City of Gold and Other Stories from the Old Testament – Peter Dickinson, 1980 – Interesting re-tellings in various forms.
Two Little Pilgrim’s Progress: A Story of the City Beautiful – Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1895 – A new-to-me Burnett (she’s one of the authors I’m completist about), set at the World’s Columbian Exhibition in Chicago (the “White City” of Devil in the White City and of a huge contemporaneous tattered photo book I used to own but can’t identify right now). Not great but it did re-awaken my time travel desire to experience it myself.
The Pilgrim’s Regress – C.S. Lewis, 1933 – If I had read this before I don’t remember it. I found it very annoying initially, featuring the most insufferable aspects of Lewis (sexuality as “brown girls”), but it had some interesting aspects later on.
The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan, 1989 – re-read for Great Books but I couldn’t be there (midterm)! I liked it fine but didn’t mark any passages.
Captains Courageous – Rudyard Kipling, 1897 – Multiple multiple re-read, one of my all-time favorites. I think Moby-Dick triggered my desire to go back to it, even though “CC in space” would be a great plot; why doesn’t it exist?