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)
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
758 books — 1,979 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
715 books — 447 voters

Cinder by Marissa MeyerElla Enchanted by Gail Carson LevineScarlet by Marissa MeyerCress by Marissa MeyerWinter by Marissa Meyer
Fairy tales & Retellings
714 books — 496 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
342 books — 1,128 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
101 books — 405 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

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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