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Description: novels closely related and/or commenting on another. going to use the explain-choice box to put the partner novel in: eg: The Wind Done Gone as choice and Gone With The Wind as the explanation.

Rank Title Author Added

1

by John Gardner

6,070 members

108 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aulsmith, nessreader, ahef1963
Explanations: aulsmith: Beowulf

2

The Daughter of Time

by Josephine Tey

5,935 members

227 reviews

3.9

2 Members: nessreader, ahef1963
Explanations: nessreader: Richard III, Shakespeare

3

24,232 members

379 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963
Explanations: aulsmith: The Odyssey

4

2,117 members

34 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963
Explanations: aulsmith: Parsifal

5

by Geraldine Brooks

6,741 members

278 reviews

3.8

2 Members: nessreader, ahef1963
Explanations: nessreader: Little women

6

A Thousand Acres

6,191 members

137 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: nessreader, ahef1963
Explanations: nessreader: Lear in 20th century

7

by Terry Pratchett

9,355 members

120 reviews

4

2 Members: nessreader, ahef1963
Explanations: nessreader: Phantom of the Opera, Leroux

8

The Wind Done Gone

by Alice Randall

594 members

25 reviews

3

Member: nessreader
Explanations: nessreader: Gone With the Wind, Mitchell

9

873 members

20 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: The Dispossessed/Ursula LeGuin

10

A Monster's Notes

by Laurie Sheck

173 members

4 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: nessreader
Explanations: nessreader: Frankenstein, Shelley

11

2,740 members

195 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: nessreader
Explanations: nessreader: Pride & Prejudice, Austen

12

One Big Damn Puzzler

by John Harding

359 members

11 reviews

4

Member: nessreader
Explanations: nessreader: hamlet, shakespeare

13

Mourning Becomes Electra

by Eugene O'Neill

353 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: The Oriestia

14

The Rumpelstiltskin Problem

by Vivian Vande Velde

747 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: nessreader
Explanations: nessreader: Rumplestiltskin (any edition)

15

The Big Bad Wolf and Me

by Delphine Perret

89 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: Red Riding Hood

16

Downward to the Earth

by Robert Silverberg

712 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: Heart of Darkness/Joseph Conrad

17

Little Women and Me

by Lauren Baratz-Logsted

108 members

8 reviews

3.1

Member: nessreader
Explanations: nessreader: Little Women, Alcott

18

by Noel Streatfeild

3,533 members

72 reviews

4.2

Member: nessreader
Explanations: nessreader: whicharts, streatfeild

19

Gertrude and Claudius

1,114 members

20 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: nessreader
Explanations: nessreader: hamlet, shakespeare

20

1,760 members

33 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: nessreader
Explanations: nessreader: Great Expectations, Dickens

21

Rebecca and Rowena

by W. M. Thackeray

66 members

4 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: nessreader
Explanations: nessreader: ivanhoe, scott

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Started: nessreader
February 2014
Type: Numbered and unnumbered

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