Fairy Tale Retelling

Familiar stories cracked open and rebuilt. Fairy tale retellings that keep the old bones — the forest, the wolf, the bargain — while asking what the original left out.

On the Fantasy & the Invented shelf.

Books shelved as Fairy Tale Retelling

• Cress — Marissa Meyer
• Alice in Wonderland - Classics — Lewis Carroll
• The River Has Roots — Amal El-Mohtar
• The Crane Husband — Kelly Barnhill
• The Tales of Beedle the Bard — J.K. Rowling
• Shadow and Bone — Leigh Bardugo
• Cinder — Marissa Meyer
• The Witchwood Knot — Olivia Atwater
• The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories — Susanna Clarke
• Pay the piper — Jane Yolen
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) — C.S. Lewis
• Ella Enchanted — Gail Carson Levine
• The Horse and His Boy — C. S. Lewis
• The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains — Unknown author
• The Hazel Wood — Melissa Albert
• The Sirens — Emilia Hart
• Little Thieves — Margaret Owen
• El rumor de los huesos — A. G. Slatter
• Kill the Beast — Serra Swift
• Winter — Marissa Meyer
• Prince Caspian — C. S. Lewis
• Thistlemarsh — Moorea Corrigan
• We Shall Be Monsters — Alyssa Wees
• Circe — Madeline Miller

Related genres

• Fantasy
• Epic Fantasy
• Urban Fantasy
• Dark Fantasy
• Cozy Fantasy
• Historical Fantasy
• Dragons
• Asian-inspired Fantasy
• LitRPG
• Military Fantasy
• Grimdark
• Contemporary Fantasy
• Court Intrigue
• Fae
• Portal Fantasy
• Sapphic Fantasy
• Quest Fantasy
• Flintlock Fantasy
• Necromancy
• Roman-inspired Fantasy
• Dying Earth

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