You Don’t Know Lit

Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler (1995) vs The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2009)

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (1997) vs The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough (1968)

Wilmington's Lie by David Zucchino (2020) vs Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (2000)

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury (1957) vs A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr (1980)

Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl by Jonathan Slaght (2020)

The Way of Nature by Zhuang Zhou illustrated by C. C. Tsai (300 BCE/ 2019)

Sourdough: A Novel by Robin Sloan (2017)

Anger, Mercy, Revenge by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE – 65 CE)

The Postmaster and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore (1987)

The Iron Man by Ted Hughes (1968)

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai (1948)

The Money Player: The Confessions of America's Greatest Table Tennis Champion and Hustler by Marty Reisman (1974)

Snowpiercer, Vol. 1: The Escape by Jacques Lob, Illustrated by Jean-Marc Rochette (1982)

312. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden (2026)

Water Margin by Shi Nai'an (14th century) vs The Adventures of Monkey (Journey to the West) by Wu Cheng'en translated Arthur Waley (16th century/1994)

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport (2016)

Getting Things Done by David Allen (2001)

Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi (1991) vs Accidental Tyrant: The Life of Kim Il-sung by Fyodor Tertitskiy (2025)

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. (Jerome David) Salinger (1951) vs The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (1999)

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, and Steven L. Hopp (2007)

Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky (2024) vs Golem XIV by Stanisław Lem (1978)

Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend by Rebecca Romney (2025) vs Journals and Letters by Frances Burney (1752-1840)

The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1992) vs My Brilliant Friend (2011/2012) by Elena Ferrante

I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid (2016)

The Darwin Awards: Evolution in Action by Wendy Northcutt (2000) vs Death in Yellowstone by Lee H Whittlesey (1995)

300 by Frank Miller (1998) vs Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield (1998)

Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer (2019) vs Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRA by John Lisle (2025)

Football by Chuck Klosterman (2010) vs Theo of Golden by Allen Levi (2023)

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller (1986) vs Superman: Red Son by Mark Millar (2003)

The Sandman Series by Neil Gaiman (1989)

The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel (2017) vs The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (1915)

Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb (2001) vs Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb (1995)

Elizabeth Bishop vs Billy Collins

Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks (2020)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (1962) vs The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger by Stephen King (1982)

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein (1966) vs Caliban's War by James S. A. Corey (2012)

Telephone Tales by Gianni Rodari (1962)

The Maltese Falcon by Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1929) vs As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930)

Beastly & Bookish: Horned Up for the Holidays by Catrina Bell (2023) vs Lovelight Farms by B.K. Borison (2021)

The Last Season by Eric Blehm (2006)

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (1595/1596) vs Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (1986)

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy (1886)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling (1997) vs The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (2005)

The Diary of a Rapist by Evan S. Connell (1967) vs The Current by Tim Johnston (2019)

Strong Female Protagonist written by Brennan Lee Mulligan and drawn by Lee Knox Ostertag (2014)

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1798) vs The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (1845)

Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer by John Grisham (2010) vs The Partner by John Grisham (1997)

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818) vs Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (1993)

The Winter Fortress by Neal Bascomb (2016) vs Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer (2003)