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
• Silver and Gold by Ellen Steiber
• Knives by Jane Yolen

Series

• Bitterburn by Ann Aguirre (Gothic Fairytales #1)
• Descendants by Melissa de la Cruz
• These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong (These Violent Delights #1)
• 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)
• 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

• Near-Beauty by M.E. Beckett
• Can’t Catch Me by Michael Cadnum
• The Cord by Alison Case
• The Brown Bear of Norway by Isabel Cole
• Sweet Bruising Skin by Storm Constantine
• Somnus’s Fair Maid by Ann Downer
• Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman
• Breadcrumbs and Stones by Lisa Goldstein
• Estella Saves the Village by Theodora Goss
• Words Like Pale Stones by Nancy Kress
• Beauty by Tanith Lee
• The Golden Rope 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 Snow-Queen by Patricia A. McKillip
• The Frog King, or Iron Henry by Daniel Quinn
• Tattercoats by Midori Snyder
• Heathcliff Is Not My Name by Michael Stewart
• Ashputtle by Peter Straub
• The Black Swan 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