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Take a Classic, Make It Queer

Classic stories retold with a queer focus.

Muskegon Area District Library

20 items

  • My Dear Henry

    a Jekyll & Hyde Remix

    Bayron, Kalynn,
    A gay retelling of "Jekyll and Hyde" from the perspective of the lover looking for Dr. Henry Jekyll.
    Book, 2023New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2023. — Y Remix v.6 08/23
  • A sapphic retelling of "Jane Eyre."
    Book, 2024New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2024. — Y McKinney 02/24
  • If Maleficent were Princess Aroura's love interest instead of her antagonist.
    Book, 2021New York : Del Rey, 2021. — FANTASY Walter 05/21
  • A Clash of Steel

    a Treasure Island Remix

    Lee, C. B.,
    A retelling of "Treasure Island" with queer Asian girls.
    Book, 2021New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2021. — Y Lee
  • A retelling of "The Iliad" focusing on Patroclus and Achilles and the love between them.
    Book, 2012New York : Ecco Press, [2012], ©2012. — FICTION Miller 08/22
  • A retelling of "Sleeping Beauty" as a bisexual.
    Book, 2021New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, [2021] — Y Wells 12/21
  • A retelling of "The Great Gatsby" where the two main characters are gay.
    Book, 2022New York : Feiwel & Friends, 2022. — Y McLemore 09/22
  • "Little Women" retold with more confidence in the asexual and queer platonic relationships that could have been.
    Book, 2021New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2021. — TEEN MORROW
  • Most Ardently

    A Pride & Prejudice Remix

    Novoa, Gabe Cole
    "Pride and Prejudice" retold if Elizabeth were really transmasc and just looking for a place to be himself.
    eBook, 2024Feiwel & Friends, 2024
  • A retelling of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" where a nonbinary main character must unravel a mystery before it kills them all.
    Book, 2022New York : Nightfire, a Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2022. — FICTION Kingfisher 07/22
  • "Peter Pan" in a modern setting where all the Lost Boys are queer kids just looking to belong.
    Book, 2021New York : Imprint, 2021. — Y Ancrum 08/21
  • A retelling of "The Great Gastby" from the perspective of a queer Vietnamese adoptee assumed to have magic.
    Book, 2021New York : Tordotcom, 2021. — FANTASY Vo 06/21
  • A trans Peter is kicked off of Neverland and goes to live as Wendy.
    eBook, 2021Austin Chant, 2021
  • A queer and modern spin on the Greek myth of Medusa.
    eBook, 2016BoldStrokesBooks, 2016
  • A retelling of the "Metamorphoses" story of Iphis, an afab character raised male and later given magical gender affirming surgery by Isis.
    eAudiobook, 2023Canongate Books, 2023
  • "Lord" Hades is the goddess of the underworld, and she offers Persephone sanctuary from her Olympian family.
    eBook, 2011RoseAndStar, 2011
  • "King Arthur" is now a nonbinary lesbian space pirate.
    Downloadable Graphic Novel, 2021BOOM! Studios, 2021
  • A retelling of the story of Sigyn, wife of Loki, with all the bisexual and genderfluid undertones made overtones.
    eBook, 2021Tychis Media, 2021