The Wrath and the Dawn, Renee Ahdieh, YA AHD WRA 1 *ª The Annotated African American Folktales ed. Gates & Tatar, 398.2089 ANN The Arabian Nights, tr. Husain Haddawy, 398.22 ARA The Norwegian Folktales of Asbjornsen and Moe, tr. Tiina Nunnally 398.2 ASB Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney 829 BEO ª Through the Woods, Emily Carroll GN CAR The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer, retold Peter Ackroyd, 821 CHA A Wild Swan, Michael Cunningham, F CUN * |
Malinche, Laura Esquivel, F ESQ ODY-C, Matt Fraction GN FRA American Gods, Neil Gaiman, F GAI *ª Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman, F GAI *ª Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, Philip Pullman, 398.20943 GRI The Mere Wife, Maria Dahvana Headley F HEA Dream Angus, Alexander McCall Smith, F MCC Circe, Madeline Miller, F MIL *ª Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, SF MOR *ª |
The Penguin Book of Mermaids, ed. Bacchilega and Brown, 398.21 PEN Fearless Girls, Wise Women, & Beloved Sisters, Kathleen Ragan, 398.2082 RAG The Cassandra, Sharma Shields, F SHI A Thousand Beginnings and Endings, ed. Oh and Chapman, YA THO House of Names, Colm Toibin, F TOI The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun, J. R. R. Tolkien, SF TOL * Trickster, Matt Dembicki, YA GN TRI * |
A note from Laura: Humans have always told stories to explore and explain the world, so myths and tales often have roots in religious traditions. Inclusion on or exclusion from this list is not meant to promote or denigrate any cultural or religious tradition.