
In these retellings of classic stories, myths, tales, and well-known books are told again.

The Iliad
- The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
- Country by Michael Hughes
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Jane Eyre
- Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye
- The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Ryhs

King Lear
- A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
- Dunbar by Edward St. Aubyn

Pride & Prejudice
- Longbourn by Jo Baker
- Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev
- The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow
- Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
Other Retellings
- Hag Seed by Margaret Atwood (The Tempest)
- The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill (The Crane Wife—Japanese folktale)
- The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter (various fairytales)
- New Boy by Tracy Chevalier (Othello)
- Scarlet by Genevieve Cogman (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
- James by Percival Everett (Huckleberry Finn)
- The Winters by Lisa Gabriele (Rebecca)
- A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes (The Trojan War)
- Shylock is My Name by Howard Jacobson (The Merchant of Venice)
- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (David Copperfield)
- Lavinia by Ursula Le Guin (The Aeneid)
- Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid (Northanger Abbey)
- Circe by Madeline Miller (The Odyssey)
- Caroline by Sarah Miller (Little House on the Prairie)
- The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (The Island of Doctor Moreau)
- Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami (The Great Gatsby)
- Julia by Sandra Newman (1984)
- Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (Antigone)
- On Beauty by Zadie Smith (Howards End)
- The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson (The Winter’s Tale)