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The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as tale)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,601,994 ratings — published 1943
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as tale)
avg rating 4.27 — 963,193 ratings — published 1973
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as tale)
avg rating 3.50 — 696,889 ratings — published 1995
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as tale)
avg rating 4.05 — 83,753 ratings — published 1978
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as tale)
avg rating 4.23 — 223,565 ratings — published 1812
Stardust (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as tale)
avg rating 4.09 — 488,816 ratings — published 1999
Briar Rose (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as tale)
avg rating 3.80 — 15,243 ratings — published 1992
Spindle's End (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as tale)
avg rating 3.82 — 25,693 ratings — published 2000
Enchantment (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as tale)
avg rating 3.92 — 28,083 ratings — published 1999
Beastly (Beastly, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as tale)
avg rating 3.82 — 178,789 ratings — published 2007
The Goose Girl (The Books of Bayern, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as tale)
avg rating 4.15 — 149,827 ratings — published 2003
The Book of Lost Things (The Book of Lost Things, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as tale)
avg rating 3.96 — 87,148 ratings — published 2006
Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as tale)
avg rating 4.02 — 427,376 ratings — published 1997
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as tale)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,555,908 ratings — published 1985
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as tale)
avg rating 3.99 — 452,584 ratings — published 1865
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as tale)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,225,266 ratings — published 1950
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as tale)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,746,735 ratings — published 1988
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as tale)
avg rating 4.32 — 197,110 ratings — published 1989
Zel (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as tale)
avg rating 3.61 — 7,180 ratings — published 1996
Mirror Mirror (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as tale)
avg rating 3.29 — 32,283 ratings — published 2003
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.06 — 623,244 ratings — published 1871
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.09 — 962,655 ratings — published 1843
Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.04 — 19,497 ratings — published 2013
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,034,953 ratings — published 2012
The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Hogwarts Library, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.03 — 517,574 ratings — published 2008
The Little Match Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.10 — 29,371 ratings — published 1845
Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.28 — 472,180 ratings — published 1986
Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 3.99 — 22,769 ratings — published 2008
Princess Academy (Princess Academy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.04 — 123,465 ratings — published 2005
The Two Princesses of Bamarre (The Two Princesses of Bamarre, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.06 — 75,061 ratings — published 2001
Tithe (Modern Faerie Tales, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 3.68 — 110,444 ratings — published 2002
The Stolen Child (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 3.74 — 11,735 ratings — published 2006
The Door in the Hedge (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 3.71 — 10,037 ratings — published 1981
Wildwood Dancing (Wildwood, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.10 — 33,058 ratings — published 2006
The Tale of Despereaux (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as tale)
avg rating 4.08 — 218,872 ratings — published 2003
What Once Was Mine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 3.90 — 19,950 ratings — published 2021
Reflection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 3.98 — 24,245 ratings — published 2018
Straight On Till Morning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 3.56 — 15,323 ratings — published 2020
As Old as Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 3.87 — 48,313 ratings — published 2016
Peter Pan (Peter Pan, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 4.03 — 379,090 ratings — published 1911
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 4.39 — 83,537 ratings — published 1944
The Complete Fairy Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 4.29 — 108,957 ratings — published 1850
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 4.08 — 245,069 ratings — published 2017
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,793,989 ratings — published 1997
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,033,265 ratings — published 1859
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 4.09 — 348,671 ratings — published 2017
Uprooted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as tale)
avg rating 4.01 — 273,331 ratings — published 2015
“And that’s how it is in this world, boy. Start a tale, just a little tale that should fade and die—take your eye off it for just a moment and when you turn back it’s grown big enough to grab you up in its teeth and shake you. That’s how it is. All our lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back and forth behind our days, but those tales grow too and shake us just as fierce.”
― Prince of Fools
― Prince of Fools
“The long rains were worse this year than most, and to get through the endless wet the ladies amused themselves day and night with illustrated tales.”
― The Tale of Genji
― The Tale of Genji
