The Fayborn Reading List (to date)

Readers of my Fayborn novels know that the story begun by Her Unwelcome Inheritance is a story full of other stories. As my namesake character in the novel puts it, 

"The more stories I study, the more I become convinced that there is only one story; and that we are, all of us, engaged in telling it."

 At the back of each Fayborn novel is a "Further Reading" Appendix. I included it both as a way to acknowledge the great storytellers and explorers of Faerie whose works have profoundly influenced my own, and as a way of introducing readers to those masters or helping them remember why certain phrases, people, and scenes in HUI and its sequels, The Eighth Square and the forthcoming A First or Final Mischief, may seem uncannily familiar.

Here is that reading list, so far. Titles are listed in the approximate order in which they are mentioned or otherwise referenced by the Fayborn books; titles by the same author are listed together only when referenced together.

A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare

Dracula, by Bram Stoker

The Screwtape Letters, by C. S. Lewis

The Magician's Nephew, by C. S. Lewis

Lilith, by George MacDonald

Grimm's Fairy Tales, by the Brothers Grimm

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll

Stories from Times Past, by Charles Perrault

Just-So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling

The Princess Diaries, by Meg Cabot

The Faerie Queene, by Edmund Spencer

Metamorphoses, by Ovid

The Odyssey, by Homer

The Prose Edda, by Snorri Sturluson

The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C. S. Lewis

The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien

A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by J. K. Rowling

The Aeneid, by Virgil

Russian Fairy Tales, by Aleksandr Afanas'ev

In Search of Schrodinger's Cat, by John Gribbin

The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame

The Willows in Winter, by William Horwood

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, by E. T. A. Hoffmann

The Stolen Child, by W. B. Yeats

The Tale of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter

Ben-Hur, by Lew Wallace

Tales from the Perilous Realm, by J. R. R. Tolkien

Nobel Lecture, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Book of Joshua, unknown author

Someplace to be Flying, by Charles de Lint

Tremendous Trifles, by G. K. Chesterton

Coraline, by Neil Gaiman

Notes Towards the Definition of Culture, by T. S. Eliot

Historia Regum Brittaniae, by Geoffrey of Monmouth

Timaeus, by Plato

Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton

The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry, by Wendell Berry

Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll

Jonathon Strange & Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke

Anastasia Morningstar and the Crystal Butterfly, by H. J. Hutchins

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne

Girl Genius, by Phil and Kaja Foglio

The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, and The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, by Beatrix Potter

Tales of Oakapple Wood, by Jenny Partridge

Works and Days, by Hesiod

One Thousand and One Nights (unknown author)

Four Quartets, by T. S. Eliot

The Ballad of Thomas the Rhymer and Tam Lin, by Thomas the Rhymer

The Silver Chair, by C.S. Lewis

Calvin & Hobbes, by Bill Watterson

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories, by H.P. Lovecraft

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, author unknown

Andersen's Fairytales, by Hans Christian Andersen

At the Back of the North Wind, by George MacDonald

Virginia Folk Legends, edited by Thomas E. Barden

The Illiad, by Homer

Germelshausen, by Friedrich Gerstacker

The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., by Washington Irving

Charlotte's Web, by E. B. White

P.S. If this list resembles your bookshelf, nightstand, to-read list, curriculum, childhood favorites list, and/or wish list, why not give Her Unwelcome Inheritance a try? =)