The Fairy Tale Series edited by Terri Windling
The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars Steven Brust
The Nightingale Kara Dalkey
Tam Lin Pamela Dean
Jack the Giant-Killer Charles de Lint
Fitcher’s Brides Gregory Frost
White as Snow Tanith Lee
Snow White and Rose Red Patricia C. Wrede
Briar Rose Jane Yolen
Margaret Atwood
The Robber Bride
The Penelopiad
Bluebeard’s Egg
Mercedes Lackey
The Black Swan (Swan Lake)
Firebird
Elemental Masters series
The Fire Rose (Beauty and the Beast)
Gates of Sleep (Sleeping Beauty)
Phoenix and Ashes (Cinderella)
Reserved for the Cat (Puss in Boots)
The Serpent’s Shadow (Snow White)
500 Kingdoms series
The Fairy Godmother (Mixed)
Fortune’s Fool (Little Mermaid, Basilisk)
One Good Knight (St. George, Perseus)
The Snow Queen
The Sleeping Beauty
Beauty and the Werewolf
Gregory Maguire
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Wizard of Oz)
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister: A Novel (Cinderella)
Mirror Mirror: A Novel (Snow White)
Lost: A Novel (Peter Pan and others)
The Dream Stealer (Vasilisa the Beautiful)
Matchless: An Illumination of Hans Christian Andersen’s Classic “The Little Match Girl”
Julliet Marillier (all this author’s books are heavier with fairytale tropes than most fantasy)
Daughter of the Forest (Wild Swans)
Heir to Sevenwaters (Fairy Rescue)
Seer of Sevenwaters (Selkie)
Wolfskin (The Singing Bones)
Wildwood Dancing (Dancing Princesses/Frog Prince)
Heart’s Blood (Beauty and the Beast)
Dennis L. McKiernan
Once Upon a Winter’s Night (East o’ the Sun)
Once Upon a Summer Day (Sleeping Beauty)
Once Upon an Autumn Eve (Fairy Rescue, Glass Mountain)
Once Upon a Spring Morn (Childe Roland and others)
Once Upon a Dreadful Time
Robin McKinley
Beauty (Beauty and the Beast)
Deerskin
Rose Daughter (Beauty and the Beast)
The Door in the Hedge (Fairy Rescue)
Spindle’s End (Sleeping Beauty)
John Moore
The Unhandsome Prince (The Frog Prince and others)
Heroics for Beginners (Evil Overlord clichés)
A Fate Worse than Dragons (St. George)
Bad Prince Charlie (politics)
Slay and Rescue (mixed)
Terry Pratchett
Wyrd Sisters (Hamlet/Macbeth)
Witches Abroad (Cinderella and others)
Lords and Ladies (Fairy Rescue)
Jim C. Hines
The Stepsister Scheme (Cinderella)
The Mermaid’s Madness (Little Mermaid)
Red Hood’s Revenge
The Snow Queen’s Shadow
Josepha Sherman
The Shining Falcon (Russian tale Finist the Falcon)
King’s Son, Magic’s Son (Child ballad King Estmere)
Serena Valentino
Fairest of All
The Beast Within
Poor Unfortunate Soul
Mistress of all Evil
Mother Knows Best: A Tale of the Old Witch
The Odd Sisters: A Villains Novel
Evil Thing: A Tale of that De Vil Woman
Sarah Henning
Sea Witch
Sea Witch Rising
Stand Alone Novels:
Till We Have Faces (Cupid and Psyche) C.S. Lewis
Enchantment (Sleeping Beauty, Baba Yaga) Orson Scott Card
The Wild Swans Pegg Kerr
Thomas the Rhymer Ellen Kushner
Other Voices, Other Rooms Truman Capote (Snow Queen)
Beauty Sherri S. Tepper (Sleeping Beauty and others)
Bluebeard Kurt Vonnegut
The Evil Queen Gena Showalter
A Kingdom Far and Clear: The Complete Swan Lake Trilogy Mark Helprin
Do With Me What You Will Joyce Carol Oates (The Armless Maiden)
Sleeping in Flame (Rumpelstiltskin) Jonathan Carroll
Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming (Sleeping Beauty) Roger Zelazny
Solstice Wood (Fairy Rescue) Patricia A. McKillip
Roses (Beauty and the Beast) Barbara Cohen
Silver Woven in My Hair (Cinderella) Shirley Rousseau Murphy
The Swan Maiden Heather Tomlinson
The Previously Untold Story of the Previously Unknown 8th Dwarf Michael Mullin
Red Riding Hood Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
Cloaked Alex Flinn
The Robber Bridegroom by Eudora Welty
Silverweed: A Supernatural Fairy Tale Dorlana Vann
Stone Prison (Twisted Tales #1) H.M. Ward
The Cracked Slipper Stephanie Alexander
The Phoenix Dance Dia Calhoun
The Ugly Duckling Iris Johansen (thriller)
Short Fiction Collections
Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, editors (Snow White, Blood Red series)
Snow White, Blood Red
Black Thorn, White Rose
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears
Black Swan, White Raven
Silver Birch, Blood Moon
Black Heart, Ivory Bones
Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, editors (Children’s Collections)
A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest
Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold
Troll’s-Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales
The Faery Reel
The Coyote Road
The Beastly Bride
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories Angela Carter
Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins Emma Donoghue
Truly Grim Tales Priscilla Galloway
Little Red Riding Hood in the Big Bad City Martin H. Greenberg and John Helfers, eds.
Feminist Fairy Tales Barbara G. Walker
Tales From the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird Vivian Vande Velde and Brad Weinman
Once Upon a Time (She Said) Jane Yolen
Red as Blood: Or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer Tanith Lee
Can’t Catch Me and Other Twice-Told Tales Michael Cadnum
Harrowing the Dragon Patricia A. McKillip
The Rose and the Beast Francesca Lia Block
Once Upon A Crime Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, eds.
Twice Upon A Time Denise Little, ed.
The Armless Maiden: And Other Tales for Childhood’s Survivors Terri Windling
Don’t Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales Jack Zipes
Grimm Tales Made Gay Guy Wetmore
Legally Correct Fairy Tales David Fisher
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life and Times James Finn Garner
Once Upon a More Enchanted Time James Finn Garner
Leaping Beauty: And Other Animal Fairy Tales Gregory Maguire
Goldilocks on Management: 27 Revisionist Fairy Tales for Serious Managers Gloria Gilbert Mayer and Thomas Mayer.
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales Kate Bernheimer
Red Ridin’ in the Hood: and Other Cuentos Patricia Santos Marcantonio
Fractured Fairy Tales A.J. Jacobs
Black Pearls: A Faerie Strand Louise Hawes
Once upon a Galaxy Martin H. Greenberg
Terribly Twisted Tales by Martin H. Greenberg
Poetry
Some poems can be found in the Snow White, Blood Red Series, Xanadu series, and other anthologies.
Try Also:
The Poets’ Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales Jeanne Marie Beaumont and Claudia Carlson, eds.
Transformations Anne Sexton
Disenchantments: An Anthology of Modern Fairy Tale Poetry Wolfgang Mieder, ed.
The Animal Bridegroom Sandra Kasturi
Children’s and YA Books
Toads and Diamonds Heather Tomlinson
Beastly Alex Flinn
Breadcrumbs (Snow Queen) Anne Ursu
Except the Queen Jane Yolen and Midori Snyder
Quiver (Atlanta) Stephanie Spinner
East (East of the Sun, West of the Moon) Edith Pattou
Orfe Cynthia Voight
Cinder & Ella Melissa Lemon
Sisters Red Jackson Pearce (Red Riding Hood)
I Was a Rat! Philip Pullman
Bella at Midnight Diane Stanley
Just Ella Margaret Peterson Haddix
Cinderella (As If You Didn’t Already Know the Story) Barbara Ensor
Cinderella’s Secret Diary (Book 1: Lost) Ron Vitale
The Cinderella Deal Jennifer Crusie
The Cinderella Society Kay Cassidy
Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story by Carolyn Turgeon
Red Riding Hood Sarah Blakley-Cartwright and David Leslie Johnson
An Undone Fairy Tale Ian Lendler
The Swan Kingdom by Zoë Marriott
Princess of the Wild Swans by Diane Zahler and Yvonne Gilbert
Entwined (Twelve Dancing Princesses) Heather Dixon
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel: A Novel of War and Survival Louise Murphy
Half Upon a Time (Jack and the Beanstalk) James Riley
A Tale Dark and Grimm (Hansel and Gretel) Adam Gidwitz
Shadow Spinner (Arabian Nights) Susan Fletcher
Straw into Gold Gary D. Schmidt
The Perilous Gard (Tam Lin) Elizabeth Marie Pope
The Grimm Legacy by Polly Shulman
An Earthly Knight Janet McNaughton (Tam Lin)
Avalon High Meg Cabot (King Arthur)
Just Ella and Palace of Mirrors
Ice Sarah Beth Durst
Birdwing Rafe Martin (Six Swans)
Cloaked in Red and The Rumpelstiltskin Problem Vivian Vande Velde
The Wide-Awake Princess E.D. Baker
The Princes of Tangleforest Dorlana Vann
Entwined Heather Dixon (12 Dancing Princesses)
Shadow Spinner Susan Fletcher (Scheherazade)
Rapunzel’s Revenge Dean Hale and Shannon Hale
Beastly and A Kiss in Time by Alex Flinn
Not So Snow White K. Sean Jennkris
Fair Peril Nancy Springer (Frog Prince)
The Swan Kingdom Zoë Marriott (Six Swans)
A Long, Long Sleep Anna Sheehan
Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story Carolyn Turgeon
Keturah and Lord Death Martine Leavitt
Sleeping Ugly Jane Yolen
The Witch’s Boy Michael Gruber (mixed)
Ember Bettie Sharpe
Mermaid: A Twist on the Classic Tale Carolyn Turgeon
If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where’s My Prince? Melissa Kantor
Breadcrumbs Anne Ursu (Snow Queen)
The Amaranth Enchantment Julie Berry (Cinderella)
Goose Chase Patrice Kindl (Goose Girl)
Into The Wild Sarah Beth Durst (various)
The Ordinary Princess MM Kaye (various)
Alex O’Donnell and the 40 CyberThieves
Seven Tears into the Sea Terri Farley (selkie)
Franny Billingsley
The Folk Keeper (selkie)
Chime (various)
Well Wished (Pied Piper)
Patricia Wrede
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
Michael Buckley and Peter Ferguson
The Sisters Grimm series
- W. Catanese
The Further Adventures Tales
Teresa Medeiros
Fairy Tales
Wendy Mass
Twice Upon a Time series
Jasper Fforde
Nursery Crime
Adele Geras
The Egerton Hall Novels
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
The Godmother
Adam Gidwitz
A Tale Dark and Grimm
Cornelia Funke
Reckless
Jackson Pearce
Fairytale Retellings
Adeline Yen Mah
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
Along the River: A Chinese Cinderella Novel
Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society
Laura Briggs and Sarah Steinbrenner
First Bite
Gingerbread House
The Fairy Godmother’s Apprentice
Janette Rallison
My Fair Godmother
Maureen McGowan
Cinderella: Ninja Warrior
Sleeping Beauty: Vampire Slayer
Marissa Meyer
Cinder: Book One in the Lunar Chronicles
Regina Doman
Black as Night (Snow White)
The Shadow of the Bear (Snow White and Rose Red)
Waking Rose
Brandon Mull
Fablehaven
Simon Pulse
Once Upon a Time Series:
Before Midnight: A Retelling of “Cinderella” by Cameron Dokey
Belle: A Retelling of “Beauty and the Beast” by Cameron Dokey
Golden: A Retelling of “Rapunzel” by Cameron Dokey
Beauty Sleep: A Retelling of “Sleeping Beauty” by Cameron Dokey
Sunlight and Shadow (The Magic Flute) by Cameron Dokey
The Storyteller’s Daughter A Retelling of “The Arabian Nights” by Cameron Dokey
Wild Orchid: A Retelling of “The Ballad of Mulan” by Cameron Dokey
Winter’s Child (The Snow Queen) by Cameron Dokey
The World Above (Jack and the Beanstalk) by Cameron Dokey
The Crimson Thread: A Retelling of “Rumpelstiltskin” by Suzanne Weyn
Water Song: A Retelling of “The Frog Prince” Suzanne Weyn
The Night Dance: A Retelling of “The Twelve Dancing Princesses” by Suzanne Weyn
Violet Eyes (Princess and the Pea) by Debbie Viguié
Spirited by Nancy Holder
The Rose Bride: A Retelling of “The White Bride and the Black Bride by Nancy Holder
The Diamond Secret (Anastasia) by Suzanne Weyn
Scarlet Moon (Red Riding Hood) by Debbie Viguié
Midnight Pearls: A Retelling of “The Little Mermaid” by Debbie Viguié
Snow: A Retelling of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves” by Tracy Lynn
Jane B. Mason and Sarah Hines Stephens
Princess School Series
ED Baker
Tales of the Frog Princess Series
The Wide-Awake Princess (Sleeping Beauty)
Eloisa James
Fairy Tales
Clare B. Dunkle
The Hollow Kingdom (Beauty and the Beast)
Close Kin
In the Coils of the Snake
Jessica Day George
Princess of the Midnight Ball (Cinderella)
Princess of Glass (Cinderella)
Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow (Norse, East of the Sun)
Robin Palmer
Cindy Ella
Geek Charming (The Frog Prince)
Little Miss Red
Jackson Pearce
Sweetly (Hansel and Gretel)
Sisters Red (Riding Hood)
As You Wish (Three Wishes)
Dawn Lairamore
Ivy’s Ever After
Ivy and the Meanstalk
Shannon Hale
The Goose Girl
Book of a Thousand Days (Maid Maleen)
Rapunzel’s Revenge: Fairy Tales for Feminists (collection)
Diana Wynne Jones
Fire and Hemlock (Tam Lin)
Howl’s Moving Castle (Cinderella)
Gail Carson Levine
Cinderellis and the Glass Hill (Princess on the Glass Hill)
Ella Enchanted (Cinderella)
The Fairy’s Mistake (Toads and Diamonds)
The Princess Test (Princess and the Pea)
Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep (Sleeping Beauty)
The Wish
The Two Princesses of Bamarre
Betsy Who Cried Wolf
The Fairy’s Return (Golden Goose)
For Biddle’s Sake (Puddocky)
Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg
Fairest (Snow White)
Ever
Fairies and the Quest for Never Land
Malinda Lo
Huntress
Ash (Cinderella)
Donna Jo Napoli
Beast (Beauty and the Beast)
Bound (Cinderella)
Breath (Pied Piper)
Crazy Jack (Jack and the Beanstalk)
The Great God Pan
Jimmy, Pickpocket of the Palace (Frog Prince)
The Magic Circle (Hansel and Gretel)
Prince of the Pond (Frog Prince)
Sirena (The Little Mermaid)
Spinners (Rumpelstiltskin)
The Wager (Bearskin)
Zel (Rapunzel)
Terry Pratchett
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Pied Piper)
The Wee Free Men (Fairy Rescue)
A Hat Full of Sky
Wintersmith
I Shall Wear Midnight
Delia Sherman
Through a Brazen Mirror
Porcelain Dove
Changeling
The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen
Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple.
Pay the Piper: A Rock’n’ Roll Fairy Tale
Troll Bridge: A Rock’n’ Roll Fairy Tale
Movies and Miniseries
(There are many classic Cinderellas and so forth. And the range of children’s movies from the traditional to the fractured. But some are a bit more imaginative and adaptive, breathing new life and messages into the old classic fairytales.)
Musicals
Into the Woods
Wicked
Movies
Enchanted
Pan’s Labyrinth
Ever After
Pretty Woman
Snow White: A Tale of Terror
DysEnchanted
The Shrek Movies
Snow White and the Three Stooges
The Brothers Grimm
The Beautician and the Beast
Jack and the Beanstalk
Foreign Movies
Three Nuts for Cinderella (Czech)
Seven Dwarves (German)
Father Frost/Morozko (Russian)
The Snow Queen (Russian)
Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair (Russian)
The Scarlet Flower (Russian, Beauty and the Beast)
Sadko (Russian)
Ruslan and Ludmila (Russian)
Television Shows
The Charmings
Beauty and the Beast (90s and WB Remake)
Fractured Fairy Tales in Rocky and Bullwinkle
Shelley Duvall’s Faerie Tale Theatre
Let’s Pretend Records
Happily Ever After
Grimm’s Fairy Tale Classics
Once Upon a Time
Grimm
Miniseries and DVD Movies
The 10th Kingdom
The Snow Queen
Tinman
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
The True Story of Jack and the Beanstalk
The Storyteller
Snow White: Fairest of Them All
The BBC Fairy Tales anthology
Lotte Reiniger: The Fairy Tale Films (animated shorts)
From the Brothers Grimm Davenport Films short movies set in rural America. See http://www.davenportfilms.com./pages/main_frombrosgrimm.html for details and ordering.
Graphic Novels Series
Fables Bill Willingham
Sandman Neil Gaiman
Erstwhile – Fairy Tale Comics Grimm Brothers Folk Tales
Computer Games
King’s Quest Robert WIlliams
(This mixed-up fairytale adventure series is fantastic for all ages. The first three have been rereleased as free fan-made adaptations with much better graphics and sound. #1 still has a weak story, but #2 is now truly fantastic.)
Great Commentary
On Fairy Tale Retellings
Fairy Tales Reimagined: Essays on New Retellings Susan Redington Bobby
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales Kate Bernheimer (Editor)
Folktales Retold: A Critical Overview of Stories Updated for Children Amie A. Doughty
Critical and Creative Perspectives on Fairy Tales: An Intertextual Dialogue Between Fairy-Tale Scholarship and Postmodern Retellings (Fairy-Tale Studies) by Vanessa Joosen
New Tales for Old: Folktales As Literary Fictions for Young Adults Anna E. Altmann
Tales, Then and Now: More Folktales As Literary Fictions for Young Adults Anna E. Altmann
On Fairy Tales
Aarne, Antti, The Types of the Folk-Tale: a Classification and Bibliography, 2nd ed. trans. Stith Thompson
Bettelheim, Bruno, The Uses of Enchantment
Dundes, Alan, ed., Cinderella, A Casebook
Estés, Clarissa Pinkola, Women Who Run With the Wolves
Gould, Joan, Spinning Straw into Gold
Leavy, Barbara Fass, In Search of the Swan Maiden
Luthi, Max, Once Upon a Time: On the Nature of Fairy Tales
Paradiz, Valerie, Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales
Sale, Roger, Fairy Tales and After
Tatar, Maria M., The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales
Von Franz, Marie-Louise, The Feminine in Fairy Tales
—, Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion
—, Individuation in Fairy Tales
Warner, Maria, From the Beast to the Blonde
Zipes, Jack, The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World
—, When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and their Tradition
Fairytale novels from other lands
Mortal Love Elizabeth Hand (La Belle Dame Sans Merci)
The Fox Woman Kij Johnson (Japan)
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg Dubravka Ugrešic (Eastern Europe)
Deathless Catherynne M. Valente (Eastern Europe)
Thief Eyes Janni Lee Simner (Icelandic)
The Mabinogion Tetralogy Evangeline Walton (Welsh)
Fairy Tale Online Resources
More Fairytale Novel Lists
All About Romance: Fairy Tale Romance Novels
Marie Brennan’s List of Multicultural Fantasy Novelizations: http://www.swantower.com/marie/misc/settings.html.
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