books i'd like to read if i like the faeries oracle?

anybody know of any books that have similar appeal/magic with fairies in them? something mystic and mythical.

Are you talking about the Froud Faeries?
The author has several companion books out. They are quite tongue in cheek, I found them hilarious yet touching.

I used one of them for Pippi in the first bibliomancy exchange thread

BigLittle perhaps?

I have most of the Brian Froud books and they are great. Real tongue and cheek as mentioned and just plain fun. The artwork in them is gorgeous too. Even in the Goblins book *LOL*, which was a total hoot by the way. Good Faeries/Bad Faeries was the first one I owned, then I got Faeries, then the Goblins and Runes of Elfland, and then his latest one which I cannot remember the title of. They are all good.

i have all of those. anything else?

Maybe the Spiderwick Chronicle novels, and you could get out the DVD of the Dark Crystal also.

Do you want fiction? If so the four 'Faerielands' novels may be a place to start. These are 4 Froud-inspired novels which were originally meant to have Froud's art on the cover but usually have non-Froud covers now. The novels are:

Something Rich and Strange by Patricia McKillip
The Wild Wood by Charles de Lint
The Wood Wife by Terri Windling
Hannah's Garden by Midori Snyder

I have read The Wild Wood and the Wood Wife and enjoyed them both. You can see the original covers and read a bit more about them here:

http://www.faeries.net/www/faeries/faerieland/index.cfm

Charles de Lint has written a lot of faerie-themed novels so you might want to check out his website:

http://www.sfsite.com/charlesdelint/littlegrrl-desc01.htm

I keep meaning to read 'the green man' and 'the faery reel', two collections of fae-themed short stories in the 'mythic fiction' series:

http://windling.typepad.com/editing/mythicfiction.html


Faerie themed novels I have enjoyed:

Tam Lin (Pamela Dean)

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell & the Ladies of Grace Adieu (Susanna Clarke)

The Jack of Kinrowan (Charles de Lint)

Fae Novels I haven't yet read but really want to:

The Stolen Child: A Novel (Keith Donohue)

The Tooth Fairy (Graham Joyce)

Thomas the Rhymer (Ellen Kushner)

Kingdoms of Elfin (Sylvia Townsend Warner)(short stories)


Scroll down this page for a HUGE reading list of fae themed books:

http://www.endicott-studio.com/rdrm/rrfairies5.html

OK, I'll stop now. Can you tell I'm obsessed??

(by the way if you want nonfiction books on fae folklore I can give you a few titles there as well...)