Beauty and the Beast List of Books, Retellings & Fan Fiction
The Beauty and the Beast List of Retellings, Fractured Fairytales and Fan Fiction
Updated July 5, 2025
Legend:
❤ loved it or a favorite
🌶️spice (please check for yourself and don’t take my word for it - brownies recently re-sorted my settings! and my memory is short)
🌺no spice (again, please check; I’m erring on the side of caution with this one)
| Title | Author | Publication Year | Romance Sub-Genre | Sub-Genre 2 |
❤ | Sarah J. Maas | 2016 | Fantasy | Fae | |
| Brigid Kemmerer | 2019 | YA |
| |
🌶️ | K.F. Breene | 2021 | Fantasy |
| |
| Jennifer Blackstream | 2015 | Fantasy |
| |
| Judith Ivory | 2011 | Period Romance |
| |
🌶️ | Pepper Pace | 2018 | Contemporary |
| |
| Alex Flinn | 2009 | YA | Contemporary | |
🌶️ | Beautiful Beast (Perfectly Imperfect: Mafia Legacy #1) | Neva Altaj | 2024 | Contemporary | Mafia |
| Beauty & Beastly: Steampunk Beauty and the Beast (Steampunk Fairy Tales Book 3) | Melanie Karsak | 2017 | Steampunk |
|
| Beauty & the Beast | Rebecca Hammon Yager | 2017 | Childrens 12+ |
|
🌶️ | Nicole Dreadful | 2013 | Erotica | Fantasy | |
| Beauty and the Beast (Demon Tales) | Kerrianee Coombes | 2013 | Paranormal |
|
| KM Shea | 2013 | YA |
| |
| Rachel Demeter | 2017 | Fantasy |
| |
| Beauty and the Beast: An Adult Fairytale Romance (Once Upon a Spell Book 1) | Vivienne Savage | 2016 | Fantasy | Shifter |
| Wendy Pini | 1990 | Graphic Novel |
| |
🌶️ | May Sage | 2016 | Dark Romance |
| |
| Beauty and the Billionaire: A Dirty Fairy Tale (Dirty Fairy Tales Book 1) | Lauren Landish | 2019 | Contemporary |
|
| Beauty and the Clockwork Beast (Steampunk Proper Romance #1) | Nancy Campbell Allen | 2016 | Steampunk |
|
| Mercedes Lackey | 2012 | Fantasy |
| |
| Tea Spangsberg | 2023 | Fantasy | Shifter | |
🌺 ❤ | Robin McKinley | 1978 | YA | Fantasy | |
| Pauline Woods | 2017 | Pirates | African American MC | |
🌺 | Before Beauty: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast (The Becoming Beauty Trilogy Book 1) | Brittany Fichter | 2015 | YA |
|
🌺 | Belle: A Retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" (Once Upon a Time) | Cameron Dokey | 2008 | Childrens 12+ |
|
| Belle: An Amish Retelling of Beauty and the Beast (An Amish Fairytale Book 1) | Sarah Price | 2017 | Inspirational |
|
| Blind Beast Mate: Dystopian New Adult Romance (Beast Mates Book 1) | Milana Jacks | 2016 | Dystopian | Aliens |
| Bound by Briar | Morgan Waad | 2022 | Fantasy |
|
🌺 | Aster Glenn Gray | 2018 | Period Romance | LGTBQ | |
🌶️ | Broken Whispers (Perfectly Imperfect #2) | Neva Altaj | 2022 | Contemporary | Mafia |
| Rosamund Hodge | 2015 | YA | Fantasy | |
| Sally Forbes | 2020 | Period Romance |
| |
| Grace Draven | 2013 | Fantasy |
| |
🌶️ | Fallen Rose: Beast of Bishop's Landing #3 | Amelia Ward | 2021 | Contemporary | Mafia |
| Jessilyn Steward Peaslee | 2018 | Role Reversal |
| |
| Kristen Callihan | 2012 | Steampunk | Fantasy | |
| Marie Hall | 2012 | Fantasy | Alternate casting | |
| Gilded Rose: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling (Celestials Book 1) | Emma Hamm | 2019 | YA |
|
🌶️ | MK Eidem | 2013 | Sci Fi | Aliens | |
| Heart of the Fae: A Beauty & the Beast Retelling (The Otherworld Book 1) | Emma Hamm | 2017 | Fantasy |
|
🌶️ | Hidden Beauty: Beast of Bishop's Landing #2 | Amelia Ward | 2021 | Contemporary | Mafia |
🌺 | Megan Spooner | 2017 | YA |
| |
| Hunting the Beast (Fairy Tales with a Bite Book 1) | Anna Santos | 2019 | Fantasy | Shifter |
| Kresley Cole | 2007 | Period Romance | Highlanders | |
| Christine Feehan | 2013 | Paranormal |
| |
| Nalini Singh | 2011 | Paranormal |
| |
| Loved by the Beast: A Historical Retelling of Beauty & the Beast (The Beast's Legacy Book 1) | TE Elliott | 2020 | Period Romance |
|
🌶️ | JR Ward | 2006 | Paranormal | Vampire | |
| W.R. Gingell | 2015 | Magical | Mystery | |
| Stacey Jay | 2013 | YA | Dystopian | |
| Elle Backenstoe | 2023 | Magical | Fae | |
🌶️ | Rebecca Zanetti | 2024 | Contemporary | Dark Romance | |
| Maggie Lynn Heron-Heidel | 2020 | Fantasy | Shifter | |
| Cameron Jace | 2013 | YA | Dystopian | |
| Allison Norfolk | 2018 | Period Romance |
| |
| Rose and the Monster: A Modern Retelling of Beauty and the Beast | m Lowry | 2014 | Contemporary |
|
🌺 ❤ | Robin McKinley | 1997 | YA | Fantasy | |
| Chris Anne Wolf | 2017 | Magical | LGTBQ | |
| C.E. Murphy | 2017 | Fantasy |
| |
| Dittter Kellen | 2017 | Contemporary |
| |
| Alydia Rackham | 2017 | YA | Gender Swap | |
🌶️ | Secret Beast: Beast of Bishop's Landing #1 | Amelia Ward | 2021 | Contemporary | Mafia |
🌶️ | Taken by the Beast: A Steamy Paranormal Romance Spin on Beauty and the Beast (Conduit Series) | Conner Kressley & Rebecca Hamilton | 2015 | Paranormal | Shifter |
| The Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling (The Twisted Kingdoms, Book 4) | Frost Kay | 2021 | Fantasy |
|
🌶️ | The Beauty in Scars (Fractured Ever Afters #3) | M.L. Philpitt | 2023 | Contemporary | Mafia |
| Teresa Medeiros | 2008 | Period Romance |
| |
| The Cowboy's Beauty (Sweet Water Ranch Western Cowboy Romance Book 3) | Jessie Gussman | 2008 | Contemporary | Western |
| Mimi Matthews | 2017 | Period Romance |
| |
| Catherine Asaro | 2000 | Sci Fi |
| |
🌺 | The Silver Arm: A Science Fiction Retelling of Beauty and the Beast | Ariele Sieling | 2020 | Sci Fi |
|
| The Subtle Beauty: A Fractured Beauty & the Beast Retelling (Crowns of the Twelve Book 1) | Ann Hunter | 2014 | YA | Christian Fantasy |
| The Tiger's Bride, short story | Angela Carter |
| Magical Realism | Feminist |
| Jenna Thatcher | 2018 | YA | Fantasy | |
| The Vixen and the Vet (Inspired by Beauty and the Beast) (A Modern Fairytale) | Kat Regenry | 2014 | Contemporary |
|
| Marina Simcoe | 2018 | Contemporary |
| |
| Eloisa James | 2011 | Period Romance |
|
Check back often - the list grows! Have a book recommendation? Leave a note in the comments.
Reviews
I don't offer reviews. See here for why. But I've indicated those I would read again with a ❤.
So many Beauty and the Beast book options!
How about a recommendation on which to try first?
- Lord of the Abyss (Royal House of Shadows Book 4) is a fun paranormal romance with a bit of spice.
- A Curse So Dark and Lonely (The Cursebreaker Series Book 1) is a popular young adult, romantasy.
- Masque (Two Monarchies Sequence Book 5) is a delightful tale set in Victorian-esque England.
Comments
Post a Comment