Your Essential List of the Best Fairytale Retellings
Dive into these Captivating, Must-Read Fairytale Retellings!
Step into worlds where the echoes of classic tales are transformed into enchanting new stories you never expected.
Whether you're a seasoned fairy tale enthusiast or a newcomer to the genre, this ultimate list promises an adventure where each page opens a portal to a world where the ordinary is extraordinary, and every once-upon-a-time is redefined.
Whatever your favorite fairytale is, you can find a twisted or reimagined version of it here.
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Contents:
Cinderella
Snow White
Beauty and the Beast
Little Red Riding Hood
Sleeping Beauty
Rapunzel
Rumpelstiltskin
Pinocchio
Alice in Wonderland
Peter Pan
Aladdin
Mulan
The Little Mermaid
One Thousand and One Nights
The Snow Queen
Twelve Dancing Princesses
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
Tale of the Six Swans
The Princess and the Pea
The Frog Prince
The Ugly Duckling
Robin Hood
Puss in Boots
The Nutcracker
Jack and the Beanstalk
Goose Girl
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Cinderella Retellings
Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
It’s 200 years after Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where the men of the kingdom select wives based on a girl’s display of finery. If a suitable match is not found, the girls not chosen are never heard from again…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Romance | LGBT
Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted #1) by Gail Carson Levine
At birth, Ella is inadvertently cursed by an imprudent young fairy named Lucinda, who bestows on her the "gift" of obedience. Anything anyone tells her to do, Ella must obey. Another girl might have been cowed by this affliction, but not feisty Ella: "Instead of making me docile, Lucinda's curse made a rebel of me. Or perhaps I was that way naturally..."
Fantasy | Middle Grade | Adventure | Romance
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles #1) by Marissa Myer
Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless Lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg.
Science Fiction Fantasy | Young Adult | Dystopian | Romance | New Beijing Setting
Read the Series: The Lunar Chronicles
All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella's Stepmother by Danielle Teller
We all know the story of Cinderella. Or do we?
As rumors about the cruel upbringing of beautiful newlywed Princess Cinderella roil the kingdom, her stepmother, Agnes, a woman who knows all too well about hardship, privately records the true story. But what unfolds is not the princess's history. The tale Agnes recounts is her own…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Historical Fiction | Stepmother POV
Geekerella (Once Upon a Con #1) by Ashley Poston
Cinderella goes to the con in this fandom-fueled twist on the classic fairy tale.
Part romance, part love letter to nerd culture, and all totally adorbs, Geekerella is a fairy tale for anyone who believes in the magic of fandom. Geek girl Elle Wittimer lives and breathes Starfield, the classic sci-fi series she grew up watching with her late father. So when she sees a cosplay contest for a new Starfield movie, she has to enter. The prize? An invitation to the ExcelsiCon Cosplay Ball..
Contemporary | Young Adult | Romance | Geekfest/Con
To Shatter A Slipper (The Shattered Tales #1) by Abigail Manning
What if the glass slipper fit the wrong girl?
Kirsi Allerednic was never one to enjoy balls, corsets, or fake smiles. She would much rather chat with the charming servant, Caden, than catch the eye of a prince who is already far more interested in a girl with glass slippers…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Romance | High Fantasy | Novella
Read the Series: The Shattered Tales
Sometime After Midnight by L. Philips
#AlexFromTarget meets queer Prince Charming in this glittering romcom following a teen music prodigy and the handsome socialite who unwittingly turns him into an internet sensation…
Contemporary | Young Adult | Cinderella | LA Setting | Romance | LGBT
Letters by Cinderlight (HighTower Fairytales: Cinderella #1) by Jacque Stevens
I, Elya Pavlovna, am a horribly wicked and unfortunate girl.
After her governess is fired for teaching her to read, Elya writes in a secret journal to continue her lessons on her own. Though, as an unwanted scullery maid, she doubts she will ever have much to say…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Cinderella | Fantasy Romance | Fae | Slavic Mythology | Novella
Read the Series: HighTower Cinderella
So This is Love (A Twisted Tale #9) by Elizabeth Lim
What if Cinderella never tried on the glass slipper?
Unable to prove that she's the missing princess, and unable to bear life under Lady Tremaine any longer, Cinderella attempts a fresh start, looking for work at the palace as a seamstress…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Cinderella | Disney | Romance
Read the Series: Disney's Twisted Tales
If the Shoe Fits (Meant to Be #1) by Julie Murphy
After having just graduated with a degree in shoe design, and trying to get her feet on the ground, Cindy is working for her stepmother, who happens to be the executive producer of America's favorite reality show, Before Midnight. When a spot on the show needs filling ASAP, Cindy volunteers…
Contemporary | Adult | Cinderella | Chick lit | Contemporary Romance
Read the Series: Meant To Be
The Coronation Ball (The Four Kingdoms #2.2) by Melanie Cellier
Hanna knows all about hard work. For years she’s labored to complete her apprenticeship and become a pastry chef. Driven from her home once before, she’s willing to endure whatever it takes to keep her position in the palace kitchens of Northhelm…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Cinderella | Romance | High Fantasy | Novella
Read the Series: The Four Kingdoms
The Midnight Prince (Once Upon A Prince #5) by Angie Grigaliunas
A bitter prince. A rejected servant. A revelation that could change everything.
When Prince Kirran of the autumn fey returns home from war, all he wants is food, drink, and sleep. But with his older brothers dead, he’s now the only heir — and he needs a wife…
Fantasy | Adult | Cinderella | Clean Romance | Fae | High Fantasy
Read the Series- Once Upon A Prince
Rogue Princess by B.R. Myers
A princess fleeing an arranged marriage teams up with a snarky commoner to foil a rebel plot in B. R. Myers' Rogue Princess, a gender-swapped sci-fi YA retelling of Cinderella…
Science Fiction | Young Adult | Cinderella | Gender Swap | Romance | Fantasy
Ugly: The Stepsister's Story by Mary Mecham
You probably know me as the younger ugly stepsister. The foolish stepsister. The girl who was so jealous of Cinderella's charm and beauty that I forced her to dress in rags and do all the chores while my mother and sister and I did nothing, sitting in our rooms all day while Cinderella slaved away to serve us. But that is not at all what happened…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Cinderella | Romance | Stepsister POV | High Fantasy
Callie and the Pumpkin Seed (Autumn Fairy Tales) by Sarah Beran
She’s a baker struggling to support her stepfamily. He’s a prince running from the biggest decision of his life. Can their friendship result in something sweet, or is it a recipe for disaster? Calliope Cendrillon wants nothing more than for her bakery, “Sweet Pea’s Pumpkin Perfections,” to start turning a profit…
Fantasy | Adult | Cinderella | Cozy Fantasy | Romance
Read the series: Autumn Fairy Tales
Dance of Hearts (Historical Fantasy Fairytale Retellings #1) by Byrd Nash
In Regency England, 1816, it is not fashionable to display fairy blood.
Melinda Wychwood managed to stay at her family home after her father’s death by working as her cousin’s unpaid housekeeper. But when a childhood friend returns, playing a game of deception, will she be satisfied acting as the dowdy chaperone? Or will her wild fairy heritage and a magical dress finally win her true happiness?
Historical Romance | Adult | Cinderella | Fantasy | Fairies
Read the Series: Historical Fantasy Fairytale Retellings
The Blood Spell (Ravenspire #4) by C.J. Redwine
A dark and romantic epic fantasy retelling of the Cinderella story, about a girl who must team up with the prince she despises to defeat an evil creature threatening their kingdom. The fourth standalone novel in the New York Times bestselling Ravenspire series by C. J. Redwine…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Cinderella | Dark Fantasy | Epic Fantasy | Romance
Read the Series: Ravenspire
Snow White Retellings
The Shadow Queen (Ravenspire #1) by C.J. Redwine
Lorelai Diederich, crown princess and fugitive at large, has one mission: kill the wicked queen who took both the Ravenspire throne and the life of her father. To do that, Lorelai needs to use the one weapon she and Queen Irina have in common—magic…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Snow White | Romance | High Fantasy | Dragons | Magic
Read the Series: Ravenspire
Winter (The Lunar Chronicles #4) by Marissa Meyer
Princess Winter is admired for her grace, kindness and beauty, despite the scars on her face. She's said to be even more breath-taking than her stepmother, Queen Levana...
Science Fiction | Young Adult | Snow White | Dystopian | Romance
Read the Series: The Lunar Chronicles
Mirror, Mirror (A Twisted Tale #6) by Jen Calonita
What if the Evil Queen poisoned the prince?
Following her beloved mother's death, the kingdom falls into the hands of Snow White's stepmother, commonly referred to as "the Evil Queen" by those she rules. Snow keeps her head down at the castle, hoping to make the best of her situation.
Fantasy | Young Adult | Snow White | Disney | Romance
Read the Series: Disney's Twisted Tales
A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables #2) by Alix E. Harrow
Zinnia Gray, professional fairy-tale fixer and lapsed Sleeping Beauty, is over rescuing snoring princesses. Once you’ve rescued a dozen damsels and burned fifty spindles, once you’ve gotten drunk with twenty good fairies and made out with one too many members of the royal family, you start to wish some of these girls would just get a grip and try solving their own narrative issues…
Fantasy | Adult | Snow White | LGBT | Romance | Novella
Happily Ever Afters (The Four Kingdoms #2.5) by Melanie Cellier
Sometimes a fairy tale ending is only the beginning…
Sarah and Evelyn have already risked everything to help Ava win a crown. But they soon learn that a coronation is a beginning, not an ending. Not everyone in Rangmere is happy to see the young queen on the throne, and intrigue and danger lurk all around…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Snow White and Rose Red | Romance | High Fantasy
Read the Series: The Four Kingdoms
Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust
Frozen meets The Bloody Chamber in this feminist fantasy reimagining of the Snow White fairytale.
Sixteen-year-old Mina is motherless, her magician father is vicious, and her silent heart has never beat with love for anyone—has never beat at all, in fact, but she’d always thought that fact normal. She never guessed that her father cut out her heart and replaced it with one of glass…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Snow White | LGBT | Lesbian | Romance | Feminist
Black as Night (A Fairy Tale Retold #2) by Regina Doman
Way after midnight in New York City, a girl runs down the streets, looking for someplace to hide ... is there anywhere she can go to escape? Is there anyone who can help her... now?
Urban Fantasy | Young Adult | Snow White | Christian Fiction | New York Setting | Romance
Read the Series: The Fairy Tale Novels
Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman, Colleen Doran
A not-so-evil queen is terrified of her monstrous stepdaughter and determined to repel this creature and save her kingdom from a world where happy endings aren't so happily ever after…
Fantasy Horror | Adult | Snow White | Graphic Novel
Poison (Tales from the Kingdoms #1) by Sarah Pinborough, Les Edwards
Poison is a beautifully illustrated retelling of the Snow White story which takes all the elements of the classic fairy tale that we love (the handsome prince, the jealous queen, the beautiful girl and, of course, the poisoning) and puts a modern spin on the characters, their motives and their desires. It's fun, contemporary, sexy, and perfect for fans of Once Upon a Time, Grimm, Snow White and the Huntsman and more…
Fantasy | Adult | Snow White | Contemporary | Romance | Magic | Horror
Read the Series: Tales from the Kingdoms
The Poisoned Prince (Once Upon A Prince #6) by Kristin J. Dawson
A royal huntsman. An illegitimate daughter. And one heart — delivered on a platter.
Max is training to become the royal huntsman, a respected position his lineage has held for generations. Orphaned Snow is an unremarkable palace servant of questionable origins…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Snow White | Clean Romance | High Fantasy
Read the Series: Once Upon A Prince
Poisoned by Mary Mecham
A poisoned apple and true love's first kiss were only the beginning to Snow White's story...
After a handsome prince swoops in to save the day, Snow can't help but feel like something is still missing in her life. She begins to wonder if "happily ever after" really exists, because what she is experiencing certainly isn't the idyllic life she imaged a princess would have…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Snow White | Clean Romance | Grumpy Sunshine
To Rival a Reflection (The Shattered Tales #10) by Selina De Luca
What if Snow White wanted to be the fairest of them all?
As the daughter of the king’s ambassador to Appledale and the prettiest girl in Jardonia, Snow White has always believed herself worthy of a prestigious destiny. When an Enchantress appears to Snow White through a mirror and offers her enchanted gifts and the promise of queendom, she is eager to accept the honor of being the Fairest One of All…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Snow White | High Fantasy | Sweet Romance | Novella
Read the Series: The Shattered Tales
Beauty and the Beast Retellings
A Curse So Dark and Lonely (Cursebreakers #1) by Brigid Kemmerer
Fall in love, break the curse.
Cursed by a powerful enchantress to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year, Prince Rhen, the heir of Emberfall, thought he could be saved easily if a girl fell for him. But that was before he turned into a vicious beast hell-bent on destruction. Before he destroyed his castle, his family, and every last shred of hope…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Beauty and the Beast | Urban Fantasy and High Fantasy | Romance
Read the Series: The Cursebreaker
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses #1) by Sarah J. Maas
When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world…
Fantasy | New Adult | Beauty and the Beast and Tam Lin | Fae | Romance | High Fantasy
Read the Series: A Court of Thorns and Roses
As Old as Time (A Twisted Tale #3) by Liz Braswell
What if Belle's mother cursed the Beast?
When Belle touches the Beast's enchanted rose, memories flood through Belle's mind — memories of a mother she thought she would never see again. And, stranger still, she sees that her mother is none other than the beautiful enchantress who cursed the castle and all its inhabitants.
Fantasy | Young Adult | Beauty and the Beast | Disney | Romance
Read the Series: Disney's Twisted Tales
The Cursed Hunter (The Stolen Kingdom #3) by Bethany Atazadeh
Nesrin Ahmadi needs a dragon’s egg, no matter the cost.
The money from its sale could cancel her family’s enormous debt and keep them in the lavish lifestyle they’re accustomed to. Only one problem. A dragon’s egg is incredibly rare; and no one has ever found one fully intact before…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Beauty and the Beast | Middle Eastern Inspired World | High Fantasy
Read the Series: The Stolen Kingdom
Hunted by Meagan Spooner
Beauty knows the Beast’s forest in her bones—and in her blood. Though she grew up with the city’s highest aristocrats, far from her father’s old lodge, she knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who’s ever come close to discovering them…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Beauty and the Beast | Romance | Magic
Thorn by Anna Burke
On a cold day deep in the heart of winter, Rowan’s father returns from an ill-fated hunting trip bearing a single, white rose. The rose is followed by the Huntress, a figure out of legend. Tall, cruel, and achingly beautiful, she brings Rowan back with her to a mountain fastness populated solely by the creatures of the hunt…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Beauty and the Beast | Romance | LGBT | Lesbian
The Vampire Debt (Shadow World: The Vampire Debt #1) by Ali Winters
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single Vampire in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a mortal snack.
Dracula & Beauty and the Beast, meet Pride and Prejudice in THE VAMPIRE DEBT, a new adult, gothic fantasy paranormal, slow burn, romance…
Fantasy | New Adult | Dracula & Beauty and the Beast meets Pride and Prejudice | Gothic | Romance | Paranormal
A Ruin of Roses (Deliciously Dark Fairytales #1) by K.F. Breene
A spicy new twist on an old classic - a deliciously dark Beauty and the Beast reimagining.
I could save him, but he would ruin me.
The beast. The creature that stalks the forbidden wood. The dragon prince…
Fantasy | Adult | Beauty and the Beast | Paranormal Romance | Spicy | Shapeshifters | 18+
Read the Series: Deliciously Dark Fairytales
A Tale of Beauty and Beast (Beyond the Four Kingdoms #2) by Melanie Cellier
Princess Sophia has helped her twin sister Lily save the duchy of Marin. But now Sophie faces an even greater threat when she sets out to free the cursed kingdom of Palinar from its beastly prince. Alone, and with danger on every side, Sophie must navigate a magical castle and its even more mysterious master to discover the secret to breaking the curse…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Beauty and the Beast | Clean Romance | High Fantasy
Read the Series: Beyond the Four Kingdoms
Beauty by Robin McKinley
A strange imprisonment...
Beauty has never liked her nickname. She is thin and awkward; it is her two sisters who are the beautiful ones. But what she lacks in looks, she can perhaps make up for in courage…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Beauty and the Beast | Magic | High Fantasy | Romance
Read the Series: Folktales Series
Kingdom of Forgotten Curses (The Stolen Royalty Series) by A.R. Kaufer
The prince is a bloodthirsty soldier who enjoys death, fine wine, and the company of beautiful women. Until one fateful night, when everything changes. 80 years later, the king's barrister, Marius, discovers a reference to the prince and is immediately sent upon a mission of discovery by the king, much to the dismay of his three daughters…
Fantasy | Adult | Beauty and the Beast | Gothic | Paranormal Romance
Read the Series: The Stolen Royalty Series
The Winter Prince (Once Upon A Prince #12) by Constance Lopez
A beastly prince. A cursed land. One last hope.
Breaking his bargain with another fae has earned Revi, Prince of the Winter Court, a terrible curse: he lives as a beast and must watch his people suffer under a withering blight. The only cure? A heart freely given…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Beauty and the Beast | Fae | Clean Romance
Read the Series: Once Upon A Prince
To Heal a Broken Heart (The Shattered Tales #7) by Aveline Brooke
Love is not a fairytale.
Anelise is a romantic young lady who wants nothing more than a loving, faithful marriage, and she knows she has found her prince. Or, rather, her wizard. Her childhood friend Lucien is young, handsome, and shows promise as he trains to become the next Royal Enchanter…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Beauty and the Beast | Sweet Romance | Novella | High Fantasy
Read the Series: The Shattered Tales
Cry Wolf (HighTower Fairytales #1) by Jacque Stevens
I looked between the monster and the man, and I knew at once who was the beast.
Isabelle Berger grew up hearing stories of a legendary beast who killed over a hundred people. When a new wolf is spotted near the forest, the men of her village are convinced that another monster is on the rise. Isabelle is less certain, until her father is killed in the hunt…
Fantasy | New Adult | Beauty and the Beast | Paranormal Romance | Magic | High Fantasy
Read the Series: HighTower Beauty and the Beast
Price of a Rose (Historical Fantasy Fairytale Retellings #2) by Byrd Nash
The Beast is about to be tamed by three determined ladies.
When their father loses a card game to the local recluse, his three daughters step in to determine their own fate. The oldest, Lily, rolls up her sleeves to take the strange household in hand even if the house keeps moving the rooms. The youngest, Poppy, devours his books on magic while playing secretary…
Historical Romance | Adult | Beauty and the Beast | Fantasy | Faries
Read the Series: Historical Fantasy Fairytale Retellings
A Thorn Among Roses by Hayley Anderton
At seventeen, Alana single-handedly defeated the biggest army that Thornwood had ever seen. By sunrise the very next day, she'd been shunned by her own people, forced to become a recluse and reside in the castle where she was supposed to rule over them…
Fantasy | New Adult | Beauty and the Beast | Romance | LGBT | Lesbian | High Fantasy | Magic
Before Beauty (Becoming Beauty #1) by Brittany Fichter
Prince Everard’s father spent the boy's youth forging the prince into a warrior. Upon the king’s death, however, Everard realizes he’s lost himself somewhere along the way, and in his pain, makes a decision that brings a dark curse upon both him and the great Fortress that has so long guarded the people of Destin…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Beauty and the Beast | High Fantasy | Clean Romance
By the Book (Meant to Be #2) by Jasmine Guillory
A tale as old as time—for a new generation…
Isabelle is completely lost. When she first began her career in publishing right out of college, she did not expect to be twenty-five, living at home, still an editorial assistant, and the only Black employee at her publishing house. Overworked and underpaid, constantly torn between speaking up or stifling herself, Izzy thinks there must be more to this publishing life…
Contemporary | Adult | Beauty and the Beast | Chick lit | Contemporary Romance
The Beast's Garden by Kate Forsyth
It's August 1939 in Germany, and Ava's world is in turmoil. To save her father, she must marry a young Nazi officer, Leo von Löwenstein, who works for Hitler's spy chief in Berlin. However, she hates and fears the brutal Nazi regime, and finds herself compelled to stand against it….
Historical Fiction |Adult | Beauty and the Beast | WW2 Germany | Romance
Little Red Riding Hood Retellings
For the Wolf (The Wilderwood #1) by Hannah Whitten
The first daughter is for the Throne.
The second daughter is for the Wolf.
As the only Second Daughter born in centuries, Red has one purpose—to be sacrificed to the Wolf in the Wood in the hope he'll return the world's captured gods…
Fantasy | Adult | Red Riding Hood & Beauty and the Beast | Romance | Dark Fantasy
Read the Series: The Wilderwood
Red Wolf by Rachel Vincent
A high stakes reimagining of Little Red Riding Hood.
For as long as sixteen-year-old Adele can remember the village of Oakvale has been surrounding by the dark woods—a forest filled with terrible monsters that light cannot penetrate. Like every person who grows up in Oakvale she has been told to steer clear of the woods unless absolutely necessary.
Fantasy | Young Adult | Red Riding Hood | Romance | Wolf Shifters | Dark Fantasy
Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles #2) by Marissa Meyer
Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit's grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn't know about her grandmother, or the grave danger she has lived in her whole life. When Scarlet encounters Wolf, a street fighter who may have information as to her grandmother's whereabouts, she is loath to trust this stranger, but is inexplicably drawn to him, and he to her…
Science Fiction Fantasy | Young Adult | Red Riding Hood | Dystopian | Romance
Read the Series: The Lunar Chronicles
The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid
In her forest-veiled pagan village, Évike is the only woman without power, making her an outcast clearly abandoned by the gods. The villagers blame her corrupted bloodline—her father was a Yehuli man, one of the much-loathed servants of the fanatical king…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Red Riding Hood | Historical Fiction | Hungarian | Jewish Mythology
The Princess Fugitive (The Four Kingdoms #2) by Melanie Cellier
Princess Ava used to be a weapon - sharp, strong and beautiful. But when she fails at her most important task, she’s forced to flee from her own family.
Only her personal bodyguard, Hans, remains loyal. Hans claims to know the real Ava but she finds that hard to believe – after all, she’s been the villain so long that she can’t remember anything else…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Red Riding Hood | Clean Romance | High Fantasy | Magic
Read the Series: The Four Kingdoms
Scarlett and the Dark Woods (Autumn Fairytales) by Mary Mecham
She is one of the protected elect. He is a shunned shapeshifter. Can Scarlett rescue her grandmother before her heart is stolen?
When her grandmother is cast out as unworthy after facing Hamelin’s annual Shunning, Scarlett knows she must brave the dangers of Darkwood Forest if she will have any chance of saving her grandmother…
Fantasy | Adult | Red Riding Hood | Cozy Fantasy | Romance | Novella
Read the Series: Autumn Fairy Tales
Dark is the Wood by Kristin Ward
Red Riding Hood & Beauty and the Beast meet Dragons in this fast-paced fantasy about a girl caught up in a world steeped in danger and the seductive power of dragons…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Red Riding Hood & Beauty and the Beast | Epic Fantasy | Dragons | Romance
Crimson Bound by Rosamund Hodge
When Rachelle was fifteen she was good—apprenticed to her aunt and in training to protect her village from dark magic. But she was also reckless— straying from the forest path in search of a way to free her world from the threat of eternal darkness…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Red Riding Hood | Romance | High Fantasy
Huntsmen And Hoods (Grimm Academy #5) by Laura Greenwood
Red has always wanted to be a Huntsman, and now her dream is about to come true.
Between training and proving herself to the other Huntsmen, the last thing on Red’s mind is her prophecy. But when a letter about her sick Grandmother arrives, she has no choice but to let it start…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Red Riding Hood | Academy Fantasy | Sweet Romance
Read the Series: Grimm Academy
The Girl in Red by Christina Henry
A postapocalyptic take on the perennial classic "Little Red Riding Hood", about a woman who isn't as defenseless as she seems.
It's not safe for anyone alone in the woods. There are predators that come out at night: critters and coyotes, snakes and wolves. But the woman in the red jacket has no choice…
Horror | Young Adult | Red Riding Hood | Fantasy | Post Apocalyptic | Dystopian
The Wolf Gate (Faerie Tale Romances) by Hanna Sandvig
My...what big teeth you have…Have you ever wondered if something was up with your boyfriend? Distant. Moody. Never texts you back. Turns into a wolf at nightfall? No, just me? When a wolf chased me through a faerie portal in the forest, the last person I expected to see on the other side was my ex-boyfriend Gavin. Turns out, he’s a fae…
Urban Fantasy | Young Adult | Red Riding Hood | Contemporary Romance | Fae
Read the Series: Faerie Tale Romances
Wolves and Daggers (The Red Cape Society #1) by Melanie Karsak
Who’s afraid of the big, bad werewolf? When London’s brightest tinkers and alchemists come up missing, Red Cape Society Agent Clemeny Louvel is on the case. To help her get the problem in hand, Queen Victoria assigns her a temporary partner—a werewolf with a knightly history and a tendency to be far too flirtatious for either of their good…
Fantasy | Adult | Red Riding Hood | Steam Punk | Victorian Setting | Romance | Paranormal
Read the Series: The Red Cape Society
Protected by the Wolf Prince (Once Upon A Fairy Tale Romance #6) by Jessica Grayson, Aria Winter
I'm the daughter of the human ambassador; I was never supposed to fall in love with the Wolf-Shifter Prince.
Prince Malak of Winterhold was my childhood friend and my first and only love. But he is a Wolf-Shifter, and his father—the King—does not condone marriage between their kind and mine…
Paranormal Romance | Adult | Red Riding Hood | Romance | Shifters | Wolves
Read the Series: Once Upon A Fairy Tale Romance
Sleeping Beauty Retellings
The Enchanted Crown (The Stolen Kingdom #4) by Bethany Atazadeh
Arie is now the Queen of Hodafez.Alone. Gift-less. Unwanted. The pain from her Severance is suffocating. Struggling to find the will to go on, all that keeps Arie going is knowing her people need her protection. The Queen of Jinn is readying her attack…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Sleeping Beauty | Middle Eastern Inspired World | Magic | High Fantasy
Read the Series: The Stolen Kingdom
A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables #1) by Alix E. Harrow
It's Zinnia Gray's twenty-first birthday, which is extra-special because it's the last birthday she'll ever have. When she was young, an industrial accident left Zinnia with a rare condition. Not much is known about her illness, just that no one has lived past twenty-one…
Fantasy | New Adult | Sleeping Beauty | LGBT | Urban Fantasy | Novella
Read the Series: Fractured Fables
Once Upon a Dream (A Twisted Tale #12) by Liz Braswell
What if the sleeping beauty never woke up? It should be simple—a dragon defeated, a slumbering maiden, a prince poised to wake her. But when said prince falls asleep as soon as his lips meet the princess', it is clear that this fairy tale is far from over…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Sleeping Beauty | Disney | Romance
Read the Series: Disney's Twisted Tales
Her Dark Enchantments by Rosalyn Briar
The Wicked Fairy. The Mistress of All Evil. The villain of Sleeping Beauty goes by many names, but where did she come from?
Myravelle Spinner grew up in a tower with only spiders, spindles, and stone walls for friends while her mother spun gold for the king...
Fantasy | Adult | Sleeping Beauty | The Wicked Fairy POV | Dark Fantasy | Magic
Spindles and Spells (Grimm Academy #2) by Laura Greenwood
Briar doesn't believe in Once Upon A Time... Her whole life, Briar has been told about her fate, but she doesn't believe a word. Now she's forced to go to Grimm Academy along with all the other fairy tale characters trying to avoid their tales.
Fantasy | Young Adult | Sleeping Beauty | Academy Fantasy | Urban Fantasy | Sweet Romance
Read the Series: Grimm Academy
Spindle’s End (Folktales #3) by Robin McKinley
All the creatures of the forest and field and riverbank knew the infant was special. She was the princess, spirited away from the evil fairy Pernicia on her name-day. But the curse was cast..
Fantasy | Young Adult | Sleeping Beauty | Romance | High Fantasy
Read the Series: Folktales Series
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
Ever since she was a child, Rebecca has been enchanted by her grandmother Gemma's stories about Briar Rose. But a promise Rebecca makes to her dying grandmother will lead her on a remarkable journey to uncover the truth of Gemma's astonishing claim: I am Briar Rose…
Historical Fiction | Young Adult | Sleeping Beauty | Holocaust | WW2 | Fantasy
The Princess Game (The Four Kingdoms #4) by Melanie Cellier
They call her the Sleeping Princess, but Celeste is far from asleep…
Celeste has been cursed since her sixteenth birthday--just not in the way the rest of the kingdom thinks. All they see is her breath-taking beauty, marred by her foolishness. Only she knows that she retains her brilliant mind. And it’s a secret she must keep at all costs…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Sleeping Beauty | Clean Romance | High Fantasy
Read the Series: The Four Kingdoms
The Awakened Prince (Once Upon A Prince #11) by Alora Carter
A betrothed prince. A mysterious maiden. A secret that could destroy the kingdom.
After failing in every attempt to prove his worth, Killian’s betrothal contract seems to be the only reason his father tolerates him…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Sleeping Beauty | High Fantasy | Clean Romance
Read the Series: Once Upon a Prince
What Monstrous Gods by Rosamund Hodge
Centuries ago, the heretic sorcerer Ruven raised a deadly briar around Runakhia's palace, casting the royal family into an enchanted sleep - and silencing the kingdom's gods…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Sleeping Beauty | Romance | Ghosts | High Fantasy
To Defy a Dream (The Shattered Tales #4) by Mary Mecham
What if Sleeping Beauty pricked her finger on purpose?
Princess Aurelia’s kingdom is plagued by the Eternal Slumber, a disease progressively ensnaring the minds of her subjects. After Aurelia wishes for the means to revive her brother, her sinister fairy godmother presents an ominous Aurelia must stab herself with a poisoned spindle…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Sleeping Beauty | High Fantasy | Sweet Romance | Djinni
Read the Series: The Shattered Tales
Rapunzel Retellings
Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth
French novelist Charlotte-Rose de la Force has been banished from the court of Versailles by the Sun King, Louis XIV, after a series of scandalous love affairs. At the convent, she is comforted by an old nun, Sœur Seraphina, who tells her the tale of a young girl who, a hundred years earlier, is sold by her parents for a handful of bitter greens...
Historical Fiction | Adult | Rapunzel | Fantasy | Louis XIV France
The Golden Prince (Once Upon A Prince #3) by Alice Ivinya
A perfect prince. An engagement to save a kingdom. Too bad it’s all a lie.
Prince Thomas has always been the perfect prince, but now that his kingdom is falling to famine, he must prove his worth and restore the blessing of Spring. All he has to do is find a mysterious woman from a painting and marry her…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Rapunzel | Romance | High Fantasy
Read the Series: Once Upon a Prince
Cress (The Lunar Chronicles #3) by Marissa Meyer
In this third book in the Lunar Chronicles, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they're plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and her army.
Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl imprisoned on a satellite since childhood who's only ever had her netscreens as company…
Science Fiction Fantasy | Young Adult | Rapunzel | Dystopian | Romance
The Fairest of Them All by Carolyn Turgeon
What if Rapunzel was Snow White’s evil stepmother? From the author of Godmother and Mermaid, The Fairest of Them All explores what happens when fairy tale heroines grow up and don’t live happily ever after.
Living in an enchanted forest, Rapunzel spends her days tending a mystical garden with her adoptive mother, Mathena…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Rapunzel & Snow White | Romance | Magic
Hidden: Rapunzel's Story (Destined #2) by Kaylin Lee
Young assassin Rapunzel is the most powerful absorbent mage alive, so strong she can drain the life of a grown man with a single brush of her finger.
But the power means little when her every move is controlled by her mistress…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Rapunzel | Assassin Mage | High Fantasy
Read the Series: Destined
Reign of Shadows (Reign of Shadows #1) by Sophie Jordan
Seventeen years ago, an eclipse cloaked the kingdom of Relhok in perpetual darkness. In the chaos, an evil chancellor murdered the king and queen and seized their throne. Luna, Relhok’s lost princess, has been hiding in a tower ever since. Luna’s survival depends on the world believing she is dead…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Rapunzel | Romance | High Fantasy | Adventure
Read the Series: Reign of Shadows
Golden Curse (Fantasy and Fairytales #1) by M. Lynn
A curse. A hidden identity. A dangerous love.
Ten year old Persinette Basile was forced to flee the palace of Gaule for her life.
Now at eighteen, she must find a way to return in order to obey a curse on her family line…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Rapunzel | High Fantasy | Magic
Read the Series: The Six Kingdoms
What Once Was Mine (A Twisted Tale) by Liz Braswell
What if Rapunzel's mother drank a potion from the wrong flower? Desperate to save the life of their queen and her unborn child, the good people of Corona search for the all-healing Sundrop flower to cure her—but mistakenly acquire the shimmering Moondrop flower instead…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Rapunzel | Disney | Romance
Read the Series: Disney's Twisted Tales
Rumpelstiltskin Retellings
Gilded (Gilded #1) by Marissa Meyer
Long ago cursed by the god of lies, a poor miller's daughter has developed a talent for spinning stories that are fantastical and spellbinding and entirely untrue.
Or so everyone believes…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Rumpelstiltskin | Romance | High Fantasy
Read the Series: Gilded
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father’s inability to collect his debts has left his family on the edge of poverty—until Miryem takes matters into her own hands. Hardening her heart, the young woman sets out to claim what is owed and soon gains a reputation for being able to turn silver into gold…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Rumpelstiltskin | Romance | Magic
A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce
The gold thread promises Charlotte Miller a chance to save her family’s beloved woolen mill. It promises a future for her sister, jobs for her townsfolk, security against her grasping uncle—maybe even true love. To get the thread, Charlotte must strike a bargain with its maker, the mysterious Jack Spinner…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Rumpelstiltskin | Historical Fiction | 1700’s Rural Setting
The Princess Pact (The Four Kingdoms #3) by Melanie Cellier
Spinning straw into gold was only the beginning of the story...
Marie, the dutiful princess of Northhelm, chafes under the rigid protocol that governs her life. Then a growing darkness threatens the kingdom and uncovers the lie at the centre of her whole life - a single pact that changes everything…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Rumpelstiltskin | Clean Romance | High Fantasy
Read the Series: The Four Kingdoms
A Curse of Gold and Beauty by Mary Mecham
What if Rumpelstiltskin and the miller’s daughter fell for each other?
Meg is cursed, bewitched with breath taking beauty at the cost of absolute obedience to her father. Rhys, her best friend, is also cursed. He is able to spin straw into gold, but each pump of the treadle exacts a terrible price…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Rumpelstiltskin | Clean Romance | High Fantasy
Charlotte and the Cozy Cottage (Autumn Fairy Tales) by Abigail Manning
She’s a con artist who’s ready to start fresh. He’s her last target before she’s placed under house arrest. What will happen when he pays her a visit in her new prison? Charlotte Chryses has spent enough time pick-pocketing and thieving to know that it’s not the life she wants, but her father doesn’t feel the same…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Rumpelstiltskin | Cozy Fantasy | Romance
Read the Series: Autumn Fairy Tales
Pinocchio Retellings
The Puppetmaster’s Apprentice by Lisa DeSelm
A young girl is commissioned to build an assassin for a dark-hearted tyrant.
Impressed by the work of the puppetmaster and his apprentice, Tavia’s ruler, The Margrave, has ordered dozens of life-size marionette soldiers to be sent to Wolfspire Hall…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Pinocchio and Frankenstein | Classic Village Setting | Magic | Gender Swap
The Wooden Prince (Out of Abaton #1) by John Claude Bemis
The automa Pinocchio has always been duty-bound to serve in the floating palace of Venice's emperor. So when Pinocchio finds himself locked in a trunk and delivered to a new master - a wanted criminal and alchemist named Geppetto - he is curious about everything around him. But most curious is the way Pinocchio seems to be changing from a wooden servant into a living, human boy…
Fantasy | Middle Grade | Pinocchio | Steampunk | Adventure | Magic
When You Wish Upon a Star (A Twisted Tale) by Elizabeth Lim
"Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight . . . " So begins the wish that changes everything—for Geppetto, for the Blue Fairy, and for a little puppet named Pinocchio. The Blue Fairy isn't supposed to grant wishes in the small village of Pariva, but something about this one awakens some long-buried flicker within…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Pinocchio | Disney
Read the Series: Disney's Twisted Tales
In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune
In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots--fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They're a family, hidden and safe…
Science Fiction Fantasy | Young Adult | Pinocchio | Androids | LGBT
Alice in Wonderland Retellings
A Blade So Black (The Nightmare-Verse #1) by L.L. McKinney
The first time the Nightmares came, it nearly cost Alice her life. Now she's trained to battle monstrous creatures in the dark dream realm known as Wonderland with magic weapons and hardcore fighting skills. Yet even warriors have a curfew…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Alice in Wonderland | Urban Fantasy | Romance | Monsters
Read the Series: The Nightmare-Verse
Splintered (Splintered #1) by A.G. Howard
Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of bugs and flowers—precisely the affliction that landed her mother in a mental hospital years before. This family curse stretches back to her ancestor Alice Liddell, the real-life inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Alyssa might be crazy, but she manages to keep it together. For now…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Alice in Wonderland | Dark Fantasy | Urban Fantasy | Paranormal
Read the Series: Splintered
Queen of Hearts (Queen of Hearts Saga #1) by Colleen Oakes
Only queens with hearts can bleed.
This is not the story of the Wonderland we know. Alice has not fallen down a rabbit hole. There is no all-knowing cat with a taunting smile. This is a Wonderland where beneath each smile lies a secret, each tart comes with a demand, and only prisoners tell the truth…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Alice in Wonderland | Prequel | Queen of Hearts | Romance
Read the Series: Queen of Hearts
Mad as a Hatter (Sons of Wonderland #1) by Kendra Moreno
Descend into Madness…
Clara spent her whole life fighting in courtrooms for the downtrodden, the strange ones, the abused. It’s only natural that when a man with rabbit ears on his head comes to see her, she doesn’t blink an eye...until he opens a portal and drags her to Wonderland…
Fantasy Horror Romance | Adult | Alice in Wonderland | Paranormal Romance | Dark Fantasy
Read the Series: Sons of Wonderland
Alice in Zombieland (White Rabbit Chronicles #1) by Gena Showalter
She won't rest until she's sent every walking corpse back to its grave. Forever.
If anyone had told Alice Bell that her entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, she would have laughed. From blissful to tragic, innocent to ruined? Please.
Urban Fantasy Horror | Adult | Alice in Wonderland | Paranormal | Supernatural | Zombies
Read the Series: The White Rabbit Chronicles
Unbirthday (A Twisted Tale) by Liz Braswell
What if Wonderland was in peril and Alice was very, very late?
Alice is different than other eighteen-year-old ladies in Kexford, which is perfectly fine with her. She’d rather spend golden afternoons with her trusty camera or in her aunt Vivian’s lively salon, ignoring her sister’s wishes that she stop all that “nonsense” and become a “respectable” member of society…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Alice in Wonderland | Disney
Read the Series: Disney's Twisted Tales
Heartless by Marissa Meyer
Catherine may be one of the most desired girls in Wonderland, and a favorite of the unmarried King of Hearts, but her interests lie elsewhere. A talented baker, all she wants is to open a shop with her best friend. But according to her mother, such a goal is unthinkable for the young woman who could be the next queen…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Alice in Wonderland | Prequel | High Fantasy
To Escape a Wonderland (The Shattered Tales #3) by Cece Louise
What if Alice was trapped in Wonderland? Alice once fell in love with the wrong man and paid a devastating price. Now she hides a dark secret and will stop at nothing to discover what happened to the sister she left behind. Bayne, a former knight, only wants a fresh start after his service almost cost him his life—and his mind. He certainly isn’t expecting a run-in with a thieving maidservant from his prior kingdom to change everything…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Alice in Wonderland | Sweet Romance | High Fantasy
Read the Series: The Shattered Tales
The Looking Glass Wars (The Looking Glass Wars #1) by Frank Beddor
Alyss of Wonderland?
When Alyss Heart, newly orphaned heir to the Wonderland throne, flees through the Pool of Tears to escape her murderous Aunt Redd, she finds herself lost and alone in Victorian London. Befriended by an aspiring author named Lewis Carrol, Alyss tells the violent, heartbreaking story of her young life…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Alice in Wonderland | Victorian London | Historical Fantasy
Goodreads | Amazon
Read the Series: The Looking Glass Wars
Peter Pan Retellings
Hooked (Never After #1) by Emily McIntire
He wants revenge, but he wants her more…
James has always had one agenda: destroy his enemy, Peter Michaels. When Peter’s twenty-year-old daughter Wendy shows up in James’s bar, he sees his way in. Seduce the girl and use her for his revenge. It’s the perfect plan, until things in James’s organization begin to crumble…
Contemporary Romance | New Adult | Peter Pan | Dark | Romance | Villain Story
Read the Series: Never After Series
The Pan (The PAN Trilogy #1) by Jenny Hickman
Since her parents were killed, Vivienne has always felt ungrounded, shuffled through the foster care system. Just when liberation finally seems possible—days before her eighteenth birthday—Vivienne is hospitalized with symptoms no one can explain…
Science Fiction Fantasy | Young Adult | Peter Pan | Urban Fantasy | Romance
Read the Series: The PAN Trilogy
God of Neverland (Defender of Lore #1) byGama Ray Martinez
Where is Peter Pan?
Peter Pan is missing; Neverland is in trouble. For adults, that might not matter all that much, but for children—whose dreams and imagination draw strength from the wild god’s power—the magic we take for granted in the real world is in danger of being lost forever…
Fantasy | Adult | Peter Pan | Pirates | Adventure
Read the Series: Defender of Lore
Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson
Before Peter Pan belonged to Wendy, he belonged to the girl with the crow feather in her hair...
Fifteen-year-old Tiger Lily doesn't believe in love stories or happy endings. Then she meets the alluring teenage Peter Pan in the forbidden woods of Neverland and immediately falls under his spell…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Peter Pan | Adventure | Romance
Becoming Hook (Legends of Neverland #1) by Mary Mecham
A pirate, a pixie, and a plot to foil Peter Pan…
James Hook never meant to become a pirate, and never dreamed that he would turn against best friend, Peter Pan. Every adventure and eternal youth awaited them… until a pixie exposes a shocking revelation. Tinkerbell’s information forces James into acknowledging that, far from being the benevolent hero he painted himself to be, Peter Pan was kidnapping innocent children…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Peter Pan | Clean Romance
Read Book #1- Legends of Neverland
Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook by Christina Henry
There is one version of my story that everyone knows. And then there is the truth. This is how it happened. How I went from being Peter Pan’s first—and favorite—lost boy to his greatest enemy…
Fantasy Horror | Adult | Peter Pan | Dark Fantasy | Pirates
Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas
It's been five years since Wendy and her two brothers went missing in the woods, but when the town’s children start to disappear, the questions surrounding her brothers’ mysterious circumstances are brought back into light. Attempting to flee her past, Wendy almost runs over an unconscious boy lying in the middle of the road, and gets pulled into the mystery haunting the town…
Contemporary Fantasy | Young Adult | Peter Man | Mystery | LGBT
The Never King (Vicious Lost Boys #1) by Nikki St. Crowe
The stories were all wrong — Hook was never the villain.
For two centuries, all of the Darling women have disappeared on their 18th birthday. Sometimes they’re gone for only a day, some a week or a month. But they always return broken…
Fantasy | Adult | Peter Pan | Reverse Harem | Dark Romance | Dark Fantasy | Fae | Paranormal Romance
Read the Series: Vicious Lost Boys
Straight On Till Morning (A Twisted Tale) by Liz Braswell
What if Wendy first traveled to Neverland… with Captain Hook?
Sixteen-year-old Wendy Darling's life is not what she imagined it would be. The doldrums of an empty house after her brothers have gone to school, the dull parties where everyone thinks she talks too much, and the fact that her parents have decided to send her away to Ireland as a governess-it all makes her wish things could be different.
Fantasy | Young Adult | Peter Pan | Disney | Romance
The Wendy (Tales of the Wendy #1) by Erin Michelle Sky, Steven Brown
London. 1789. More than anything in the world, Wendy Darling wants to be the captain of a ship, but women aren't allowed in the Royal Navy. When she learns the Home Office is accepting a handful of women into its ranks, she jumps at the chance, joining the fight against the most formidable threat England has ever faced. Magic…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Peter Pan | Historical Fiction | Magic | Pirates
Read the Series: Tales of the Wendy
Dust (Heirs of Neverland #1) by Kara Swanson
The truth about Neverland is far more dangerous than a fairy tale.
Claire Kenton believes the world is too dark for magic to be real—since her twin brother was stolen away as a child. Now Claire's desperate search points to London... and a boy who shouldn't exist…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Peter Pan | Historical Fiction | Christian Fiction | Romance
Read the Series: Heirs of Neverland
Aladdin Retelling
The Stolen Kingdom (The Stolen Kingdom #1) by Bethany Atazadeh
How can she protect her kingdom, if she can’t protect herself?
Princess Arie never expected to manifest a Jinni’s Gift. When she begins to hear the thoughts of those around her, she hides it to the best of her ability. But to her dismay, the forbidden Gift is growing out of control…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Aladdin | Middle Eastern Inspired World | Magic | High Fantasy
Read the Series: The Stolen Kingdom
Thief of Cahraman (Fairytales of Folkshore #1) by Lucy Tempest
You have been summoned to Sunstone Palace to compete in our search for the future Queen of Cahraman.
After years on the run, Adelaide thinks her lonely and dangerous life as a thief is finally over. But her world is upended when a witch steals her away to a faraway kingdom, to perform an impossible heist. If Adelaide fails, her newfound family would be sacrificed to a beast.
Fantasy | Young Adult | Aladdin | The Selection meets Aladdin | Romance | Magic
Read the Series: Fairytales of Folkshore
A Whole New World (A Twisted Tale) by Liz Braswell
What if Jafar was the first one to summon the Genie?
When Jafar steals the Genie’s lamp, he uses his first two wishes to become sultan and the most powerful sorcerer in the world. Agrabah lives in fear, waiting for his third and final wish…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Aladdin | Disney | Romance
Read the Series: Disney's Twisted Tales
The Forbidden Wish (The Forbidden Wish #1) by Jessica Khoury
She is the most powerful Jinni of all. He is a boy from the streets. Their love will shake the world...
When Aladdin discovers Zahra's jinni lamp, Zahra is thrust back into a world she hasn't seen in hundreds of years—a world where magic is forbidden and Zahra's very existence is illegal. She must disguise herself to stay alive, using ancient shape-shifting magic, until her new master has selected his three wishes…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Aladdin | High Fantasy | Romance | Magic
Mulan Retellings
The Warrior Maiden (Hagenheim #9) by Melanie Dickerson
She knows women are expected to marry, cook, and have children, not go to war. Can she manage to stay alive, save her mother, and keep the handsome son of a duke from discovering her secret?
When Mulan takes her father's place in battle against the besieging Teutonic Knights, she realizes she has been preparing for this journey her whole life—and that her life, and her mother's, depends on her success…
Historical Fiction | Young Adult | Mulan | Romance | Christian Fiction
Read the Series: Fairy Tale Romance Series
The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan by Sherry Thomas
CHINA, 484 A.D. A Warrior in Disguise.
All her life, Mulan has trained for one purpose: to win the duel that every generation in her family must fight. If she prevails, she can reunite a pair of priceless heirloom swords separated decades earlier, and avenge her father, who was paralyzed in his own duel…
Historical Fiction | Young Adult | Mulan | Fantasy | 484AD China | Romance
Reflection (A Twisted Tale) by Elizabeth Lim
What if Mulan had to travel to the Underworld?
When Captain Shang is mortally wounded by Shan Yu in battle, Mulan must travel to the Underworld, Diyu, in order to save him from certain death. But King Yama, the ruler of Diyu, is not willing to give Shang up easily…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Mulan | Disney | Romance
Read the Series:
The Wild Orchid: A Retelling of The Ballad of Mulan by Cameron Dokey
Wielding a sword as deftly as an embroidery needle, Mulan is unlike any other girl in China. When the emperor summons a great army, each family must send a male to fight, tom-boyish Mulan is determined to spare her aging father and bring her family honor, so she disguises herself and answers the call…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Historical Fiction | China | Romance | Adventure
The Little Mermaid Retellings
To Kill a Kingdom (Hundred Kingdoms #1) by Alexandra Christo
Princess Lira is siren royalty and the most lethal of them all. With the hearts of seventeen princes in her collection, she is revered across the sea. Until a twist of fate forces her to kill one of her own. To punish her daughter, the Sea Queen transforms Lira into the one thing they loathe most—a human. Robbed of her song, Lira has until the winter solstice to deliver Prince Elian’s heart to the Sea Queen or remain a human forever…
Fantasy | Young Adult | The Little Mermaid | Romance | Magic | Mermaids | Pirates
Read the Series: Hundred Kingdoms Novels
The Jinni Key (The Stolen Kingdom #2) by Bethany Atazadeh
She holds the key to his heart, and he wants it back.
Rena is the youngest daughter of the Sea King, and she’s dreamed of the surface for years. But her first visit on her 16th birthday isn’t what she expects. She watches a Jinni fall from the sky—and chooses to save him, despite her mother’s warnings that all Jinn are evil…
Fantasy | Young Adult | The Little Mermaid | Middle Eastern Inspired World | Magic | High Fantasy
Read the Series: The Stolen Kingdom Series
Part of Your World (A Twisted Tale) by Liz Braswell
What if Ariel had never defeated Ursula?
Five years ago, Ariel defied her father, King Triton, and traded her voice for the chance to meet Prince Eric. But when Ursula attacked and defeated Ariel, the sea witch took the little mermaid’s voice, her prince, and her father’s life…
Fantasy | Young Adult | The Little Mermaid | Graphic Novel | Disney | Romance
The Silent Prince (Once Upon A Prince #9) by C.J. Brightley
A voiceless prince. A desperate princess. A sham romance that turns heart-breakingly real.
When cocky Mer prince Kaerius impulsively saves the human princess from drowning, he doesn’t expect to fall in love with her. Yet her human fragility is so unexpectedly sweet that he is soon head over tails…
Fantasy | Young Adult | The Little Mermaid | Clean Romance | Gender Swap
Read the Series: Once Upon A Prince
Hunting Sirens (Legends of Neverland #2) by Mary Mecham
She was destined to hunt sirens to extinction… but can she complete her mission before one of them captures her heart?
Trapped on an island nation and surrounded by bloodthirsty sirens, the starving people of Haven Harbor are losing hope. Treva, a Deaf blacksmith immune to the tempting call of the sirens lurking in the deep, steps into the perilous role of Siren Hunter. If she can rid the waters of enough sirens, her people could be free at last…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Romance | Sirens | Gender Swap
Read the Series: Legends of Neverland
To Break a Silence (The Shattered Tales #5) by Lydia Mae
A siren's song holds power over skies and men.
Stella has never seen the sky until the day she speaks her oaths and is brought above the surface. After her first encounter with a land-walker's ship forces her to sing up a storm that pulls a prince into the water, she chooses to rescue him…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Sweet Romance | Adventure | Mermaids
Read the Series: The Shattered Tales
Filia and the Fall Festival (Autumn Fairy Tales) by Leialoha Humpherys
She’s the “perfect princess” with secrets she can never tell. He’s a prince betrothed to another. Their royal obligations pull them apart, so why do they keep finding themselves drawn to each other? When Princess Filia’s brother is too ill to attend the fall festival at Alpenglow Kingdom, she goes in his place…
Fantasy | Young Adult | The Little Mermaid | Cozy Fantasy | Clean Romance
Read the Series: Autumn Fairy Tales
Depths (HighTower Fairytales: The Little Mermaid #1) by Jacque Stevens
I always knew this day would come. That just as my hair lengthened and my curves formed, I would make the transition from girl to woman.
To siren.
Arianna is the youngest daughter of a siren. To become a siren herself, she must kill a man and sacrifice his heart to the God of the Deep…
Fantasy | Young Adult | The Little Mermaid | Dark Fantasy | Sirens
Read the Series: HighTower Little Mermaid
Call of the Sea by Emily B. Rose
Genderbent Little Mermaid retelling meets Brave in this debut NA Fantasy Romance about a fat human princess who dreams of a life of adventure on the ocean. Perfect for fans of Kerri Maniscalco and Legends & Lattes…
Fantasy | Young Adult | The Little Mermaid | Romance | Mermaids
One Thousand and One Nights Retellings
The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh
One Life to One Dawn.
In a land ruled by a murderous boy-king, each dawn brings heartache to a new family. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, is a monster. Each night he takes a new bride only to have a silk cord wrapped around her throat come morning…
Fantasy | Young Adult | One Thousand and One Nights | Historical Fiction | Magic
Read the Series: The Wrath and the Dawn
A Thousand Nights (A Thousand Nights #1) by E.K. Johnston
Lo-Melkhiin killed three hundred girls before he came to her village, looking for a wife. When she sees the dust cloud on the horizon, she knows he has arrived. She knows he will want the loveliest girl: her sister. She vows she will not let her be next…
Fantasy | Young Adult | A Thousand and One Nights | Magic | Romance | Mythology
The Snow Queen Retellings
Heart of Ice (The Snow Queen #1) by K.M. Shea
Rakel, a princess by birth, has spent most of her life exiled on a barren mountain, despised because of her powerful snow magic. Though she longs to be accepted, she hides in her ice-castle and lives with the fear that her brother—the King—will one day order her execution…
Fantasy | Young Adult | The Snow Queen | Romance
Read the Series: The Snow Queen
A Crown of Snow and Ice (Beyond the Four Kingdoms #3) by Melanie Cellier
An unexpected gift from her godmother will give Celine enough fire to take on an entire kingdom of snow and ice. But first she needs to melt one frozen prince.
Rumors have long swirled about the strange kingdom of Eldon…
Fantasy | Young Adult | The Snow Queen | Romance
Read the Series: Beyond the Four Kingdoms
Frey and the Icy Orchard (Autumn Fairy Tales) by Scarlett Luna Strange
She is cursed to imprison others. He is captured by her curse. Can he melt her frozen heart or is it too late?
Frey is the darling Autumn Queen of Seasoria, a cozy village nestled in the mountains…
Fantasy | Young Adult | The Snow Queen | Romance | Autumn Setting | Novella
Read the Series: Autumn Fairy Tales
Conceal, Don't Feel (A Twisted Tale) by Jen Calonita
What if Anna and Elsa never knew each other?
When a magical accident erases Anna and Elsa's memories not only of magic, but of each other the sisters are separated for protection…
Fantasy | Young Adult | The Snow Queen | Disney | Romance
Read the Series: Disney's Twisted Tales
Twelve Dancing Princesses Retellings
House of Salt and Sorrows (Sisters of the Salt #1) by Erin. A Craig
In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed.
Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters, their father, and stepmother. Once they were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Twelve Dancing Princesses | Horror | Mystery | Romance
Read the Series: Sisters of the Salt
The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine
A reimagining of the fairytale of the Twelve Dancing Princesses as flappers during the Roaring Twenties in Manhattan.
Jo, the firstborn, "The General" to her eleven sisters, is the only thing the Hamilton girls have in place of a mother. She is the one who taught them how to dance, the one who gives the signal each night, as they slip out of the confines of their father's townhouse to await the cabs that will take them to the speakeasy…
Historical Fiction | Young Adult | Twelve Dancing Princesses | Roaring Twenties Manhattan
Entwined by Heather Dixon Wallwork
Just when Azalea should feel that everything is before her—beautiful gowns, dashing suitors, balls filled with dancing—it's taken away. All of it. And Azalea is trapped. The Keeper understands. He's trapped, too, held for centuries within the walls of the palace. So he extends an invitation…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Twelve Dancing Princesses | Romance | High fantasy
The Silver Prince (Once Upon A Prince #7) by Lyndsey Hall
A soldier who conjures shadows. A princess cursed to dance. A mystery none can solve.
The people of the Silver Isle are brutes. Savages who live in darkness for half the year. They are not to be trusted, or so Princess Isadora has been raised to believe…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Twelve Dancing Princesses | Romance | Magic
Read the Series: Once Upon A Prince
East of the Sun and West of the Moon Retellings
Windsong by Stephanie E. Donohue
Life doesn’t wait for tears to finish.
Eighteen-year-old Roxana Welhaven has lived her life by this motto. When her mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer, Roxana swallows her tears and vows to do whatever is necessary to save her.
Even if it means making a deal with a talking polar bear…
Fantasy | Adult | East of the Sun and West of the Moon | Romance | Norwegian Fairytale
The Glass Palace by Kathryn Trattner
A curse. An arranged marriage. A chance to live happily ever after. For as long as Astrid can remember she's been betrothed to a stranger. When tragedy strikes her husband-to-be emerges from the shadows ready to claim her hand in marriage. Unable to resist this mysterious stranger she is drawn into a realm of captivating magic and haunting secrets…
Fantasy | Adult | East of the Sun and West of the Moon | Magical Realism | Romance
Tale of the Six Swans & Wild Swans Retellings
Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes #1) by Elizabeth Lim
A princess in exile, a shapeshifting dragon, six enchanted cranes, and an unspeakable curse...
Shiori'anma, the only princess of Kiata, has a secret. Forbidden magic runs through her veins. Normally she conceals it well, but on the morning of her betrothal ceremony, Shiori loses control…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Wild Swans | Romance | Dragons | Mythology |Magic
Read the Series: Six Crimson Cranes
Kiss of the Swan by Natalina Reis
Once upon a time there was a captive queen who fell in love with a tormented hero.
When Cathal follows his cruel brother into the sacred and forbidden Swan Island, he walks straight into the hands of the King’s swans and the heart of their beautiful queen…
Fantasy | Adult | Tale of the Six Swans | Romance
The Princess and the Pea Retellings
The Princess Companion (The Four Kingdoms #1) by Melanie Cellier
One dark and stormy night, lost and alone, Alyssa finds herself knocking on the door of a castle.
After a lifetime spent in the deep forest, Alyssa has no idea what to expect on the other side.
What she finds is two unruly young princesses and one very handsome prince…
Fantasy | Young Adult | The Princess and the Pea| High Fantasy | Clean Romance
Read the Series: The Four Kingdoms
Stain by A.G. Howard
After Lyra—a princess incapable of speech or sound—is cast out of her kingdom of daylight by her wicked aunt, a witch saves her life, steals her memories, and raises her in an enchanted forest…disguised as a boy known only as Stain…
Fantasy | Young Adult | The Princess and the Pea | High Fantasy | Magic
To Deceive a Kingdom (The Shattered Tales #6) by Kathryn Radaker
Magic is dying. Everyone is lying. Ceris is quite content in her role as a horse trainer’s assistant by day and medicinal smuggler by night. But when one of her closest friends betrays her and draws her into a plot of her own, Ceris has to pretend to be a foreign princess to save her smuggling ring…and herself…
Fantasy | Young Adult | The Princess and the Pea | Romance | High Fantasy
Read the Series: The Shattered Tales
True Princess (The Cursed Kingdom Chronicles #1) by Kayla Eshbaugh
Welcome to the ancient land of Terra, where curses run rampant throughout all the kingdoms and where the royalty desperately attempt to break their curses and claim their own happily ever afters.
Princess Elisianna wasn't gifted at birth. No, she was cursed. While her body may be weak and easy to bruise, what she did have was a strong intelligent mind. But a strong mind isn't easily seen…
Fantasy | Young Adult | The Princess and the Pea | Clean Romance | High Fantasy
Read the Series: The Cursed Kingdom Chronicles
The Frog Prince Retellings
A Midwinter's Wedding (The Four Kingdoms #3.5) by Melanie Cellier
Princess Cordelia is used to being overshadowed by her many brothers and sisters. So when she's offered the chance to attend her brother's wedding in a faraway kingdom, she leaps at it. In Northhelm, she'll finally have the chance to stand out…
Fantasy | Young Adult | The Frog Prince | Romance | High Fantasy | Midwinter
The Unlucky Prince (Once Upon A Prince #1) by Deborah Grace White
A sacrifice to duty. Magic gone awry. And a prince with the worst luck on the continent.
Prince Ari has always struggled to find his place in his own kingdom…maybe because he spent half his childhood trapped in a swan’s body. His mother thinks he should find a wife and settle down, but far from being subdued by his past brush with magic, he’s convinced life has more adventure for him yet…
Fantasy | Young Adult | The Frog Prince | Romance | High Fantasy
Read the Series: Once Upon A Prince
To Betray a King (The Shattered Tales #2) by Annette K. Larsen
A princess tasked with poisoning a stranger.
A handsome gentleman distracting her from her purpose.
Faelyn is a princess of Morwen, or at least she used to be. Forced to flee her kingdom, she’s dependent on her cousin, King Jeshua, to keep her and her family safe…
Fantasy | Young Adult | The Frog Prince | Romance | High Fantasy
Read the Series: The Shattered Tales
Princess of Secrets (Fairy Tale Adventures #2) by A.G. Marshall
All she needs is a clue
After a disastrous Princess Test, Carina tries to pick up the pieces and prove she is still a trustworthy spy. But all her evidence points to magical interference, and her father won’t believe such preposterous theories without proof…
Fantasy | Young Adult | The Frog Prince | Romance | High Fantasy | Magic | Adventure
Read the Series: Fairy Tale Adventures
The Ugly Duckling Retellings
The Princess Search (The Four Kingdoms #5) by Melanie Cellier
An outcast. A prince. And a deadly rebellion...
After a lifetime of rejection, seamstress Evie can't trust Frederic, the crown prince of Lanover—not his words of friendship or the way the warmth in his eyes seems to ask for even more…
Fantasy | Young Adult | The Ugly Duckling | Romance | High Fantasy
Read the Series: The Four Kingdoms
Willow and the Harvest Moon (Autumn Fairy Tales) by Kayla Eshbaugh
She’s the shunned, strange and unwanted maiden living alone in the woods. He’s the noble, handsome, and highly eligible personal knight of the King. So why is he always seeking her out?
Willow is familiar with the unkind words of others. With her ugly and undesirable grey-white hair and black eyes, the villagers never tire of their mocking…
Fantasy | Young Adult | The Ugly Duckling | Romance | High Fantasy
Read the Series: Autumn Fairy Tales
Robin Hood Retellings
The Wicked Prince (Once Upon A Prince #4) by Celeste Baxendell
A righteous outlaw. A wicked tyrant. A marriage to save their crumbling kingdom.
As regent, Prince John has a never-ending list of problems, including his brother’s expensive war and his subjects’ utter hatred of him. But the biggest thorn in his side? The outlaw Robin Hood…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Robin Hood | Romance | High Fantasy
Read the Series: Once Upon A Prince
Robin's Hood (HighTower Robin Hood ) by Jacque Stevens
Noblewoman by day. Legendary thief by night. Who is the girl under the hood?
Orphaned at five and widowed at sixteen, Marian is the sole heir of Locksley keep and the Earldom of Huntingdon. Her husband, Robin of Locksley, never returned from the crusades, leaving her at the mercy of the sheriff…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Robin Hood | Romance | High Fantasy
Read the Series: HighTower Robin Hood
Puss in Boots Retellings
The Shoeless Prince (Once Upon A Prince #8) by Jacque Stevens
A shoeless son of a miller. A high-fashion tabby. An adventure far more than they bargained for.
Leo is not a normal cat.
Archie Miller might be a dreamer, but he’s seen the complex mousetraps the stray barn cat builds, and he knows he’s right. When his late father wills him the “magic cat” as his only inheritance, Archie is ready to prove it, making a deal with the supposed faerie to gain his fortune…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Puss in Boots | Romance | High Fantasy
Read the Series: Once Upon A Prince
Blackfoot (Two Monarchies Sequence #2) by W.R. Gingell
Bad luck is the least of their worries…
Annabel has never wanted a cat. She certainly didn’t want a secretive, sarcastic black cat who takes over her pillow and makes remarks that no one else ever seems to hear…
Fantasy | Young Adult | Puss in Boots | Steampunk | Magic
Read the Series: The Two Monarchies Sequence
The Nutcracker
To Crack a Soldier (The Shattered Tales #9) by Sarah Beran
A broken soldier. A wooden ballerina. When battle comes, can Alex use his gifts to defeat the Mouse King?
Alexander Monde may have survived the war with Brisia in one piece, but that doesn’t mean he’s not broken…
Fantasy | Young Adult | The Nutcracker | Christmas | Romance | Magic
Read the Series: The Shattered Tales
The Enchanted Sonata by Heather Dixon Wallwork
Clara Stahlbaum has her future perfectly planned: to marry the handsome pianist, Johann Kahler (ah!) and settle down to a life full of music. But all that changes on Christmas Eve, when Clara receives a mysterious and magical nutcracker…
Fantasy | Young Adult | The Nut Cracker | Christmas | Romance | Historical Fiction
The Kingdom of Sweets by Erika Johansen
Light and dark—this is the destiny placed upon Natasha and Clara, the birthright bestowed by their godfather, the mysterious sorcerer Drosselmeyer. Clara, the favorite, grows into beauty and ease, while Natasha is cursed to live in her sister’s shadow. But one fateful Christmas Eve, Natasha gets her chance at revenge…
Fantasy Horror | New Adult | The Nutcracker | Christmas
Midnight in Everwood by M.A. Kuzniar
There’s nothing Marietta Stelle loves more than ballet, but after Christmas, her dreams will be over as she is obligated to take her place in Edwardian society. While she is chafing against such suffocating traditions, a mysterious man purchases the neighbouring townhouse. Dr Drosselmeier is a charming but calculating figure who wins over the rest of the Stelle family with his enchanting toys and wondrous mechanisms…
Fantasy | Young Adult | The Nut Cracker | Christmas | Romance | Historical Fiction
Jack and the Beanstalk Retellings
Jacklyn and the Twisted Beanstalk (Autumn Fairy Tales) by Callie Thomas
She has stolen from the king and now must suffer the consequences. He’s an honor-bound guard, forced to uphold the law. Can she wish her way out of this disaster, or will their budding romance wilt before it even has a chance to blossom?
Fantasy | Young Adult | Jack and the Beanstalk | Romance | High Fantasy
Read the Series: Autumn Fairy Tales
Goose Girl Retellings
A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
Cordelia knows her mother is . . . unusual. Their house doesn’t have any doors between rooms―there are no secrets in this house―and her mother doesn't allow Cordelia to have a single friend. Unless you count Falada, her mother's beautiful white horse. The only time Cordelia feels truly free is on her daily rides with him…
Fantasy Horror | Adult | Goose Girl | Dark Fantasy | Witches
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