Adaptations and Retellings
Modern retellings of classics, mythologies, fairy tales and more! (March 2026)
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The Water Outlaws
In this addictive queer, feminist epic fantasy, Huang brilliantly retells the 14th-century Chinese classic Water Margin for a 21st-century audience...This wuxia eat-the-rich tale is a knockout. (Publishers Weekly)
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Much Ado About Nada
Jalaluddin updates Jane Austen’s Persuasion to Toronto’s Muslim community, where software engineer Nada, still stinging from a professional disappointment, is unexpectedly reunited with a former flame. Switching between past and present, this second-chance romance shines with humor and heart, and is perfect for anyone looking for a sweetly sexy summer read. (LibraryReads)
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The Last Count of Monte Cristo
Jama-Everett reimagines Alexandre Dumas’ classic revenge novel as an afrofuturist tale set hundreds of years in the future against a backdrop of ecological collapse. (Booklist)
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The Salt Grows Heavy
What if the Little Mermaid laid eggs and her hatched children's hunger laid waste to her prince's land? Khaw's latest novella tackles this question with a brutally visceral but seductive opening sequence. (Library Journal)
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Demon Copperhead
Inspired by David Copperfield, Kingsolver crafts a 21st-century coming-of-age story set in America’s hard-pressed rural South. (Kirkus)
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In the Lives of Puppets
Bestseller Klune draws from Pinocchio to create a gripping and heartfelt queer dystopian tale set in a world where humanity has been eliminated by robots. (Publishers Weekly)
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White Cat, Black Dog
Inspired by the Brothers Grimm, 17th-century French lore and Scottish ballads, this clever collection of reinvented fairy tales expertly blends realism and the speculative as characters hunt for love, connection, revenge or their own sense of purpose. (NoveList)
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The Death I Gave Him
Liu recasts Hamlet as a high-tech thriller in this ingenious sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare’s classic. (Publishers Weekly)
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This Motherless Land
This Mansfield Park retelling follows the trials and tribulations of two cousins—one Nigerian, one English—from 1978 to 1992...A meaningful modern tale of becoming, belonging, and the ties that bind. (Kirkus)
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The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
In this thorny riff on The Island of Doctor Moreau, bestseller Moreno-Garcia interweaves several threads in 19th-century Mexico. (Publishers Weekly)
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