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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 363 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.23 — 223,746 ratings — published 1812
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 362 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.08 — 245,718 ratings — published 2017
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.05 — 131,109 ratings — published -560
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.09 — 349,156 ratings — published 2017
The Girl in the Tower (Winternight Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 169 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.35 — 117,371 ratings — published 2017
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 152 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,177 ratings — published 1888
Uprooted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 145 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.01 — 274,061 ratings — published 2015
The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 140 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.48 — 93,888 ratings — published 2019
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
by (shelved 135 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.95 — 239,567 ratings — published 2023
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 133 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,005,592 ratings — published 2001
Men and Monsters (Nightfall, #2)
by (shelved 123 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.39 — 557 ratings — published 2018
Spinning Silver (ebook)
by (shelved 119 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.17 — 159,054 ratings — published 2018
Thistlefoot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 26,038 ratings — published 2022
The Arabian Nights (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 83,758 ratings — published 800
The Complete Fairy Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.29 — 108,993 ratings — published 1850
Italian Folktales: The Literary Collection of Two Hundred Classic Tales and Traditional Italian Folklore (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,828 ratings — published 1956
Deathless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.92 — 23,590 ratings — published 2011
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.51 — 357,312 ratings — published 950
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,480,072 ratings — published 2018
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.05 — 26,393 ratings — published 1975
Russian Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,725 ratings — published 1855
The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,437 ratings — published 1893
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
by (shelved 94 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.13 — 133,964 ratings — published 2013
The Swan Lake Murders (Mary Wandwalker #4)
by (shelved 93 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,640 ratings — published
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 103,142 ratings — published 1992
The Mabinogion (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.92 — 8,912 ratings — published 1200
Gods of Jade and Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.87 — 80,985 ratings — published 2019
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.32 — 55,835 ratings — published 2009
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.06 — 18,708 ratings — published 1989
The Mitten (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.28 — 95,308 ratings — published 1989
The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures (The World of Lore, #1)
by (shelved 80 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,919 ratings — published 2017
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.07 — 103,601 ratings — published 2022
Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 78 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,415 ratings — published 2018
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.89 — 67,626 ratings — published 1979
Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,386 ratings — published 1973
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,621 ratings — published 1911
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.81 — 6,498 ratings — published 1904
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,357 ratings — published 1949
American Indian Myths and Legends (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,443 ratings — published 1984
The Skull (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 74 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.14 — 17,695 ratings — published 2023
Where the Dark Stands Still (ebook)
by (shelved 73 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.03 — 34,335 ratings — published 2024
The Fox Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.97 — 34,572 ratings — published 2024
The Golden Bough (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,839 ratings — published 1890
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,313 ratings — published 1835
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.76 — 124,543 ratings — published -1800
Perrault's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.09 — 15,423 ratings — published 1697
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.35 — 21,119 ratings — published 1987
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.19 — 129,150 ratings — published 2021
Celtic Tales: Fairy Tales and Stories of Enchantment from Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and Wales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,566 ratings — published 2016
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.26 — 54,728 ratings — published 1988
“Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.”
― A Feast for Crows
― A Feast for Crows
“Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because there is reality and we can write reality because there is fiction; everything we consider today to be myth and legend, our ancestors believed to be history and everything in our history includes myths and legends. Before the splendid modern-day mind was formed our cultures and civilizations were conceived in the wombs of, and born of, what we identify today as "fiction, unreality, myth, legend, fantasy, folklore, imaginations, fabrications and tall tales." And in our suddenly realized glory of all our modern-day "advancements" we somehow fail to ask ourselves the question "Who designated myths and legends as unreality? " But I ask myself this question because who decided that he was spectacular enough to stand up and say to our ancestors "You were all stupid and disillusioned and imagining things" and then why did we all decide to believe this person? There are many realities not just one. There is a truth that goes far beyond what we are told today to believe in. And we find that truth when we are brave enough to break away from what keeps everybody else feeling comfortable. Your reality is what you believe in. And nobody should be able to tell you to believe otherwise.”
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