Top Retellings of Classic Tales

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The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
Biblical Retellings
220 books — 61 voters
According to Mary Magdalene by Marianne FredrikssonThe Testament of Mary by Colm TóibínThe Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip PullmanDe nachtwandelaar by Marianne Fredriksson
New Testament based Biblical Fiction
169 books — 83 voters

An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo IshiguroBrooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Costa/Whitbread Novel Award Winners
94 books — 89 voters
Smile by Roddy Doyle
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2017
178 books — 240 voters

Smile by Roddy Doyle
The 2018 Tournament of Books Long List
56 books — 40 voters
Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.11/22/63 by Stephen KingThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Best Time Travel Fiction
1,943 books — 5,204 voters

Midnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjePossession by A.S. ByattThe Line of Beauty by Alan HollinghurstThe Sea by John Banville
Booker Prize Winners
60 books — 1,982 voters
Eva Luna by Isabel AllendeThe Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,295 books — 4,444 voters

Great House by Nicole KraussThe Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel AllendeThe History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Best Literary Fiction of 21st Century
643 books — 275 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodPossession by A.S. ByattThe God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Best Woman-Authored Books
8,072 books — 5,128 voters