22 “Literary Fan Fiction” (retellings, adaptations, sequels, parallel novels, etc.) books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

For this booklist, the original story being retold/referenced appears (in parentheses).

• Telling Tales by Patience Agbabi (Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer)
• The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (El Gaucho Martín Fierro by José Hernández)
• The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang (The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky)
• Windward Heights by Maryse Condé (Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë)
• The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud (The Stranger by Albert Camus)
• Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal (Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen)
• Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan (A Room With a View by E.M. Forster)
• The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle (The Horror of Red Hook by H.P. Lovecraft)
• The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells)
• The Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee (The Scarlet Letter by Nataniel Hawthorne and the Ramayana by Valmiki)
• Mama Day by Gloria Naylor (The Tempest by William Shakespeare)
• Even in Paradise by Elizabeth Nunez (King Lear by William Shakespeare)
• The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh (The Tale of Shim Ch’ŏng)
• Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel (The Ramayana by Valmiki)
• The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall (Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell)
• My Jim by Nancy Rawles (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain)
• Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson (Wee’git stories)
• Unforgivable Love by Sophfronia Scott (Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos)
• The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo (The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
• Prince of Cats by Ron Wimberly (Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare)
• Sansei and Sensibility by Karen Tei Yamashita (Various works by Jane Austen)
• Pride by Ibi Zoboi (Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen)