You Don’t Know Lit

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)

The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg (1976)

A Divine Language: Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age by Alec Wilkinson (2022)

The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White (1970)

An Immense World by Ed Yong (2022)

The American West as Living Space by Wallace Stegner (1987)

Raising Hare: A Memoir by Chloe Dalton (2024)

Noor by Nnedi Okorafor (2021)    

Kiss Or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber by Mark Twight (2001)

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel (1995)

Borne by Jeff VanderMeer (2017)

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (2006)

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (1979) vs The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (2005)

Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley (1917)

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (1956)

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas (2012) vs Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater (2020)

How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told by Harrison Scott Key (2023)

S. (Ship of Theseus) by Doug Dorst and J.J. Abrams (2013) vs Cain's Jawbone by Edward Powys Mathers (1934)

The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman (2022)