Book Recommendations: RETELLINGS

by The Book Voyagers - 10:59 PM

Hi, voyagers! This is Sil bringing you a new list of recommendations. The theme of today's list is going to be RETELLINGS. It could be fairytale retellings, myth retellings, historical retellings, classics retellings, etc. I'm bringing my A+ game for this because I know many people enjoy retellings (like me!) and like me as well, would love a big list with all of them. I'll include ones I haven't read but know of and one's I've read and can't recommend enough.

Let's get started, shall we?

+ CLASSICS

The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer. (Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Snow White)
Hunting Monsters by S. L. Huang. (Loosely based on Little Red Riding Hood + Beauty and the Beast)
This Monstrous Thing by Mackenzi Lee. (Frankenstein)
Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson. (Peter Pan)
Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige. (The Wizard of Oz)
Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye. (Jane Eyre)
Ash by Malinda Lo. (Cinderella)
Uprooted by Naomi Novik. (Beauty and the Beast)
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier. (The Wild Swans)
The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh. (The Arabian Nights)

The Shadow Queen by C.J. Redwine. (Snow White)
Epic Fail by Claire LaZebnik. (Austen's Pride and Prejudice)
The Iron Fey by Julie Kagawa. (Shakespeare's Midsummer's Night Dream)
The Weight of Feathers by Anna-Marie McLemore. (Romeo and Juliet)
As I Descended by Robin Talley. (Shakespeare's Macbeth)*
The Isle of the Lost by Melissa de la Cruz. (Disney fairytales)
A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro. (Sherlock Holmes)
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. (The Illiad)
Drown by Esther Dalseno. (The Little Mermaid)
The Summer of Chasing Mermaids by Sarah Ockler. (The Little Mermaid)

Heartless by Marissa Meyer. (Alice in Wonderland's Queen of Hearts)*
The Forbidden Wish by Jessica Khoury. (Aladdin)
Marian by Ella Lyons. (Robin Hood)*
The Season by Jonah Lisa Dyer, Stephen Dyer. (Pride and Prejudice)*
Everland by Wendy Spinale. (Peter Pan)
The Rat Prince by Bridget Hodder. (Cinderella)*
A Branch of Silver, A Branch of Gold by Anne Elisabeth Stengl. (Loosely based on The 12 Dancing Princesses)
RoseBlood by A.G. Howard. (Phantom of the Opera)*

Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan. (Greek mythology)
The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi. (Indian mythology)
The Heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordan. (Greek + Roman mythology)
Arrows by Melissa Gorzelanczyk. (Cupid)
Prophecy by Ellen Oh. (Korean mythology)
Promise of Shadows by Justina Ireland. (Greek mythology)
Vassa in the Night by Sarah Porter. (Russian folktale of Vassilissa the Beautiful)*
Serpentine by Cindy Pon. (Chinese mythology)
The Dark Wife by Sarah Diemer. (Persephone and Hades)
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin. (Chinese mythology)

My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows. (Lady Jane Grey)*
The Boleyn Trilogy by Laura Andersen. (The Tudors)
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld. (World War I)
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein. (World War II)
Queen of Someday by Sherry D. Ficklin. (Catherine the Great of Russia)
Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco. (Jack the Ripper)*
Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee. (California Gold Rush)

*Hasn't released yet

If the title is in italic - an LGBT+ book

Do you like retellings? What is your FAVORITE retelling? Tell us!!!

Tags : book recommendations, retellings

2 comments

ValerieMay 19, 2016 at 4:14 PM
I absolutely love retellings, and I have a soft spot for Greek history and mythology, which is why I so badly want to read The Song of Achilles. I don't know if I even have ONE favorite retelling, but I absolutely loved The Lunar Chronicles, and also The Summer of Chasing Mermaids! And Tiger Lily! (ahh there's so many haha)
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