Fairy Tale Retellings Books of the 2010s
The 127 most-read fairy tale retellings books first published between 2010 and 2019, led by Circe (2018), Cinder (2011) and A Touch of Darkness (2019).
This list collects 127 books from the 2010s by 102 authors, published between 2010 and 2019. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
Circe
Madeline Miller
Cinder
Marissa Meyer
A Touch of Darkness
Scarlett St. Clair
Cress
Marissa Meyer
Cinderella Is Dead
Kalynn Bayron
A Curse So Dark and Lonely
Brigid Kemmerer
The Sleeper and the Spindle
Neil Gaiman
Interrupting Chicken
David Ezra Stein
When Beauty Tamed the Beast
Eloisa James
Lost Boy
Christina Henry
The Girl in Red
Aaron Frisch
Whatever After
Sarah Mlynowski
Alice
Christina Henry
Boy, Snow, Bird
Helen Oyeyemi
The Beast Within
Serena Valentino
Whatever After #6
Sarah Mlynowski
The Snow Child
Eowyn Ivey
A Thousand Ships
Natalie Haynes
Little Red Riding Hood
Gaby Goldsack
Beauty's Kingdom
Anne Rice
Grim
Claudia Gray, Rachel Hawkins
Carmilla and Laura
SD Simper
Rags & Bones
Melissa Marr, Tim Pratt
Queen of Hearts
Colleen Oakes
Ensnared
A. G. Howard
Starry River of the Sky
Grace Lin
Beauty Queen / Whatever After (Bk. 7)
Sarah Mlynowski, Emily Eiden
The Captive Maiden
Melanie Dickerson
As Old As Time
Liz Braswell
Gingerbread
Helen Oyeyemi
As I descended
Robin Talley
Forest of a Thousand Lanterns (Rise of the Empress)
Julie C. Dao, Scheherezade Surià
Beauty and the Beast
Jennifer Donnelly, Manon Azem
Untamed
A. G. Howard
When the Sea Turned to Silver
Grace Lin
The Silent Songbird
Melanie Dickerson
The Fairest Beauty
Melanie Dickerson
Enchanted
Alethea Kontis
Hero
Alethea Kontis
Princess of the Silver Woods
Jessica Day George
Red Queen
Christina Henry
The Girl in Red
Christina Henry
The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
Kiersten White
Hiddensee
Gregory Maguire
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Jacob Grimm, Philip Pullman
The Deathless Girls
Kiran-Millwood-Hargrave
The Last True Poets of the Sea
Julia Drake
Six-Gun Snow White
Catherynne M. Valente
Princess and the Fangirl
Ashley Poston
Nameless (A Tale of Beauty and Madness, #1)
Lili St. Crow, Lili Crow
Cheshire Crossing
Andy Weir
Once Upon a Time Regina Rising
Wendy Toliver
Gone Rogue
Marissa Meyer
Alcestis
Katharine Beutner
His Hideous Heart
Dahlia Adler, Kendare Blake
The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
Christopher Healy
From a High Tower (Elemental Masters)
Mercedes Lackey
The Merry Spinster
Daniel M. Lavery
Splintered
A. G. Howard
Hunted
Meagan Spooner
Wendy Darling
Colleen Oakes
Noah
Tim Chaffey, K. Marie Adams
A Tail of Camelot
Julie Leung
Calamity Jack
Shannon Hale
Sink or Swim
Sarah Mlynowski
Sea Witch Rising
Sarah Henning
Voyage to Avalon
Julie Leung
The Mermaid
Christina Henry
Desdemona
Toni Morrison
The Painted Crown
Megan Derr
Awakened by a Kiss
Lila DiPasqua
Red Hood's Revenge
Jim C. Hines
Merlin's Last Quest
Julie Leung
Beast
Lisa Jensen
For the Sake of the Game
Laurie R. King, Leslie S. Klinger
A Wild Swan
Michael Cunningham, Lili Taylor
The Sealed-up House
Olivia Snowe
A Tale of Beauty and Beast
Melanie Cellier
A Captive of Wing and Feather
Melanie Cellier
Insanity
Cameron Jace
Beauty and the Beast
Elizabeth Rudnick
Hatter M Volume Three - The Nature of Wonder
Frank Beddor, Liz Cavalier
Stain
A. G. Howard
Happily Ever After
John Klima
Myth and Magic
Radclyffe, Stacia Seaman
Roses
Rose Mannering
Ghost in the H.A.T.B.O.X
Frank Beddor, Adrienne Kress
Hello Kitty Presents the Storybook Collection
LTD Sanrio Company
Happily Ever After
Jack Zipes
Enchanted Screen
Jack Zipes
Pulchritude
Ana Mardoll
Beyond the Woods
Paula Guran
What Makes You Beautiful
Bridget Liang
Prom Kings
Tony Correia
We Three
Markus Harwood-Jones
Unhinged
Chani Lynn Feener