Fairy Tales

Fairy tale is a type of short narrative that typically features such folkloric characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments. However, only a small number of the stories thus designated explicitly refer to fairies.

Fairy tales are high fantasy based on stories that are not only not true, but that couldn't possibly be true, while Legends are sometimes perceived as real or plausible. Fairy tales may merge into legends, where the narrative is perceived both by teller and hearers as being grounded in historical truth. However, unli
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The House Saphir
Seven Deadly Thorns
The Wolf and His King
Deadly Ever After
Never Ever After (Never Ever After, #1)
The Isle in the Silver Sea
Cinder House
Kill the Beast
The Changeling Queen
Huntsman (Hunted Kingdom, #1)
The Demon and the Light (The Floating World, #2)
F*cked Up Fairy Tales: Sinful Cinderellas, Prince Alarmings, and Other Timeless Classics
Witchkiller
Angelica and the Bear Prince
How to Survive a Fairy Bargain (Fairies and Familiars, #2)
Fairy Tale
Hansel and Gretel
Hemlock & Silver
A Sorceress Comes to Call
The Summer War
Cinder House
To Love a Beast (Once Upon a Time in Texas, #1)
A Curse of Shadows and Ice
A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)
Gilded (Gilded, #1)
The Prince and the Troll (Faraway Collection)
Never Ever After (Never Ever After, #1)
A Forgery of Fate
Grimm Curiosities
Cursed (Gilded, #2)
Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuireFifty Shades of Grey by E.L. JamesEasy by Tammara WebberThoughtless by S.C. StephensSlammed by Colleen Hoover
I AM IN LOVE !!!
4,387 books — 6,739 voters
American Gods by Neil GaimanDaughter of the Forest by Juliet MarillierGood Omens by Terry PratchettThe Once and Future King by T.H. WhiteElla Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Myth and Folktale Retellings
628 books — 580 voters

Winter by Marissa MeyerFairest by Marissa MeyerThe Wrath and the Dawn by Renée AhdiehCrimson Bound by Rosamund HodgeA Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston
2015 YA Fairy Tale Retellings
94 books — 379 voters
Cinder by Marissa MeyerElla Enchanted by Gail Carson LevineCress by Marissa MeyerScarlet by Marissa MeyerWinter by Marissa Meyer
Fairy tales & Retellings
636 books — 490 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinThe Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussMistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Best Fantasy World
1,646 books — 1,988 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyDaughter of the Forest by Juliet MarillierThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Best of Mythic Fiction
683 books — 709 voters

Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, #2)
Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3)
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4)
Uprooted
Spinning Silver
The Goose Girl (The Books of Bayern, #1)
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
Beastly (Beastly, #1)
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Mo Willems
If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.
Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

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