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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Cleopatra
The Red Winter
The Sun and the Starmaker
A Stage Set for Villains
The Glowing Hours
Nightshade and Oak
Until the Clock Strikes Midnight
Risky Business
This Wretched Beauty
The Wandering Queen: A Novel of Dido
The Legend of the Nine-Tailed Fox
Catherine: A Retelling of Wuthering Heights
The Wolf and the Crown of Blood (The Broken Accords, #1)
The Swan's Daughter
Beth Is Dead
James
Demon Copperhead
Blood of Hercules (Villains of Lore, #1)
I, Medusa
The Wife Upstairs
Lore Olympus: Volume One (Lore Olympus, #1)
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
Wonka
Beth Is Dead
Hemlock & Silver
The Things Gods Break (The Crucible, #2)
A Sorceress Comes to Call
Bloody Black
Wings of Starlight (Wings of Pixie Hollow, #1)
Hungerstone
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
590 books — 737 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

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
2,812 books — 9,154 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
250 books — 994 voters

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn MuirCarmilla by J. Sheridan Le FanuHell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph WhiteThe Luminous Dead by Caitlin  StarlingWilder Girls by Rory Power
Queer Horror
693 books — 416 voters

Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
Circe
Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, #2)
Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3)
The Song of Achilles
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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