Recs if you like How to Be Eaten...

No Hans Christian Andersen on this list. Retellings based on...Twelve Dancing Princesses, Cinderella, The Goose Girl, Snow White, Snow White + Rose Red, Rapunzel, Hansel + Gretel, Rumplestiltskin, Bluebeard, Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, The Frog Prince, King Thrushbeard, The Pied Piper, The Six Swans, The Brave Little Tailor, Bearskin, Puss in Boots, Allerleirauh, The Wolf + the Fox, The Pink, Maid Maleen, Brother + Sister, The Golden Goose, The Six Swans, etc. As always… no Gaiman

I couldnt find a list of these yet, so i made one! You may not be able to collect the badges anymore, but if you’re a completionist like me; here are all the books of the pagebound seasonal readalongs and the special event readalongs!

Horror books to read just for the aesthetic

not sure i would take these books titled “how to” or “guide to” at face value but your mileage may vary.

taking suggestions, as always.

books that focus on its characters and their motivations, behaviors, personality and psychology and what effect the events around them have on their life. these range from multiple genres, all including complex characters where you get to analyze and understand them

Social commentary under patriarchy

Retellings of the Bluebeard legend

Just books I thought helped show the primal feminine rage we are all experiencing right now in the dumpster fire 🔥 of a planet

different literary adaptations of Bluebeard I could find (plus the original). other recommendations welcome!

True crime books that explain why you should choose the bear

“When I needed temperance, I grew only teeth.”

• Inuu Comic by Dionne_Ong

A woman is a docile thing, tame and obedient. Man’s best friend becomes woman’s unlikely mirror. Yet they both bear fangs, and will bite when threatened.

These books explore the tension between domesticity expected of women, and the ways that the men in their lives abuse, demean, and belittle their labor while benefiting from it. And how the rage those women feel boils over until the dog remembers—it was once a wolf.

Fairytale and folktale retellings and reimaginings

Suggestions welcome

Retellings of classics, myths, or books with a cult following with a horror or dystopian slant.

A compilation of all of Belletrist’s monthly picks

"Double narration", when you have a character telling their story to someone else and we are just tagging along, if that makes sense.

I will try to add more as I read them. Recs welcome!

Horror, Psychological, Thriller, Dystopian or books that explore dark concepts or ideas

Only the creepiest fairytale retellings will do.

A collection of retellings of mythology, fairy tales, and stories from the public domain.

A collection of novels with titles that imply they’re educational, but they’re not. Multi-genre. Recs welcome!!