Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s theme is a really fun one (in fact I’ve been looking forward to it for a couple of weeks now) Top Ten Fairy Tale Retellings I’ve Read/Want to read. Retellings are incredibly trendy right now, and I have to say that I’ve caught the bug too. I’m going to split this up between retellings I’ve already read, and those I’d like to read.
Top Fairy-tale Retellings I’ve Read
1. The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
I’m going to include all three books that are currently out in this one. I love the fresh spin that Meyer gives to the characters and their stories.
2. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
This is one that I read last month and I adored it. I hope to do a discussion about it on my Booktube channel this month!
Top Retellings I Want to Read
1. Winter by Marissa Meyer
This is coming out later this year and I can’t wait to see what the adventures are like in the next Lunar Chronicles book.
2. Splintered by A.G. Howard
I love Alice in Wonderland and have seen this retelling all over book blogs. Some day I will have time to read this one, someday.
3. The Wrath and The Dawn by Renee Ahdieh
A Thousand and One Nights retold— this book has gotten rave reviews all over booktube and I need to read it this fall!
4. Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce
Another Little Red Riding Hood retelling, but this one looks fun and unique!
5. Between the Lines and Off the Page by Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer
These books look so cute and while I’m not a fan of Picoult’s other books, her YA looks fun and a bit more light-hearted.
6. The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black
I’ve read very little Holly Black (I know, shame on me!) but this book looks fantastic!
SO MANY great books on this list! I hope you get to read the TBR ones soon!
Me too. I should have tweaked this to be all retellings, because I’ve read quite a few of those. But fairy tale retellings are so much fun.
These are some good books. I really liked The Darkest part of the forest so read that soon. Also I did a post about my top 10 fairy tale retellings. So you can probably check them out.
P.S – I am waiting for Winter by Marissa Meyer too.
I really want to get to The Darkest Part of the Forest soon.
And can Winter just be here already? I feel like we’ve been waiting forever!!!
True. Reading The Fairest helped a little with the long wait but now I’m just too excited.
“Winter is coming.” (Game of thrones reference) 😅
I still haven’t read Fairest. I was waiting until it was closer to Winter so I could get even more pumped about it than I already am!
Well it is really good.
These are some good pick! What’s your book tube channel so I can go check it out!
I’m Amanda’s Nose in a Book on Youtube. Actually both of them are me, but one is super old with crappy quality videos (Amanda Marie– gotta delete that bad boy). The other is the new one.
I love your list!
Tiger Lily is a Peter Pan retelling. Although the focus isn’t entirely on Peter, it is mostly on Tiger Lily (Hence the title…lol) This is the darker side of retellings, not exactly how I pictured a Peter Pan book, but still delightful.
I haven’t seen this around a lot, but Shadows on the Moon by: Zoe Marriot is a great retelling. It was the first retelling I ever read. It is a Cinderella retelling set in a fictional land that sounds a lot like Japan. One of those books that will stick with you afterwards. 🙂
Ooooh thank you for the recommendations!
I think I’m the only one who has not yet read ” A Court of Thorns and Roses”. I must read this… NOW! *goes to purchase eBook*
Lovely list!
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I hope you enjoy ACOTAR, it was fantastic!
Splintered is on my list as a TBR as well! I hadn’t heard of Sisters Red (or any other Jackson Pearce retelling) until seeing the lists today, but they sound fantastic! Great list.
http://hiddenstaircase.net/2015/08/04/ttt-ten-fairy-tale-retellings/
Seriously, Winter needs to hurry up, LOL! I definitely recommend The Darkest Part… so good. And I didn’t know The Wrath and the Dawn was a 1001 Nights retelling. Want!!!
Yes!!!! I think we should pair up and do something fun for The Wrath and The Dawn— what do you think? It could be an awesome collaboration 🙂
YES! That would be amazing! It might be a while until I can fit it in though 🙁 I’m doing two months of review requests and then Horror October…you know how it is! LOL. But after that? If you can wait that long 😉
Believe me, I have plenty on my TBR to wait that long! I would love to do a collaboration with you though.
Never realized Jodi Picoult had written a fairy tale series! My TTT list
The darkest part of the forest is great 🙂 took me a little to get into but pretty sure I rated 5 stars, it is brill. I love fairytale retellings, I read The Ugly Stepsister recently by Aya Ling and it was very different, really enjoyable though.
When I was younger I read Zel and Sirena by Donna Jo Napoli and LOVED them.