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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Arabian Nights II: Sindbad and Other Popular Stories
Anonymous · 266 pages
One Thousand and One Arabian Nights
Geraldine McCaughrean, Anonymous · 264 pages
King Shahryar kills a new wife every night, because he is afraid she will stop loving him. But his new bride Shahrazad has a clever plan to save herself. Her nightly stories--of Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba, and many other heroes and villains--are so engrossing that King Shahryar has to postpone her execution again and again... This illustrated edition brings together all the Arabian Nights tales i
The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales
Kate Douglas Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith · 339 pages
Ten stories from the Tales of a Thousand and One Nights, including the well-known ones of Aladdin and the lamp, Ali Baba and the forty thieves, and Sinbad the sailor.
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
A.S. Byatt · 277 pages
A collection of fairy tales for adults. The title novella is on a middle-aged Englishwoman attending a writers' conference in Turkey. She picks up an antique bottle and as she is washing it a djinn appears, offering to grant her three wishes. She asks for a younger body, then requests he make love to her.
Arabian Nights and Days
Naguib Mahfouz, njyb mHfwZ · 227 pages
Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall
Bill Willingham · 144 pages
Traveling in Arabia as an Ambassador from the exiled Fables community, Snow White is captured by the local sultan who wants to marry her (and then kill her). But the clever Snow attempts to charm the sultan instead by playing Scheherazade, telling him fantastic stories for a total of 1,001 nights. Running the gamut from horror to dark intrigue to mercurial coming-of-age, FABLES: 1,001 NIGHTS OF SN
Sharaz-De: Tales from the Arabian Nights
Sergio Toppi · 221 pages
A set of tales inspired by 1001 Arabian Nights, European comics master Sergio Toppi’s Sharaz-de explores a barbaric society where the supernatural is the only remedy to injustice. The lovely Sharaz-de, captive to a cruel and despotic king, must each night spin tales to entertain her master and save her head from the executioner. Her tales are filled with evil spirits, treasures, risk, and dange
The Steel Seraglio
Mike Carey, Linda Carey, Louise Carey, Nimit Malavia · 424 pages
Once, in a city known as Bessa, there was a sultan named Bokhari Al-Bokhari, who was thrown down by the zealots of the ascetic Hakkim Mehdad. The sultan, his wives and children were put to the sword, while his 365 concubines were sent to a neighbouring caliph as tribute, Hakkim having no use for the pleasures of the flesh. But a day after the caravan had departed from Bessa, Hakkim discovered the
Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic, Vol. 16
Shinobu Ohtaka · 191 pages
The Lost Stories
John Flanagan · 500 pages
Unconfirmed accounts of a group of Araluen warriors - tales of adventure, battle, and triumph over evil -- have spread for centuries throughout the known world. Most notable is a clan shrouded in mystery, phantom warriors known as the Rangers. Two names pass the lips of every storyteller: Halt, and his apprentice, Will. They and their comrades in arms are said to have traveled throughout the ki
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm · 405 pages
Two centuries ago, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published the first volume of Children's and Household Tales. Now Philip Pullman, one of the most accomplished authors of our time, makes us fall in love all over again with the immortal tales of the Brothers Grimm.
Zombies Vs. Unicorns
Alaya Dawn Johnson, Maureen Johnson, Carrie Ryan, Scott Westerfeld, Meg Cabot, Garth Nix, Kathleen Duey, Margo Lanagan, Naomi Novik, Diana Peterfreund, Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare · 432 pages
It's a question as old as time itself: which is better, the zombie or the unicorn? In this anthology, edited by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier (unicorn and zombie, respectively), strong arguments are made for both sides in the form of short stories. Half of the stories portray the strengths--for good and evil--of unicorns and half show the good (and really, really bad-ass) side of zombies. C
Dangerous Women
Gardner Dozois · 784 pages
This volume of warriors, bad girls and dragonriders includes stories by worldwide bestselling authors. This first volume includes an original 35,000 word novella revealing the origins of the civil war in Westeros (before the events in *A Game of Thromes*.)
Tales from Watership Down
Richard Adams · 269 pages
At last: twenty-four years after the publication of Watership Down - one of the century's best-loved works of imaginative literature - the superb storyteller Richard Adams reenters that unique and special world to tell us about the lives of the rabbits after their defeat of General Woundwort. Tales from Watership Down begins with some of the great folk stories well known to all rabbits. Then we
The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain
Lloyd Alexander · 122 pages
Eight short stories dealing with events that preceded the birth of Taran, the Assistant Pig-Keeper and key figure in the author's five works on the Kingdom of Prydain.
The Book of Dragons
E. Nesbit · 112 pages
Eight madcap tales of unpredictable dragons — including one made of ice, another that takes refuge in the General Post Office, and a fire-breathing monster that flies out of an enchanted book and eats an entire soccer team! Marvelous adventure and excitement for make-believers of all ages.
Glimpses: A Collection of Nightrunner Short Stories
Lynn Flewelling · 128 pages
Besieged
Kevin Hearne · 235 pages
"Atticus O'Sullivan is a Druid who has walked the earth for over 2,000 years--and had many adventures along the way. Besieged gives us a never-before-seen look into the life and back story of this popular series hero in a collection of new short stories"--
Elemental Magic: All-New Tales of the Elemental Masters
Diana L. Paxon, Jody Lynn Nye, Gail Sanders, Michael Z. Williamson, Tanya Huff, Ron Collins, Kristin Schwengel, Samuel Conway, Fiona Patton, Rosemary Edghill, Elizabeth A. Vaughan, Elisabeth Waters, Cedric Johnson, Dayle A. Dermatis, Michele Lang · 320 pages