Prompts

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

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 • 563 Readers • 480 pages 4.2

Cinder

#1 of 4 in The Lunar Chronicles

2011 • 749 Readers • 448 pages 4

Uprooted

2015 • 672 Readers • 448 pages 4

A Spindle Splintered

#1 of 2 in Fractured Fables

2021 • 196 Readers • 128 pages 3.7

A Mirror Mended

#2 of 2 in Fractured Fables

2022 • 90 Readers • 144 pages 3.8

Sisters Red

#1 of 2 in Fairytale Retellings

2010 • 41 Readers • 328 pages 3.5

Spindle's End

#3 of 3 in Folktales

2002 • 43 Readers • 434 pages 4

Stain

2019 • 27 Readers • 512 pages

The Sleeper and the Spindle

2013 • 138 Readers • 72 pages 3.8

Stardust

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

1997 • 850 Readers 4

Splintered

#1 of 3 in Splintered

2013 • 80 Readers • 384 pages 3.9

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

1999 • 53 Readers • 368 pages 3.3