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1VictoriaPL
I was recently reminded of a novel Naked Came the Manatee in which every chapter was authored by a different person. I'm sure there are similar books out there. Can anyone recommend some titles?
2lilithcat
Naked Came the Stranger is probably one of the most famous. It was written under a psuedonym by several well-known writers and journalists. It was a deliberately bad book intended to parody writers such as Jacqueline Susann and, if I recall correctly, actually made the NYT bestseller list as a result of the attendant publicity when the hoax was revealed.
3jjlong
I vaguely remembered a legal thriller like this from a few years back, but had to Google it: it's Natural Suspect, credited to William Bernhardt; the Amazon page shows John Katzenbach, Lisa Scottoline, Brad Meltzer and other high-profile thriller authors contributing chapters.
I can't recommend it- haven't read it!- but some of the reviews at Amazon are pretty enthusiastic.
I can't recommend it- haven't read it!- but some of the reviews at Amazon are pretty enthusiastic.
4lilithcat
Oh, I forgot! There are the Detection Club books! The Detection Club was a group of British mystery writers, including folks like Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley and G.K. Chesterton. They issued several books, in which each chapter was written by a different member.
5thorold
The Irish seem to be very fond of this genre: I know of Finbar's Hotel, Ladies' night at Finbar's Hotel, and Yeats is dead, but there may well be more.
6Linkmeister
I've not heard of those above, but Atlanta Nights was written as parody and as a scambuster.
From one of the authors:
Atlanta Nights did indeed begin as a sting operation which a bunch of SF and fantasy writers pulled on PublishAmerica, but it’s also a meditation on the many ways a novel can be bad.
From one of the authors:
Atlanta Nights did indeed begin as a sting operation which a bunch of SF and fantasy writers pulled on PublishAmerica, but it’s also a meditation on the many ways a novel can be bad.

