Online Anytime Book Club: July 2018

Retold Stories Book Suggestions

Well-known stories retold with a twist, such as fairy tale retellings, alternate histories, and adaptations of famous books

TWICE-TOLD TALES (adaptations of famous FAIRY TALE RETELLINGS ALTERNATE HISTORIES books)

• Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth: retelling of Rapunzel set in • And I Darken by Kiersten White: imagines Vlad Tepes • Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys: a prequel to the novel Renaissance Italy [FIC Forsyth, Kate] (the real-life inspiration for Count Dracula) as a teenage Jane Eyre, told from the perspective of Mr. Rochester’s girl [YA White, Kiersten] first wife Bertha [ADULT CLASSIC FIC Rhys, Jean] • Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman: horror/western retelling of Sleeping Beauty [NEW FIC Malerman, • The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick: what if the • Nelly Dean: A Return to Wuthering Heights by Alison Josh] Nazis won WWII? [ADULT CLASSIC FIC Dick, Philip] Case: Wuthering Heights told from the perspective of Cathy and Heathcliff’s maid Nelly Dean [FIC Case, • Mirror, Mirror by Gregory Maguire: retelling of Snow • The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon: Alison] White [FIC Maguire, Gregory] imagines what the present-day would be like if the US created a colony in Alaska to save Jews from the • Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame- • Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi: literary retelling of Holocaust [FIC Chabon, Michael] Smith: Pride and Prejudice—but with zombies [FIC Snow White [FIC Oyeyemi, Helen] Grahame-Smith, Seth] • Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke: • Beauty by Robin McKinley: retelling of Beauty and the reimagines the Napoleonic Wars, but with magic and • Lost Boy by Christina Henry: retelling of Peter Pan, from Beast [CHILDREN’S PAPERBACK, M] fairies [FIC Clarke, Susanna] Captain Hook’s perspective [FIC Henry, Christina]

• Deathless by Catherynne Valente: a historical fantasy set • Underground Airlines by Ben Winters: what if the Civil • The Hours by Michael Cunningham : [ADULT LARGE in 20th century Russia that retells the story of Koschei War never happened and slavery was still practiced in PRINT Cunningham, Michael] the Deathless, an immortal villain from Russian folklore some states? [FIC Winters, Ben] [FIC Valente, Catherynne] • A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin: an elderly • 11/22/63 by Stephen King: what if JFK hadn’t been Sherlock Holmes recalls a case that has haunted him for • The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy: assassinated? [ADULT PAPERBACK, K] years [FIC Cullin, Mitch] retelling of Hansel and Gretel that imagines them as two Jewish children who take refuge in a Polish forest during • Everfair by Nisi Shawl: imagines what Africa would be • Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller: reinterpretation of the Holocaust [FIC Murphy, Louise] like if the Congo acquired steam technology before they Homer’s The Iliad [FIC Miller, Madeline] could be colonized [FIC Shawl, Nisi] • The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivy: retelling of the European • March by Geraldine Brooks: Little Women told from the folktale the Snow Child set in 1920s Alaska [FIC Ivy, • Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead: what if the perspective of the March sisters’ father as he fights in the Eowyn] Underground Railroad was an actual railroad? [FIC Civil War [ADULT LARGE PRINT Brooks, Geraldine] Whitehead, Colton]