There are several ways to read the Fairy-tale Inheritance Series:

stack of fairy-tale inheritance series books with a titanic model ship on top
Which reading order will you choose?

As a Librarian: Fairy-tale Inheritance Series in order of publication

  • CINDERELLA’S DRESS
  • CINDERELLA’S SHOES
  • CINDERELLA’S LEGACY (novella)
    (technically, LEGACY published after MIRROR, but let’s keep the Cinderella books together)
  • SNOW WHITE’S MIRROR
  • BEAUTY’S ROSE
  • SLEEPING BEAUTY’S SPINDLE
  • THE LITTLE MERMAID’S VOICE

As a Historian: Fairy-tale Inheritance Series in order of historical time period:

  • SLEEPING BEAUTY’S SPINDLE (late 1800s)
  • SNOW WHITE’S MIRROR (1902)
  • THE LITTLE MERMAID’S VOICE (1912)
  • CINDERELLA’S DRESS (1940s)
  • CINDERELLA’S SHOES (1940s)
  • CINDERELLA’S LEGACY (novella, Once Upon a Time)
  • BEAUTY’S ROSE (1986)

As a Fairy Tale Fan: Fairy-tale Inheritance Series in order of your favorite fairy tale:

You chose the order, but keep the Cinderella books together:

  • CINDERELLA’S DRESS
  • CINDERELLA’S SHOES
  • CINDERELLA’S LEGACY (novella)

Note: Cinderella’s Legacy is a prequel novel in terms of time. You could read it first, but then you’d know all the spoilers for DRESS and SHOES. It’s all up to you!

As a Purist: Fairy-tale Inheritance Series in order of original publication

Before the books were pulled together into a series, they came out as separate books with a different publisher.

  • CINDERELLA’S DRESS (2014)
  • CINDERELLA’S SHOES (2015)
  • CINDERELLA’S LEGACY (novella, 2019)
    (keeping the Cinderella books together)
  • SLEEPING BEAUTY’S SPINDLE (Called Spindle, 2016)
  • SNOW WHITE’S MIRROR (2018)
  • BEAUTY’S ROSE (2019)
  • THE LITTLE MERMAID’S VOICE (2021)

So which way are you going to read the books? Here’s a universal book link to send you to Cinderella’s Dress at the store of your choice where you can choose which book to read first. Update 11/13/2021: the Cinderella’s Dress audiobook is working its way through the system and will be available soon wherever you listen to audio books, including libraries.