Tricksters are all about balance – they are neither good, nor evil and they like to keep one foot in both worlds. It’s little wonder that any story involving tricksters quickly goes to the top of my reading / favourites list!

Poems

• Coyote Woman by Carolyn Dunn
• How Raven Made His Bride by Theodora Goss
• Uncle Tompa by Midori Snyder
• Kwaku Anansi Walks the World’s Web by Jane Yolen

Series

• Trickster series by Tamora Pierce
• Trickster series by Rob Thurman

Short story collections

• The Coyote Road edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling

Standalones – Short stories

• The Senorita and the Cactus Thorn by Kim Antieau
• Realer Than You by Christopher Barzak
• Wagers of Gold Mountain by Steve Berman
• The Other Labyrinth by Jedediah Berry
• A Reversal of Fortune by Holly Black
• A Tale for the Short Days by Richard Bowes
• Cat of the World by Michael Cadnum
• God Clown by Carol Emshwiller
• The Dreaming Wind by Jeffrey Ford
• An Introduction to Jewish Myth and Mysticism by Steve Hockensmith
• The Listeners by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• The Evolution of the Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change by Kij Johnson
• Friday Night at St. Cecilia’s by Ellen Klages
• Honored Guest by Ellen Kushner
• Crow Roads by Charles de Lint
• The Fortune-Teller by Patricia A. McKillip
• One Odd Shoe by Pat Murphy
• Wick’s End by Joanna Parypinski
• The Fiddler of Bayou Teche by Delia Sherman
• Black Rock Blues by Will Shetterly
• The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Uncle Bob Visits by Caroline Stevermer
• The Chamber Music of Animals by Katherine Vaz
• Always the Same Story by Elizabeth E. Wein

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