Retold Classics

A classic story is worth telling twice, right? Check out this list of reimagined classics.

Updated June 13, 2025
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The chosen and the beautiful
Vo, Nghi
Paper Book
An Instant National Bestseller! An Indie Next Pick! A Best of Summer Pick for TIME Magazine | CNN | NBC News | CBS News | Book Riot | The Daily Beast | Lambda Literary | The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Goodreads |...
Death comes to Pemberley
James, P. D.
Paper Book
P.D. James masterfully recreates the world of Pride and Prejudice, and combines it with the excitement and suspense of a brilliantly-crafted detective story.
Demon Copperhead : a novel
Kingsolver, Barbara
Paper Book
From the multi-million copy bestselling author of Flight Behaviour and The Poisonwood Bible comes this heart-rending instant classic.
James : a novel
Everett, Percival
Paper Book
'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' - Roddy Doyle James is a profound and ferociously funny novel from one of our greatest living writers, Percival Everett. The Sunday Times Bestseller Winner of the...
Jane Steele : a confession
Faye, Lyndsay
Paper Book
The reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer that The New York Times Book Review calls "wonderfully entertaining" and USA Today describes as "sheer mayhem meets Victorian propriety"--nominated for the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Novel. "Reader, I...
The Penelopiad
Atwood, Margaret
Ebook
In a splendid contemporary twist, Margaret Atwood tells Penelope's story. In Homer's account, Penelope is the constant wife. It is she who rules Odysseus's kingdom of Ithaca during his twenty-year absence at the Trojan War. She raises their wayward son and fends off over a hundred insistent...
Pride and prejudice and zombies : the classic Regency romance -- now with ultraviolent zombie mayhem!
Grahame-Smith, Seth.
Ebook
The song of Achilles
Miller, Madeline.
Paper Book
**OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD** WINNER OF THE ORANGE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION THE INTERNATIONAL SENSATION A SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Captivating' DONNA TARTT 'I loved it' J K ROWLING
Vinegar girl : The taming of the shrew retold
Tyler, Anne
Paper Book
"*** As read on Radio 4 ***'You can't get around Kate Battista as easily as all that'Kate Battista is feeling stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus, she's always in trouble at work - her pre...
The wife upstairs
Hawkins, Rachel
Paper Book
Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller "Compulsively readable...a gothic thriller laced with arsenic." --EW One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021: CNN * Newsweek * Vulture * PopSugar...

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