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)
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
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YA Modern Retellings
429 books — 823 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)
Cruel Beauty

G.K. Chesterton
If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.
G.K. Chesterton

Did I ever tell you the difference between a Northern fairy tale and a Southern one?" she asked him, indulging herself and letting her head rest on his shoulder. God, he felt good. Her man. Where her head was meant to lie, right there, on him. "What's the difference?" "A Northern one starts 'once upon a time,' while a Southern one starts 'y'all ain't going to believe this shit. ...more
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