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YA Crash Course (A Beginner's Guide to the Young Adult Genre) - hosted by baibrown

Reimagined Fairy Tales
Reimagined fairy tales are a classic element of YA, so here are a few from my early YA experience. Nowadays, there are many more, so feel free to add some of those to the recs.

Examples:
The Goose Girl (The Books of Bayern) by Shannon Hale
Unenchanted (An Unfortunate Fairy Tale) by Chanda Hahn
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles) by Marissa Meyer
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
My Name is Rapunzel by K.C. Hilton
Red Riding Hood by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright and David Leslie Johnson
Beastly by Alexa Flinn
All books added
De roos en het zwijn by Anne Provoost

De roos en het zwijn

Anne Provoost

111 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

fiction fantasy young adult emotional reflective fast-paced
De meisjes by Annet Schaap

De meisjes

Annet Schaap

248 pages • missing pub info (editions)

fiction middle grade short stories adventurous dark funny fast-paced
A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

A Curse So Dark and Lonely

Cursebreakers #1

Brigid Kemmerer

14 hours, 51 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced
Unhinged by A.G. Howard

Unhinged

Splintered #2

A.G. Howard

13 hours, 13 minutes • first pub 2014 (editions)

fiction fantasy romance young adult adventurous medium-paced
The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

The Hazel Wood

The Hazel Wood #1

Melissa Albert

359 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales by Melanie Gillman

Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales

Melanie Gillman

240 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction graphic novel lgbtqia+ young adult adventurous hopeful lighthearted fast-paced
A Whole New World by Liz Braswell

A Whole New World

A Twisted Tale #1

Liz Braswell

313 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

fiction fantasy young adult mysterious medium-paced
Cinderella and the Glass Ceiling: And Other Feminist Fairy Tales by Laura Lane, Ellen Haun

Cinderella and the Glass Ceiling: And Other Feminist Fairy Tales

Laura Lane, Ellen Haun

128 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction short stories adventurous fast-paced
The Guinevere Deception by Kiersten White

The Guinevere Deception

Camelot Rising #1

Kiersten White

352 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical young adult adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced
Cress by Marissa Meyer

Cress

The Lunar Chronicles #3

Marissa Meyer

552 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

fiction fantasy romance science fiction young adult adventurous fast-paced