Prompts

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

By
@EsmeWeatherwax
Esme

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 • 957 Readers • 480 pages • 4.2

Cinder

#1 of 5 in The Lunar Chronicles

2011 • 1,282 Readers • 448 pages • 4

Uprooted

2015 • 1,222 Readers • 438 pages • 4

A Spindle Splintered

#1 of 2 in Fractured Fables

2021 • 340 Readers • 128 pages • 3.7

A Mirror Mended

#2 of 2 in Fractured Fables

2022 • 136 Readers • 144 pages • 3.8

Sisters Red

#1 of 3 in Fairytale Retellings

2010 • 71 Readers • 328 pages • 3.4

Spindle's End

#3 of 3 in Folktales

2002 • 81 Readers • 434 pages • 4

Stain

2019 • 50 Readers • 512 pages

The Sleeper and the Spindle

2013 • 236 Readers • 72 pages • 3.9

Stardust

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

1997 • 1,490 Readers • 248 pages • 4

Splintered

#1 of 3 in Splintered

2013 • 150 Readers • 384 pages • 3.8

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

1999 • 98 Readers • 372 pages • 3.5