Top Ten Tuesday is a bookish meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish!
This week is a freebie! I chose to talk about fairy tale retellings because I LOVE FAIRY TALES. The realm of Faerie. all of it.
I have just always adored stories about wonder and magical places and mystical beings. I even took a class last year in college about fairy tales (it’s one of my favorite classes ever).
So I started thinking about my favorite retellings/books inspired by fairy tales, only to realize that I haven’t read as many YA retellings as I thought I had (I read a lot of original / classic fairy tales though).
SO, I thought I would split it into my top 5 favorites and my top 5 TBRs.
Top 5 I love:
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- Winter
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- Throne of Glass
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- A Court of Thorns and Roses
- The Lunar Chronicles – Marissa Meyer (multiple)
- This series is hands down one of my favorites. It is SO well done, and I just adore it so much. Marissa Meyer is fantastic (and local!!).
- Uprooted – Naomi Novik (loosly inspired by polish fairy tales)
- Uprooted is a wonderfully complete and intricately woven fantasy novel that is loosely based on polish fairy tales. Its fantastic, and I think you should totally read it if you haven’t already!
- A Court of Thorns and Roses – Sarah J. Maas (Beauty and the Beast)
- ACOTAR is amazing. Swoon-y romance, incredible story telling, complex world buidling. Seriously, love it. SJMaas is perf.
- Spinning Starlight – R. C. Lewis (Hans Christian Andersen’s The Wild Swans)
- SUCH a good story! I love HCA’s tales, and I adored this retelling. Futuristic sci-fi fairy tales are apparently things I’m a big fan of, and this was no exception.
- Throne of Glass – Sarah J. Maas (inspired by Cinderella)
- So I don’t know if this counts, but TOG did begin as a cinderella retelling, but has definitely evolved since then. But I’m saying it counts, haha. I’m sure you’ve heard a million and one good things about the TOG series- they’re all true. ♥
Top 5 I want to read:
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- The Forbidden Wish
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- The Wrath and the Dawn
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- Cruel Beauty
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- Stitching Snow
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- Heartless
- Heartless – Marissa Meyer (Alice in Wonderland !!!!!)
- Cruel Beauty – Rosamund Hodge (Beauty and the Beast)
- The Wrath and the Dawn – Renee Ahdieh (A Thousand and One Nights)
- The Forbidden Wish – Jessica Khoury
- Stitching Snow – R. C. Lewis
I loved Uprooted; it was SOOOO GOOD!
I cannot wait to read Heartless!
It really was! I adored Uprooted, in every way. Yeah, it’s so exciting that Marissa Meyer is starting another series so soon!
Fun topic choice! I haven’t read any of your choices, but one of my favorite fairy tale retellings is Beastly, by Alex Finn:)
oh I’ve heard mixed, but mostly good, things about Alex Finn! I’ll have to check it out. 🙂
I just got SO excited reading this post!! Haha. I LOVE fairytale retellings, and so many of the ones on there I love and the others are all on my TBR list – I NEEDSSSS them! Sadly I really didn’t like Uprooted, and Cinder was alright for me but I’m still really excited to start reading my copy of Scarlet! Obviously I LOVE ACOTAR and TOG (can the next books just come out already please) haha. Cruel Beauty and The Wrath & The Dawn are both really amazing books, they are some of my all-time favourites and I’d highly recommend them! 😀 Great post!
haha yay I’m so happy other people get as excited about fairy tales as I do!! 🙂 I know the feeling of NEEDING the retellings I haven’t read yet.
I’m surprised you didn’t like Uprooted! I found it so interesting! But I can totally see not loving Cinder, I think the series definitely grew on me more and more with every book!
and omg yes I am so not patiently waiting for the next TOG and ACOTAR books.
I just bought Cruel Beauty!! I think I am going to read it soon, especially knowing it’s one of your all-time favorites!! Probably The Wrath and The Dawn too, but I don’t own that one yet!
Thanks for fangirling over fairy tales with me!! haha 🙂
Okay wow! I have no idea ToG was based from Cinderella! It feels like a completely different story! I haven’t read the other books, but I’m glad you enjoyed them 😀
Yeah! Or at least it began as a retelling and was somewhat reworked after that, but definitely had a cinderella inspiration!