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• Lost in the Never Woods

  Thomas, Aiden,

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  YA "dark reimagining" of Peter Pan.

• The Bear and the Nightingale

  a Novel

  Arden, Katherine,

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  First in a trilogy inspired by Russian folklore and Slavic mythology.

• The Merry Spinster

  Tales of Everyday Horror

  Ortberg, Daniel Mallory,

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  Short story collection with dark retellings of various fairytales.

• Spinning Silver

  Novik, Naomi,

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  Inspired by Rumpelstiltskin and interwoven with Jewish, Russian and Eastern European folklore.

• Her Body and Other Parties

  Stories

  Machado, Carmen Maria,

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  Short story collection inspired by fairytales and urban myths.

• The Magic Fish

  Trung, Le Nguyen,

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  YA graphic novel featuring various Vietnamese fairytales.

• The Snow Child

  a Novel

  Ivey, Eowyn

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  Inspired by the Russian fairytale "Snegurochka."

• For the Wolf

  Whitten, Hannah,

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  Inspired by Little Red Riding Hood. (The sequel, FOR THE THRONE, is set to publish June 7, 2022.)

• Gingerbread

  a Novel

  Oyeyemi, Helen,

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  Inspired by Hansel & Gretel.

• The Book of Lost Things

  Connolly, John, 1968-

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  Featuring a boy who "crosses the border between his world and a kingdom of elsewhere."

• What Should Be Wild

  a Novel

  Fine, Julia,

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  Features a young woman born with the power to kill or restore life at a touch.

• The Princess Bride

  S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

  Goldman, William, 1931-2018

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  Yes, like the cult classic film!

• The Mirror Season

  McLemore, Anna-Marie,

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  Ya novel inspired by the Hans Christian Anderson fairytale The Snow Queen.

• All the Ever Afters

  the Untold Story of Cinderella's Stepmother

  Teller, Danielle,

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  Alternate-perspective retelling of Cinderella.

• Ash

  Lo, Malinda

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  YA retelling of Cinderella.

• A Spindle Splintered

  Harrow, Alix E.,

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  "Fractured fable" novella inspired by Sleeping Beauty.

• If the Shoe Fits

  Murphy, Julie

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  Contemporary romance Cinderella retelling.

• Girls Made of Snow and Glass

  Bashardoust, Melissa,

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  YA novel inspired by both Snow White and the Snow Queen.

• Snow, Glass, Apples

  Gaiman, Neil,

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  Graphic novel retelling of Snow White from the stepmother's perspective.

• The Hazel Wood

  Albert, Melissa,

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  YA novel featuring the granddaughter of a reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales.