Just some of the good fairy tale retellings out there:
Dennis L. McKiernan
Once Upon a Winters Night
Once Upon a Springs Morning
Once Upon a Summer Day
Once Upon an Autumn Eve
And it looks like there is a fifth one coming out in October called Once Upon a Dreadful Day.
Mercedes Lackey
Elemental Masters:
The Fire Rose
The Serpent's Shadow
The Gates of Sleep
Phoenix and Ashes
The Wizard of London
Reserved for the Cat
Fairy Tale:
Firebird
The Black Swan
Five Hundred Kingdoms:
The Fairy Godmother
One Good Knight
Fortune's Fool
Terri Windling's Fairy Tale series
The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars by Steven Brust
Jack, the Giant Killer by Charles de Lint
The Nightingale by Kara Dalkey
Snow White and Red Rose by Patricia Wrede
Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
White as Snow by Tanith Lee
Fitcher's Brides by Gregory Frost
Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner
Beauty by Sheri S. Tepper
Enchantment by Orson Scott Card
Robin McKinley (not all fairy tales)
Beauty
Spindles End
Water
Hero and the Crown
Sunshine (more urban fantasy)
Blue Sword
Deerskin
Outlaws of Sherwood
Rose Daughter
Door in the Hedge
Shannon Hale
Enna Burning
River Secrets
Princess Academy
The Goose Girl
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1 comments:
Fairest and Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine. J/YA but are appealing enough for grownups.
Donna Jo Napoli has some good ones too.
I was just reading an article w/some new ones that sounded good, but I'm blanking.
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