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Authors & Titles

• Abbott, Edwin A.: Flatland
  
  • Rucker, Rudy: Spaceland
    
• The Aeneid
  
  1. Graham, Jo: Black Ships
     
  2. LeGuin, Ursula K.: Lavinia
     
• Andersen, Hans Christian: The Little Mermaid
  
  • Hunt, Samantha: The Seas
    
• Asimov, Isaac: Foundation series
  
  1. Benford, Gregory: Foundation's Fear
     
  2. Bear, Greg: Foundation and Chaos
     
  3. Brin, David: Foundation's Triumph
     
• Austen, Jane: see Jane Austen & Friends
  
• Barrie, J.M.: Peter Pan
  
  • Barry, Dave & Pearson, Ridley: Peter and the Starcatchers
    
  • Hart, J.V.: Capt. Hook
    
• Beowulf
  
  • Crichton, Michael: Eaters of the Dead
    
• Bible: Book of Ruth
  
  • Lott, Bret: A Song I Knew by Heart
    
• Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451
  
  • Fox, Andre: The Good Humor Man, or, Calorie 3501
    
• Brontë: Anne, Charlotte, Emily: see The Brontës and Friends
  
• Carroll, Lewis: Alice in Wonderland
  
  • Dierbeck, Lisa: One Pill Makes You Smaller
    
  • Noon, Jeff: Automated Alice
    
• Cervantes, Miguel: Don Quixote
  
  • Greene, Graham: Monsignor Quixote
    
  • Malone, Michael: Handling Sin
    
• Chandler, Raymond: The Big Sleep
  
  • Parker, Robert B.: Perchance to Dream
    
• Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury Tales
  
  • Ackroyd, Peter: The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling
    
• Dickens, Charles: A Christmas Carol
  
  • Bayard, Louis: Mr. Timothy
    
  • Davis, Patricia K.: A Midnight Carol
    
  • Osmun, Mark Mazard: Marley's Ghost
    
• Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations
  
  • Harding, Alison: Also Georgiana
    
• Dickens, Charles: The Mystery of Edwin Drood
  
  • Simmons, Dan: Drood
    
• Dixon, Franklin: Hardy Boys series
  
  • Hoff, Benjamin: The House on the Point
    
• Dostoyevski, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
  
  • Morris, R.N.: Porfiry Petrovich series
    
    1. The Gentle Axe
       
    2. A Vengeful Longing
       
• Doyle, Arthur Conan: Sherlock Holmes stories: see Sherlock Holmes & Friends
  
• Doyle, Arthur Conan: Lost World
  
  • Bear, Greg: Dinosaur Summer
    
• Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
  
  • Fry, Stephen: Revenge
    
• DuMaurier, Daphne: Rebecca
  
  • Beauman, Sally: Rebecca's Tale
    
  • Diamond, Diana: The First Wife
    
  • Freely, Maureen: The Other Rebecca
    
  • Hill, Susan: Mrs. DeWinter
    
• Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones
  
  • Rechy, John: The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens
    
• Gissing, George: New Grub Street
  
  • Blackwell, Elise: Grub
    
• Goethe: Faust
  
  • Mann, Thomas: Doctor Faustus
    
• Greek Mythology
  
  • Ehrenreich, Ben: The Suitors
    
  • Merlis, Mark: An Arrow's Flight
    
  • Saberhagen, Fred: Book of the Gods series
    
    1. The Face of Apollo
       
    2. Ariadne's Web
       
    3. The Arms of Hercules
       
• Hammett, Dashiell: The Maltese Falcon
  
  • Gores, Joe: Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon
    
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
  
  • Auchincloss, Louis: The Scarlet Letters
    
  • Bigsby, Christopher: Hester
    
  • Jordan, Hillary: When She Woke
    
  • Reed, Paula: Hester
    
• Herbert, Frank: Dune series
  (Frank Herbert wrote and published six books in this series during his lifetime. Starting in 1999, his son Brian collaborated with Kevin J. Anderson on a prequel trilogy, followed by the earlier Butlerian Jihad series. Although these additional books are earlier in chronological order, it is recommended that they be read after the original books.)
  
  Original Series:
  
  1. Dune
     
  2. Dune Messiah
     
  3. Children of Dune
     
  4. God Emperor of Dune
     
  5. Heretics of Dune
     
  6. Chapterhouse: Dune
     Prequel Trilogy:
     
  7. Dune: House Atreides by Herbert, Brian & Anderson, Kevin J.
     
  8. Dune: House Harkonnen by Herbert, Brian & Anderson, Kevin J.
     
  9. Dune: House Corrino by Herbert, Brian & Anderson, Kevin J.
     Butlerian Jihad Series (aka Legends of Dune series):
     
  10. Dune: The Butlerian Jihad by Herbert, Brian & Anderson, Kevin J.
      
  11. Dune: The Machine Crusade by Herbert, Brian & Anderson, Kevin J.
      
  12. Dune: The Battle of Corrin by Herbert, Brian & Anderson, Kevin J.
      Dune Sequels:
      
  13. Hunters of Dune
      
  14. Sandworms of Dune
      
  15. The Winds of Dune (direct sequel to Dune Messiah)
      Other:
      (companion volume) The Road to Dune (edited by Brian Herbert)
      (short story) A Dune short story appears in Dogged Persistence by Kevin J. Anderson
      (short story) A Dune short story appears in Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology (edited by Steven Savile & Althea Kontis)
      
• Hilton, James: Lost Horizon
  
  • Cooney, Eleanor & Altieri, Daniel: Shangri-La
    
• Homer: The Iliad
  
  • Cook, Elizabeth: Achilles
    
  • Malouf, David: Ransom
    
  • Merlis, Mark: An Arrow's Flight
    
• Homer: The Odyssey
  
  • Beye, Charles Rowan: Odysseus: A Life
    
  • Mason, Zachary: The Lost Books of the Odyssey
    
• John Henry
  
  • Whitehead, Colson: John Henry Days
    
• Joyce, James: Ulysses
  
  • Kitchen, Judith: The House on Eccles Road
    
• Kafka, Franz: The Metamorphosis
  
  • Olsen, Lance: Anxious Pleasures
    
• Leroux, Gaston: The Phantom of the Opera
  
  • Forsyth, Frederick: The Phantom of Manhattan
    
  • Kay, Susan: Phantom
    
• Melville, Herman: Moby Dick
  
  • Bradbury, Ray: Now and Forever
    
  • Naslund, Sena Jeter: Ahab's Wife
    
  • Thomson, Keith: Gus Openshaw's Whale-Killing Journal
    
• Mitchell, Margaret: Gone With the Wind
  
  • McCaig, Donald: Rhett Butler's People
    
  • Randall, Alice: The Wind Done Gone
    
  • Ripley, Alexandra: Scarlett
    
• Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita
  
  • Coote, Cathy: Innocents
    
  • Nadzam, Bonnie: Lamb
    
  • Pera, Pia: Lo's Diary
    
  • Prose, Francine: Blue Angel
    
  • Rice, Anne (as Anne Rampling): Belinda
    
• Poe, Edgar Allen: The Fall of the House of Usher
  
  • Kiraly, Marie: Madeline (After the Fall of Usher)
    
  • McCammon, Robert R.: Usher's Passing
    
• Rostand, Edmund: Cyrano de Bergerac
  
  • Capella, Anthony: The Food of Love
    
• Shaara, Michael: The Killer Angels
  
  • Shaara, Jeff: Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure
    
• Shakespeare: Hamlet
  
  • Updike, John: Gertrude and Claudius
    
  • Walker, Lars: Blood and Judgment
    
• Shakespeare: King Lear
  
  • Moore, Christopher: Fool
    
• Shakespeare: Macbeth
  
  • King, Susan Fraser: Lady Macbeth
    
  • Reisert, Rebecca: The Third Witch
    
• Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream
  
  • Craig, Amanda: Love in Idleness
    
• Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet
  
  • Maxwell, Robin: O, Juliet
    
  • Ray, Jeanne: Julie and Romeo series
    
    1. Julie and Romeo
       
    2. Julie and Romeo Get Lucky
       
• Shakespeare: The Tempest
  
  • Godden, Rumer: A Breath of Air
    
  • Meehan, Michael: Stormy Weather
    
  • Stuart, W.J.: Forbidden Planet
    
  • Williams, Tad: Caliban's Hour
    
• Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
  
  • Davies, Katharine: The Madness of Love
    
• Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein
  
  • Ackroyd, Peter: The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
    
  • Aldiss, Brian: Frankenstein Unbound
    
  • Bailey, Hilary: Frankenstein's Bride
    
  • Koontz, Dean: Dean Koontz's Frankenstein series
    
    1. Prodigal Son
       
    2. City of Night
       
    3. Lost Souls
       
    4. The Dead Town
       
  • Saberhagen, Fred: The Frankenstein Papers
    
• Stevenson, Robert Louis: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  
  • Abse, Dannie: The Strange Case of Dr. Simmonds & Dr. Glass
    
  • Martin, Valerie: Mary Reilly
    
• Sophocles: The Oedipus Trilogy
  
  • Guterson, David: Ed King
    
• Stevenson, Robert Louis: Treasure Island
  
  • Bryan, Francis: The Curse of Treasure Island
    
  • Drake, John: Flint and Silver
    
  • Scott, Justin: Treasure Island
    
• Stoker, Bram: Dracula
  
  • Bergstrom, Elaine: Dracula Story Continues series
    
    1. Mina
       
    2. Blood to Blood
       
  • James, Syrie: Dracula, My Love
    
  • Reese, James: The Dracula Dossier
    
  • Stoker, Dacre: Dracula: The Un-Dead
    
  • Warrington, Freda: Dracula: The Undead
    
• Susann, Jacqueline: Valley of the Dolls
  
  • Lawrence, Rae: Shadow of the Dolls
    
• Thoreau, Henry David: Walden
  
  • Skinner, B.F.: Walden Two
    
• Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  
  • Black, Jim: River Season
    
  • Clinch, Jon: Finn
    
  • Czolgosz, W. Bill: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim
    
  • Rawles, Nancy: My Jim
    
• Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  
  1. Borchert, Don: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Undead
     
  2. Hart, Lenore: Becky: The Life and Loves of Becky Thatcher
     
• Verne, Jules: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
  
  • Anderson, K.J.: Captain Nemo
    
• Wells, H.G.: The Time Machine
  
  • Baxter, Stephen: The Time Ships
    
• Wharton, Edith: Ethan Frome
  
  • Cooke, Elizabeth: Zeena
    
• Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray
  
  • Self, Will: Dorian
    
• Wilder, Billy: Sunset Boulevard
  
  • Bruen, Ken: London Boulevard
    
• Wolfe, Thomas: Look Homeward, Angel
  
  • Wolfe, Thomas: O Lost (original version, first published in 2000)
    
• Woolf, Virginia: Mrs. Dalloway
  
  • Cunningham, Michael: The Hours
    

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Authors & Titles

• As Time Goes By
  
  • Bogart, Stephen Humphrey: The Remake: As Time Goes By