- Margaret Atwood – The Penelopiad (The Odyssey from the point of view of Penelope, Odysseus’s wife)
- Marion Zimmer Bradley – The Mists of Avalon) (Arthurian legends from the point of view of the women in his life, especially Morgan le Fey) also, The Firebrand (the fall of Troy from Cassandra’s point of view)
- Peter Carey – Jack Maggs – (Great Expectations from the point of view of Magwitch)
- Jon Clinch – Finn (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from his father’s point of view)
- C. S. Lewis – Till We Have Faces (the Cupid and Psyche myth told by Psyche’s sister Orual)
- Gregory Maguire – Wicked (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the Wicked Witch of the West’s viewpoint)
- Valerie Martin - Mary Reilly (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde from his housemaid’s view)
- Sena Jeter Naslund – Ahab’s Wife (Moby Dick by Captain Ahab’s wife)
- Alice Randall – The Wind Done Gone (Gone With The Wind told by Scarlett’s half-sister Cynara, a slave)
- Michel Tournier – Friday (Robinson Crusoe from Friday’s perspective)
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