Genres > Fairy Tales

Princesses

Books that involves princesses (usually as protagonists).

Most Read This Week Tagged "Princesses"

Royally Rearranged (Sweet Royal RomCom, #1)

The Princess in Black and the Mermaid Princess

The Quarantine Princess Diaries (The Princess Diaries, #12)

The Mystery Princess (Return to the Four Kingdoms, #2)

Fortress of Snow (The Dericott Tales, #4)

The Princess in Black and the Prince in Pink

계모인데, 딸이 너무 귀여워 2 [Gyemoinde, Ddar'i Neomu Gwiyeowo 2]

Prince of Thorns & Nightmares (Prince, #2)

악당의 아빠를 꼬셔라 1 (Flirting with the Villain's Dad, Vol. 1)

Winter's Captive (The Lochlann Treaty, #1)

More most read this week tagged "princesses"...

Lists

Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier

The Wild Swans/The Six Swans Retellings

55 books — 63 voters

2015 YA Fairy Tale Retellings

94 books — 379 voters

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Modern Royal Romances

100 books — 117 voters

The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir

Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie

The Children of Henry VIII by Alison Weir

Of Kings and Queens

477 books — 202 voters

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling

The 52 Book Club 2026: #50 - Set In A Castle

193 books — 137 voters

The Warrior's Path by Catherine M. Wilson

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

F/F in Fantasy

130 books — 77 voters

Related Genres

Fantasy
Fairy Tales
Ｆａｎｔａｓｙ
ℱantasy
Fañtasy

Featured News & Interviews

New Voices Alert! 51 New & Upcoming Debut Novels

Read »

“ One day [the prince] lost sight of his retinue in a great forest. These forests are very useful in delivering princes from their courtiers, like a sieve that keeps back the bran. Then the princes get away to follow their fortunes. In this they have the advantage of the princesses, who are forced to marry before they have had a bit of fun. I wish our princesses got lost in a forest sometimes. ”
― George MacDonald, The Light Princess

14 likes

“ Girls without their fathers were also at risk. I didn't learn this from the fairy tales of my youth, because in those stories the fathers were present in the castles and in the cottages. The fairy-tale fathers, however, were unforgivably weak and always thinking with their groins. These men would rather sacrifice their daughters than risk harm to themselves. Rapunzel's father loved her mother so much that he stole for the woman. When he was caught, he was a coward, and instead of paying with his Girls without their fathers were also at risk. I didn't learn this from the fairy tales of my youth, because in those stories the fathers were present in the castles and in the cottages. The fairy-tale fathers, however, were unforgivably weak and always thinking with their groins. These men would rather sacrifice their daughters than risk harm to themselves. Rapunzel's father loved her mother so much that he stole for the woman. When he was caught, he was a coward, and instead of paying with his own life he promised away their unborn child. Gretel was very much alive, as was her brother, Hansel, when their father tried to do away with them. Three times he tried. ("Abandonment in the forest" was a bloodless euphemism for attempted murder.) Of course, there was Beauty. Was she not the poster child for daughters of men who dodged their responsibilities and used their female offspring as human shields? Fairy-tale fathers were also criminally negligent. Where was Cinderella's father when she was being verbally abused and physically demeaned by her stepmother and stepsisters? Perhaps he was so besotted, his wits so dulled by his nightly copulation with his new wife, that he failed to notice the degraded condition of his daughter. Snow White's father, a king no less, was equally negligent and plainly without any power within his own domestic realm. Under his very roof, his new wife plotted the murder of his child, coerced one of his own huntsmen to carry out the deed, then ate what she thought was the girl's heart. This king was no king. He was a fool who left his daughter woefully unprotected. When I first heard these stories, I assigned to these men no blame because they worry the solemn and adored mantle of "father." I understood them to be, like my own father, men who went to work every day, who returned home exhausted and taciturn, and who fell asleep in their easy chairs while reading the newspaper. I assumed that they, like my father, would have protected their daughters if only they had known of the dangers their girls faced during those dark hours after school and before dinner. ...more ”
― Monique Truong, Bitter in the Mouth

0 likes

More quotes...