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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The Sweetest Fiend (Played by the Piper, #1)
Big Bad Wolf (Maple Hollow, #1)
The Washwoman at the River's End (The Curse of the Fates #1)
Reign
Our Strange Duet
Mestra
The Pumpkin Bride
A Thousand Monstrous Forms
Styx - The River (Goddesses of the Underworld, #2)
The Weight of Angels
Incarnate
Witch Daughter
Galinda: A Charmed Childhood
The Housekeeper
Adam, Mine.
Demon Copperhead
Mestra
Lady Tremaine
James
Big Bad Wolf (Maple Hollow, #1)
The Sweetest Fiend (Played by the Piper, #1)
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
Blood of Hercules (Villains of Lore, #1)
Bonds of Hercules (Villains of Lore, #2)
I, Medusa
The Washwoman at the River's End (The Curse of the Fates #1)
The Wife Upstairs
Hemlock & Silver
Hester
Odyssey (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #4)
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
466 books — 767 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
602 books — 751 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 — 823 voters
Beauty by Robin McKinleyLord of Scoundrels by Loretta ChaseBeastly by Alex FlinnWhen Beauty Tamed the Beast by Eloisa JamesLover Awakened by J.R. Ward
Beauty and the Beast
799 books — 1,998 voters

From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. ArmentroutFourth Wing by Rebecca YarrosGild by Raven KennedyA Shadow in the Ember by Jennifer L. ArmentroutThe Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent
Sarah J. Maas Clones
107 books — 431 voters
Truth in the Dark by Amy LaneDuck! by Kim DareCinder by Marie SextonScarlet and the White Wolf by Kirby CrowBrute by Kim Fielding
Best Gay books based on fairytales
236 books — 423 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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