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The Great Gatsby Retellings

The Great Gatsby celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. It's been reprinted, adapted into movies, and adapted into a graphic novel and continues to be considered an American classic. Check out some of these retellings of the novel.

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  • Greta Gatsby, newly arrived at her brother Jay’s West Egg mansion, finds her idyllic summer shattered by scandal, betrayal, and murder, forcing her to navigate the secrets of a glittering yet dangerous world of wealth and deception.
    BookNew York, NY : Viking, [2025] — FLO FICTION ANDERSON-WHEELER
  • After the events of The Great Gatsby, West Egg police officers discover a diamond hair pin near the millionaire’s pool putting three women under suspicion for the murder of Jay Gatsby and mechanic George Wilson.
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — FICTION CANTOR
  • Bestselling Moore (Summer Stage) returns with a modern-day retelling of The Great Gatsby. Three women spend the summer on Block Island: one of them is a curious observer, the other two are high-powered figures with plans of their own. As…
    BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, 2025. — 813.6000
  • A tale inspired by Fitzgerald’s famous narrator imagines the life of Nick Carraway before Gatsby, depicting a war-traumatized, heavily drinking man who embarks on a doomed journey of redemption from Paris to New Orleans.
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021. — FICTION SMITH
  • Nghi Vo’s debut novel reinvents this classic of the American canon as a coming-of-age story full of magic, mystery, and glittering excess, and introduces a major new literary voice.
    BookNew York : Tordotcom, 2021. — FICTION VO
  • When her cousin goes missing at an exclusive house party, Daisy Finnegan confronts the mysterious host, wealthy recluse Jay Gatsby, her childhood sweetheart, and is drawn into a world of dizzying wealth and dark obsession that culminates…
    PaperbackNaperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Casablanca, [2024] — FICTION KENNEY
  • The Great Gatsby

    a Graphic Novel Adaptation

    Woodman-Maynard, K.,
    Presents a comic adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" which tells the tragic love story of Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan, a dashing, enigmatic millionaire obsessed with an elusive, spoiled young woman.
    Graphic NovelSomerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, [2021] — Y 741.5973 WOODMAN-MAYNARD
  • So We Read on

    How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures

    Corrigan, Maureen,
    This is not a retelling, but a book investigating the enduring legacy of The Great Gatsby. It delves into The Great Gatsby, taking the reader into archives, high school classrooms and even out onto the Long Island Sound to explore the…
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014. — 813.52 CORRIGAN