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 Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
The Giving Tree
Lousy Rotten Stinkin' Grapes
The Last Legacy (The World of the Narrows, #3)
The Grasshopper & the Ants
Halo by Eric S. NylundRenaissance by Oliver BowdenBioShock by John ShirleyThe Secret Crusade by Oliver BowdenHalo by Eric S. Nylund
Video Game Tie-In Novels & Comics
345 books — 327 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

Voyager by Nona Fernández
Letradas & Rebeldes Book Club
1 book — 1 voter
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. LewisThe Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Magical Creatures
1,580 books — 861 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 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

Christopher Hitchens
The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness).
Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

G.K. Chesterton
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, ...more
G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

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