Retellings

A new version of an older story. Sometimes, a fairy tale or myth may be reimagined with a modernized setting or retold from a minor character's perspective.
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Lady Tremaine
Innamorata (The House of Teeth, #1)
Hell's Heart
Son of Nobody
The Fox and the Devil
Honeysuckle
Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories
The Book of Fallen Leaves (The Autumn Empire, #1)
Aicha
The Beheading Game
Sing the Night (Opera Magique, #1)
Sweetbitter Song
The Lost Daughter of Sparta
Witch of the Shadow Wood
The Celestial Seas
James
Lady Tremaine
Demon Copperhead
Blood of Hercules (Villains of Lore, #1)
I, Medusa
Wonka
The Wife Upstairs
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
Lore Olympus: Volume One (Lore Olympus, #1)
Non è un paese per single
Hemlock & Silver
Cleopatra
A Sorceress Comes to Call
Daughter of the Moon Goddess (The Celestial Kingdom, #1)
Bloody Black
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson LevineThe Goose Girl by Shannon HaleThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanBeauty by Robin McKinleyCinder by Marissa Meyer
The Best Fairytales and Retellings
2,817 books — 9,158 voters
Truth in the Dark by Amy LaneDuck! by Kim DareCinder by Marie SextonScarlet and the White Wolf by Kirby CrowBrute by Kim Fielding
Best Gay books based on fairytales
236 books — 422 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsMistborn by Brandon SandersonClockwork Angel by Cassandra ClareDivergent by Veronica RothLegend by Marie Lu
Best Series: Trilogies
524 books — 353 voters
American Gods by Neil GaimanDaughter of the Forest by Juliet MarillierGood Omens by Terry PratchettThe Once and Future King by T.H. WhiteElla Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Myth and Folktale Retellings
631 books — 587 voters

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. MaasCruel Beauty by Rosamund HodgeBeauty by Robin McKinleyUprooted by Naomi NovikBeastly by Alex Flinn
Best retellings of Beauty and the Beast
341 books — 1,127 voters
Splintered by A.G. HowardHeartless by Marissa MeyerUnhinged by A.G. HowardAlice in Zombieland by Gena ShowalterThe Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
Best Retellings of Alice in Wonderland
172 books — 592 voters

Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
Circe
Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, #2)
The Song of Achilles
Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3)
Heartless
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4)
The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1)
A Curse So Dark and Lonely (Cursebreakers, #1)
Cruel Beauty
To Kill a Kingdom (Hundred Kingdoms, #1)

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