Hello Darlings!

I’ve worked on this post for a while but finally, I can say I have for you a huge list of LGBTQ+ retellings!

Disclaimer: I have only read a small part of them so I can’t attest to their quality.

Some of those are 2021 releases so be patient!

• Wilder Girls by Rory Power (f/f, The Lord of Flies)
• Scavenge the Stars by Tara Sim (bi MC, The Count of Monte Cristo)
• A Study In Honor by Clarie O’Dell (lesbian MCs, Sherlock Holmes)
• The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall (bi/pan & trans rep, Sherlock Holmes)
• Lest I Know Your Weakness by Taylor Ramage (f/f, Carmilla)

• She’s Too Pretty to Burn by Wendy Heard (f/f, Dorian Grey)
• Creatures of Will and Temper by Molly Tanzer (f/f, Dorian Grey)
• Great by Sara J. Benincasa (f/f, The Great Gatsby)
• The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo (f/f, The Great Gatsby)
• The Deathless Girls by Kiran Millwood Hargrave (f/f, Dracula)

• Most Ardently by Susan Mesler-Evans (f/f, Pride and Prejudice)
• Gay Pride & Prejudice by Kate Christie (f/f, Pride and Prejudice)
• The Story of Lizzy and Darcy by Grace Watson (f/f, Pride and Prejudice)
• If I Loved You Less by Tamsen Parker (f/f, Emma)
• Mad About the Hatter by Dakota Chase (m/m, Alice in the Wonderland)

• Ruinsong by Julia Ember (f/f, Phantom of the Opera)
• The Stars May Rise and Fall by Estella Mirai (m/m, Phantom of the Opera)

• As I Descended by Robin Talley (f/f, MacBeth)
• The Last True Poets of The Sea by Julia Drake (f/f, Twelfth Night)
• The Princess Deception by Nell Stark (f/f, Twelfth Night)
• Lady Hotspur by Tessa Gratton (f/f, Henry IV)
• If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio (m/m, multiple)

• Star-Crossed by Barbara Dee (f/f, Romeo and Juliet)
• By Any Other Name by Natasha West (f/f, Romeo and Juliet)
• Nothing Happened by Molly Booth (f/f, Much Ado About Nothing)
• Gale by Lyssa Chiavari (f/f, The Tempest)
• Miranda in Milan by Katharine Duckett (f/f, The Tempest)
• The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson ( , The Winter’s Tale)

• Ash by Malinda Lo (f/f, Cinderella)
• Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron (f/f, Cinderella)
• Cinder Ella by S.T. Lynn (trans + f/f, Cinderella)
• Sometime After Midnight by L. Philips (m/m, Cinderella)
• Cinders by Cara Malone (f/f, Cinderella)

• The Secrets of Eden by Brandon Goode (m/m, Cinderella)
• Dithered Hearts by Chace Verity (poly non-binary lesbian & other side, Cinderella)
• These Feathered Flames by Alexandra Overy (f/f, Russian folk tale — the Firebird)
• In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard (f/f, Beauty and the Beast)
• Beast by Brie Spangler (trans, Beauty and the Beast)

• The Broken Forest by Megan Derr (trans + f/f, The Sleeping Beauty)
• In Ageless Sleep by Arden Ellis (f/f, The Sleeping Beauty)
• Beauty & Cruelty by Meredith Katz (f/f, The Sleeping Beauty)
• Finding Aurora by Rebecca Langham (f/f & ace, The Sleeping Beauty)
• Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust (f/f, The Sleeping Beauty + Persian mythology)

• Seeing Red by Cara Malone (f/f, Red Ridding Hood)
• No Man of Woman Born by Ana Mardoll (trans & non-binary, multiple)
• Burning Roses by S.L. Huang (f/f + trans, multiple)
• Unburied Fables anthology
• The Seafarer’s Kiss by Julia Ember (f/f, The Little Mermaid)

• Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust (f/f, Snow White)
• Winterglass by Benjanun Sriduangkaew (f/f, The Snow Queen)
• The Raven and the Reindeer by T. Kingfisher (f/f, The Snow Queen)
• The Mirror Season by Anna-Marie McLemore (trans, Snow Queen)
• Peter Darling by Austin Chant (trans + m/m, The Peter Pan)
• Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas (trans, Peter Pan)

• The Dark Wife by Sarah Diemer (f/f, Hades & Persephone)
• Orpheus Girl by Brynne Rebele-Henry (f/f, Orpheus & Euridice)
• Lyra by Erica Crouch (m/m, Orpheus & Euridice)
• Outrun the Wind by Elizabeth Tammi (f/f, The Huntresses of Artemis)
• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller  (m/m, The Illiad)

• Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Bloch (multiple, The Odysey)
• The Island of Excess Love by Francesca Lia Bloch (multiple, Aeneid)
• The Trials of Apollo Series by Rick Riordan (bi MC + queer side characters, Greek and Latin mythology)
• Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard Series by Rick Riordan (genderfluid, Norse myths & gods)

• Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta, Cory McCarthy (f/f, Arthurian)
• Legendborn by Tracy Deonn (bi MC, Arthurian)
• Marian by Ella Lyons (f/f, The Robin Hood)
• Nottingham: The True Story of Robyn Hood by Anna Burke (f/f, The Robin Hood)
• Merry Men by Robert Rodi (m/m, The Robin Hood)

• A Curse of Roses by Diana Pinguicha (f/f, Portuguese legend)
• Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore (trans LI, The Red Shoes by H.CH.A. + dancing fever in Strasbourg)
• Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott (f/f, Alexander the Great)

• A Lake of Feathers and Moonbeams by Dax Murray (polyamorous, Swan Lake)
• Blanca & Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore (trans/nonbinary?, Swan Lake)

• Trouble Girls by Julia Lynn Rubin (f/f, Thelma & Louise)
• Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales (m/m, Grease)

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