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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Fishbone Cinderella
Habits of the Sea
Most Ardently Yours
Forsaking Midnight (Defying the Stars #2)
A Tangled Magic
Henry Tudor Must Die
Ungodly Rich
Stolen by Shadows (Beasts of the Briar, #6)
One Shattered Crown (Grimm Bargains #3)
The Brides
The Witch Below the Dreaming Wood
Ember: A Mafia Romance (The Hunted Kingdom, 2)
Misery's Wife
Rootbound: A Tangled Novel
Hooded (Post-Apocalyptic Fairy Tales #3)
Demon Copperhead
Lady Tremaine
James
Blood of Hercules (Villains of Lore, #1)
Odyssey (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #4)
Bonds of Hercules (Villains of Lore, #2)
I, Medusa
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
Lore Olympus: Volume One (Lore Olympus, #1)
A Sorceress Comes to Call
The Wife Upstairs
Hemlock & Silver
Stolen by Shadows (Beasts of the Briar, #6)
Vow of Eternal Night
Clytemnestra
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 — 9,226 voters

Cinder by Marissa MeyerScarlet by Marissa MeyerElla Enchanted by Gail Carson LevineCress by Marissa MeyerBeastly by Alex Flinn
Fairy Tales Retold
554 books — 568 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
603 books — 749 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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