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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 334 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.23 — 219,793 ratings — published 1812
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 333 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.09 — 226,446 ratings — published 2017
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.05 — 128,913 ratings — published -560
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 339,766 ratings — published 2017
The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 159 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.35 — 109,115 ratings — published 2017
The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 137 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.49 — 86,922 ratings — published 2019
Uprooted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 258,715 ratings — published 2015
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,864 ratings — published 1888
American Gods (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 131 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 982,546 ratings — published 2001
Men and Monsters (Nightfall, #2)
by (shelved 122 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.40 — 556 ratings — published 2018
Spinning Silver (ebook)
by (shelved 112 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.18 — 147,478 ratings — published 2018
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
by (shelved 108 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.97 — 191,094 ratings — published 2023
Thistlefoot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.94 — 23,551 ratings — published 2022
The Arabian Nights (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.03 — 80,656 ratings — published 800
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.04 — 26,321 ratings — published 1975
The Complete Fairy Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.29 — 108,293 ratings — published 1850
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,299,557 ratings — published 2018
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.50 — 340,304 ratings — published 1000
Deathless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 22,622 ratings — published 2011
Italian Folktales (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,681 ratings — published 1956
Russian Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,664 ratings — published 1855
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
by (shelved 89 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.13 — 130,057 ratings — published 2013
The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,316 ratings — published 1893
The Mabinogion (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 86 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,481 ratings — published 1400
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.32 — 53,443 ratings — published 2009
Gods of Jade and Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.88 — 75,565 ratings — published 2019
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.06 — 18,492 ratings — published 1989
The Mitten (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.28 — 94,060 ratings — published 1989
Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,298 ratings — published 1973
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.11 — 92,134 ratings — published 1992
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,586 ratings — published 1911
American Indian Myths and Legends (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,385 ratings — published 1984
The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures (The World of Lore, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,636 ratings — published 2017
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.13 — 44,413 ratings — published 1949
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.35 — 20,952 ratings — published 1987
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.83 — 5,945 ratings — published 1904
The Skull (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 70 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,289 ratings — published 2023
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.09 — 90,954 ratings — published 2022
Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 70 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.78 — 3,238 ratings — published 2018
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,978 ratings — published 1835
The Golden Bough (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,645 ratings — published 1890
Perrault's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,102 ratings — published 1697
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.26 — 53,293 ratings — published 1988
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.91 — 63,738 ratings — published 1979
The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,776 ratings — published 2014
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.06 — 71,681 ratings — published 1981
The Lion and the Mouse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.23 — 24,379 ratings — published 2009
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,224 ratings — published 1975
Celtic Tales: Fairy Tales and Stories of Enchantment from Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and Wales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,409 ratings — published 2016
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,899,979 ratings — published 2011
“If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.”
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“Round these men stories tended to group themselves, sometimes deserting more ancient heroes for the purpose. Round poets have they gathered especially, for poetry in Ireland has always been mysteriously connected with magic.”
― Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
― Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
