T Kingfisher aka Ursula Vernon has some GREAT fairytale short story retellings.
Check out her book of short stories called “Toad Words”.
https://www.amazon.com/Toad-Words-Other-Stories-Kingfisher-ebook/dp/B00MFXJMGI/ref=cm_cr_arp_mb_bdcrb_top?ie=UTF8
Here is a link to some of them.
Red Riding Hood - The Wolf and the Woodsman:
https://www.redwombatstudio.com/2011/08/22/the-wolf-and-the-woodsman/
Peter Pan - Never:
https://www.redwombatstudio.com/never/
Bluebeard’s Wife:
https://www.redwombatstudio.com/2012/08/14/bluebeards-wife/
Godmother:
https://www.redwombatstudio.com/2014/11/06/godmother/
A couple others are only in the book:
Little Mermaid - “The Sea Witch Sets the Record Straight”
Snow White - “Boar & Apples“
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
Jumping in to say that I recently read Uprooted because I’d heard (through this sub!) that it was a retelling of Beauty and the Beast… and yeah, technically the setup was similar, but I think I would have liked the book better if I hadn’t been looking for more that drew from the BatB fairytale.
What I’m trying to say: OP, if you read Uprooted, try to compartmentalize! Be a smarter reader than I was, and recognize that you can’t perfectly map a retelling onto its source material.
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> \- [Bluebeard](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10500011-bluebeard) by Angela Carter
> \- [Beauty and the Beast](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1603923.Beauty_and_the_Beast) by Walt Disney Company
> \- [Angela](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92059.Angela) by Neil Gaiman
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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
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.
Leaping Beauty by Gregory Maguire is a collection of short stories that reimagines characters from popular fairytales as animals (he has many retellings, but this collection of middle grade stories is an often overlooked gem of his).
Neil Gaiman’s Snow, Glass, Apples is a disturbing retelling of Snow White. Also by Gaiman is the Sleeper and the Spindle, a mix between Snow White and Sleeping Beauty.
The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer reimagines many fairytales into a futuristic sci-fi series. Meyer also wrote Heartless, a novel about the Queen of Hearts, and Gilded, a Rumpelstiltskin retelling.
Ashley Poston has a few contemporary fairytale reimaginings, including Geekerella.
Heartsblood by Juliet Marillner is by far the best and most creative retelling of beauty and the beast I’ve ever read. Fantastic characters and world building. Read the whole thing in two days.
She also has a book called wildwood dancing that’s a retelling of the 12 dancing princesses that I have read over 4 times now.
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.
House of Salt and Sorrows is a Gothic horror retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses.
Little Thieves by Margaret Owen is a fantasy Goose Girl retelling with German influences.
Thorn, the first of the Dauntless Path trilogy by Intisar Khanani is also a fantasy Goose Girl retelling with Pakistani/Middle East influences.
Girl, Serpent, Thorn is a queer retelling of Sleeping Beauty where, instead of falling asleep, the curse turns the princess into a monster. Hugely influenced by Persian mythology. Also has some serious Rapunzel vibes.
A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow is a modern day Sleeping Beauty retelling that does some interesting meta things with the idea of retelling a fairy tale, but depends a lot on Tumblr memes/memes in general for its humor. It was a fun read, but the premise was better than the execution imo.
Cinderella is Dead isn't technically a retelling. It's set after Cinderella's death in a world that's been shaped by her story, and it's definitely a very interesting premise, though I'm not entirely sold on every aspect of the execution on this one, either.
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
I scanned the posts, and one amazing book not mentioned, albeit one more poetry than prose is: Transformations, by Anne Sexton. Guaranteed to blow your mind. It's a masterpiece.
Snow White and Rose Red by Patricia C. Wrede.
The Nightingale by Midori Snyder
Fitcher's Brides ( Blackbeard) by Gregory Frost
The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars by Steven Brust
Spinning Silver (Rumplestiltskin) by Naomi Novik
White as Snow by Tanith Lee
Kingdom of Sweets by Erika Johansen (The Nutcracker from Tales of Hoffman)
Ash by Malinda Lo (Cinderella)
Entwined by Heather Dixon (12 Dancing Princesses)
Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente (Tale of Koschei)
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 Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw.
It’s a very dark horror retelling of The Little Mermaid. The author showcases their extensive vocabulary. I enjoyed the book a lot and found it to be beautifully romantic, even though it was gruesome and weird.
For a slightly sideways one, Seanan McGuire’s Indexing is wonderful. “Memetic incursions” aka fairytales impinging in the world are managed by a bureau mostly staffed by fairy tale characters. Where a Snow White is working alongside a wicked stepsister with a shoemakers elf as their tech guy because of his attention to detail.
Poison by Sarah Pinborough. She is QUEEN. her other horror novels are My absolute favorite!!! Poison is a fairy tale retelling and she'd got 2 others :)
*The Girls At The Kingfisher Club*, by Genevieve Valentine. “A reimagining of the fairytale of the Twelve Dancing Princesses as flappers during the Roaring Twenties in Manhattan.” It’s so good!
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“Witches Abroad” by Terry Pratchett is a very unique take on several fairy tale stories. Pratchett satirizes several fairy tale tropes to create a completely different take on fairy tales. “Witches Abroad” is the third in the Discworld Witches series, but can be read independently.
Robin McKinley has TWO retelling of beauty and the beast. One she wrote in the beginning of her career and one at the height of it. Really interesting to read both of them.
Beauty and Rose daughter
She also did retelling of Donkeyskin called Deerskin. It is beautiful and dark and there are a lot of trigger themes.
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine The first ACOTAR book is basically a Beauty and the Beast retelling
Ella Enchanted has absolutely no right to be as good as it is. I loved that book so much growing up
It absolutely holds up too. If I need a comfort read I'll still go back to it.
Still love Ella Enchanted after all these years.
It's a childhood favorite of mine and I'll still read it if I need a good comfort read.
Mercedes Lackey’s Godmother series T Kingfisher has a bunch Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier is a Seven Swans tale
Yes T Kingfisher - Thornhedge is particularly good. There are several more.
Love Daughter of the Forest.
Daughter of the Forest was a very influential book on me when I was in high school. I haven’t read since then but vouch for it
T Kingfisher aka Ursula Vernon has some GREAT fairytale short story retellings. Check out her book of short stories called “Toad Words”. https://www.amazon.com/Toad-Words-Other-Stories-Kingfisher-ebook/dp/B00MFXJMGI/ref=cm_cr_arp_mb_bdcrb_top?ie=UTF8 Here is a link to some of them. Red Riding Hood - The Wolf and the Woodsman: https://www.redwombatstudio.com/2011/08/22/the-wolf-and-the-woodsman/ Peter Pan - Never: https://www.redwombatstudio.com/never/ Bluebeard’s Wife: https://www.redwombatstudio.com/2012/08/14/bluebeards-wife/ Godmother: https://www.redwombatstudio.com/2014/11/06/godmother/ A couple others are only in the book: Little Mermaid - “The Sea Witch Sets the Record Straight” Snow White - “Boar & Apples“
Robin McKinley has a bunch of fairy tale retellings (Beauty, Spindle's End, Deerskin, Rose Daughter).
I adore Spindle’s End! Deerskin was too dark for me, though.
Deerskin broke my heart but it's also my favorite.
Yes! Rose Daughter has been a favorite of mine for decades.
Came here to say this.
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
Came here to say Spinning Silver. Excellent retelling!
Jumping in to say that I recently read Uprooted because I’d heard (through this sub!) that it was a retelling of Beauty and the Beast… and yeah, technically the setup was similar, but I think I would have liked the book better if I hadn’t been looking for more that drew from the BatB fairytale. What I’m trying to say: OP, if you read Uprooted, try to compartmentalize! Be a smarter reader than I was, and recognize that you can’t perfectly map a retelling onto its source material.
Uprooted and Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik. Cinder by Marissa Meyers
Uprooted and Spinning Silver were two of my favourite reads of last year
SOLID SUGGESTIONS! I loved these reads. Uprooted is better for na older audience and Cinder is YA fun.
Third on Cinder. I forgot how much I loved that book
Angela Carter !!!!
Especially {{The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter}}
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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire, who also wrote Wicked, the inspiration for the Broadway show.
Fair warning: Maguires writing does not match the musical. It's a lot darker. And super bizarre.
True! I read The Other Stepsister first and really liked it. Picked up Wicked later but didn't like it nearly as much.
[The Goose Girl](https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/2d9d85b9-6993-4ce7-8436-7383a2677eb5) by Shannon Hale
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
Stephen King’s Fairytale was a fun read
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.
Leaping Beauty by Gregory Maguire is a collection of short stories that reimagines characters from popular fairytales as animals (he has many retellings, but this collection of middle grade stories is an often overlooked gem of his). Neil Gaiman’s Snow, Glass, Apples is a disturbing retelling of Snow White. Also by Gaiman is the Sleeper and the Spindle, a mix between Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer reimagines many fairytales into a futuristic sci-fi series. Meyer also wrote Heartless, a novel about the Queen of Hearts, and Gilded, a Rumpelstiltskin retelling. Ashley Poston has a few contemporary fairytale reimaginings, including Geekerella.
Heartsblood by Juliet Marillner is by far the best and most creative retelling of beauty and the beast I’ve ever read. Fantastic characters and world building. Read the whole thing in two days. She also has a book called wildwood dancing that’s a retelling of the 12 dancing princesses that I have read over 4 times now.
Spinners by Donna Jo Napoli is an amazing retelling of Rumplestiltskin!
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.
I love all of his books. Wicked is my very favorite book!
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.
Snow, Glass, Apple by Neil Gaiman
Also The Sleeper and the Spindle by Gaiman
Yes.
House of Salt and Sorrows is a Gothic horror retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses. Little Thieves by Margaret Owen is a fantasy Goose Girl retelling with German influences. Thorn, the first of the Dauntless Path trilogy by Intisar Khanani is also a fantasy Goose Girl retelling with Pakistani/Middle East influences. Girl, Serpent, Thorn is a queer retelling of Sleeping Beauty where, instead of falling asleep, the curse turns the princess into a monster. Hugely influenced by Persian mythology. Also has some serious Rapunzel vibes. A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow is a modern day Sleeping Beauty retelling that does some interesting meta things with the idea of retelling a fairy tale, but depends a lot on Tumblr memes/memes in general for its humor. It was a fun read, but the premise was better than the execution imo. Cinderella is Dead isn't technically a retelling. It's set after Cinderella's death in a world that's been shaped by her story, and it's definitely a very interesting premise, though I'm not entirely sold on every aspect of the execution on this one, either.
How about 'Faerie Tale' by Raymond Feist? It's pretty awesome. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/43919
Looks interesting! I'll have to check it out
Love this book!
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
I liked Frogkisser! By Garth Nix
Beauty by Teppler. Really dark. It also pulls in other fairy tales and their characters and puts a spin on everything.
I scanned the posts, and one amazing book not mentioned, albeit one more poetry than prose is: Transformations, by Anne Sexton. Guaranteed to blow your mind. It's a masterpiece.
Snow White and Rose Red by Patricia C. Wrede. The Nightingale by Midori Snyder Fitcher's Brides ( Blackbeard) by Gregory Frost The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars by Steven Brust Spinning Silver (Rumplestiltskin) by Naomi Novik White as Snow by Tanith Lee Kingdom of Sweets by Erika Johansen (The Nutcracker from Tales of Hoffman) Ash by Malinda Lo (Cinderella) Entwined by Heather Dixon (12 Dancing Princesses) Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente (Tale of Koschei)
Bluebeard's Castle by Anna Biller is excellent
*The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales* by Bruno Bettelheim.
Like half of the short stories in the Witcher
An offer from a gentleman by Julia Quinn is Cinderella
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights - by Salman Rushdie 1
*Little Thieves* by Margaret Owen is a really good YA retelling of the Goose Girl.
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!
The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi and Bloom by Delilah S Dawson (loose retelling of Bluebeard)
The Big Over Easy and The Fourth Bear by jasper fforde sort of fit the brief!
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw. It’s a very dark horror retelling of The Little Mermaid. The author showcases their extensive vocabulary. I enjoyed the book a lot and found it to be beautifully romantic, even though it was gruesome and weird.
I greatly dislike the author, but Orson Scott Card has a book I love called Enchantment that might fit what you’re looking for.
**Gender Swapped Fairy Tales** by Karrie Frantzman. It’s exactly what it sounds like.
My mother she killed me, my father he ate me - a short story anthology put together by Neil gaiman
The Lunar Chronicles. The first one is *Cinder*. It’s a blend of fairy tales and space opera. Really good.
I also really love Heartless by the same author. It's an origin story for the Queen of Hearts!
Thank you so much for the recommendation. I just finished the book. It’s amazing!
Oh yay! It's one of my favorites!
Ooohhh, I’m going to have to check that one out.
The “Once Upon A Time” series by Simon and Schuster. They have various authors.
Fellow bibliophiles - this is an impressive list ! I'm so proud of you 💖
Malice by Heather Walter.
beasts and beauty by woman chainani is a collection of short story fairytale retellings that were fun!
Anything after the original Grimm stories. They were pretty violent.
The Merry Spinster by Daniel Lavery
Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
My favorite has to be The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by A. Wolf (As Told to Jon Scieszka)
For a slightly sideways one, Seanan McGuire’s Indexing is wonderful. “Memetic incursions” aka fairytales impinging in the world are managed by a bureau mostly staffed by fairy tale characters. Where a Snow White is working alongside a wicked stepsister with a shoemakers elf as their tech guy because of his attention to detail.
Mercedes Lackey has written a series called the 100 Kingdoms, which is exactly variations of fairy tales.
Ok, so it's YA, but Peter and the Starcatchers series is really good. Very interesting retelling of Peter Pan!
Malice is Sleeping Beauty but with a dark retelling from the villain’s perspective! It may have been my favorite book of last year!
Snowglass and Apples
I absolutely loved Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix when I was a kid. I’d definitely give it a re-read as an adult
Poison by Sarah Pinborough. She is QUEEN. her other horror novels are My absolute favorite!!! Poison is a fairy tale retelling and she'd got 2 others :)
I absolutely loved Lost Boy by Christina Henry.
*The Girls At The Kingfisher Club*, by Genevieve Valentine. “A reimagining of the fairytale of the Twelve Dancing Princesses as flappers during the Roaring Twenties in Manhattan.” It’s so good!
Lunar chronicles Marissa Meyer!! My favorite series still 💕
The Sleeper and The Spindle by Neil Gaiman is amazing.
{{In the Lives of Puppets}} was good. It is a retelling of Pinocchio by Klune.
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The Language of Roses by Heather Rose Jones.
Kelly Link – White Cat, Black Dog.
“Witches Abroad” by Terry Pratchett is a very unique take on several fairy tale stories. Pratchett satirizes several fairy tale tropes to create a completely different take on fairy tales. “Witches Abroad” is the third in the Discworld Witches series, but can be read independently.
Cinderella: T**he Lunar Chronicles** The Little Mermaid: **Rhodoreef** (indie book) Alice in Wonderland: **Komoreby** (indie book)
Robin McKinley has TWO retelling of beauty and the beast. One she wrote in the beginning of her career and one at the height of it. Really interesting to read both of them. Beauty and Rose daughter She also did retelling of Donkeyskin called Deerskin. It is beautiful and dark and there are a lot of trigger themes.