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
Lady Tremaine
Demon Copperhead
James
Blood of Hercules (Villains of Lore, #1)
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
Non è un paese per single
The Wife Upstairs
Beth Is Dead
Lore Olympus: Volume One (Lore Olympus, #1)
Hemlock & Silver
A Sorceress Comes to Call
Cleopatra
Bloody Black
Daughter of the Moon Goddess (The Celestial Kingdom, #1)
Hekate - The Witch (Goddesses of the Underworld, #1)
Winter by Marissa MeyerFairest by Marissa MeyerThe Wrath and the Dawn by Renée AhdiehCrimson Bound by Rosamund HodgeA Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston
2015 YA Fairy Tale Retellings
94 books — 380 voters
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Once and Future King by T.H. WhiteMary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy by Mary  StewartLe Morte d'Arthur by Thomas MaloryThe Winter King by Bernard Cornwell
The Arthurian Legend Retold
456 books — 761 voters

Cinder by Marissa MeyerScarlet by Marissa MeyerElla Enchanted by Gail Carson LevineCress by Marissa MeyerBeastly by Alex Flinn
Fairy Tales Retold
553 books — 567 voters
The Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerCirce by Madeline MillerAriadne by Jennifer SaintA Thousand Ships by Natalie HaynesLore Olympus by Rachel  Smythe
Greek Mythology Retellings!
292 books — 502 voters

Golden by Cameron DokeyBeauty Sleep by Cameron DokeySnow by Tracy LynnCinderella and the Colonel by K.M. SheaFortune's Fool by Mercedes Lackey
Fairy Tale Retellings: Hidden Gems
597 books — 744 voters
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. MaasThe Goddess Test by Aimee CarterGoddess of Spring by P.C. CastPersephone by Kaitlin BevisRadiant Darkness by Emily Whitman
Hades and Persephone
253 books — 997 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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