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Explore 24 books like Grendel by John Gardner — a handpicked selection united by Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Classics, and Literary.

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Top related books to Grendel

Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of Grendel.

The Aeneid — Virgil

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • Classics • Literary

The Wind in the Willows — Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • Classics • Literary

Grimms’ Fairy Tales — Jacob Grimm

Grimms’ Fairy Tales

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • Classics • Literary

Phantastes — George Macdonald

George MacDonald

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • Classics • Literary

The History of Middle-Earth Box Set #1 The Silmarillion / Unfinished Tales / Book of Lost Tales, Part One / Book of Lost Tales, Part Two — Christopher Tolkien

The History of Middle-Earth Box Set #1 The Silmarillion / Unfinished Tales / Book of Lost Tales, Part One / Book of Lost Tales, Part Two

Christopher Tolkien

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • Classics • Literary

The Prophet — Kahlil Gibran

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • Classics • Literary

The Silmarillion Deluxe Illustrated by the Author Special Edition — J R R Tolkien

The Silmarillion Deluxe Illustrated by the Author Special Edition — J R R Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • Classics • Literary

Tales from the Perilous Realm — John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Tales from the Perilous Realm

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • Classics • Literary

Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales — Jacob Grimm

Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • Classics • Literary

Wicked [Movie Tie-In] The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West — Gregory Maguire

Wicked [Movie Tie-In] The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Gregory Maguire

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • Classics • Literary

The Hobbit Deluxe Illustrated by the Author Special Edition — J R R Tolkien

The Hobbit Deluxe Illustrated by the Author Special Edition — J R R Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • Classics • Literary

The Dream of the Red Chamber — Cao Xueqin

The Dream of the Red Chamber

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • Classics • Literary

Twenty-Three Tales by Leo Tolstoy, Fiction, Classics, Literary — Leo Tolstoy

Twenty-Three Tales by Leo Tolstoy, Fiction, Classics, Literary

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • Classics • Literary

Homer’s Daughter — Robert Graves

Homer’s Daughter

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • Classics • Literary

The Silmarillion — John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

The Silmarillion

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • Classics • Literary

The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly A Novel — Sun-mi Hwang

The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly A Novel

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • Classics • Literary

The Jungle Book — Rudyard Kipling

The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • Classics • Literary

Phantastes A Faerie Romance For Men and Women — George MacDonald

Phantastes A Faerie Romance For Men and Women

George MacDonald

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • Classics • Literary

The History of Middle-Earth Box Set #2 The Lays of Beleriand / The Shaping of Middle-Earth / The Lost Road — Christopher Tolkien

The History of Middle-Earth Box Set #2 The Lays of Beleriand / The Shaping of Middle-Earth / The Lost Road

Christopher Tolkien

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • Classics • Literary

The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights Volume 2 — Robert Irwin

The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights Volume 2

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • Classics • Literary

Plain Tales from the Hills — Rudyard Kipling

Plain Tales from the Hills

Rudyard Kipling

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • Classics • Literary

The Golden Ass — Apuleius

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • Classics • Literary

Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange — M. C. Lyons

Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • Classics • Literary

The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights Volume 3 — Anonymous

The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights Volume 3

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • Classics • Literary

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Classics, Literary — the same threads that run through Grendel by John Gardner. Among the authors featured: Virgil, Kenneth Grahame, Jacob Grimm, George MacDonald, and others.

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