Fairy Tale Retellings
Retold fairy tales are one of my favorite subgenres. These are the ones I know of. If I've missed any, please drop me a line.
I've made little notations by these. A U stands for unread, NR for not recommended, and RWR Recommended with Reservations.
Cinderella
- Silver Woven in my Hair/ Shirley Rousseau Murphy (YA)
- Ella Enchanted/ Gail Carson Levine (YA)
- Just Ella/ Margaret Peterson Haddix (YA)
- Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister/ Gregory Maguire
- The Glass Slipper/ Eleanor Farjeon (YA) *RWR*
Beauty and the Beast
- The Fire Rose/ Mercedes Lackey
- Beauty/ Robin McKinley (YA)
- Rose Daughter/ Robin McKinley
- Beast/ Donna Jo Napoli (YA) *RWR*
Snow White
- White as Snow/ Tanith Lee *NR*
- The Serpent's Shadow/ Mercedes Lackey *RWR*
Sleeping Beauty
- Spindle's End/ Robin McKinley
- Briar Rose/ Jane Yolen
- The Gates of Sleep/ Mercedes Lackey *U*
Rumpelstiltskin
- Spinners/ Donna Jo Napoli (YA) *RWR*
- The Rumpelstiltskin Problem (six short stories)/ Vivian Vande Velde (YA)
- Straw into Gold/ Gary D. Schmidt *U*
Tam Lin
- The Perilous Gard/ Elizabeth Marie Pope (YA)
- Fire and Hemlock/ Diana Wynne Jones (YA)
- Winter Rose/ Patricia A. McKillip
- Tam Lin/ Pamela Dean *NR*
Swan stories
- The Black Swan/ Mercedes Lackey *RWR*
- Swan's Wing/ Ursula Synge *NR*
- The Seventh Swan/ Nicholas Stuart Gray *U*
- Daughter of the Forest/ Juliet Marillier *NR*
- The Wild Swans/ Peg Kerr *U*
Others
- Snow White and Rose Red/ Patricia C. Wrede
- The Magic Circle/ Donna Jo Napoli (Hansel and Gretel) YA
- Crazy Jack/ Donna Jo Napoli (Jack and the Beanstalk) YA
- The Firebird/ Mercedes Lackey
- The Nightingale/ Kara Dalkey
- Deerskin/ Robin McKinley (Donkeyskin) *RWR*
