,785 ratings — published 1986
Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 3.99 — 22,787 ratings — published 2008
Princess Academy (Princess Academy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.04 — 123,684 ratings — published 2005
The Two Princesses of Bamarre (The Two Princesses of Bamarre, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.06 — 75,153 ratings — published 2001
Tithe (Modern Faerie Tales, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 3.68 — 110,969 ratings — published 2002
The Stolen Child (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 3.74 — 11,748 ratings — published 2006
The Door in the Hedge (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 3.71 — 10,052 ratings — published 1981
Wildwood Dancing (Wildwood, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.10 — 33,176 ratings — published 2006
The Tale of Despereaux (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.08 — 219,827 ratings — published 2003
Peter Pan (Peter Pan, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 4.03 — 380,159 ratings — published 1911
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 4.39 — 84,444 ratings — published 1944
The Complete Fairy Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 4.29 — 109,222 ratings — published 1850
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 4.08 — 246,596 ratings — published 2017
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,880,805 ratings — published 1997
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 4.09 — 349,722 ratings — published 2017
Uprooted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 4.01 — 274,965 ratings — published 2015
Fairest (The Lunar Chronicles, #3.5)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 3.93 — 159,864 ratings — published 2015
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,652,643 ratings — published 2015
The Healer's Apprentice (Hagenheim, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 3.85 — 26,268 ratings — published 2010
The Arabian Nights (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 4.02 — 83,758 ratings — published 800
“We shouldn't be here at all, if we'd known more about it before we started. But I suppose it's often that way. The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: adventures, as I used to call them. I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and looked for, because they wanted them, because they were exciting and life was a bit dull, a kind of a sport, as you might say. But that's not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have been just landed in them, usually — their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn't. And if they had, we shouldn't know, because they'd have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on — and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end. You know, coming home, and finding things all right, though not quite the same — like old Mr Bilbo. But those aren't always the best tales to hear, though they may be the best tales to get landed in! I wonder what sort of a tale we've fallen into?”
― The Two Towers
― The Two Towers
“The long rains were worse this year than most, and to get through the endless wet the ladies amused themselves day and night with illustrated tales.”
― The Tale of Genji
― The Tale of Genji
