I have no idea what I am doing here exactly. Just prioritising deconstructions/confrontations of the white, Western 'classic' canon for now, however the goalposts/parameters might change!
Not intending this to be exhaustive - there are many lists on Austen, Dickens, The Great Gatsby retellings etc already! Just a few remixes for a range of classics.
📌 List of books and what they retell in pinned comment.
🚧 In Progress! 🚧
Recommendations are welcome 😊
created by emma.thinks
last updated September, 2026
1984, George Orwell: Julia, Sandra Newman The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain: James, Percival Everett Antigone, Sophocles: Home Fire, Kamila Shamsie Carmilla, Sheridan Le Fanu: Caramelle, Jewelle Gomez; Hungerstone, Kat Dunn Carrie, Stephen King: The Weight of Blood, Tiffany D. Jackson The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas: The Last Count of Monte Cristo, Ayize Jama-Everett & Tristan Roach David Copperfield, Charles Dickens: Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver Dracula, Bram Stoker: A Dowry of Blood, S.T. Gibson; The Madness, Dawn Kurtagich The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe: What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher Frankenstein, Mary Shelley: Frankenstein in Baghdad, Ahmed Saadawi; Our Hideous Progency, C.E. McGill Great Expectations, Charles Dickens: Havisham, Elle Machray; Jack Maggs, Peter Carey The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Chosen and the Beautiful, Nghi Vo; The Great Mann, Kyra Davis Lurie; Local Heavens, K.M. Fajardo; Beautiful Little Fools, Jillian Cantor Hamlet, William Shakespeare: Thoughts Be Bloody, Auden Patrick; Rottenheart, Kat Dunn Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad: Season of Migration to the North, Tayeb Salih The Horror at Red Hook, H.P. Lovecraft: The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle The Island of Doctor Moreau, H.G. Wells; The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë: Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys King Lear, William Shakespeare: Learwife, J.R. Thorp; Private Rites, Julia Armfield Little Women, Louisa May Alcott: Hello Beautiful, Ann Napolitano Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert: Fault Lines, Emily Itami The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton: Bad Girls Never Say Die, Jennifer Mathieu Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen: Pride, Ibi Zoboi The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas: One For All, Lillie Lainoff The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Frank Baum: Wicked, Gregory Maguire; Before Dorothy, Hazel Gaynor