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1. Board Game: A Game of Thrones [Average Rating:7.51 Overall Rank:72]
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 First book in the series
2. Board Game: A Game of Thrones : A Clash of Kings Expansion [Average Rating:8.01 Unranked] [Average Rating:8.01 Unranked]
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 Expansion to the first game
Second book in the series
3. Board Game: Dante's Inferno [Average Rating:4.82 Overall Rank:5810]
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I call this game "Settlers of Hell", but that's actually probably giving it too much credit.

And it is a great book - both of them.
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I agree with Brian. Great book . . . not a great (even good) game.
4. Board Game: The Shining [Average Rating:6.60 Unranked]
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 Based on Stephen King's "The Shining"
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And a really cool little microgame.
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Hey, thanks!
5. Board Game: Thud [Average Rating:6.23 Overall Rank:2235]
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 Based on the battle of Koom Valley in Tery Pratchett's Discworld series. Also the title of the next book in the series, which I am assuming will also deal with the battle.
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Too bad there aren't any other boardgames based on Terry Pratchett's books.
6. Board Game: Dragonriders of Pern: The Book Game [Average Rating:5.28 Unranked]
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 Based on Anne MacAffrey's series.
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Also the Mayfair Board game.. Neat in that it supports 2-7 player...
7. Board Game: Sanctuary [Average Rating:5.49 Overall Rank:4518]
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There was also the Thieve's World RPG based on the books as well...
8. Board Game: Tales of the Arabian Nights [Average Rating:7.38 Overall Rank:339]
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 Based on a classic!
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I actually read that this was thought to be MANY, MANY stories collected over time... Ali Baba, Sinbad, and many others were apart of this...
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Im sure many stories were added or even changed over time, but I bet there were a set that started with Sheharazade's tales.
9. Board Game: Tom Sawyer, The Game of [Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]
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10. Board Game: Musketeers [Average Rating:5.16 Unranked]
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 There have been numerous games based on The Three Musketeers. None of them match the book, though ...
11. Board Game: Romance of the Three Kingdoms Card Game [Average Rating:4.53 Overall Rank:5459]
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 Based on a Chinese classic novel.
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The non-CCG version of this is quite nice :)
12. Board Game: Gulliver’s Travel [Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]
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13. Board Game: Sophie's World [Average Rating:4.28 Unranked]
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 Saw this one at a local game shop but couldn't figure out how they'd made a game out of a philosophical novel.
14. Board Game: Dune [Average Rating:7.65 Overall Rank:64]
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Dune and its myriad serials...
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First that came to mind, for me!
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I also first thought of this when I saw the list :D
15. Board Game: Bible Mad Gab [Average Rating:5.00 Unranked]
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 I'll bet there are dozens of games based on the Bible.
16. Board Game: Odyssey [Average Rating:5.10 Unranked]
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 And probably over a dozen based on Homer's books. I think I'll stop now - there are WAY too many games based on books ...
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Not to mention all those Iliad-based games!
17. Board Game: Starship Troopers [Average Rating:6.37 Overall Rank:1110]
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Yes about two decades before the movie version :meeple:
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Don't you mean, "the movie of the same title"? Whoever wrote the screenplay stole Heinlein's title and lot of the characters, and then pasted it onto a crappy Vietnam plot.
18. Board Game: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone The Game [Average Rating:3.73 Unranked]
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One of the Harry Potter Books, and a movie too.
19. Board Game: Mystery Rummy: Murders in the Rue Morgue [Average Rating:6.82 Overall Rank:702]
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 Edgar Allen Poe's story
20. Board Game: Mystery Rummy: Jekyll & Hyde [Average Rating:6.70 Overall Rank:662]
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 Robert Louis Stevenson's classic
21. Board Game: Around the World in 80 Days [Average Rating:6.60 Overall Rank:607]
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One of Jules Verne's books, and also a movie.
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A few movies if Im not mistaken.
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There's even one by mexican comediant Cantinflas :D
22. Board Game: 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Game [Average Rating:5.46 Unranked]
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23. Board Game: Elric [Average Rating:5.51 Overall Rank:4744]
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 Based on Michael Moorcock's Elric series.
24. Board Game: Flaschenteufel [Average Rating:6.84 Overall Rank:425]
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 The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Thats a wonderful short story.
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It actually includes the story as well.
25. Board Game: Hammer's Slammers [Average Rating:5.80 Overall Rank:4050]
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 Based on the excellent "Hammer's Slammers" series by David Drake, my favorite author of realistic military sci-fi!
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There are the many LotR and Hobbit games - I won't list any.
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I just found this:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/catbrowse.php3?id=93

Now how do you shange games to be included in this category?
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Two items which would qualify if they were on the Geek:

Forest Wars of the Haven. This was published by Dave Casciano (Attack International), as I recall, and was based on fantasy novels by a Graham Diamond. The game is almost guaranteed to be wretched (and got a very bad review in The Space Gamer), no idea about the novels.

The Land. A self-published game by a chap named (I think) Kenneth Lusaszewski, based on Stephen Donaldson's Thomas Covenant books. The thought of this boggles me somewhat.
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The Land. A self-published game by a chap named (I think) Kenneth Lusaszewski, based on Stephen Donaldson's Thomas Covenant books. The thought of this boggles me somewhat.

Really? Interesting. I'd love to find out more about this.
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Do you only want games with direct Game-to-Novel links?

Or would, for example, any James Bond game be allowed: A game based on a movie series based on Ian Fleming's book series?
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