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Percival Everett's James is a reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Huck's enslaved companion Jim. This kind of reconfiguration is a common source of inspiration for authors, as one can see in the following list of books that similarly provide new points of view on classic works of literature.
Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor (2022)
This novel is a retelling of The Great Gatsby that focuses primarily on the women from the original story: Daisy Buchanan, Gatsby's former flame; Jordan Baker, Daisy's best friend; and Catherine McCoy, a suffragette who appears only briefly in the original text. In an interview with The Avid Pen, Cantor explains that she was inspired to write the novel by the relative little space given to these characters by F. Scott Fitzgerald: "I've always wanted to know more about the women in The Great Gatsby. They're such a huge part of the plot, and yet they barely speak."
The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud...
