#Retelling

5 books tagged with retelling, sorted by rating.

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Circe

by Madeline Miller

5/5

Fiction & Literature Fantasy

Demon Copperhead

by Barbara Kingsolver

5/5

Fiction & Literature

James

by Percival Everett

5/5

Fiction & Literature

The Song of Achilles

by Madeline Miller

5/5

Fiction & Literature

A Court of Thorns and Roses

by Sarah J. Maas

3/5

Fantasy Romance

Circe

by Madeline Miller

5/5

In the house of Helios, god of the sun, a daughter is born — but Circe is a strange child, not powerful like her father nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers a power forbidden to the gods: witchcraft. Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her craft and encounters legends of mythology.

Fiction & Literature Fantasy

Demon Copperhead

by Barbara Kingsolver

5/5

Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is a modern retelling of David Copperfield. Born to a teenage single mother in a single-wide trailer, Demon navigates foster care, poverty, and the opioid crisis with fierce wit and resilience. A Pulitzer Prize winner that illuminates forgotten America.

Fiction & Literature

James

by Percival Everett

5/5

Percival Everett retells Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the point of view of Jim, the enslaved man who escapes down the Mississippi with Huck. This Jim is a sharp, literate man who hides his intelligence behind the dialect white people expect to hear. The novel won the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Fiction & Literature

The Song of Achilles

by Madeline Miller

5/5

A tale of gods, kings, immortal fame, and the human heart, The Song of Achilles is a profoundly moving retelling of Homer's Iliad. Exiled prince Patroclus befriends golden Achilles, and their bond deepens as they grow into young men and are called to fight in the Trojan War.

Fiction & Literature

A Court of Thorns and Roses

by Sarah J. Maas

3/5

Nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods to feed her struggling family, and a fae creature arrives to demand payment: she must leave her home and live in Prythian, the faerie lands beyond the wall. At the estate of the masked High Lord Tamlin, she finds a court under a curse and a darkness spreading across the land. The first book in the A Court of Thorns and Roses series.

Fantasy Romance