Adult Summer Reading Bingo Square: Fairy Tale Retellings

Need help finding books and movies to complete your summer reading bingo sheet? Here are some recommendations for the Fairy Tale Retellings bingo square!

BOOKS:

• Cinderella
  • Ash / Malinda Lo
  • Cinder / written by Marissa Meyer (The Lunar Chronicles)
    • Each book in the series is an adaptation of a well-known fairy tale, including Rapunzel, Snow White, and Little Red Riding Hood.
  • Ash & Bramble / Sarah Prineas (Ash and Bramble Series)
  • All the ever afters : the untold story of Cinderella’s stepmother / Danielle Teller
  • Stepsister / Jennifer Donnelly
• Snow White
  • Boy, snow, bird : a novel / Helen Oyeyemi
  • Six-gun Snow White / Catherynne M. Valente
  • Mirror mirror / Gregory Maguire
  • Forest of a thousand lanterns / Julie C. Dao (Rise of the Empress Series)
  • Girls made of snow and glass / Melissa Bashardoust
  • Blanca & Roja / Anna-Marie McLemore
• The Twelve Dancing Princesses
  • The girls at the Kingfisher Club : a novel / Genevieve Valentine
  • Entwined / by Heather Dixon
• The Thousand and One Nights/The Arabian Nights
  • Alif the unseen / G. Willow Wilson
  • The wrath & the dawn / Renée Ahdieh (Wrath and the Dawn Series)
• Little Red Riding Hood
  • Sisters red / by Jackson Pearce (Fairy Tale Retellings Series)
  • Crimson bound / Rosamund Hodge
• Hanzen and Gretel
  • Gretel and the dark / Eliza Granville
• The Little Mermaid
  • To kill a kingdom / Alexandra Christo
• Sleeping Beauty
  • Briar Rose / Jane Yolen
  • Unbury Carol : a novel / Josh Malerman
• Rapunzel
  • Bitter greens : a novel / Kate Forsyth
• The Robber Bridegroom
  • The robber bride / Margaret Atwood
• Snegurochka, or The Snow Maiden
  • The snow child : a novel / Eowyn Ivey
• Beauty and the Beast
  • Beauty : a retelling of the story of Beauty & the beast / by Robin McKinley
  • A court of thorns and roses / Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Thorns and Roses Series)
  • Uprooted / Naomi Novik
  • A curse so dark and lonely / Brigid Kemmerer (Cursebreaker Series)
  • Cruel beauty / Rosamund Hodge
• The Wizard of Oz
  • Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West : a novel / Gregory Maguire ; illustrations by Douglas Smith (Wicked Years Series)
  • Dorothy must die / Danielle Paige
• Peter Pan
  • Tiger Lily / Jodi Lynn Anderson
• Bluebeard
  • Strands of bronze and gold / Jane Nickerson
• The Jungle Book
  • The graveyard book / Neil Gaiman ; with illustrations by Dave McKean
• Rumplestiltskin
  • Spinning silver / Naomi Novik
  • A curse dark as gold / Elizabeth C. Bunce
• Vasilisa the Beautiful
  • The bear and the nightingale : a novel / Katherine Arden (Winternight Trilogy)
• Alice in Wonderland
  • Splintered : a novel / by A.G. Howard
  • A blade so black / L.L. McKinney (Nightmare-Verse Series)
  • The Looking Glass Wars / by Frank Beddor (Looking Glass Wars Trilogy)
• East of the Sun and West of the Moon
  • East / Edith Pattou
• Miscellaneous
  • Witches abroad : a novel of Discworld / Terry Pratchett (Discworld Series)
  • The merry spinster : tales of everyday horror / Mallory Ortberg
  • The rose and the beast : fairy tales retold / by Francesca Lia Block
  • The Hazel Wood : a novel / Melissa Albert (Hazel Wood Series)
  • The Near Witch / V.E. Schwab

MOVIES:

• Sleeping Beauty
  • Maleficent 
• Cinderella
  • Three wishes for Cinderella
  • Ever After : a Cinderella story
  • The slipper and the rose : the story of Cinderella
  • A Cinderella story
  • Ella Enchanted
  • Penelope
  • Cindy
  • Year of the fish
• Snow White
  • Snow White: A Tale of Terror
  • Sydney White
  • Mirror Mirror
  • The Huntsman : Winter’s War
  • Blancanieves
• Little Red Riding Hood
  • Freeway
  • Hard Candy
  • Red Riding Hood
• Beauty and the Beast
  • Beastly
  • No Such Thing
• Alice in Wonderland
  • Dreamchild
  • Alice in Wonderland 
  • Valerie and her week of wonders
  • Alice in Wonderland
  • Malice in Wonderland 
• Wizard of Oz
  • Oz the great and powerful
  • The Wiz
• Peter Pan
  • Peter Pan
  • Hook
• Rapunzel
  • Tangled
• The Little Mermaid
  • Ondine
  • Splash
  • The Lure
• Pinocchio
  • A.I. Artificial intelligence 
• Swan Lake
  • Black Swan
• Hansel and Gretel
  • Hansel & Gretel : witch hunters 
• Bluebeard
  • Bluebeard = Barbe bleue
• White-Bear-King-Valemon
  • The polar bear king
• Jack and the Beanstalk
  • Jack the giant slayer
• Miscellaneous
  • Into the Woods
  • Enchanted

TV:

• Once Upon a Time
• Grimm
• Jim Henson’s The Storyteller
• Beauty and the Beast (2013)
• Beauty and the Beast (1987)
• Tell Me a Story
• Arabian Nights
• Shelley Duvall’s Faerie Tale Theatre
• Descendants
• Alice
• Tin Man
• Merlin

If you’d like to continue browsing, check out the following links:

• Goodreads: Fairy Tale Retellings
• IMDB: The Definitive List of Live-Action Fairy Tale Movies

>Click here< if you’d like to participate in this year’s summer reading challenge.