Booklist: Retellings of Classic Literature

For those who are participating in the Retelling-A-Thon, for those who are just following along for fun or those who clicked on my Pinterest graphic in search of a Classics Retelling…..this post is for you!

Did you know that there are a TON of retellings? Name your favorite classic and I bet there is at least one. If you are a Jane Austen fan, there are A LOT. I mean A LOT. And the YA genre seems to hold the most retellings which is A-Okay in my book.

Without further ado…..here is just a small list of retellings of Classic Literature (with a link to each’s synoposis):

Truth Universally Acknowledged: A Jane Austen Retelling

• Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
• Pride Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
• Sense & Sensibility by Joanna Trollope
• Seeking Mansfield by Kate Watson
• Pride by Ibi Zoboi
• Pride Prejudice and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev
• Persuaded by Misty Dawn Pulsipher
• For Darkness Shows the Star by Diana Peterfreund
• The Trouble with Flirting by Claire LaZebnik
• The Last Best Kiss by Claire LaZebnik
• Sass and Serendipity by Jennifer Ziegler
• Loved None But You by Noelle Adams (Novella)

Terror Made Me Cruel: A Bronte Sisters Retelling

• The Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell
• Catherine by April Lindner
• Reader, I Married Him: Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre by Tracy Chevalier
• The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
• Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye
• Withering Tights by Louise Rennison

We’re All Mad Here: An Alice in Wonderland Retelling

• Splintered by A.G. Howard
• Unhinged by A.G. Howard
• Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter
• Heartless by Marissa Meyer
• After Alice by Gregory Maguire
• Queen of Hearts by Colleen Oakes

It’s Alive!: A Frankenstein Retelling

• The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White
• Prodigal Son by Dean Koontz
• Frank N’Goat: A Tale of Freakish Friendship by Jessica Watts (Note: this is a Children’s Book but it sounds so funny! How could I not add?)
• This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein by Kenneth Oppel
• This Monstrous Thing by Mackenzie Lee

Glitter and Jazz: The Great Gatsby Retelling

• Great by Sara J. Benincasa
• Jake, Reinvented by Gordon Korman
• No One is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts
• The Duke of Bannerman Prep by Katie A. Nelson

Other Classic Retellings

• Ten by Gretchen McNeil (Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None)
• Second Star by Alyssa B. Sheinmel (JM Barrie’s Peter Pan)
• The Fall by Bethany Griffin (Edgar Allen Poe)
• The Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shepard (HG Well’s The Island of Dr Moreau)
• Across a Star-Swept Sea by Diana Peterfreund (The Scarlet Pimpernel)

Re-Telling-A-Thon Refresher

The teams are tasked with reading as much as they can using the prompts in the month of August for FUN (and the weekly giveaway or two).

The above lists are just SUGGESTIONS. You do not have to read in any particular order and you do can read from every category – hence the reader’s choices.

Other categories include Mythology, Shakespeare and Fairy Tales. You can review their prompts HERE.

Results should be shared on Twitter using the hashtag: #Retellingathon. You can either share as you read along. The Tweet(s) should look something like this:

#RetellingAThon Day [insert day here]

Pages Read: [insert total for that day]

Total Pages: [insert total for thon]

Challenges completed: [insert # of prompts you complete/25]

I’ll be posting my #RetellingathonTBR soon. Have fun creating (or adding to) your TBR shelves! Happy Reading!