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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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Oathbound (The Legendborn Cycle, #3)
The River Has Roots
What Wakes the Bells
The Hymn to Dionysus
The Deathly Grimm (The Forest Grimm, #2)
The Scorpion and the Night Blossom (The Three Realms, #1)
Elphie: A Wicked Childhood (The Wicked Years, #0)
Hangry Hearts
While We're Young
Malinalli
Exquisite Ruin (The Labyrinth, #1)
A Wizard of Earthsea: A Graphic Novel (The Books of Earthsea)
Once Upon A Pack (Royalverse, #1)
Aunt Tigress
Les Lilas du Roi (Peau d'Âme, #1)
James
Demon Copperhead
Blood of Hercules (Villains of Lore, #1)
Lore Olympus: Volume One (Lore Olympus, #1)
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
The Wife Upstairs
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
A Sorceress Comes to Call
Curse of Shadows and Thorns (The Broken Kingdoms, #1)
Thornhedge
Wings of Starlight (Disney Fairies)
Daughter of the Moon Goddess (The Celestial Kingdom, #1)
Black Woods Blue Sky
Tangled Up in You (Meant to Be, #4)
Oathbound (The Legendborn Cycle, #3)
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
453 books — 740 voters
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
246 books — 994 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
233 books — 409 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
93 books — 378 voters

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
2,745 books — 9,147 voters
Uprooted by Naomi NovikDaughter of the Forest by Juliet MarillierSpinning Silver by Naomi NovikDeathless by Catherynne M. ValenteThe Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
Best Adult Fairytale Fantasy
178 books — 340 voters

Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, #2)
Circe
Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3)
Heartless
The Song of Achilles
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)
To Kill a Kingdom (Hundred Kingdoms, #1)
Cruel Beauty

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