30 Classic Tales Reimagined for 2022

Cross-genre explorers, history nerds, and recovering English majors will want to spend some time with this specially curated collection of reimagined classics published in 2022.
 
A quick note on parameters: All the books collected here are based on classic stories or famous works of literature, and each reimagines the time period, setting, characters, or genre of the original text in some significant way. This time around, we’re staying away from straight-up mythological “retellings” or standard POV switches. That said, the borders can get pretty fuzzy, as you’ll see, and we reserve the right to color outside the lines.
 
This wave of new books represents something of a trend in publishing these days, and there’s so much goodness here: Silvia Moreno-Garcia takes on H.G. Wells in The Daughter of Doctor Moreau. Don Winslow rethinks Homer in the 1980s crime epic City on Fire. Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov morphs into a contemporary murder mystery in Lan Samantha Chang’s The Family Chao.
 
Also wandering recklessly through genre, setting, and general approach: Hamlet goes to New York. Joan of Arc goes to space. Edgar Allan Poe gets a genderqueer protagonist. Shakespeare goes rom-com in multiple titles.
 
Scroll over the covers below for descriptions and details, and feel free to add discussion or further suggestions in the comments section. Also, you can add the books you like to your own Want to Read shelf.