Prompts

What are your favorite books that are inspired by fairy tales?

By
@EsmeWeatherwax
EsmeSupporter

Looking for both old and new. Things like The Crane Husband, A Study in Drowning, In the House in the Dark of the Woods, and all the Tolkien ouevre.

Spinning Silver

2018 • 795 Readers • 480 pages • 4.2

Cinder

#1 of 4 in The Lunar Chronicles

2011 • 1,071 Readers • 448 pages • 4

Uprooted

2015 • 955 Readers • 448 pages • 4

A Spindle Splintered

#1 of 2 in Fractured Fables

2021 • 278 Readers • 128 pages • 3.7

A Mirror Mended

#2 of 2 in Fractured Fables

2022 • 117 Readers • 144 pages • 3.7

Sisters Red

#1 of 3 in Fairytale Retellings

2010 • 41 Readers • 328 pages • 3.5

Spindle's End

#3 of 3 in Folktales

2002 • 63 Readers • 434 pages • 4

Stain

2019 • 40 Readers • 512 pages

The Sleeper and the Spindle

2013 • 190 Readers • 72 pages • 3.9

Stardust

#1 of 1 in Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' Stardust

1997 • 1,203 Readers • 248 pages • 4

Splintered

#1 of 3 in Splintered

2013 • 120 Readers • 384 pages • 3.7

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

1999 • 82 Readers • 368 pages • 3.4