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
34,440 members
410 reviews
3.9
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The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant
18,127 members
401 reviews
4
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Perelandra
by C. S. Lewis
10,182 members
118 reviews
3.8
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Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
50,900 members
813 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Many Waters
by Madeleine L'Engle
9,011 members
72 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Cain
by José Saramago
1,796 members
82 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Boating for Beginners
by Jeanette Winterson
576 members
6 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
41,566 members
618 reviews
3.8
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East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
27,373 members
480 reviews
½ 4.4
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The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
25,587 members
372 reviews
3.8
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Paradise Lost
by John Milton
16,663 members
130 reviews
4
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Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
12,095 members
155 reviews
4
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The Sandman: Fables & Reflections
by Neil Gaiman
6,086 members
81 reviews
½ 4.4
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A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
by Julian Barnes
4,103 members
68 reviews
3.8
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Kane and Abel
by Jeffrey Archer
3,890 members
73 reviews
3.9
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The Songs of Distant Earth
by Arthur C. Clarke
3,742 members
62 reviews
½ 3.7
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Sodom and Gomorrah
by Marcel Proust
3,044 members
44 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Stone Angel
by Margaret Laurence
1,941 members
46 reviews
3.8
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The Book of Lies
by Brad Meltzer
1,882 members
79 reviews
½ 3.3
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The Diaries of Adam and Eve
by Mark Twain
1,352 members
46 reviews
3.9
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The Spire
by William Golding
1,294 members
20 reviews
½ 3.5
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Sarah
by Marek Halter
1,136 members
19 reviews
½ 3.5
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Unveiled
by Francine Rivers
1,115 members
13 reviews
4.1
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Sarah: Women of Genesis
by Orson Scott Card
1,085 members
23 reviews
½ 3.7
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Not Wanted on the Voyage
by Timothy Findley
1,077 members
17 reviews
4.1
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Rebekah
by Orson Scott Card
830 members
16 reviews
½ 3.7
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Free Fall
by William Golding
683 members
6 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Preservationist
by David Maine
637 members
31 reviews
3.8
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Rachel and Leah
by Orson Scott Card
603 members
7 reviews
3.9
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The Son of Laughter
by Frederick Buechner
485 members
4 reviews
4
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God's Grace
by Bernard Malamud
423 members
6 reviews
½ 3.4
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After Worlds Collide
by Philip Wylie
401 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
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Back to Methuselah
by Bernard Shaw
383 members
5 reviews
3.2
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In the Shadow of the Ark
by Anne Provoost
369 members
14 reviews
3.2
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Fallen
by David Maine
270 members
15 reviews
3.8
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Not the End of the World
by Geraldine McCaughrean
264 members
11 reviews
½ 3.6
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Cain at Gettysburg
by Ralph Peters
218 members
8 reviews
3.9
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The Moon in the Cloud
by Rosemary Harris
110 members
4 reviews
4.2
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The Green Pastures
by Marc Connelly
96 members
2 reviews
½ 2.5
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Noah's Wife
by Lindsay Starck
71 members
3 reviews
½ 2.3
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The Very Model of a Man
by Howard Jacobson
66 members
½ 3.4
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After Abel and Other Stories
by Michal Lemberger
61 members
11 reviews
3.9
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The First Murder
by The Medieval Murderers
55 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
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Brave New World (Structural Readers)
by Aldous Huxley
12 members
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The Children's Hospital
by Chris Adrian
945 members
36 reviews
½ 3.6
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Noah: A Novel of the Boom Times (The Swiss List)
by Hugo Loetscher
16 members
2 reviews
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