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
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson LevineRump by Liesl ShurtliffThe Robe of Skulls by Vivian FrenchOgre Enchanted by Gail Carson LevineFairest by Gail Carson Levine
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Aesop's Fables by AesopThe Tree and the Mountain by Jonathan CaveThe Wind and the Sun by Bernadette WattsFrederick by Leo LionniThe Tortoise and the Hare by Bernadette Watts
Aesop, Aesop's Fables and Retellings
60 books — 4 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienEast of Eden by John SteinbeckLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellIt by Stephen  King
Big Fat Reads Worth The Effort 2.0
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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

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
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Margaret Atwood
I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals.
Margaret Atwood, The Tent

Alberto Manguel
A Gentile met a rabbi and said to him, 'You have taught me many things but there is one thing in particular I want to learn very much but you do not wish to teach to me. I want you to teach me the Talmud.' The rabbi replied, 'You are a non-Jew and you have the brain of a non-Jew. There is no chance that you will succeed in understanding the Talmud.' But the Gentile continued in his attempt to persuade the rabbi to teach him the Talmud. Finally, the rabbi then said to the Gentile, 'I agree to tea ...more
Alberto Manguel, Maimonides: Faith in Reason

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