Book Riot Managing Editor Vanessa Diaz is a writer and former bookseller from San Diego, CA whose Spanish is even faster than her English. When not reading or writing, she enjoys dreaming up travel itineraries and drinking entirely too much tea. She is a regular co-host on the All the Books podcast who especially loves mysteries, gothic lit, mythology/folklore, and all things witchy. Vanessa can be found on Instagram at @BuenosDiazSD or taking pictures of pretty trees in Portland, OR, where she now resides.
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There is no universal approach to reading the classics: we all know that a work that beguiles and ensnares one person may intimidate another, and what bores one reader to tears may be the inspo behind their neighbor’s sleeve tattoo. No matter how you’ve approached classics in the past, it’s exciting to see a surge in amazing YA retellings bringing fresh and (it’s about time!) inclusive perspectives to familiar stories. That’s why we asked you for your favorite YA retellings of classic lit and now our TBRs are crying. Here are 20 of your YA favorite classics remixes!
Pride by Ibi Zboi
This Monstrous Thing by Mackenzi Lee
A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro
Well Played by Katrina Ramos Atienza
Blanca & Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore
Prom and Prejudice by Elizabeth Eulberg
The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White
Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige
Brightly Burning by Alexa Donne
A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney
Jane Austen Goes to Hollywood by Abby McDonald
Wrong in all the Right Ways by Tiffany Brownlee
Sky Without Stars by Jessica Brody and Joanne Rendell
The Beholder by Anna Bright
Olivia Twist by Lorie Langdon
Railsea by China Miéville
The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh
Ordinary Girls by Blair Thornburgh
A Steep and Thorny Way by Cat Winters
Conversion by Catherine Howe
