Prequels that never were.

[Roquefort Raider]

Before there was light, by God et al.

Dostoevski's Dmitri Karamazov, single child.

[Michael P]

Donald J. Sobol's Leroy Brown Gets His Library Card.

[Aaron Kashtan]

Living Souls by Nikolai Gogol
If on an Autumn Night a Person Staying at Home by Italo Calvino
An Essay Concerning Human Misunderstanding by John Locke
Meditations on Zeroth Philosophy by Rene Descartes
The Interpretation of Thoughts One Might Have Just Before Falling Asleep by Sigmund Freud
The House of the Six Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

[Roquefort Raider]

Dostoevsky's criminal intent

Beckett's Estragon and Vladimir, young investment bankers

Shakespeare's Claudius and Gertrude: stolen kisses

J. K. Rowling's Tom Riddle's first card trick

H. P. Lovecraft's Herbert West, animator

[Aaron Kashtan]

Shakespeare's Claudius and Gertrude: stolen kisses

As you may know already, John Updike wrote a novel called Gertrude and Claudius, though it was more of a retelling of Hamlet than a prequel to it.

[Roquefort Raider]

As you may know already, John Updike wrote a novel called Gertrude and Claudius, though it was more of a retelling of Hamlet than a prequel to it.

Gah!!! No, I didn't know. Let me replace it by the following:

Shakespeare's Rosenkrantz, Hamlet & Guildenstern: the wild and crazy years.

[OzBat!]

The Hobbit: 60 chapters in search of a story about getting ready for a birthday party.

[Adem]

Romeo and Puberty by William Shakespeare
Paul Bäumer and Albert Kropp’s Wacky School Adventure by Erich Maria Remarque
James Gatz by F. Scott Fitzgerald

[Roquefort Raider]

Charles Darwin's finches of the Galapagos.

Boccaccio's Nonameron

The Feel Good book, by the sane Arab Abdul Alhazred.

[Karl J Barnes]

Harry Potter,The Magical Embryo by J K Rowlings

[Donald M.]

John Grisham's The Flaccid

Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Painting

Laura Ingalls Wilder's Empty Lot on the Prarie

[Roquefort Raider]

Laura Ingalls Wilder's Empty Lot on the Prairie

Good thing I wasn't drinking coffee; I would have spat it through my nose!!! :D

[TheLazy]

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

I'm pretty sure I read that last night you know

Miilar and Hitch's The Penultimates.

I was thinking The Mediocres or Cannon Fodder personally;)

OP:

Tom Clancy's Wed Wabbit

Dante's The Divine Chuckle

Tolkien's The Lord of the Playpen

Bret Ellis' British Colonialist Psycho

Herman Melville's Ahab is a Dick

Frank Miller's 299

Homer's I've never left home in my life, I probably never will

Sun Tzu's The Art of Diplomacy

Michael Moore's Dude, where's my cookies

Dan Brown Di Vince and His Daemons

[scottv]

Peter Parker: The Weak Little Kid before the Spider

0 Leagues under the Sea

[Roquefort Raider]

Ray Bradbury's Farenheit 440. While a hot book, it didn't quite catch fire.

Stephenie Meyer's Afternoon made no impression on anyone. A classic case of a book happening too early.