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

[lucysmam]

& 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? :)

The 100 year old man who climbed out a window

The binding

The Miniaturist

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

The Night Circus ~ Erin Morgenstern

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!

Have you read any Angela Carter?

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

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

Wise Children by Angela Carter

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.

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

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

The Sisters Grimm by Menna Van Praag

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

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

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

Ooh also Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

Lyonesse by Jack Vance. Spellbinding.

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

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

Start with Cinder

The 10,000 doors of January
The starless sea

The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan

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.

Maleficent (the one with Angelina Jolie).

Hero and the crown
The blue sword
Beauty

All by Robin McKinley