SPIN-OFFS

Books spinned off from or inspired by the classics

1. Rebecca’s Tale / Sally Beauman, from Rebecca / Daphne du Maurier
2. The Double Bind / Chris Bohjalian, from The Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Tilting at Windmills: A Novel of Cervantes and the Errant Knight / Julian Branston, from Don Quixote / Cervantes
4. March / Geraldine Brooks, from Little Women / Louisa May Alcott
5. Jack Maggs / Peter Carey, from Great Expectations / Charles Dickens
6. Finn / Jon Clinch, from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain
7. The Hours / Michael Cunningham, from Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf
8. The Historian / Elizabeth Kostova, from Dracula / Bram Stoker
9. Mr. Dalloway / Robin Lippincott, from Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf
10. Mary Reilly / Valerie Martin, from The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Robert Louis Stevenson
11. Ahab’s Wife or, The Star Gazer / Sena Jeter Naslund, from Moby-Dick / Herman Melville
12. The Wind Done Gone / Alice Randall, from Gone With the Wind / Margaret Mitchell
13. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern / Tom Stoppard, from Hamlet / William Shakespeare
14. My Jim / Nancy Rawles, from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain
15. Wide Sargasso Sea / Jean Rhys, from Jane Eyre / Charlotte Brontë
16. Scarlett / Alexandra Ripley, from Gone With the Wind / Margaret Mitchell
17. Dorian / Will Self, from The Picture of Dorian Gray
18. Ten Days in the Hills /Jane Smiley, from The Decameron
19. An Unequal Marriage / Pemberley / Emma Tennant, from Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen
20. A Jealous Ghost / A.N. Wilson, from The Turn of the Screw / Henry James
21. The Godfather Returns / Mark Winegardner, from The Godfather / Mario Puzo