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A possibly useful list for 'comps' in a book pitch?
https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/2959-twice-told-tales-192-top-retellings-that-readers-love
( Forty-three derivative novels )
Well, that was a depressing list to slog through. Apparently you need to take a source novel and rewrite it from a feminist/immigrant/queer/YA perspective (bonus points for hitting as many of the above of possible simultaneously). I could tell just from reading the blurbs, never mind the reviews, that I had absolutely no desire to read almost any of the titles mentioned, and presumably none of those authors/publishers/readers have any desire to read the sort of thing I write...
Most popular source novels: Frankenstein, Mrs Dalloway, The Count of Monte Cristo (surprisingly), and The Great Gatsby. Dracula, Little Women and The Brothers Karamazov also got two entries each.
https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/2959-twice-told-tales-192-top-retellings-that-readers-love
( Forty-three derivative novels )
Well, that was a depressing list to slog through. Apparently you need to take a source novel and rewrite it from a feminist/immigrant/queer/YA perspective (bonus points for hitting as many of the above of possible simultaneously). I could tell just from reading the blurbs, never mind the reviews, that I had absolutely no desire to read almost any of the titles mentioned, and presumably none of those authors/publishers/readers have any desire to read the sort of thing I write...
Most popular source novels: Frankenstein, Mrs Dalloway, The Count of Monte Cristo (surprisingly), and The Great Gatsby. Dracula, Little Women and The Brothers Karamazov also got two entries each.