Prequels that never were.

[Roquefort Raider]

Brilliant stuff in there, people!


Let's try some more...


LaHaye and Jenkins' Still there.

Tom Clancy's Kind of yellowing September.

J. D. Salinger's The pitcher in the rye.

Shakespeare's As of right now, not yet much ado about nothing.

E. R. Burroughs' John Carter, gold digger.

[Sanagi]

Albert Camus, The Rise.
Milan Kundera, The Relative Tolerability of Not Yet Being
Robert Heinlein - Love Later, I'm Busy Right Now

Franz Kafka's The Rather Dull Life and Times of Gregor Samsa, Travelling Salesman, Prior to His Becoming a Large Insect

I'd buy that just to put it on my bookshelf.

[Lightbend]

John Milton- Paradise Exactly Where We Last Saw It

Warhammer 39k- Still Space Nazis.

[Reptisaurus!]

The Young Boy And The Wet Spot.

[Jonathan Bogart]

Dante's The Divine Warm-Up Act
G. K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Wednesday
James Hilton's Hello, Mr. Chips
Margaret Mitchell's Still There, Though a Low Front is Coming in from the North
T. S. Eliot's The Half-Full Men
Chaucer's The London Tales
Jules Verne's Just a Couple Feet Under the Sea, Then We Have to Come Back Up for Air
William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Some Tentpoles and a Coming Soon! Poster
Jack Kerouac's Dharma Respectable Citizens

[Expletive Deleted]

Umberto Eco's THE INITIALS OF THE ROSE

Edward Gibbon's THE APEX OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

Robert Graves' I, JULIUS

Charles Frazer's TEPID MOUNTAIN (which is, obviously, based on the Illiad)

Neal Stephenson's FREEZING RAIN COLLISION

Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's REASONABLY DECENT PORTENTS

[J. Robb]

Maurice Sendak's Where The Wild Things Will Be

[Sanagi]

Samuel Beckett - The Faulty Pocketwatch of Godot
H.G. Wells - The Time Machine, Patent Pending

[Jonathan Bogart]

Umberto Eco's THE INITIALS OF THE ROSE

I was trying to think of one for that. The Pseudonym of the Rose or The Nickname of the Rose was the best I could do, but I like yours better.

[J. Robb]

Here's a couple movie adaptions waiting to happen:

J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Paper Route - an uneventful year in the life of a dull ten year-old.

Irvine Welsh's Train Modelling - Young Renton and his friends get addicted... to model railroads!

[Roquefort Raider]

Henri Charriere's Caterpillar.

Jules Verne's From Baltimore to Florida.

Christopher Tolkien's J. R. R. Tolkien's early works: A is for ant, B is for bumblebee, C is for cookie.

Richard Bach's Jonathan Livinston, egg.

[AndyAnime]

Lunch In My Underwear By William S. Burroughs

Occasionally, But Not Often-Where By Neil Gaiman

In The Driveway By Jack Kerouac

[Shem the Penman]

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Rosalind

Erich Maria Remarque's Yo! Shaddup on the Western Front!

Ayn Rand's Atlas Got an Itch Between His Shoulder Blades

O. Henry's "Jimmy Valentine Thinks About Reforming"

Raymond Chandler's The Big Turkey Dinner with Warm Milk

Charles Dickens's A Guy Fawkes Day Carol

Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Half Past Eleven

Wade Davis's The Egg and the Rainy Day

[Lightbend]

Neil Gaiman's Albino Naked Guy In a Glass Jar

Yeah, comics, but whatever.

Terry Pratchett's Turtle with a few Baby Elephants series

[Aaron Kashtan]

Charles Dickens. Cheerful House
Leo Tolstoy. War and Additional War
Soren Kierkegaard. The Sickness Unto Having to Stay Home from Work
George Selden. The Larva in Times Square
Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Public Garden