Did you know that the year 2025 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen? Goodreads regulars in the U.K. can tell you—out in the English countryside, the whole year has been one long party.
Jane Austen is, of course, a major figure in English literature. But she's also a key figure in a literary category known as retellings. Authors loooooove to retell Jane Austen stories, switching up narrative elements like genre, time and place, point of view, and undead status. In fact, you could make a pretty compelling argument that every enemies-to-lovers rom-com ever written is essentially a Jane Austen retelling.
Today's collection—an uncommonly big one—is dedicated to the art of retellings. We've collected 192 (!) books from various genres, sorted instead by source material: Greek and Roman mythology, canonical classics, Arthurian legends, world folktales and fairy tales, the Bard.
We've got old classics and brand-new specimens in the mix, plus a few authors who speciali
