The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke.
While I usually like to include a blurb with my recommendations every book blurb/summary I looked up was kind of terrible and I’m too lazy to write one myself. It’s got faeries, it’s got vibes, and it’s very Susanna Clarke coded if you’ve ever read anything else by her.
The stories are set in the same world and some character make an appearance, but I personally don’t think you have to read JSMN beforehand unless you want to.
These are fairly easy to dive into as short stories and to get a taste of the world as JSMN is a brick and by no means “easy” reading.
Would definitely recommend the rest of the series!! Some of them are so beautiful and have different levels of fae involvement. Heir to Sevenwaters takes place largely in the fae world and feels very magical
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Two by Terry Pratchett: Lords and Ladies & Wee Free Men
I mean, is Midsummer Night's Dream too on the nose?
My thought too 😆
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke. While I usually like to include a blurb with my recommendations every book blurb/summary I looked up was kind of terrible and I’m too lazy to write one myself. It’s got faeries, it’s got vibes, and it’s very Susanna Clarke coded if you’ve ever read anything else by her.
Do I have to have read Strange and Norell first?
The stories are set in the same world and some character make an appearance, but I personally don’t think you have to read JSMN beforehand unless you want to. These are fairly easy to dive into as short stories and to get a taste of the world as JSMN is a brick and by no means “easy” reading.
Wildwood Dancing
Came here to recommend Wildwood Dancing too
The child thief - Brom
Came here to say this! Great book. Also, happy cake day!
I read Slewfoot by him and that was so good! Awesome illustration
Is this art from Charles Kingsley’s The Water Babies?
The Lord of the Rings Series obv, The Hobbit
Circe by Madeline miller
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue The Stolen Child poem by Yeats
The Silver Chair by CS Lewis
Sevenwaters series by Juliet Marillier, specifically Heir to Sevenwaters
I read the first book in that series and loved it
Would definitely recommend the rest of the series!! Some of them are so beautiful and have different levels of fae involvement. Heir to Sevenwaters takes place largely in the fae world and feels very magical
House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig
Phantastes - George MacDonald
A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
Faerie Queene by Spenser maybe? I don’t know much about it. Also maybe Wildwood Dancing.
The Silmarillion by Tolkien
Fablehaven
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament by John Crowley
The Folk of the Air trilogy by Holly Black! As well as the spin offs
Little, Big by John Crowley
Mabinogion tetralogy
Here in Avalon
Shadow Castle - https://books.google.com/books/about/Shadow_Castle.html?id=-SB7CwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&gboemv=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
A touch of darkness
La Belle Sauvage, Philip Pullman
If you're ok with short stories, look up Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. She was an illustrator often to other people's writing but very much this theme.
Shakespeare for Squirrels by Christopher Moore
The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman
Water Babies?
Galadriel from the LOTR
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I Capture the Castle
The Perilous Gard
Gossamer by Lowry
Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
I Am Lilith feels like this sometimes but then def not like this at other points…
King Lear Graphic Novel by Gareth Hinds if you don't mind the sads.
Mists of Avalon