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ONCE UPON A TIME fairy tales, re-mixed |
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by Nancy Campbell Allen
Hazel Hughes finds romance and danger as she travels to Romania with her employer, Dr. Sam MacInnes, and her uncle, Count Petrescu, in an attempt to save her twin sister, who is slowly going mad inside the Coppergate Tower.
a steampunk re-telling of Rapunzel. |
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by Katherine Arden
Vasya has been raised by a kind father, an anxious and spiteful stepmother, a wise nurse, and four older siblings. The feisty and near-feral girl - too tall, skinny as a weasel, feet and face like a frog - learns to talk with horses and befriends the household and forest spirits that live in and around the village.
first of the Winternight trilogy inspired by Russian fairy tales.
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by Christina Bauer
Bryar is nowhere near the sleeping beauty life template. Not even close. She doesn't like birds or woodland creatures. She can't sing. And she certainly can't stand Prince Philpot, the so-called "His Highness of Hedge Funds" that her aunties want her to marry. a modern re-telling of Sleeping Beauty - with a werewolf twist.
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by Kalynn Bayron
Two hundred years after Cinderella found her prince, the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where the men of the kingdom select wives based on a girl's display of finery. If a suitable match is not found, the girls not chosen are never heard from again.
Queer black girls team up to overthrow the patriarchy in the former kingdom of Cinderella. |
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by Edward Carey
The memoirs of Geppetto, a carpenter from the town of Collodi, written in the belly of a vast fish that has swallowed him.
a re-telling of Pinocchio, from the woodcarver's point of view. |
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by J'nell Ciesielski
American socialite Lily Durham is banished overseas "cure" for her frivolous ways. When the Great War breaks out she joins her cousin in nursing the wounded at a convalescent home deep in the wilds of Scotland.
Alec MacGregor has been labeled a coward for not joining his countrymen in the trenches due to an old injury. His preference for the shadows is shattered when Lily comes streaming into the castle on a burst of light.
Beauty and Beast re-told.
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by Ann Claycomb
Kathleen has always been dramatic. She suffers from the bizarre malady of experiencing stabbing pain in her feet. No doctor can find a medical explanation for her pain, and even the most powerful drugs have proven useless. Only the touch of seawater can ease her pain, and just temporarily at that.
a modern re-telling of The Little Mermaid |
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by Erin A. Craig
Annaleigh Thaumas has spent the last few years mourning her mother and several sisters, who died in succession under increasingly eerie circumstances. Her remaining sisters chafe under the lifestyle restrictions of formal mourning on their small, isolated island home, especially their inability to wear pretty clothes and flirt with boys.
a loose re-telling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses. |
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by Jennifer Donnelly
Isabelle is one of Cinderella's ugly stepsisters, who cut off their toes in an attempt to fit into the glass slipper; but there is more to her story than a maimed foot.
A dark feminist re-imagining of the Cinderella story.
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by Olga Grushin
Cinderella married the man of her dreams -- the perfect ending. Yet now, two children and thirteen and a half years later, things have gone badly wrong and her life is far from perfect.
what if, instead of Happily Ever After, Cinderella wants Prince Charming ... dead?
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by Christina Henry
She was just a woman trying not to get killed in a world that didn't look anything like the one she'd grown up in, the one that had been perfectly sane and normal and boring until three months ago.
a post-apocalyptic re-telling of Little Red Riding Hood. |
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by S. L. Huang
A wolf-weary Red Riding Hood and a middle-aged Hou Yi the Archer join forces when deadly sunbirds begin to ravage the countryside, threatening everything the pair have grown to love.
a fantasy re-telling of Little Red Riding Hood. |
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by Gregory Maguire
Following her brother's death and her mother's emotional breakdown, Laura now lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in a lonely townhouse she shares with her old-world, strict, often querulous grandparents. But the arrangement may be temporary.
Hans Christian Andersen's The Wild Swans, re-imagined.
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by Josh Malerman
Every once in awhile, Carol descends into a death-like coma she calls "Howltown". Only two people know of her condition - her husband Dwight and her former lover James Moxie. With Dwight planning her funeral, Moxie has two days to rescue Carol.
A surreal, Wild West take on Sleeping Beauty. |
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by Anna-Marie McLemore
Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets, some until they fall down dead. As rumors of witchcraft spread, suspicion turns toward Lavinia and her family, and Lavinia may have to do the unimaginable to save herself and everyone she loves.
set in two time periods, a multicultural re-telling of The Red Shoes.
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by Naomi Novik
Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father is not a very good one. Free to lend and reluctant to collect, he has left his family on the edge of poverty--until Miryem intercedes.
a re-telling of Rumpelstiltskin. |
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Gingerbreadby Helen OyeyemiPerdita Lee may appear to be your average British schoolgirl; Harriet Lee may seem just a working mother trying to penetrate the school social hierarchy; but there are signs that they might not be as normal as they think they are. For one thing, they share a gold-painted, seventh-floor walk-up apartment with some surprisingly verbal vegetation. Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories.
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by Ashley Poston
Rosie Thorne can't get past losing her mother. Vance Reigns is spoiled Hollywood royalty. When their paths collide and a rare book is accidentally destroyed, Rosie finds herself working to repay the debt. She thinks Vance is a jerk, and she can't stand him. The feeling is mutual. But they may just find that there is more risk in shutting each other out than in opening their hearts.
a modern te-telling of Beauty and the Beast. |
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by Meagan Spooner
Yeva knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who's ever come close to discovering them. Out in the wilderness there's no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas, or to submit to marrying a wealthy gentleman.
A dark re-imagining of Beauty and the Beast. |
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by Jane Yolen
Set amid forests patrolled by the German army during World War II. Yolen confronts the deeply tragic events of the Holocaust with lyrical prose and rich characterizations that tell a tale of good and evil, hope and despair.
a historical fiction re-telling of Sleeping Beauty. |
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