There are so many powerful classics that circulate through the literary world. So it’s quite nice to read some more modern, or skewed retellings of the same stories. Especially when the originals can be far more difficult to digest than the retellings.

Poems

• Observing the Formalities by Neil Gaiman
• Carabosse by Delia Sherman
• Silver and Gold by Ellen Steiber
• Knives by Jane Yolen

Series

• Bitterburn by Ann Aguirre (Gothic Fairytales #1)
• Descendants by Melissa de la Cruz
• Urban Magick and Folklore series by C. Gockel
• These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong (These Violent Delights #1)
• Grimm Academy series by Laura Greenwood
• Beautiful Beast by E.J. Hill (Beautiful Queens #1)
• Red Cape Society series by Melanie Karsak
• Steampunk Fairytales series by Melanie Karsak
• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (Ella Enchanted #1)
• Geekerella Ashley Poston (Once Upon a Con #1)
• Beauty and the Professor by Skye Warren (A Modern Fairy Tale Duet #1)

Short story collections

• Mad Hatters and March Hares edited by Ellen Datlow
• 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

• Prince of Shadows by Rachel Caine
• To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo
• Black Spring by Alison Croggon
• Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
• A Lake of Feathers and Moonbeams by Dax Murray
• Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
• Pride by Ibi Zoboi

Standalones – Short stories

• The Dybbuk in the Bottle by Russell William Asplund
• Sister Twelve by Christopher Barzak
• Near-Beauty by M.E. Beckett
• The Wild Heart by Anne Bishop
• The Price by Patricia Briggs
• Can’t Catch Me by Michael Cadnum
• The Lemming Factor by Isobelle Carmody
• The Cord by Alison Case
• Forbidden Fruit by Roshani Chokshi
• The Brown Bear of Norway by Isabel Cole
• Sweet Bruising Skin by Storm Constantine
• Longer Than the Threads of Time by Zoraida Cordova
• Somnus’s Fair Maid by Ann Downer
• Arabian Phoenix by India Edghill
• Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman
• Breadcrumbs and Stones by Lisa Goldstein
• Estella Saves the Village by Theodora Goss
• Precious by Nalo Hopkinson
• Vanishing Virgin by Harvey Jacobs
• Glass Coffin by Caitlin R. Kiernan
• The Frog Chauffeur by Garry Kilworth
• Fisher-Bird by T. Kingfisher
• Clad in Gossamer by Nancy Kress
• Words Like Pale Stones by Nancy Kress
• The Justified by Ann Leckie
• Steel Skin by Lori M. Lee
• Beauty by Tanith Lee
• The Golden Rope by Tanith Lee
• Kiss Kiss by Tanith Lee
• Paid Piper by Tanith Lee
• Red as Blood by Tanith Lee
• Thorns by Tanith Lee
• When the Clock Strikes by Tanith Lee
• Wolfed by Tanith Lee
• Wolfland by Tanith Lee
• The Last Flight of Daedalus by Anthony Marra
• Phantoms of the Midway by Seanan McGuire
• The Snow-Queen by Patricia A. McKillip
• Cristal y Ceniza by Anna-Marie McLemore
• The Frog King, or Iron Henry by Daniel Quinn
• Daphne by Dawn Raffel
• A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy by Rebecca Roanhorse
• The Sea Hag by Melissa Lee Shaw
• Tattercoats by Midori Snyder
• Heathcliff Is Not My Name by Michael Stewart
• Ashputtle by Peter Straub
• The Black Swan by Susan Wade
• Ivory Bones by Susan Wade
• The Sawing Boys by Howard Waldrop
• Stronger Than Time by Patricia C. Wrede
• The Goose Girl by Tim Wynne-Jones
• Granny Rumple by Jane Yolen
• You Wandered Off Like a Foolish Child to Break Your Heart and Mine by Pat York