Now I really want to reread Possession.

I meant in that it uses characters created by someone else.

Ah, gotcha!

I thought Death Comes to Pemberley and The Magicians were not very good. There's Perks of Being a Wallflower, heavily influenced by Catcher, but I think the writing in that is abysmal. I seem to be in the minority for really not getting why it's become such a teen classic. Let me ponder other possibilities...

ETA: I ADORE the Mary Russell books, though the first three were better than any of the rest.

The Jane Austen Book Club. You could probably do a whole salon on works that reference Austen heavily.

I feel like there are several that I just can't quite remember. This is going to drive me nuts.

Yeah, I just remembered the Mister Pip one seeing it in my notes and I remember loving the idea when I heard about it. I'm sure there are probably a bunch.

Oh, what about A Thousand Acres, a great book winning tons of awards and based on King Lear?

Found an interesting link: [link]

The Jane Austen Book Club.

Oooh, that's a great example (although I didn't like that particular book).

And I know one person in the salon who would probably love the Mary Russell books (which I've been meaning to try myself).

I love Atwood's Penelopiad, but that's in part because I've taught the original Odyssey so many times that I get all of her references and find them endlessly entertaining.

There's probably a whole other pile based on The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aenead. And retellings of Medea.

Found an interesting link: [link]

Thanks! Lots of good ideas there. Bridget Jones Diary is perhaps stretching it a bit, but a few of those seem exactly the type of thing I'm looking for.