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
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
The Auction
James
Demon Copperhead
Lady Tremaine
Blood of Hercules (Villains of Lore, #1)
I, Medusa
A Curse of Beasts and Magic (Beautiful and Beastly, #1)
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
The Wife Upstairs
Daughter of the Moon Goddess (The Celestial Kingdom, #1)
Lore Olympus: Volume One (Lore Olympus, #1)
Hemlock & Silver
Hungerstone
Lore Olympus: Volume Ten (Lore Olympus, #10)
Cleopatra
Wings of Starlight (Wings of Pixie Hollow, #1)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsMistborn by Brandon SandersonClockwork Angel by Cassandra ClareDivergent by Veronica RothLegend by Marie Lu
Best Series: Trilogies
535 books — 372 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 LevineCinder by Marissa MeyerBeastly by Alex FlinnPrincess Academy by Shannon HaleThe Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
YA Modern Retellings
430 books — 824 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
600 books — 747 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
2,852 books — 9,211 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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