Top Ten Retellings

This week's Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by The Broke and the Bookish) is to do with fairytale retellings.  I admit that I haven't had all that much experience with fairytale retellings.  So, I've decided to do a top ten list of retellings - so, not necessarily fairytales - including both books I have read and books that I want to read.  And I've included a couple of movies.  The point is, my list is a mixed bag.

1.  Cruel Beauty and Crimson Bound by Rosamund Hodge


Cruel Beauty is one of my absolute favourite books, and in case you can't tell by the title, it is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast.  I've been waiting to read Crimson Bound since I found out it was being written, and I swear I am going to read it this month!  It's a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.

2.  The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer


I have read and enjoyed Cinder, but I've yet to read the next three books.  On another note, I love how all four covers match so well.

3.  Grim edited by Christine Johnson
4.  A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
5.  The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

I read Grim, an anthology of fairytale retellings, a couple months ago, and there were some retellings in there that I really loved.  I also enjoyed A Court of Thorns and Roses - another Beauty and the Beast retelling, and I adored The Scorpio Races - which is a take on the Scottish, Irish and Manx mythology of water horses.

6.  Mechanica by Betsy Cornwell
7.  Entwined by Heather Dixon
8.  Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson

I have yet to read any of these three books.  I believe that Mechanica is a Cinderella retelling (being released this month), Entwined is a retelling of the 12 Dancing Princesses and Tiger Lily is related to Peter Pan.

9.  Ella Enchanted
10.  Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

My last two picks are movies.  The first is Ella Enchanted, a movie based off the book by Gail Carson Levine, which is a retelling of Cinderella.  Sure, it's pretty cringe-worthy, but it's cute and I loved it when I was younger.  The second is Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters.  Obviously, it's a retelling of Hansel & Gretel.  The thing that I liked about that movie was that you didn't know what to expect.  It didn't hold back in the violence and gore department, and the witches were super ugly.  I'm not someone to easily fall in love with a movie, and I have to say this one had a lot of flaws, but I'd be willing to rewatch it, and that's pretty good for me.

Let me know which retellings I should look into next!