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Featured Article: The Best Fairy Tale Retelling Audiobooks
Fairy tales, mythology, and folklore have provided an endless fount of inspiration and imagination for writers for centuries. So, it’s no surprise that as sensibilities shift and these tales are revisited with a modern lens, creators feel the pull to reinvent, reimagine, and refocus. Here, we’ve gathered the best fairy and folk tale retellings of all time, from both new and best-selling writers alike. What magic will you discover within?
Best Sellers
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Gingerbread
- A Novel
- By: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrated by: Helen Oyeyemi
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 238
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 208
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 210
Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories, beloved novelist Helen Oyeyemi invites listeners into a delightful tale of a surprising family legacy, in which the inheritance is a recipe....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful, Evocative Experience
- By purplebrain on 04-07-19
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Gingerbread
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Helen Oyeyemi
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 03-05-19
- Language: English
- Literary Fiction · Magical Realism · Fairy Tales
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
- Stories
- By: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon, Piter Marek, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 126
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Story4 out of 5 stars 128
In "Books and Roses", one special key opens a library, a garden, and clues to at least two lovers' fates. In "Is Your Blood as Red as This?", an unlikely key opens the heart of a student....
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5 out of 5 stars
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clever
- By jared rogerson on 03-15-18
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
- Stories
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon, Piter Marek, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 03-08-16
- Language: English
- Anthologies · Short Stories · Magical Realism
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Boy, Snow, Bird
- By: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrated by: Susan Bennett, Carra Patterson
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 624
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 558
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 562
In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty - the opposite of the life she' s left behind in New York....
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5 out of 5 stars
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For Literary Lovers
- By M. Shipe on 04-25-14
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Boy, Snow, Bird
- Narrated by: Susan Bennett, Carra Patterson
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 03-06-14
- Language: English
- Literary Fiction · Magical Realism · Fairy Tales
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Peaces
- A Novel
- By: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrated by: Ben Allen, Intae Kim, Jade Wheeler, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story3 out of 5 stars 34
When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark their new commitment - and to get them out of her house. Otto and Xavier arrive at their sleepy local train station but quickly deduce that The Lucky Day is no ordinary locomotive....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Classic Oyeyemi
- By Erin M McNellis on 04-25-21
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Peaces
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Ben Allen, Intae Kim, Jade Wheeler, Deana Taheri, Rosa Escoda, Deepti Gupta
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 04-06-21
- Language: English
- Literary Fiction · Magical Realism · Fantasy
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The Icarus Girl: A Novel
- By: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 111
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Story4 out of 5 stars 99
Jessamy "Jess" Harrison is an eight year old caught between two worlds....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Performer is excellent
- By AnonUser10 on 11-30-11
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The Icarus Girl: A Novel
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 10-28-11
- Language: English
- Literary Fiction · Psychological
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Mr. Fox
- A Novel
- By: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrated by: Carol Boyd
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 89
Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding, and the fairy tales don't get complicated. Usually....
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Great Novel, just Poor for Audio
- By James A. Dittes on 08-13-16
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Mr. Fox
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Carol Boyd
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 10-26-11
- Language: English
- Classics · Literary Fiction · Magical Realism
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Peaces
- By: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrated by: Ben Allen, Rosa Escoda, Deepti Gupta, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Story0 out of 5 stars 0
The prize-winning, best-selling author of Gingerbread and Boy, Snow, Bird and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours returns with a vivid and inventive new story about a couple forever changed by an unusual train voyage....
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Peaces
- Narrated by: Ben Allen, Rosa Escoda, Deepti Gupta, Intae Kim, Deana Taheri, Jade Wheeler
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 11-04-21
- Language: English
- Literary Fiction · Magical Realism
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One for the Trouble
- Book Slam, Volume One
- By: Irvine Welsh, Jon Ronson, Hari Kunzru, and others
- Narrated by: Richard Milward, Hari Kunzru, Simon Armitage, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 26
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 25
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Story4 out of 5 stars 24
One for the Trouble: Book Slam, Volume One is the first release from the UK’s premier literary event....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interestingly bizarre
- By Bella Insch on 01-22-15
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One for the Trouble
- Book Slam, Volume One
- Narrated by: Richard Milward, Hari Kunzru, Simon Armitage, Andrew Scott, Bernardine Evaristo, Kate Tempest, Joe Dunthorne, Olivia Coleman, Chris O'Dowd, Roger Robinson
- Series: Book Slam, Book 1
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 11-24-11
- Language: English
- Short Stories · Poetry
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BBC National Short Story Award 2010 (5 Shortlisted Titles)
- By: David Constantine, Aminatta Forna, Sarah Hall, and others
- Narrated by: Emma Rydal, Ron Cook, Sirine Saba, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 9
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 9
The 5 shortlisted titles for the BBC National Short Story Award 2010 administered in partnership with Booktrust....
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BBC National Short Story Award 2010 (5 Shortlisted Titles)
- Narrated by: Emma Rydal, Ron Cook, Sirine Saba, Hugh Quarshie, Sian Thomas
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
- Release date: 12-08-10
- Language: English
- Anthologies
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Gingerbread
- By: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrated by: Helen Oyeyemi
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
Perdita Lee may appear your average British schoolgirl; Harriet Lee may seem just a working mother trying to penetrate the school social hierarchy; but there are signs that they might not be as normal as they think they are....
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Gingerbread
- Narrated by: Helen Oyeyemi
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 03-05-19
- Language: English
- Literary Fiction · Fairy Tales · Contemporary
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Boy, Snow, Bird
- By: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrated by: Barbara Barnes
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
Boy: Novak turns 20 and takes a bus from New York to the end of the line, Flax Hill, Massachusetts. Here she finds Snow....
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Boy, Snow, Bird
- Narrated by: Barbara Barnes
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 09-04-14
- Language: English
- Family Life · Literary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Furies
- The Virago Book of Wild Writing
- By: Margaret Atwood, Ali Smith, Emma Donoghue, and others
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Story0 out of 5 stars 0
In this blazing cauldron of a book, the boldest writers of our day take up the words that tell a story and take up their pen, celebrating fifty years of Virago....
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Furies
- The Virago Book of Wild Writing
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 03-16-23
- Language: English
- Literary History & Criticism
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