I’m doing a reading challenge with my friend and I can’t think of any fairy tale retellings. If anyone could please give me a suggestion I would appreciate it.
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Angela Carter !!!!
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Mercedes Lackey’s Godmother series
T Kingfisher has a bunch
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier is a Seven Swans tale
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Spinners by Donna Jo Napoli is an amazing retelling of Rumplestiltskin!
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*The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales* by Bruno Bettelheim.
Littlefires320 on
Stephen King’s Fairytale was a fun read
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Like half of the short stories in the Witcher
Royal_Basil_1915 on
*Little Thieves* by Margaret Owen is a really good YA retelling of the Goose Girl.
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Robin McKinley has a bunch of fairy tale retellings (Beauty, Spindle’s End, Deerskin, Rose Daughter).
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An offer from a gentleman by Julia Quinn is Cinderella
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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire, who also wrote Wicked, the inspiration for the Broadway show.
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Check out Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory McGuire. It’s a retelling of Cinderella. He’s also written a retelling of Snow White called Mirror Mirror. And many others.
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The 500 Kingdoms, and Elemental Masters series by Mercedes Lackey, which start with *The Fairy Godmother* and *The Serpent’s Shadow* respectively.
Nearly all of Donna Jo Napoli, Alex Flinn, and Robin McKinley’s YA books
*Uprooted* and *Spinning Silver* by Naomi Novik
The Lunar Chronicles, beginning with *Cinder* by Marissa Meyer
*Girls Made of Snow and Glass* by Melissa Bashardoust
*Bryony and Roses* by T. Kingfisher
*Ella Enchanted,* and *Fairest* by Gail Carson Levine
Most of Gregory Maguire adult books
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Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente
The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge. Unlike most of these, this is space opera, not fantasy.
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Uprooted and Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik.
Cinder by Marissa Meyers
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There’s a pair of novellas by Alix E. Harrow called A Spindle Splintered and A Mirror Mended based off sleeping beauty and Snow White respectively.
For the Wolf and its sequel For the Throne by Hannah Witten based off little red riding hood
After the Forest by Kell Woods is what happens after Hansel and Gretel grow up
The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid is another take on little red riding hood
That’s all off the top of my head, but I know I’ve read quite a few lately
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Wicked by Gregory Maguire is The Wizard of Oz. He also wrote Mirror Mirror (Snow White) and Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (Cinderella). Those are the only ones I’ve read, but he’s written a lot more.
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There are sooooo many, a “brief” list:
Robin McKinley: Beauty, Spindle’s End, Rose Daughter, The Door in the Hedge
Jane Yolen: Briar Rose, Tam Lin, Sleeping Beauty
Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling put together some story anthologies (so many more than I’ve listed, lol):
A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales
Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold
The Dark of the Woods: Fairy Tales for Modern Times
In more recent publications:
Disney has a whole set of romance book retellings under their Twisted Tale imprint, a few are:
So This is Love, Elizabeth Lim
Mirror, Mirror, Jen Calonita
Jim C. Hines did some fun ones: The Stepsister Scheme, The Mermaid’s Madness
YA that I really liked:
Alix E. Harrow: A Spindle Splintered, A Mirror Mended
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The Grace of wild things by Heather Fawcett. It’s like Anne of Green Gables as a witch and /Hansel and Gretel.
The Snow child by Eowyn Ivey is based on a Russian fairy tale.
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How about ‘Faerie Tale’ by Raymond Feist?
It’s pretty awesome.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/43919
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
The first ACOTAR book is basically a Beauty and the Beast retelling
[The Goose Girl](https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/2d9d85b9-6993-4ce7-8436-7383a2677eb5) by Shannon Hale
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights – by Salman Rushdie
1
Angela Carter !!!!
Mercedes Lackey’s Godmother series
T Kingfisher has a bunch
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier is a Seven Swans tale
Spinners by Donna Jo Napoli is an amazing retelling of Rumplestiltskin!
*The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales* by Bruno Bettelheim.
Stephen King’s Fairytale was a fun read
Like half of the short stories in the Witcher
*Little Thieves* by Margaret Owen is a really good YA retelling of the Goose Girl.
Robin McKinley has a bunch of fairy tale retellings (Beauty, Spindle’s End, Deerskin, Rose Daughter).
An offer from a gentleman by Julia Quinn is Cinderella
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire, who also wrote Wicked, the inspiration for the Broadway show.
Check out Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory McGuire. It’s a retelling of Cinderella. He’s also written a retelling of Snow White called Mirror Mirror. And many others.
The 500 Kingdoms, and Elemental Masters series by Mercedes Lackey, which start with *The Fairy Godmother* and *The Serpent’s Shadow* respectively.
Nearly all of Donna Jo Napoli, Alex Flinn, and Robin McKinley’s YA books
*Uprooted* and *Spinning Silver* by Naomi Novik
The Lunar Chronicles, beginning with *Cinder* by Marissa Meyer
*Girls Made of Snow and Glass* by Melissa Bashardoust
*Bryony and Roses* by T. Kingfisher
*Ella Enchanted,* and *Fairest* by Gail Carson Levine
Most of Gregory Maguire adult books
Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente
The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge. Unlike most of these, this is space opera, not fantasy.
Uprooted and Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik.
Cinder by Marissa Meyers
There’s a pair of novellas by Alix E. Harrow called A Spindle Splintered and A Mirror Mended based off sleeping beauty and Snow White respectively.
For the Wolf and its sequel For the Throne by Hannah Witten based off little red riding hood
After the Forest by Kell Woods is what happens after Hansel and Gretel grow up
The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid is another take on little red riding hood
That’s all off the top of my head, but I know I’ve read quite a few lately
Wicked by Gregory Maguire is The Wizard of Oz. He also wrote Mirror Mirror (Snow White) and Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (Cinderella). Those are the only ones I’ve read, but he’s written a lot more.
There are sooooo many, a “brief” list:
Robin McKinley: Beauty, Spindle’s End, Rose Daughter, The Door in the Hedge
Jane Yolen: Briar Rose, Tam Lin, Sleeping Beauty
Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling put together some story anthologies (so many more than I’ve listed, lol):
A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales
Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold
The Dark of the Woods: Fairy Tales for Modern Times
In more recent publications:
Disney has a whole set of romance book retellings under their Twisted Tale imprint, a few are:
So This is Love, Elizabeth Lim
Mirror, Mirror, Jen Calonita
Jim C. Hines did some fun ones: The Stepsister Scheme, The Mermaid’s Madness
YA that I really liked:
Alix E. Harrow: A Spindle Splintered, A Mirror Mended
The Grace of wild things by Heather Fawcett. It’s like Anne of Green Gables as a witch and /Hansel and Gretel.
The Snow child by Eowyn Ivey is based on a Russian fairy tale.
The Child Thief by Brom!