69 books
—
30 voters
Tale Books
Showing 1-50 of 1,387
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as tale)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,457,282 ratings — published 1943
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as tale)
avg rating 4.27 — 946,057 ratings — published 1973
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as tale)
avg rating 4.05 — 82,876 ratings — published 1978
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as tale)
avg rating 3.51 — 682,081 ratings — published 1995
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as tale)
avg rating 4.23 — 220,964 ratings — published 1812
Stardust (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as tale)
avg rating 4.10 — 480,534 ratings — published 1999
Briar Rose (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as tale)
avg rating 3.79 — 15,063 ratings — published 1992
Spindle's End (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as tale)
avg rating 3.82 — 25,412 ratings — published 2000
Enchantment (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as tale)
avg rating 3.91 — 27,846 ratings — published 1999
Beastly (Beastly, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as tale)
avg rating 3.82 — 178,438 ratings — published 2007
The Goose Girl (The Books of Bayern, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as tale)
avg rating 4.15 — 148,293 ratings — published 2003
The Book of Lost Things (The Book of Lost Things, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as tale)
avg rating 3.96 — 85,557 ratings — published 2006
Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as tale)
avg rating 4.02 — 423,636 ratings — published 1997
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as tale)
avg rating 3.99 — 434,556 ratings — published 1865
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as tale)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,135,638 ratings — published 1950
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as tale)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,542,653 ratings — published 1988
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as tale)
avg rating 4.32 — 195,544 ratings — published 1989
Zel (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as tale)
avg rating 3.61 — 7,138 ratings — published 1996
Mirror Mirror (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as tale)
avg rating 3.29 — 32,027 ratings — published 2003
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,403,462 ratings — published 1985
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.09 — 931,550 ratings — published 1843
Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.04 — 19,266 ratings — published 2013
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,008,554 ratings — published 2012
The Little Match Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.10 — 28,803 ratings — published 1845
Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.28 — 444,686 ratings — published 1986
Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 3.99 — 22,625 ratings — published 2008
Princess Academy (Princess Academy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.04 — 121,843 ratings — published 2005
The Two Princesses of Bamarre (The Two Princesses of Bamarre, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.06 — 74,457 ratings — published 2001
Tithe (Modern Faerie Tales, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 3.69 — 106,856 ratings — published 2002
The Stolen Child (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 3.74 — 11,677 ratings — published 2006
The Door in the Hedge (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 3.71 — 9,946 ratings — published 1981
Wildwood Dancing (Wildwood, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.10 — 32,350 ratings — published 2006
The Tale of Despereaux (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.08 — 213,214 ratings — published 2003
Peter Pan (Peter Pan, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 4.03 — 373,243 ratings — published 1911
The Complete Fairy Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 4.29 — 108,478 ratings — published 1850
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 4.09 — 231,900 ratings — published 2017
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 4.06 — 607,325 ratings — published 1871
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,339,374 ratings — published 1997
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 4.10 — 342,384 ratings — published 2017
The Healer's Apprentice (Hagenheim, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 3.84 — 25,188 ratings — published 2010
The Arabian Nights (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 4.03 — 81,160 ratings — published 800
The Snow Child (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 4.02 — 172,300 ratings — published 2012
ماهی سیاه کوچولو (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 4.17 — 16,926 ratings — published 1968
Alice in Wonderland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 4.03 — 396,680 ratings — published 1865
The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Hogwarts Library, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 4.03 — 511,440 ratings — published 2008
A Kiss in Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 3.75 — 19,575 ratings — published 2008
Heart's Blood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,758 ratings — published 2009
“There is but one world and everything that is imaginable is necessary to it. For this world also which seems to us a thing of stone and flower and blood is not a thing at all but is a tale. And all in it is a tale and each tale the sum of all lesser tales and yet these are also the selfsame tale and contain as well all else within them. So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall. And those seams that are hid from us are of course in the tale itself and the tale has no abode or place of beind except in the telling only and there it lives and makes its home and therefore we can never be done with the telling. Of the telling there is no end. And . . . in whatever . . . place by whatever . . . name or by no name at all . . . all tales are one. Rightly heard all tales are one.”
― The Crossing
― The Crossing
“He took the note in his pocket, and the gift in his
heart. Then he closed the door.
Christmas was beginning.
(Il prit le mot dans sa poche, et le cadeau dans son
cœur. Puis il ferma la porte.
Noël commençait.)”
― Les contes de la nuit / The tales of the night: 50 contes / 50 tales
heart. Then he closed the door.
Christmas was beginning.
(Il prit le mot dans sa poche, et le cadeau dans son
cœur. Puis il ferma la porte.
Noël commençait.)”
― Les contes de la nuit / The tales of the night: 50 contes / 50 tales















