📚 Fables

Books with fables on their catalogue record, first published between 1727 and 2014, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject fables in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 7,225 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The English Tongue	Thomas Dilworth	1740	198
	Fables	John Gay	1727	87
	Aesop's Fables	Aesop	2010	79
	La oveja negra y demás fábulas	Augusto Monterroso	1969	40
	Aesop's Fables	Aesop	2014	40
	Fables choisies	Louis Chambaud	1751	26
	Fables for the female sex	Edward Moore	1744	23
	Fabulae Aesopeae	Babrius.	1845	17
	Select fables of Aesop and other fabulists	Robert Dodsley	1761	16
	Fábulas en verso castellano	Félix María de Samaniego	1900	15
	Aesop's Fables	S. A. Handford	1924	14
	Fábulas literarias	Tomás de Iriarte	1796	13
	Aesop's fables	Jerry Pinkney	1994	12
	Hope for the Flowers	Trina Paulus	1972	10
	Bimwili & the Zimwi	Verna Aardema	1985	9
	Chinese fables and folk stories	Mary Hayes Davis	1908	6
	The Eagle and the Wren (A Michael Neugebauer Book)	Jane Goodall	2000	6
	Aesop's funky fables	Vivian French	1997	5
	Three Aesop fox fables	Paul Galdone	1971	4
	Kalila and Dimna	Ramsay Wood	1980	4
	The Children's Aesop	Stephanie Calmenson	1988	4
	The boy who cried "Wolf!"	Ellen Schecter	1994	4
	Rabbit and Turtle Go to School	Lucy Floyd	2000	4
	The great fables of all nations	Manuel Komroff	1928	3
	Aesop's Fables (Apple Classics)	Ann McGovern	1963	3
	Fools	Neil Simon	1981	3
	The tortoise and the hare	Janet Stevens	1984	3
	Anno's Aesop	Mitsumasa Anno	1989	3
	The Alchemist Graphic Novel	Paulo Coelho	2010	3
	Fabulandia	Anthology	1964	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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