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Please recommend me a book...I like fairy tales

52 replies

lucysmam · 11/04/2020 21:56

& have borrowed 'Fairest of All' from a friends dd because I haven'r read a book in aaaaaages but I've half read it in the past hour and a half so will need something else soon.

Any suggestions for more grown up versions of fairy tales? Or something magical? :)

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Smellbellina · 11/04/2020 21:56

The 100 year old man who climbed out a window

Smellbellina · 11/04/2020 21:57

The binding

Smellbellina · 11/04/2020 21:58

The Miniaturist

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CollaborativeBee · 11/04/2020 21:58

Sharon Blackie's 'Foxfire, Wolfskin and other Shapeshifting Women'

aliasname · 11/04/2020 22:02

The Night Circus ~ Erin Morgenstern

MothershipG · 11/04/2020 22:02

The Changeling Tree
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07Z7QZ9FP/ref=nodl_?tag=ejgentles-21]

Written by a friend of mine so admit I'm biased but honestly sounds just what you after & free at the moment!

ZooeyS · 11/04/2020 22:02

Have you read any Angela Carter?

Notmyrealname855 · 11/04/2020 22:04

Neil gaiman? Stardust (great film too!) and The Graveyard Book

Witchend · 11/04/2020 22:05

If you can get it The Emerald Crown is quite fairy tale like. (Violet Needham)

Annebronte · 11/04/2020 22:06

Wise Children by Angela Carter

BoogleMcGroogle · 11/04/2020 22:12

I second Wise Children. Also Herman Hesses's Fairy Tales book in English translation and Phillip Pullman's Grimm's Tales.

Finally, I really enjoyed Francis Hardinge's A Skinful of Shadows. It has a real fairy tale quality to it.

Emeeno1 · 11/04/2020 22:13

Till we have faces by C.S.Lewis or The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald

MakyJo · 11/04/2020 22:14

Miss Pettigrew lives for a day... It's my favourite book ever. Like stepping back in time and exquisitely written.

bettybattenburg · 11/04/2020 22:16

The Sisters Grimm by Menna Van Praag

MaidofKent78 · 11/04/2020 22:16

Any Neil Gaiman or Terry Pratchett. Stardust is a delightful book and film.

waltzingparrot · 11/04/2020 22:20

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

SpicedCamomile · 11/04/2020 22:20

Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter
Neil Gaiman's retelling of Norse myths, also Neverwhere and Stardust
Not adult books but Howl's Moving Castle and The House of Many Ways
Joanne Harris - Runemarks, Gospel of Loki

SpicedCamomile · 11/04/2020 22:21

Ooh also Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

nauticant · 11/04/2020 22:22

Lyonesse by Jack Vance. Spellbinding.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/6386834-the-complete-lyonesse

Irial · 11/04/2020 22:24

Marissa Meyer, the lunar Chronicles (twist on Cinderella, red riding hood, snow white)

Start with Cinder

Blueuggboots · 11/04/2020 22:27

The 10,000 doors of January
The starless sea

36degrees · 11/04/2020 22:29

The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan

ThisBear · 11/04/2020 22:29

You might like Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver and Uprooted, based on fairy tales. Or if you don't mind YA, Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse books aren't based on fairy tales but have a magical element.

dyscalculicgal96 · 11/04/2020 22:30

Maleficent (the one with Angelina Jolie).

frazzledasarock · 11/04/2020 22:33

Hero and the crown
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