Well-Read Episode #39 - Retellings - a podcast by Ann Cox and Halle Eisenman

Ann and Halle discuss one of their favorite things to read: retellings of classic literature. They'll end with what they're reading this week.

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Ann's picks:

• Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty & the Beast by Robin McKinley
  - Beauty and the Beast


• Jane by April Lindner
  - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  - Jane Austen books
  - William Shakespeare's complete works
  - Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye
  - Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys


• March by Geraldine Brooks
  - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  - Ralph Waldo Emerson books
  - Henry David Thoreau books
  - Little Women (film)
  - Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  - Geraldine Brooks books

Halle's picks:

• Longbourn by Jo Baker
  - Downton Abbey (TV)


• When Beauty Tamed the Beast by Eloisa James
  - Fairy Tales series by Eloisa James
  - House M.D. (TV)


• A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
  - King Lear by William Shakespeare
  - National Book Critics Circle Award
  - The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh
  - The Arabian Nights
  - Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
  - The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
  - The Taming of the Shrew  (film)

What We're Reading This Week:

• Ann: By Gaslight by Steven Price
  - Episode 32 - Fall 2016 Book Preview
  - By Gaslight on Goodreads
  - Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
  - The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
  - East of Eden by John Steinbeck


• Halle: El Deafo by Cece Bell
  - Episode 34 - Childhood Favorites
  - Newbery Medal
  - Wonder by R.J. Palacio
  - Episode 5 - Books That Make You Cry

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