The Readers Dozen year is drawing to a close… just three more months! We realize it’s almost the end of October, but if you’ve been putting off reading because the month is a little longer (or because you haven’t found the right book), let us help.
The challenge this month is to read a retelling of another story. Whether it’s a fairy tale, a Greek myth, or a change in point-of-view, it just has to continue (or change) the original story a little. Here’s a list to get you started:
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AUTHOR – TITLE – RETELLING OF
AIDAN, Pamela – An Assembly Such as This – Pride and Prejudice
ALLEN, Nancy Campbell – My Fair Gentleman – My Fair Lady/Pygmalion
ATWOOD, Margaret – Hag-Seed – The Tempest
ATWOOD, Margaret – The Penelopiad – The Odyssey
BAKER, Jo – Longbourn – Pride and Prejudice
BARKER, Pat – The Silence of the Girls – The Iliad
BLACKWELL, Elizabeth – While Beauty Slept – Beauty and the Beast fairy tale
BROOKS, Geraldine – March – Little Women
CHEVALIER, Tracy – The New Boy – Othello
CLINCH, Jon – Finn – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
FAYE, Lyndsay – Jane Steele – Jane Eyre
FORSYTH, Kate – Bitter Greens – Rapunzel fairy tale
FORTIER, Anne – Juliet – Romeo and Juliet
FRAME, Ronald – Havisham – Great Expectations
GARDNER, John – Grendel – Beowulf
HART, Lenore – Becky: The Life and Loves of Becky Thatcher – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
HAUSER, Emily – For the Winner – Jason and Argonauts myth
HEADLEY, Maria Dahvana – The Mere Wife – Beowulf
JACOBSON, Howard – Shylock Is My Name – The Merchant of Venice
JALALUDDIN, Uzma – Ayesha at Last – Pride and Prejudice
JENSEN, Lisa – Alias Hook – Peter Pan
JOHNSON, Daisy – Everything Under – Oedipus
JORDAN, Hillary – When She Woke – The Scarlet Letter
KAMAL, Soniah – Unmarriageable – Pride and Prejudice
LE GUIN, Ursula – Lavinia – The Aeneid
LEVINE, Daniel – Hyde – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
LEWIS, C.S. – Till We Have Faces – Cupid & Psyche myth
MAGUIRE, Gregory – Mirror, Mirror – Snow White fairy tale
MAGUIRE, Gregory – Wicked – The Wizard of Oz
MAGUIRE, Gregory – Hiddensee – The Nutcracker
MAKARYK, Mark – Nottingham – Robin Hood myth
MALERMAN, Josh – Unbury Carol – Beauty and the Beast fairy tale
MALOUF, David – Ransom – The Iliad
MILLER, Madeline – The Song of Achilles – The Iliad
MILLER, Madeline – Circe – Circe myth
MILLER, Sarah – Caroline – The Little House on the Prairie
MOORE,Christopher – Fool – King Lear
MURPHY, Louise – The True Story of Hansel and Gretel – Hansel and Gretel fairy tale
NASLUND, Sara Jeter – Ahab’s Wife – Moby Dick
NESBO, Jo – Macbeth – Macbeth
NOVIK, Naomi – Uprooted – Beauty and the Beast fairy tale
OYEYEMI, Helen – Boy, Snow, Bird – Snow White fairy tale
PHILLIPS, Carly – The Lost Child – Wuthering Heights
RENAULT, Mary – The King Must Die – Theseus, Minotaur myth
RHYS, Jean – Wide Sargasso Sea – Jane Eyre
RUSHDIE, Salman – Quichotte – Don Quixote
SEGAL, Francesca – The Innocents – The Age of Innocence
SELF, Will – Dorian – The Picture of Dorian Gray
SHAMSIE, Kamila – Home Fire – Antigone myth
SHAYKH, Hanan – One Thousand One Nights – A Thousand and One Nights
SHIELDS, Sharma – The Cassandra – Cassandra myth
SITTENFELD, Curtis – Eligible – Pride and Prejudice
SMILEY, Jane – A Thousand Acres – King Lear
SONNEBORN, Julia – By the Book – Persuasion
TELLER, Danielle – All the Ever Afters – Cinderella fairy tale
TODD, Anna – The Spring Girls – Little Women
TYLER, Anne – Vinegar Girl – The Taming of the Shrew
WINTERSON, Jeanette – The Gap of Time – The Winter’s Tale
WROBLEWSKI, David – The Story of Edgar Sawtelle – Hamlet
ZELTSERMAN, Dave – Monster – Frankenstein
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