There are so many retellings of fairy tales. And originals. And just different versions. but there’s just something fun about their joy and (often) simplicity.

Graphic novels

• Princess Princess Ever After by Kay O’Neill

Poems

• Faery Tales by Wendy Froud
• Puss in Boots, the Sequel by Joseph Stanton
• Silver and Gold by Ellen Steiber
• Knives by Jane Yolen

Series

• Bitterburn by Ann Aguirre (Gothic Fairytales #1)
• The Tales of the Frog Princess by E.D. Baker
• The Grishaverse Companions by Leigh Bardugo
• Descendants by Melissa de la Cruz
• Kendra Chronicles by Alex Flinn
• Beautiful Beast by E.J. Hill (Beautiful Queens #1)
• Steampunk Fairytales series by Melanie Karsak
• Wolves and Daggers by Melanie Karsak (Steampunk Red Riding Hood #1)
• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (Ella Enchanted #1)
• The Moon is Drowning While I Sleep by Charles de Lint (Newford Companion)
• The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
• Stealing Snow series by Danielle Paige
• North Child by Edith Pattou (East #1)
• West by Edith Pattou (East #2)
• Fairest of All by Serena Valentino (Villains #1)

Short story collections

• The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo
• Black Thorn, White Rose edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
• Snow White, Blood Red edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
• Troll’s-Eye View edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
• Red as Blood by Tanith Lee

Standalones – Novels

• Hans Christian Andersen Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
• 101 Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm
• 110 Grimmer Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm
• To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo
• Fairy Tales from Around the World by Andrew Lang
• A Lake of Feathers and Moonbeams by Dax Murray
• Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

Standalones – Short stories

• The Senorita and the Cactus Thorn by Kim Antieau
• Up the Down Beanstalk by Peter S. Beagle
• Near-Beauty by M.E. Beckett
• The Boy Who Cried Wolf by Holly Black
• Can’t Catch Me by Michael Cadnum
• ‘Skin by Michael Cadnum
• The Brown Bear of Norway by Isabel Cole
• Sweet Bruising Skin by Storm Constantine
• The Glass Casket by Jack Dann
• Somnus’s Fair Maid by Ann Downer
• Castle Othello by Nancy Farmer
• All the King’s Men by Jeffrey Ford
• Puss by Esther M. Friesner
• The Root of the Matter by Gregory Frost
• Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman
• Troll Bridge by Neil Gaiman
• Breadcrumbs and Stones by Lisa Goldstein
• Rags and Riches by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• Persimmon by Harvey Jacobs
• I Shall Do Thee Mischief in the Wood by Kathe Koja
• Stalking Beans by Nancy Kress
• Words Like Pale Stones by Nancy Kress
• The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces by Ellen Kushner
• Beauty by Tanith Lee
• Black as Ink by Tanith Lee
• The Golden Rope by Tanith Lee
• Paid Piper by Tanith Lee
• The Princess and Her Future by Tanith Lee
• Red as Blood by Tanith Lee
• Snow-Drop by Tanith Lee
• Thorns by Tanith Lee
• The Waters of Sorrow by Tanith Lee
• When the Clock Strikes by Tanith Lee
• Wolfed by Tanith Lee
• Wolfland by Tanith Lee
• The Princess in the Tower by Elizabeth A. Lynn
• The Frog King, or Iron Henry by Daniel Quinn
• A Sound, Like Angels Singing by Leonard Rysdyk
• Wizard’s Apprentice by Delia Sherman
• Molly by Midori Snyder
• Tattercoats by Midori Snyder
• The Springfield Swans by Caroline Stevermer & Ryan Edmonds
• The Changelings by Melanie Tem
• Little Poucet by Steve Rasnic Tem
• A Delicate Architecture by Catherynne M. Valente
• The Black Swan by Susan Wade
• Like a Red, Red Rose by Susan Wade
• The Sawing Boys by Howard Waldrop
• Little Red by Wendy Wheeler
• The Frog Prince by Gahan Wilson
• Stronger Than Time by Patricia C. Wrede
• The Goose Girl by Tim Wynne-Jones
• Granny Rumple by Jane Yolen
• Troll by Jane Yolen