Fae & Fairy Fiction Books of the 1980s
The 62 most-read fae & fairy fiction books first published between 1980 and 1989, led by The Crystal Shard (1988), Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (1981) and The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (1983).
This list collects 62 books from the 1980s by 52 authors, published between 1980 and 1989. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
The Crystal Shard
R. A. Salvatore
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Alvin Schwartz
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
Anne Rice
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
Jon Scieszka
The Mitten
Jan Brett
Streams of Silver
R. A. Salvatore
The Paper Bag Princess
Robert N. Munsch
The Wishsong of Shannara
Terry Brooks
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters
John Steptoe, Joe Steptoe
Little, Big
John Crowley
Bony-legs
Joanna Cole, Dirk Zimmer
The Fall of Gondolin
J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien
Lon Po Po
Ed Young
Truckers
Terry Pratchett
The Jolly Postman
Janet Ahlberg, Allan Ahlberg
The Elfstones of Shannara
Terry Brooks
ElfQuest
Wendy Pini
Talking to Dragons
Patricia C. Wrede
Melodie the Music Fairy
Daisy Meadows
The Ordinary Princess
M. M. Kaye
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Jan Brett
The Reason for a Flower
Ruth Heller
War for the Oaks
Emma Bull
The Egyptian Cinderella
Shirley Climo
The Door in the Hedge
Robin McKinley
Heckedy Peg
Audrey Wood, Don Wood
Prince Cinders
Babette Cole
Princess Smartypants
Babette Cole
Yeh-Shen
Ai-Ling Louie
Rumpelstiltskin
Paul O. Zelinsky
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
James Marshall
The Seven Chinese Brothers
Margaret Mahy
One thousand and one Arabian Nights
Geraldine McCaughrean
Hershel and the Hanukkah goblins
Eric A. Kimmel
Teeny Tiny
Jill Bennett
The Talking Eggs
Robert D. San Souci
Walt Disney's Pinocchio
Walt Disney Company
Sleeping Ugly
Jane Yolen
The Fairy Rebel
Lynne Reid Banks
East of the Sun & West of the Moon
Mercer Mayer
Beauty and the Beast
Jan Brett
Snow White & Red Rose
Patricia C. Wrede
When I Get Bigger
Mercer Mayer
Moss Gown
William H. Hooks
Treasury of Classic Stories for Children
Eric Carle
Imaginary Lands
Robin McKinley, James P. Blaylock
A Grain of Rice
Helena Clare Pittman
Red Riding Hood
James Marshall
The River of Dancing Gods
Jack L. Chalker
Four Dolls
Rumer Godden
Jack and the Beanstalk
Gerda Muller
Choose Your Own Adventure - The Enchanted Kingdom
Ellen Kushner
The Woodland Folk Meet the Giants
Tony Wolf
The Dreamstone (Ealdwood Duology)
C. J. Cherryh
The Poem's Two Bodies
David Lee Miller
Anesthesia and the Brain
John D. Michenfelder
The Art of Naming
Anne Ferry
Ealdwood
C. J. Cherryh
Spenser's 'fierce Warres and Faithfull Loves'
Michael Leslie
Faerie Mound of Dragonkind
Jean F. Blashfield
Endlesse Worke
Jonathan Goldberg
Edmund Spenser
Anthea Hume