Fairy Tales/Retellings of Fairy Tales Book Help

[Heidi M Simone]

This can be a place where we offer book suggestions to other readers and/or look for recommendations of what to read for this month's genre discussion.

Fairy Tale
- "a children's story about magical and imaginary beings and lands."
- "an instance of a folklore genre that takes the form of a short story."

Fairy Tale Suggestions:

• Cinderella
  
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin
  
• Beauty and the Beast
  
• Hansel and Gretel
  
• The Little Mermaid
  
• The Snow Queen
  
• Snow White and Rose Red
  
• Rumplestiltskin

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/369 ... _Fairytale

Retelling of a Fairy Tale
- a story that takes a fairy tale and changes plot points, characters, and/or themes, but a reader can still identify the original tale

Retelling of a Fairy Tale Suggestions:

• The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
  
• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
  
• Beastly by Alex Flinn
  
• The Chronicles of Alice by Christina Henry
  
• A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
  
• Geekerella by Ashley Poston
  
• The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/fa ... retellings

Do you have any recommendations or are you looking for a particular fairy tale/retelling?

[booksnspecs]

Book recommendations:

Red Riding Hood by Sarah Blakley‑Cartwright (little red riding hood)

The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor (Alice in Wonderland)

To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo (little mermaid)

[AnxiousSocks]

Has anyone here read Little Black Book of Stories by A.S. Byatt? It's not a retelling per-say but it has some really spooky fairy tales inspired by the Grimm Brothers and other classical fairy tale writers. I recommend it! Let me know what you think if you have read it before

[Heidi M Simone]

Book recommendations:

Red Riding Hood by Sarah Blakley‑Cartwright (little red riding hood)

The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor (Alice in Wonderland)

To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo (little mermaid)

Oh, I've read To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo and really liked it.

I haven't read the other ones, but maybe I'll look them up. Thank you for the recommendations!

[Heidi M Simone]

Has anyone here read Little Black Book of Stories by A.S. Byatt? It's not a retelling per-say but it has some really spooky fairy tales inspired by the Grimm Brothers and other classical fairy tale writers. I recommend it! Let me know what you think if you have read it before

I haven't read that one. I'll have to look it up! Thank you for the recommendation

[books_andpoetrii]

These are my recent discoveries of re-tellings so far:

A Curse So Dark And Lonely (Beauty and The Beast)
House of Salt and Sorrows (Twelve Dancing Princesses)
Thorn (Goose Girl)
Girl in Red (Little Red Riding Hood)