Parallel Novels
- Description
- Notable books set in other people's fictional settings.
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by Tom Stoppard
8,824 members
104 reviews
4.2
Score 13.67
Added 2015-06-09, 04:18 PM
- 5 Members
- AnnaClaire, aulsmith, aethercowboy, Peace2, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explanations
- aethercowboy: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
2
6,652 members
277 reviews
½ 3.6
Score 8.04
Added 2015-06-09, 04:02 PM
- 3 Members
- AnnaClaire, aethercowboy, Peace2
- Explanations
- aethercowboy: The Odyssey by Homer
4
- 3 Members
- AnnaClaire, aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explanations
- aethercowboy: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
5
33,157 members
708 reviews
½ 3.6
Score 7.11
Added 2015-06-09, 03:58 PM
- 3 Members
- aulsmith, aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explanations
- aethercowboy: Oz stories by L. Frank Baum
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- 3 Members
- aulsmith, aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
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- aulsmith: I found this a bit of a slog, but then so was Beowulf.aethercowboy: Beowulf
7
- 2 Members
- aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explanations
- aulsmith: Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope except with dragons.
8
329 members
4 reviews
½ 3.5
Score 5.36
Added 2015-06-09, 04:01 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explanations
- aethercowboy: Oz stories by L. Frank Baum
9
5,611 members
86 reviews
½ 3.5
Score 5.04
Added 2015-06-09, 04:03 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explanations
- aethercowboy: Beowulf
12
- 2 Members
- aulsmith, aethercowboy
- Explanations
- aethercowboy: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (and the MGM film)
13
- 2 Members
- aulsmith, aethercowboy
- Explanations
- aulsmith: The Odyssey by Homer except in Dublinaethercowboy: Just barely... just sayin'.
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by T. H. White
17,359 members
225 reviews
4.1
Score 4.15
Added 2015-06-11, 10:12 PM
- 2 Members
- aulsmith, aethercowboy
- Explanations
- aulsmith: La Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Mallory
15
17,871 members
311 reviews
4.1
Score 4
Added 2015-06-09, 04:15 PM
- 2 Members
- AnnaClaire, aethercowboy,ManWithAnAgenda
- Explanations
- aethercowboy: Arthurian legend
16
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith
- Explanations
- aulsmith : I didn't like this one much. I didn't think it added significantly to the original.aethercowboy: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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- aulsmith,aethercowboy
- Explanations
- aulsmith: While Fillory, the setting, is not completely Narnia, it certainly is meant to make you remember Narniaaethercowboy : Not a parallel novel. More of an homage to Narnia, among others.
25
871 members
10 reviews
3.9
Score 2
Added 2015-06-09, 04:07 PM
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- aethercowboy
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- aethercowboy: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
26
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Explanations
- aethercowboy: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
29
598 members
5 reviews
3.2
Score 2
Added 2015-06-09, 04:16 PM
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- aethercowboy
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- aethercowboy: Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
30
464 members
8 reviews
½ 3.3
Score 2
Added 2015-06-09, 04:10 PM
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- aethercowboy
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- aethercowboy: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
31
378 members
8 reviews
½ 3.6
Score 2
Added 2015-06-09, 04:17 PM
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- aethercowboy
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- aethercowboy: The Foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov
35
- Member
- aethercowboy
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- aethercowboy: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson from Hyde's perspective.
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by Neil Gaiman
7 members
1 review
½ 3.5
Score -0.29
Added 2015-07-16, 10:39 AM
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- aethercowboy,ManWithAnAgenda
- Explanations
- aethercowboy: This is Neil Gaiman's response to Susan's fate in The Chronicles of Narnia.