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
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 Swan's Daughter
Beth Is Dead
King of Ravens (Upon a Broken Throne, #1)
One Aladdin Two Lamps
James
Demon Copperhead
Lady Tremaine
Blood of Hercules (Villains of Lore, #1)
I, Medusa
The Wife Upstairs
Lore Olympus: Volume One (Lore Olympus, #1)
Wonka
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
Hemlock & Silver
Cleopatra
Non è un paese per single
A Sorceress Comes to Call
Bloody Black
Beth Is Dead
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
455 books — 747 voters
Splintered by A.G. HowardHeartless by Marissa MeyerUnhinged by A.G. HowardAlice in Zombieland by Gena ShowalterThe Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
Best Retellings of Alice in Wonderland
171 books — 591 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
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

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 — 422 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
93 books — 391 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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