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 Auction
The Wicked Sea (The Wicked Sea, #1)
Last Night in Brooklyn
Year of the Mer
West of Wicked (The Great and Terrible Land, #1)
Frozen by Stardust (Beasts of the Briar, #5)
The Witch and the Huntress
Cruel Angel (Deluxe Edition) (Gilded Monsters, 4)
Aphrodite in Pieces
Dreamt I Found You
The Redwood Bargain
Vile Lady Villains: A World-Burning Sapphic Tale of Literature’s Most Notorious Lady Villains
The Unruly Heart of Miss Darcy
Lady Tremaine
Hell's Heart
James
Lady Tremaine
Demon Copperhead
Blood of Hercules (Villains of Lore, #1)
I, Medusa
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
The Wife Upstairs
Non è un paese per single
Lore Olympus: Volume One (Lore Olympus, #1)
Hemlock & Silver
Hungerstone
Last Night in Brooklyn
Bloody Black
Cleopatra
Daughter of the Moon Goddess (The Celestial Kingdom, #1)
American Gods by Neil GaimanDaughter of the Forest by Juliet MarillierGood Omens by Terry PratchettThe Once and Future King by T.H. WhiteElla Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Myth and Folktale Retellings
631 books — 587 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
173 books — 593 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 — 424 voters
The Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerCirce by Madeline MillerAriadne by Jennifer SaintA Thousand Ships by Natalie HaynesLore Olympus by Rachel  Smythe
Greek Mythology Retellings!
293 books — 505 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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On the one hand, the literary category known as the “retelling” is pretty straightforward. It’s a new version of an older story, usually a...
Priya Ardis
Soft sun shone down on a misty cathedral at the opposite end of a football-field length courtyard. The cathedral had a long pointed tower with beautiful rose and ivory stained glass windows. Pink-petal flowers and deep green ivy climbed the stones from the ground to it’s roof. A large fountain stood in the middle of the courtyard with water falling from several lion’s heads. Between the misty air and rolling slope of the earth, the grounds reminded me of a long lost fairy tale.
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History books say that kings and dukes and generals start wars. Don't believe it. We start them, you and I. Every time we turn away, keep quiet, stay out of it, behave ourselves. ...more
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