Classics Retold

Classic novels rewritten for modern audiences and introduced to new generations of readers.
Updated September 19, 2022
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Classics Retold

Classic novels rewritten for modern audiences and introduced to new generations of readers.
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Boy, snow, bird
Oyeyemi, Helen
Paper Book
As seen on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, where it was described as "gloriously unsettling... evoking Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Angela Carter, Edgar Allan Poe, Gabriel García Márquez, Chris Abani and even Emily Dickinson," and already one of the year's most...
The reimagined story of Snow White set in 1950s America.
On beauty : a novel
Smith, Zadie.
Paper Book
Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was....
Loosely based on E.M. Forster's Howard's End, set in modern day U.K.
Wicked the life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Maguire, Gregory.
CD
When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious Witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil? Gregory Maguire...
An exploration of the characters & setting of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.
Cinder
Meyer, Marissa.
Paper Book
Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch. ... Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She's a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister's illness...
A futuristic retelling of Cinderella.
The song of Achilles
Miller, Madeline.
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller "At once a scholar's homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art....A book I could not put down." --Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House A thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the...
Homer's Iliad as told from the perspective of the character Patroclus.
Tiger Lily
Anderson, Jodi Lynn.
Paper Book
* YALSA galley mailing * Extensive galley distribution at conferences and librarian previews * Author blog post on The Page Turn
March : a novel
Brooks, Geraldine.
Paper Book
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize--a powerful love story set against the backdrop of the Civil War, from the author of The Secret Chord. From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and...
Longbourn
Baker, Jo.
CD
* Pride and Prejudice was only half the story *   If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, she'd most likely be a sight more careful with them.   In this irresistibly imagined belowstairs answer to...
A story of the lives of the servants at Longbourn, the house of the Bennetts in Pride & Prejudice.
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