Beauty and the Beast Retellings & Fan Fiction List

Ok, so I've read a lot of Beauty and the Beast retellings and fan fiction over the years.  I love the original fairy tale (there's so much more to it than a basic fairy tale) and from classic period romance to fantasy to dystopian, to awesome to awful, I'll give most Beauty and the Beast-inspired stories a chance.

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Beauty and the Beast Retellings & Fan Fiction

updated: 3/13/24

Title	Author	Pub Date	Primary Genre
A Court of Thorns and Roses	Sarah J. Maas	2016	YA  ♥
A Curse So Dark and Lonely (The Cursebreaker Series Book 1)	Brigid Kemmerer	2019	YA
A Ruin of Roses (Deliciously Dark Fairytales #1)	K.F. Breene	2021	Racy
Beast	Judith Ivory	2011	Period Romance
Beast	Pepper Pace	2018	Contemporary
Beastly	Alex Flinn	2009	YA
Beauty:  A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast	Robin McKinley	1978	YA  ♥
Beauty & Beastly: Steampunk Beauty and the Beast (Steampunk Fairy Tales Book 3)	Melanie Karsak	2017	Steampunk
Beauty and the Beast (Adult Fairy Tales Book 1)	Nicole Dreadful	2013	Racy
Beauty and the Beast (Demon Tales)	Kerrianee Coombes	2013	Paranormal
Beauty and the Beast (Timeless Fairy Tales Book 1)	KM Shea	2013	YA
Beauty and the Beast (Fairy Tale Retellings Book 1)	Rachel Demeter	2017	Racy
Beauty and the Beast:  An Adult Fairytale Romance (Once Upon a Spell Book 1)	Vivienne Savage	2016	Racy
Beauty and the Beast:  Night of Beauty	Wendy Pini	1990	Graphic Novel
Beauty and the Beast:  Not Quite the Fairy Tale #3	May Sage	2016	Racy
Beauty and the Beast:  Sibelle Thornton, A Modern, Fantasy Fairytale Retelling (Not quite the Fairytale Book 3)	May Sage	2016	Contemporary
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
Beauty and the Werewolf (A Tale of Five Hundred Kingdoms)	Mercedes Lackey	2012	Fantasy
Beauty in the Beast (Shattered Fairytales)	Tea Spangsberg	2023	Shifters
Beauty's Beast (African Shaman Tales)	Pauline Woods	2017	Pirates
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	Clean
Blind Beast Mate:  Dystopian New Adult Romance (Beast Mates Book 1)	Milana Jacks	2016	Dystopian
Briarly	Aster Glenn Gray	2018	Period Romance
Cruel Beauty	Rosamund Hodge	2015	YA
Enamored with a Scarred Lady	Sally Forbes	2020	Period Romance
Entreat Me	Grace Draven	2013	Fantasy
Finding Beauty in the Beast	Jessilyn Steward Peaslee	2018	Role Reversal
Firelight	Kristen Callihan	2012	Steampunk
Gerard's Beauty (Kingdom Series Book 2)	Marie Hall	2012	Fantasy
Gilded Rose:  A Beauty and the Beast Retelling (Celestials Book 1)	Emma Hamm	2019	YA
Grim (Tornians Book 1)	MK Eidem	2013	Sci Fi
Heart of the Fae:  A Beauty & the Beast Retelling (The Otherworld Book 1)	Emma Hamm	2017	Fantasy
Hunted	Megan Spooner	2017	YA
Hunting the Beast:  A Beauty & the Beast Fairy Tale Retelling (Fairy Tales with a Bite Book 1)	Anna Santos and May Freighter	2019	Fantasy
If You Deceive (The MacCarrick Brothers Book 3)	Kresley Cole	2007	Period Romance
Lair of the Lion	Christine Feehan	2013	Paranormal
Lord of the Abyss (Royal House of Shadows Book 4)	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
Lover Awakened	JR Ward	2006	Vampire
Masque (Two Monarchies Sequence Book 5)	W.R. Gingell	2015	Magical
Of Beast and Beauty	Stacey Jay	2013	YA
Pentimento	Cameron Jace	2013	YA
Poppies and Roses:  A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast	Allison Norfolk	2018	Period Romance
Rose and the Monster:  A Modern Retelling of Beauty and the Beast	m Lowry	2014	Contemporary
Rose Daughter	Robin McKinley	1997	YA  ♥
Ruby and the Beast:  A Beauty and the Beast Novel	Dittter Kellen	2017	Contemporary
Scales: A Fresh Telling of Beauty & the Beast	Alydia Rackham	2017	YA
The Beast:  A Beauty and the Beast Retelling (The Twisted Kingdoms, Book 4)	Frost Kay	2021	Fantasy
The Bride and the Beast	Teresa Medeiros	2008	Period Romance
The Cowboy's Beauty (Sweet Water Ranch Western Cowboy Romance Book 3)	Jessie Gussman	2008	Western
The Lost Letter	Mimi Matthews	2017	Period Romance
The Quantam Rose	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
The Unbreakable Curse:  A Beauty and the Beast Retelling	Jenna Thatcher	2018	YA
The Vixen and the Vet (Inspired by Beauty and the Beast) (A Modern Fairytale)	Kat Regenry	2014	Contemporary
To Love a Monster	Marina Simcoe	2018
When Beauty Tamed the Beast	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 options!  Recommendations on which retelling 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 novel.
• Masque (Two Monarchies Sequence Book 5) is a delightful tale set in Victorian-esque England.

A note on Kindle Unlimited

Kindle Unlimited is a terrific way to preview new authors and find hundreds of Beauty and the Beast retellings.  I enjoy being able to try a book on Kindle Unlimited and return it if it's not for me.  Many of the Beauty and the Beast tales in the list above were discovered via Kindle Unlimited.  Consider a trial - it's worth a go.