Top Retellings of Classic Tales

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Byrappa (308 Lists)



Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenBeowulf by UnknownRobinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Popsugar 2021 #25 - A Book that was Published Anonymously
88 books — 148 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Popsugar 2021 #24 - A Book By a Muslim American Author
131 books — 240 voters

White Rage by Carol AndersonRestart by Gordon KormanThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinSuicide of the West by Jonah GoldbergMiss Cecily's Recipes for Exceptional Ladies by Vicky Zimmerman
Popsugar 2021 #23 - A book with Something Broken on the Cover
188 books — 205 voters
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
Popsugar 2021 #22 - A Book Set Mostly or Entirely Outdoors
392 books — 321 voters

The Princess Bride by William GoldmanOutlander by Diana GabaldonLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix
Popsugar 2021 #21 - A Genre Hybrid
181 books — 232 voters
The Hate U Give by Angie ThomasBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesHow to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. KendiI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Popsugar 2021 #20 - A Book on a Black Lives Matter Reading List
143 books — 198 voters

Edith and Little Bear Lend a Hand by Dare WrightThe Little Family by Lois Lenski
Really Underrated Children's Books
940 books — 207 voters
The Love Goddess by Dan Temple
Just one rating
598 books — 57 voters

Scott and Scotland by Edwin MuirThe earliest English poetry; by Charles W. KennedyThe History of Rome Hanks and Kindred Matters by Joseph Stanley Pennell
Ridiculously Underrated Books (20 Ratings or fewer)
2,041 books — 212 voters
The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction by Colm Tóibín
Super Underrated Books (Fewer than 50 Ratings)
1,271 books — 167 voters

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare by Michael DobsonSound and Fury by Eric Alterman
REALLY, Really Underrated Books (Fewer than 100 Ratings)
1,562 books — 239 voters
The Man Who Collected Machen and Other Weird Tales by Mark SamuelsHebdomeros, with Monsieur Dudron's Adventure and Other Metaph... by Giorgio de ChiricoWingmen by Ensan Case
REALLY Seriously Underrated Books (100 to 500 Ratings)
1,304 books — 202 voters

The Bat-Poet by Randall Jarrell
REALLY Underrated Books (Fewer than 1,000 Ratings)
3,161 books — 764 voters
Ashanti to Zulu by Margaret MusgroveDreaming in Chinese by Deborah Fallows
Books with 1,001 to 5,000 Ratings
1,030 books — 65 voters

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Half a million ratings to a million ratings
309 books — 166 voters
Books with ratings from 200,000 to 500,000
917 books — 146 voters

Books with ratings from 150 thousand to 200 thousand
517 books — 46 voters
The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan StroudThe Jungle Book by Rudyard KiplingCalvin and Hobbes by Bill WattersonAesop’s Fables by AesopMary Poppins by P.L. Travers
Books with ratings from 100 thousand to 150 thousand
873 books — 87 voters

The Golem's Eye by Jonathan Stroud
Books with ratings from 90 thousand to 100 thousand
244 books — 21 voters
The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
Books with ratings from 80 thousand to 90 thousand
228 books — 34 voters

The Mortal Instruments Boxed Set by Cassandra Clare
Books with Ratings from 60,000 - 70,000
220 books — 26 voters
The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1 by Kieron GillenThe Story of Babar by Jean de BrunhoffThe Complete Works by William Shakespeare
Books with Ratings from 50,000 - 60,000
248 books — 39 voters

Life and Other Near-Death Experiences by Camille PagánY by Brian K. Vaughan
Books with Ratings from 30,000 - 40,000
537 books — 38 voters
Sin City, Vol. 2 by Frank MillerY by Brian K. VaughanY by Brian K. Vaughan
Books with Ratings from 25,000 - 30,000
292 books — 30 voters

Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson
Books with Ratings from 15,000 - 20,000
244 books — 15 voters
Ex Libris by Anne FadimanA Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories by Will Eisner
Books with Ratings from 10,000 - 15,000
383 books — 27 voters

English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
Moderately Underrated Books (1,000 to 10,000 ratings)
1,847 books — 267 voters
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Seven Million Ratings!!!!!!!
3 books — 28 voters