Here are the books I'm reading on fairy tales; the list is a work in progress and will probably change. Any suggestions regarding it would gratefully received as it’s quite randomly cobbled together:
Fairy tales and folk stories
W.H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair, West African Folk Tales
Giambattista Basile, The Pentamerone
Kate Bernheimer (ed.), My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
Italo Calvino, Italian Folktales
Lewis Carroll, The Story of Sylvie and Bruno
Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber
Angela Carter, The Virago Book of Fairy Tales and The Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales
N.J. Dawood (ed.) The Thousand and One Nights
James Frazer, The Golden Bough
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, The Complete Fairy Tales (translated by Jack Zipes)
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Selected Tales (edited by Joyce Crick)
E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (translated by Anthea Bell)
Joseph Jacobs, English Fairy Tales
Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology: Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries
Revd Robert Kirk, The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies
George Macdonald, The Complete Fairy Tales
Charles Perrault, The Complete Fairy Tales (translated by Christopher Betts)
Anne Sexton, Transformations
Dubravka Ugrešić, Baba Yaga Laid an Egg
Adolf Wenig, Folk Tales from Bohemia
Rodney Engen, The Age of Enchantment (exhibition catalogue)
Secondary literature
Bruno Bettelheim, The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
Katharine Briggs, The Vanishing People
R.M. Dorson, Folklore and Folklife: An Introduction
Alan Dundes (ed.), The Study of Folklore
Marie-Louise von Franz, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales
Max Lüthi, The Fairy Tale as Art Form and Portrait of Man
Ruth Michaelis-Jena, The Brothers Grimm
Diane Purkiss, Troublesome Things: A History of Fairies and Fairy Stories
Maria Tatar, The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales
Stith Thompson, The Folktale
Elizabeth Wanning-Harries, Twice Upon a Time
Marina Warner, From the Beast to the Blonde
Jennifer Westwood and Jacqueline Simpson, The Lore of the Land
(Kay Nielsen, 'Hansel and Gretel', from Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Hansel and Gretel and Other Stories by the Brothers Grimm, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1925; found here)