Whether you're a full-fledged Disney adult or the name Grimm means nothing to you, these novels based on fairy tales will tickle your fancy The words Once Upon a Time have always carried magic for me.

Margaret Atwood’s new “Book of Lives” is subtitled “a memoir of sorts” — and in fact, it’s a venerable sort, a cradle-to-rocking-chair telling of a celebrated life. Today, most books of this type are ...