Feywild Reading List - Recommendations?

[crash_beedo]

Tad Williams, War of the Flowers. He's mainly known for the Otherland series, but Flowers was a neat little fey-world book.

 

[Klaus]

Stardust, by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess.
Books of Magic #3, by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess.
Sandman #19, by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess (noticing a theme?).

In fact, here's Charles Vess' piece "Companions of the Moon":

 

[Ethalias]

I also recommend Changeling: The Lost. I browsed it in my local bookstore over coffee (a cliché true but one of my few rpg pleasures lacking much money or a FLGS) and it inspired me to run a Feywild-heavy campaign.

It's also worth noting that IIRC it includes a recommended reading list somewhere, though I may be confusing it with something else.

Actually talking about it makes me want to take another look..

What I've read of Gaiman I've enjoyed very much also.

 

[rainmaker]

I'll second the Elizabeth Bear books listed above. They're amazing books, and the fey in them are quite ruthless and other-than-human.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

It's also worth noting that IIRC it includes a recommended reading list somewhere, though I may be confusing it with something else.

It does, the list for fictional is:

-Something Wicked This Way Comes
-Johnathon Strange & Mr. Norrel
-The Stolen Child
-The King Elfland's Daughter
-Neverwhere, Anasi Boys, American Gods, Stardust and other works by
Neil Gaiman
-Gormenghast and Titus Groan
-Fables

 

[Byrons_Ghost]

Funny you should mention Feist, since the only book of his I've bothered to read was called Faerie Tale. It's about a contemporary family that moves onto an estate with a tie to faerieland.

These fae are definately not nice. They draw on darker celtic and germanic legends- think Erl King, Wild Hunt, unseelie court, etc.

 

[Patrick Jarrell]

Got to agree with this one. Same for me, Faerie Tale is the only Feist book I've read, but it's also one of the best fey themed books I've read.

 

[Herremann the Wise]

I liked Jack Vance's interpretation of faeries in the Lyonesse series. Perhaps a little comical in parts but heh... the Lyonesse series is close to my favourite.

Best Regards
Herremann the Wise

 

[Cwheeler]

I'm putting in another vote for Neil Gaiman.

Also check out the works of Brian Froud, although they do relate more to the boggart-y, pexyish, mischievous side of fae than the more aloof and mysterious elements. They are great to drop in though!

 

[Irda Ranger]

Funny you should mention Feist, since the only book of his I've bothered to read was called Faerie Tale. It's about a contemporary family that moves onto an estate with a tie to faerieland.

These fae are definately not nice. They draw on darker celtic and germanic legends- think Erl King, Wild Hunt, unseelie court, etc.

Huh. I remember trying to read Faerie Tale a long time ago and putting it down after just a couple chapters because I didn't like it.

I may have to give it another shot though, as my tastes have changed just a wee bit since 7th grade.


And thank you everyone for all of your suggests. I hope more come.