Fable

A fable is a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized (given human qualities such as verbal communication), and that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly in a pithy maxim. ...more

Animal Farm
The Alchemist
The Little Prince
The Lion and the Mouse
Fable (The World of the Narrows, #1)
Namesake (The World of the Narrows, #2)
Aesop’s Fables
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Fables
The Tortoise & the Hare
The Last Legacy (The World of the Narrows, #3)
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
The Giving Tree
Lousy Rotten Stinkin' Grapes
The Grasshopper & the Ants
Harry's Beast by Kat BaxterStranded in the Satyr’s Garden by Cia PetrichorThe Scoundrel and the Satyr King by Clio EvansEnticed by the Satyr by Evangeline AndersonMy Big Furry Alien Satyr by Skye MacKinnon
Satyr Romances
8 books — 3 voters
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson LevineRump by Liesl ShurtliffThe Robe of Skulls by Vivian FrenchOgre Enchanted by Gail Carson LevineFairest by Gail Carson Levine
#MGCarousel - Fairy Tales
34 books — 2 voters

Write Tight by William BrohaughThe Tree and the Mountain by Jonathan CaveHow to Write Short by Roy Peter ClarkTitle to Come by Kevin E. SpallGarner's Modern American Usage by Bryan A. Garner
Short Writing Trove
32 books — 4 voters
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-mi HwangThe Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Fable style wisdom novels
19 books — 11 voters

Frederick by Leo LionniThe Ant and the Grasshopper by Rebecca EmberleyWho's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? by Toni MorrisonThe Grasshopper's Song by Nikki GiovanniThe Grasshopper and the Ant at the End of the World by Benjamin Harper
The Ant and the Grasshopper retold
6 books — 3 voters
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienHarry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. LewisHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Magical Creatures
1,584 books — 864 voters

Jean de la Fontaine
Chain! Chain you! What! Run you not, then, just where you please, and when?” “Not always, sir; but what of that?” “Enough for me, to spoil your fat! It ought to be a precious price which could to servile chains entice; for me, I’ll shun them while I’ve wit.” So ran Sir Wolf, and runneth yet.
Jean de la Fontaine, Le loup dans les fables - La Fontaine - 2

Scott Bischke
Oh my God!” exclaimed Jessie the turtle, who alone immediately saw what the good doctor would say next. “And I am sad to say, my friends," concluded Doc Hansom the goatfish, "if the caulking seal breaks before the professor returns, the aquarium will likely drain and we will all die. ...more
Scott Bischke, FISH TANK: A Fable for Our Times

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