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Fable Books
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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as fable)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,679,652 ratings — published 1945
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as fable)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,661,606 ratings — published 1988
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as fable)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,540,834 ratings — published 1943
The Lion and the Mouse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as fable)
avg rating 4.23 — 24,518 ratings — published 2009
Fable (The World of the Narrows, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as fable)
avg rating 4.00 — 118,496 ratings — published 2020
Namesake (The World of the Narrows, #2)
by (shelved 44 times as fable)
avg rating 4.01 — 70,243 ratings — published 2021
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as fable)
avg rating 4.05 — 130,463 ratings — published -560
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as fable)
avg rating 3.86 — 276,254 ratings — published 1970
Fables (Library Binding)
by (shelved 20 times as fable)
avg rating 4.15 — 8,855 ratings — published 1980
The Tortoise & the Hare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as fable)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,751 ratings — published 2013
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as fable)
avg rating 3.98 — 22,253 ratings — published 2000
The Giving Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as fable)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,250,456 ratings — published 1964
Lousy Rotten Stinkin' Grapes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as fable)
avg rating 3.99 — 558 ratings — published 2009
The Last Legacy (The World of the Narrows, #3)
by (shelved 16 times as fable)
avg rating 3.91 — 13,016 ratings — published 2021
The Grasshopper & the Ants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as fable)
avg rating 3.78 — 742 ratings — published 2015
Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as fable)
avg rating 4.09 — 510,296 ratings — published 1972
The Wind in the Willows (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as fable)
avg rating 4.02 — 244,570 ratings — published 1908
Saint (The World of the Narrows, #0)
by (shelved 12 times as fable)
avg rating 4.16 — 14,290 ratings — published 2022
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as fable)
avg rating 4.55 — 246,226 ratings — published 2019
The Buried Giant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as fable)
avg rating 3.59 — 125,262 ratings — published 2015
The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as fable)
avg rating 4.23 — 32,632 ratings — published 1996
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as fable)
avg rating 4.01 — 662,091 ratings — published 2013
The Time Keeper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as fable)
avg rating 3.90 — 124,543 ratings — published 2012
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as fable)
avg rating 4.32 — 55,050 ratings — published 2009
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as fable)
avg rating 4.16 — 986,959 ratings — published 2006
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as fable)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,770,559 ratings — published 2001
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as fable)
avg rating 4.23 — 222,583 ratings — published 1812
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as fable)
avg rating 4.13 — 132,526 ratings — published 2013
The Fate of Fausto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as fable)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,510 ratings — published 2019
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as fable)
avg rating 4.32 — 196,497 ratings — published 1989
Once a Mouse... (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as fable)
avg rating 3.78 — 3,133 ratings — published 1961
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as fable)
avg rating 3.99 — 445,132 ratings — published 1865
The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as fable)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,677 ratings — published 2017
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as fable)
avg rating 3.89 — 186,919 ratings — published 1996
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as fable)
avg rating 3.39 — 65,528 ratings — published 2010
Squids Will be Squids: Fresh Morals, Beastly Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as fable)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,280 ratings — published 1998
Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as fable)
avg rating 3.98 — 144,124 ratings — published 2002
Charlotte’s Web (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as fable)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,076,635 ratings — published 1952
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as fable)
avg rating 4.11 — 141,276 ratings — published 2002
The Mysteries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as fable)
avg rating 3.76 — 6,223 ratings — published 2023
The Tiger Who Would Be King (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as fable)
avg rating 3.59 — 278 ratings — published 2015
Fable: the Balverine Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as fable)
avg rating 3.74 — 900 ratings — published 2010
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as fable)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,190,796 ratings — published 1950
The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Hogwarts Library, #3)
by (shelved 8 times as fable)
avg rating 4.03 — 515,160 ratings — published 2008
Seven Blind Mice (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as fable)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,428 ratings — published 1992
The Thief of Always (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as fable)
avg rating 4.21 — 38,047 ratings — published 1992
The Snow Child (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as fable)
avg rating 4.02 — 180,026 ratings — published 2012
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as fable)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,343,004 ratings — published 1952
Town Mouse, Country Mouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as fable)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,769 ratings — published 1994
“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, instead of in the gold leaf of our own old Catholic paintings, there would be a unanimous testimony to the spiritual purity of the story. We should hear nothing then of the injustice of substitution or the illogicality of atonement, of the superstitious exaggeration of the burden of sin or the impossible insolence of an invasion of the laws of nature. We should admire the chivalry of the Chinese conception of a god who fell from the sky to fight the dragons and save the wicked from being devoured by their own fault and folly. We should admire the subtlety of the Chinese view of life, which perceives that all human imperfection is in very truth a crying imperfection. We should admire the Chinese esoteric and superior wisdom, which said there are higher cosmic laws than the laws we know.”
― The Everlasting Man
― The Everlasting Man
“And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away all this artificial scaffolding...
{Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823}”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
{Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823}”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
