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Fairytale Retelling Books
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Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 385 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,031,747 ratings — published 2012
Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 289 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 4.23 — 470,543 ratings — published 2013
Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3)
by (shelved 278 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 4.40 — 412,963 ratings — published 2014
Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4)
by (shelved 238 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 4.41 — 318,981 ratings — published 2015
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 226 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,517,344 ratings — published 2015
Heartless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 167 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 4.08 — 277,634 ratings — published 2016
Cruel Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 3.64 — 93,986 ratings — published 2014
A Curse So Dark and Lonely (Cursebreakers, #1)
by (shelved 153 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 3.95 — 183,276 ratings — published 2019
Hooked (Never After, #1)
by (shelved 143 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 3.77 — 534,991 ratings — published 2021
Fairest (The Lunar Chronicles, #3.5)
by (shelved 118 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 3.94 — 158,547 ratings — published 2015
Spinning Silver (ebook)
by (shelved 112 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 4.17 — 157,805 ratings — published 2018
The Never King (Vicious Lost Boys, #1)
by (shelved 101 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 3.66 — 230,874 ratings — published 2022
Hunted (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 100 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 3.87 — 33,373 ratings — published 2017
To Kill a Kingdom (Hundred Kingdoms, #1)
by (shelved 99 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 3.70 — 213,349 ratings — published 2018
The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1)
by (shelved 99 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 4.04 — 187,980 ratings — published 2015
Stars Above (The Lunar Chronicles, #4.5)
by (shelved 93 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 4.14 — 109,491 ratings — published 2016
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 4.05 — 83,640 ratings — published 1978
Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 4.02 — 426,925 ratings — published 1997
Uprooted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 4.02 — 271,967 ratings — published 2015
House of Salt and Sorrows (Sisters of the Salt, #1)
by (shelved 85 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 3.89 — 117,521 ratings — published 2019
Beastly (Beastly, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 3.82 — 178,781 ratings — published 2007
Princess of the Midnight Ball (The Princesses of Westfalin Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 3.95 — 37,488 ratings — published 2009
Gilded (Gilded, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 3.85 — 59,056 ratings — published 2021
Entwined (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 3.87 — 38,370 ratings — published 2011
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
by (shelved 71 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 4.63 — 3,426,023 ratings — published 2016
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 4.08 — 243,790 ratings — published 2017
The Goose Girl (The Books of Bayern, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 4.15 — 149,664 ratings — published 2003
Thornhedge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 3.91 — 68,906 ratings — published 2023
A Ruin of Roses (Deliciously Dark Fairytales, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 3.80 — 67,442 ratings — published 2021
The Shadow Queen (Ravenspire, #1)
by (shelved 65 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 3.74 — 22,057 ratings — published 2016
Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 4.17 — 109,301 ratings — published 2021
Cinderella Is Dead (ebook)
by (shelved 63 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 3.66 — 88,986 ratings — published 2020
Desperate Measures (Wicked Villains, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 3.53 — 62,358 ratings — published 2019
Scarred (Never After, #2)
by (shelved 60 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 3.84 — 224,075 ratings — published 2022
The Dark One (Vicious Lost Boys, #2)
by (shelved 59 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 3.94 — 152,403 ratings — published 2022
A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 3.57 — 43,378 ratings — published 2021
For the Wolf (Wilderwood, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 3.58 — 67,823 ratings — published 2021
Crimson Bound (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 59 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 3.63 — 22,685 ratings — published 2015
Splintered (Splintered, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 3.89 — 68,166 ratings — published 2013
Geekerella (Once Upon a Con, #1)
by (shelved 55 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 3.87 — 71,274 ratings — published 2017
Bonded by Thorns (Beasts of the Briar, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 3.92 — 80,140 ratings — published 2023
Gild (The Plated Prisoner, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 3.62 — 416,543 ratings — published 2020
Malice (Malice Duology, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 3.91 — 34,581 ratings — published 2021
Dorothy Must Die (Dorothy Must Die, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 3.79 — 87,884 ratings — published 2014
Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 4.29 — 72,934 ratings — published 1999
Stepsister (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 4.04 — 31,239 ratings — published 2019
Entreat Me (ebook)
by (shelved 48 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 4.01 — 16,156 ratings — published 2013
Their Vicious Darling (Vicious Lost Boys, #3)
by (shelved 47 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 3.94 — 126,347 ratings — published 2022
East (East, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 4.14 — 47,137 ratings — published 2003
The Sleeper and the Spindle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as fairytale-retelling)
avg rating 3.87 — 54,493 ratings — published 2013
“Clearly it is simplest never to marry at all,’ I said, trying to keep my voice light. These stories, ridiculous fairy tales though they were, had tainted the evening. Like Vivian, I preferred to think of The Sleeping Princess as a magical spectacle of fairy godmothers and characters from folklore. But then we had both learned the hard way about heartbreak and loss.”
― The Sleeping Beauties
― The Sleeping Beauties
“I'm the original feminist. That part of my history simply got lost in the translation.”
― Thoroughly Kissed
― Thoroughly Kissed












