YA Beauty and the Beast Retellings

Do you love romantic fairy tale retellings? Do you love Beauty and the Beast? Then you need to check out my list of all the best YA Beauty and the Beast retellings! Includes both Fantasy and Romantasy Beauty and the Beast Retellings and Contemporary Retellings of Beauty and the Beast. Updated in 2025!

Best YA Beauty and the Beast Retellings:

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Table of Contents:

• Fantasy and Romantasy Beauty and the Beast Retellings
• Contemporary Beauty and the Beast Retellings

Fantasy and Romantasy Beauty and the Beast Retellings

A Forgery of Fate by Elizabeth Lim (2025)

• After Truyan’s her father is lost at sea, she must support her mother and sisters through art forgery
• Tru can paint the future, but even such magic is not enough to pay her family’s debts
• So Tru agrees to a marriage contract with a mysterious dragon lord.
• In exchange, she must join him in his desolate undersea palace.
• And she must assist him in a plot to infiltrate the tyrannical Dragon King’s inner circle

Beastly Beauty by Jennifer Connelly (2024)

• A unique, gender-flipped Beauty and the Beast
• Arabella’s parents want her to be sweet and compliant but she can’t ignore the fire burning inside her, and is punished with a curse.
• The only way to break it is to find a boy who loves her
• When a handsome thief named Beau makes his way into the castle, the servants are convinced he is the one to break the curse.

Beauty Reborn by Elizabeth Lowham (2023)

Beauty’s life is the stuff of fairy tales.

• She is the youngest in a poor family who is traumatized by a past assault
• He’s … a beast
• Enemies to Lovers romance
• Unique spin on the story with its emphasis on healing from trauma

A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer (2019)

• A cursed prince meets a feisty girl from modern times who gets mysteriously transported to his kingdom
• He’s stuck in a time loop, repeating one autumn over and over
• Main famale character has cerebral palsy
• A fan favorite!

Beastly by Alex Flinn (2007)

• Set in contemporary New York City
• But has a paranormal spin
• A teen beast (formerly a popular kid) got cursed in English glass
• Also check out the movie version with Vanessa Hudgens, Alex Pettyfer, Neil Patrick Harris and Mary-Kate Olsen!

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (2015)

• A Fae Beauty and the Beast
• Huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods
• A beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it.
• Feyre discovers that her captor is Tamlin – one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world.
• The fan sensation and iconic enemies to lovers romantasy

Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge (2014)

• A truly original retelling!
• Nyx’s father betrothed her to Ignifex, the evil ruler of her kingdom
• Since birth, she has been training to kill him.
• On her 17th birthday, they marry. Her plan? Seduce him, disarm him, and break the 900-year-old curse he put on her people.
• But he is not what Nyx expected. Can she refuse her duty to kill him?

Of Beast and Beauty by Stacey Jay (2013)

• Blind Princess Isra is raised to be a human sacrifice whose death will ensure her city’s vitality.
• Gem, a mutant beast, fights to save his people…
• He is captured trying to steal one of Isra’s enchanted roses
• Neither dreams that together, they could return balance to both their worlds.

Heart’s Blood by Juliet Marillier (2009)

• A curse lies over Anluan’s family and his people.
• Young scribe Caitrin appears in Anluan’s garden, admiring the rare plant known as heart’s blood.
• To free Anluan’s burdened soul, Caitrin must unravel the web of sorcery woven by his ancestors before it claims his life—and their love…
• A classic that is much beloved by Beauty and the Beast fans.

Hunted by Meagan Spooner (2017)

• When Yeva’s father goes missing in the woods, she is convinced he was taken by the creature he’d been obsessively tracking just before his disappearance: The Beast.
• Yeva hunts the Beast back into his own territory—a cursed valley, a ruined castle, and a world of magical creatures that Yeva’s only heard about in fairy tales. A world that can bring her ruin, or salvation.
• An original spin on the classic tale!

Contemporary Beauty and the Beast Retellings

Bookish and the Beast by Ashley Poston (2020)

• Part three of the “Once Upon a Con” Geekeralla universe!
• Rosie Thorne is feeling stuck in her grief over her mother’s death. Her only solace was her late mother’s library of rare Starfield novels, but even that disappeared when they sold it to pay off hospital bills.
• Vance Reigns is Hollywood royalty, until he’s forced to hide out somewhere the paparazzi would never expect to find him: a library
• When Vance’s and Rosie’s paths collide, sparks do not fly. Right away.

Of Curses and Kisses by Sandhya Menon (2020)

• This boarding school story features a hate to love romance and a curse!
• Princess Jaya Rao is furious when the loathsome Emerson clan steps up their centuries-old feud to target Jaya’s little sister.
• She knows what she must do: Make her new classmate, Grey Emerson, fall in love with her and break his heart.
• There’s simply no way she and her sworn enemy could find their fairy-tale ending…

Are you also a fan of romantic fairy tale retellings? Do you have any other Beauty and the Beast Retellings to add to my list? Tell me in comments and I will add them to this list!

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