Genesis in literature

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Literary fiction with themes drawn from or allusions to the biblical book of Genesis.
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The Magician's Nephew
by C. S. Lewis
29,609 members
366 reviews
3.9
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The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant
17,017 members
394 reviews
4
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Perelandra
by C. S. Lewis
8,864 members
106 reviews
3.8
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Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
42,977 members
714 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Many Waters
by Madeleine L'Engle
8,091 members
64 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Cain
by José Saramago
1,539 members
71 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Boating for Beginners
by Jeanette Winterson
554 members
6 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
35,676 members
545 reviews
3.8
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East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
23,552 members
425 reviews
½ 4.4
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The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
23,055 members
339 reviews
3.8
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Paradise Lost
by John Milton
14,015 members
113 reviews
4
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Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
10,813 members
141 reviews
4.1
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The Sandman: Fables & Reflections
by Neil Gaiman
5,772 members
70 reviews
½ 4.3
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A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
by Julian Barnes
3,861 members
65 reviews
3.8
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Kane and Abel
by Jeffrey Archer
3,635 members
69 reviews
3.9
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The Songs of Distant Earth
by Arthur C. Clarke
3,382 members
56 reviews
½ 3.7
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Sodom and Gomorrah
by Marcel Proust
2,629 members
39 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Stone Angel
by Margaret Laurence
1,772 members
45 reviews
3.8
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The Book of Lies
by Brad Meltzer
1,725 members
76 reviews
½ 3.3
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The Diaries of Adam and Eve
by Mark Twain
1,198 members
38 reviews
3.9
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The Spire
by William Golding
1,154 members
17 reviews
½ 3.6
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Sarah
by Marek Halter
1,037 members
18 reviews
½ 3.5
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Sarah: Women of Genesis
by Orson Scott Card
1,017 members
24 reviews
½ 3.7
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Unveiled
by Francine Rivers
1,005 members
13 reviews
4.1
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Not Wanted on the Voyage
by Timothy Findley
1,004 members
17 reviews
4.1
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Rebekah
by Orson Scott Card
771 members
15 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Preservationist
by David Maine
621 members
31 reviews
3.8
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Free Fall
by William Golding
601 members
3 reviews
½ 3.3
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Rachel and Leah
by Orson Scott Card
568 members
7 reviews
3.9
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The Son of Laughter
by Frederick Buechner
434 members
5 reviews
4
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God's Grace
by Bernard Malamud
383 members
6 reviews
½ 3.4
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After Worlds Collide
by Philip Wylie
369 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
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Back to Methuselah
by Bernard Shaw
357 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
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In the Shadow of the Ark
by Anne Provoost
345 members
13 reviews
3.2
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Fallen
by David Maine
261 members
14 reviews
3.8
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Not the End of the World
by Geraldine McCaughrean
247 members
11 reviews
½ 3.6
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Cain at Gettysburg
by Ralph Peters
196 members
9 reviews
3.9
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The Moon in the Cloud
by Rosemary Harris
104 members
4 reviews
4.2
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The Green Pastures
by Marc Connelly
94 members
2 reviews
½ 2.6
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After Abel and Other Stories
by Michal Lemberger
61 members
11 reviews
3.9
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Noah's Wife
by Lindsay Starck
61 members
3 reviews
½ 2.3
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The Very Model of a Man
by Howard Jacobson
57 members
½ 3.4
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The First Murder
by The Medieval Murderers
49 members
2 reviews
3.8
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Brave New World (Structural Readers)
by Aldous Huxley
10 members
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The Children's Hospital
by Chris Adrian
903 members
34 reviews
½ 3.6
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Noah: A Novel of the Boom Times (Seagull Books - The Swiss List)
by Hugo Loetscher
15 members
2 reviews
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