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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Behind Five Willows
The Rainshadow Orphans (Rainshadow, #1)
The Lost Book of Lancelot
A Curse of Beasts and Magic (Beautiful and Beastly, #1)
A Kiss of Crimson Ash (Games of the Goddess, #1)
A Dark and Wild Wood
The Last Lady B
Not Your Final Girl
The Inklings Detective Agency
The Lustrous Dark
Calypso's Odyssey
Not Precisely Mr. Knightley  (The Silver Teapot #2)
Havisham
The Color of Time
Mercutio
James
Demon Copperhead
Lady Tremaine
Blood of Hercules (Villains of Lore, #1)
I, Medusa
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
The Wife Upstairs
Lore Olympus: Volume One (Lore Olympus, #1)
The Lowe Job
A Curse of Beasts and Magic (Beautiful and Beastly, #1)
Hemlock & Silver
The Wolf Den (Wolf Den Trilogy, #1)
Hungerstone
Cleopatra
Thornhedge
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 Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsMistborn by Brandon SandersonClockwork Angel by Cassandra ClareDivergent by Veronica RothLegend by Marie Lu
Best Series: Trilogies
544 books — 377 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
254 books — 1,012 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!
302 books — 523 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
457 books — 761 voters
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
2,855 books — 9,215 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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