Oh wow, this week’s theme is hard… “Ten Fairytale Retellings I’ve Read/Want To Read“! I find it hard because after a week of wracking my brain, I realized that I only read 2 fairytale retellings, and one of them I can’t even see the similarities… (Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish).
Books I’ve Read:
1. A Court Of Thorns And Roses by Sarah J. Maas – As we all should know by now, ACOTAR is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, and it’s perfect!
2. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas – Apparently this started out because of Cinderella… I don’t exactly see anything in common, but hey, if it inspired Sarah J. Maas to write this masterpiece, I’m down!
3. Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block – OK, this is not exactly a Fairytale retelling, but it’s a Odyssey‘s retelling, and I think that’s pretty damn close.
Books I want to Read:
4. Cinder by Marissa Meyer – Book 1 of The Lunar Chronicles is a Cinderella retelling. I really have to start reading these.
5. Scarlet by Marissa Meyer – The second book of the series is based on the Red Riding Hood story.
6. Cress by Marissa Meyer – The third instalment is a Rapunzel retelling.
7. The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh – This book is on my TBR for this month, and AMAZON has already let me know that it is on it’s way, though it won’t arrive until Friday. So, this book is inspired on A Thousand and One Nights.
8. The Summer of Chasing Mermaids by Sarah Ockler – This is a loose retelling of The Little Mermaid that came out recently, and I want to find the time to read it.
9. Mechanica by Betsy Cornwell – This seems like an interesting book, this is yet another retelling of Cinderella.
10. A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston – This is a retelling of A Thousand and One Nights. But the cover is gorgeous and it sound intriguing, so it’s going on my TBR.
My Tiny Obsessions 
I really want to read Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge. It’s also inspired by the Beauty and the Beast.
Speaking of that, I have read Beastly, but in a weird way I preferred the movie to the book.
ok, that book sounds interesting 😉
I saw the movie, it was OK, but I didn’t think it was nothing special… =/
I guess I’m just really into Alex Pettyfer, but yeah, the movie isn’t that special. Now, what does that tell you about my opinion of the book hahaha It could’ve definitely been better …
I can imagine… I most likely won’t read it, not with so many new shiny books out there 😀
That’s okay. It’s not a required read 🙂
😉
I LOVED The Wrath and the Dawn. Hope you do too! 🙂
Great picks! I’ve only read 2 fairy tale retellings and they are both the Sarah J Maas books you mentioned in your post! I also really want to read the Lunar Chronicles series and Mechanica! xoxo
When I started doing this list I only had A court of thorns and roses, I had no idea that Throne of Glass was inspired by Cinderella
I need to read those soon as well 🙂
I know right?! It was such a shock when I read it on another bloggers blog post today! xoxo
I actually had to google it 😀
Great list! I had such a hard time with this one because I haven’t read 10 fairytale retelling yet. But I’m glad the Lunar Chronicles made it to your list! Cinder was a bit of a downer but the books get better as they go! I think you’ll enjoy them 😀
I hope so. When I started doing the list I was a bit shocked by the lack of retellings in my “read” section, but I’ll make up to it 🙂
I couldn’t even participate in this weeks topic because of that reason. Oh well. I just have to start reading more retellings! 😛
it didn’t have to be books read, it could also be some you wanted to read, or fairytales you think could be retold… 😉
I couldn’t even come up with any! I’ll try harder for next time 😀
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Definitely love your book choices for this topic! 🙂 I’ve been dying to read The Summer of Chasing Mermaids. I may try to get to it this month. I also really want to read Cinder! I am reading The Wrath and the Dawn this month, so that’s exciting. ACOTAR was such an awesome read!
After more than a month I still think about ACOTAR way too often 😀
I need to get to the lunar chronicles soon as well
Great list! You should read Cinder, it’s really good. 🙂 I really want to read The Wrath and the Dawn too, I’ve heard so much about it.
I hope I have time next month to read Cinder and the rest, I’m trying to catch up in all the series 😀
The Wrath and the Dawn I plan to read this month, my book is already on its way! 😀
The wrath and the dawn and Lunar chronicles are really amazing books.I hope you enjoy reading them.A thousand Nights is already in my TBR list I hope I like it too. 😀
me too 😀
I’m not much into these types of books but my friend read Cinder and thought it was really good.
everyone seems to have enjoyed it, I’ll have to wait and see 🙂
Hopefully you enjoy it!
I just bought Cinder so I’m hoping to get that that eventually.
I’ve been also looking at checking out those Fables of the Undead ones 🙂
I had to go and see what were those 😉
Let me know how you find Cinder, everyone is raving about it…
Yeah, another blogger sent me the Amazon link and told me about it. I haven’t gotten around to it since my tablet died. I’m hoping to get a new ereader so I can fire up all those ebooks.
As for Cinder, I’ll be reviewing it when I get around to it. I’m a little uncertain but it was on sale at the bookstore so I figured I’d get it 😉
That’s good, if it was a good price, it’s always worth it 😉