2024 Prioritize Your Shelf Challenge - hosted by wanderonwards

An adaptation, a new edition, a re-release, or a special edition.
What book(s) did a fantastic job of adapting the original work for a new (and sometimes, vastly different) audience? For example, Young Reader’s editions, graphic novel adaptations, 10-year anniversary editions, a new take on a story now out of copyright, or a special edition.

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The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians) by Rick Riordan

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians)

Percy Jackson and the Olympians #1

Rick Riordan

10 hours, 2 minutes • first pub 2005 (editions)

fiction fantasy middle grade adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt

784 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary mystery dark emotional reflective slow-paced
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski

709 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

fiction horror literary mystery thriller challenging dark mysterious slow-paced
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

112 pages • first pub 1937 (editions)

fiction classics literary dark emotional sad medium-paced
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

352 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical lgbtqia+ literary romance adventurous emotional sad medium-paced
Circe by Madeline Miller

Circe

Madeline Miller

333 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical literary adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced
Emma of 83rd Street by Emily Harding, Audrey Bellezza

Emma of 83rd Street

For the Love of Austen #1

Emily Harding, Audrey Bellezza

384 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction contemporary romance funny lighthearted medium-paced
Emma: 200th-Anniversary Annotated Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Jane Austen

Emma: 200th-Anniversary Annotated Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Jane Austen

459 pages • first pub 1815 (editions)

fiction classics literary romance funny lighthearted slow-paced
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