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One Thousand and One Nights Retellings or Scheherazade Retellings

Middle Eastern Folk Tale

  • It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English-language edition which rendered the title as The Arabian Nights' Entertainment.
  • Common to all the editions of the Nights is the framing device of the story of the ruler Shahryar being narrated the tales by his wife Scheherazade, with one tale told over each night of storytelling. 
  • Some of the stories commonly associated with the Arabian Nights
  1. "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp" 
  2. "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves"
  3. "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor"
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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights by Anonymous

The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights

Anonymous

1104 pages • first pub 800 (editions)

fiction classics fantasy short stories adventurous slow-paced
Tales of a Severed Head by Rachida Madani

Tales of a Severed Head

Rachida Madani

153 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

poetry adventurous challenging medium-paced
Sinbad's Seven Voyages by Gladys Davidson

Sinbad's Seven Voyages

Gladys Davidson

missing page info • first pub 1959 (editions)

fiction classics fantasy adventurous medium-paced
Sinbad (Singles Classic) by Kurt Vonnegut

Sinbad (Singles Classic)

Kurt Vonnegut

30 pages • missing pub info (editions)

fiction classics short stories dark funny reflective medium-paced
One Thousand and One Nights by Hanan Al-Shaykh

One Thousand and One Nights

Hanan Al-Shaykh

298 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

fiction fantasy short stories adventurous medium-paced
A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston

A Thousand Nights

A Thousand Nights #1

E.K. Johnston

336 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous emotional slow-paced
Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton

Rebel of the Sands

Rebel of the Sands #1

Alwyn Hamilton

9 hours, 31 minutes • first pub 2016 (editions) user-added

fiction fantasy romance young adult adventurous medium-paced
Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson

Alif the Unseen

G. Willow Wilson

433 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

fiction fantasy science fiction young adult adventurous challenging medium-paced
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Khalifa Brothers #1

Salman Rushdie

222 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

fiction childrens fantasy adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced
Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed

Throne of the Crescent Moon

The Crescent Moon Kingdoms #1

Saladin Ahmed

274 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous mysterious medium-paced