Books:
- The Great Refusal: Studies of the Romantic Hero in German and American Literature (1970) ISBN 978-3891044001
- Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk & Fairy Tales (1979) ISBN 978-0813190303
- Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization (1983) ISBN 978-0415905138
- The Operated Jew: Two Tales of Antisemitism (1991) ISBN 978-0415904605
- Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children and the Culture Industry (1997) ISBN 978-0415918510
- The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World (2002) ISBN 978-1596932128
- Why Fairy Tales Stick: The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre (2007) ISBN 978-0415977814
- The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre (2012) ISBN 978-0691159553
- Grimm Legacies: The Magic Spell of the Grimms’ Folk and Fairy Tales (2014) ISBN 978-0691173672
- Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy Tales (2023) ISBN 978-0691244730
Edited books:
- Don’t Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England (1986) ISBN 978-0415902632
- Beauties, Beasts, and Enchantment: Classic French Fairy Tales (1989) ISBN 978-0453006934
- The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood: Versions of the Tale in Sociocultural Context (1993) ISBN 978-0415908351
- Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought in German Culture, 1096-1996 (1997) ISBN 978-0300068245
- The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm (2000) ISBN 978-0393976366
- The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales (2000) ISBN 978-0198605096
- Unlikely History: The Changing German-Jewish Symbiosis, 1945-2000 (2002) ISBN 978-0312293901
- The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition (2014) ISBN 978-0691173221