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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Wings of Reverie (Wings of Pixie Hollow, #2)
Vow of Eternal Night
The Whitechapel Full Moon Society
Eyes of Kings (Flesh and False Gods, #3)
Barbie: Dreamscape
The Matchmaker's Cottage
Bridget & Gabe Are Not Okay
For the Love of the Quest: A Novel
Find My Way Down to You
Fields of Asphodel (Underworld Myths)
Such Great Heights
Suhwa (Guardians of Dawn, #4)
The Witch Queen (The Crimson Crown Duology, #2)
Teen Titans Together (Teen Titans, #6)
Her Creation (Dark Manor Chronicles, #2)
Demon Copperhead
Lady Tremaine
James
Big Bad Wolf (Maple Hollow, #1)
Blood of Hercules (Villains of Lore, #1)
Bonds of Hercules (Villains of Lore, #2)
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
I, Medusa
Odyssey (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #4)
Thornhedge
Hemlock & Silver
Lore Olympus: Volume One (Lore Olympus, #1)
The Wife Upstairs
A Sorceress Comes to Call
Our Strange Duet
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. MaasThe Goddess Test by Aimee CarterGoddess of Spring by P.C. CastPersephone by Kaitlin BevisRadiant Darkness by Emily Whitman
Hades and Persephone
300 books — 1,011 voters
Winter by Marissa MeyerFairest by Marissa MeyerThe Wrath and the Dawn by Renée AhdiehCrimson Bound by Rosamund HodgeA Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston
2015 YA Fairy Tale Retellings
95 books — 382 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsMistborn by Brandon SandersonClockwork Angel by Cassandra ClareDivergent by Veronica RothLegend by Marie Lu
Best Series: Trilogies
545 books — 381 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 — 423 voters
The Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerCirce by Madeline MillerAriadne by Jennifer SaintA Thousand Ships by Natalie HaynesThe Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Greek Mythology Retellings!
309 books — 539 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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