The Next Best Book Club discussion

Someone in the Spring Challenge Task Suggestions thread suggested reading companion books for a task. Even though that wasn't selected, it got me thinking about what companion books are out there.

What I have so far are:

1) Hamlet and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
2) Lolita and Reading Lolita in Tehran A Memoir in Books
3) Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones's Diary
4) Jane Eyre and The Eyre Affair or Wide Sargasso Sea
5) King Lear and A Thousand Acres A Novel
6) Gone With The Wind and The Wind Done Gone A Novel
7) Little Women and March
8) Persuasion and Captain Wentworth's Diary

Anyone else have any ideas? I'm thinking of doing some companion novel reading for fun because it can be really neat to see the parallels.

Hamlet and Dead Fathers Club
King Lear and Fool

Someone in the What are you reading thread is reading Anna Karenina and What Happened to Anna K?.

A Christmas Carol and Mr. Timothy

The Master A Novel and something by Henry James

The Hours and Mrs. Dalloway

Three Men in a Boat and To Say Nothing of the Dog

Persuasion and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

I forgot about The Hours and Mrs. Dalloway! But I didn't know about the other ones! They're awesome, thanks!

Ahab's Wife Or, The Star-gazer A Novel and Moby Dick

The Double Bind and The Great Gatsby

Beowulf A New Verse Translation and Grendel

Briar Rose and Enchantment
Beauty A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast and Ella Enchanted

You mentioned Captain Wentworth's Diary by Amanda Grange as a companion for Persuasion.

Amanda Grange has also written:

Mr. Darcy's Diary for Pride and Prejudice
Mr. Knightley's Diary for Emma
Edmund Bertram's Diary for Mansfield Park
Colonel Brandon's Diary for Sense and Sensibility

I've read Wentworth and Darcy... Loved Wentworth.... ;) I'd love to see an Edward Ferrars one for Sense and Sensibility...

Beowulf A New Verse Translation and Grendel.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Wicked The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.
Moby-Dick or, The Whale and Ahab's Wife Or, The Star-gazer A Novel.
Hamlet and Gertrude and Claudius.
Les Misérables and Cosette The Sequel to Les Miserables.
The Odyssey and The Penelopiad The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus.

The Iliad and La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu (I think the English translation of the title is "The Trojan War Will Not Go On" or "Will Not Take Place")
Electra and Mourning Becomes Electra
The Odyssey and Homer's Daughter

Great Expectations (Dickens) and Mr. Pip (Jones)

Gone with the Wind and Rhett Butler's People

Gone With The Wind and Scarlett
Huckleberry Finn and Finn (about his father)
Edgar Sawtelle and Hamlet

Hamlet and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

Pygmalion and the Princess Diaries.

"In This House of Brede" and "Body and Soul"

House of Leaves and Whalestoe Letters by Mark Z. Danielewski

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
and
Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley


Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
and
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and The Looking Glass Wars and its sequels (Frank Beddor)

Another companion novel for Pride and Prejudice is The Pemberley Chronicles A Companion Volume to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It's the first in a ten-volume series by Rebecca Ann Collins, and follows the llives of Elizabeth, Darcy, Jane, Bingley are their families.

I think Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging Confessions of Georgia Nicolson could be a companion book for Emma.

Kandice wrote: "I think Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging Confessions of Georgia Nicolson could be a companion book for Emma."

Really? Hmmmmmmmm.... I don't see it, myself...

Some writers are natural companions for others. Anything by Sarah Addison Allen is a good companion for anything by Alice Hoffman.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
and
The Beekeeper's Apprentice (and others in the Mary Russell series) by Laurie R. King

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
and
Prodigal Son (and others in the Frankenstein series) by Dean Koontz

Hamlet by William Shakespeare
and
Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike

The Odyssey by Homer
and
Ulysses by James Joyce

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
and
Friday by Michel Tournier

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
and
Foe by J.M. Coetzee

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
and
Jack Maggs by Peter Carey

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
and
The Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
and
Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
and
The Other Log of Phileas Fogg by Philip José Farmer

What about A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain and A Connecticut Fashionista In King Arthur's Court by Marianne Mancusi. I haven't read either but came across them while trying to find companion novels for the task :) Anyone read them?

Arthurian Romances by Chrétien de Troyes and The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier and either Mrs. Dewinter by Susan Hill OR Rebecca's Tale by Sally Beauman

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