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1. Board Game: A Game of Thrones [Average Rating:7.45 Overall Rank:108]
Shawn Bowers
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First book in the series
 
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2. Board Game: A Game of Thrones: A Clash of Kings Expansion [Average Rating:7.92 Unranked] [Average Rating:7.92 Unranked]
Shawn Bowers
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Expansion to the first game
Second book in the series
 
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3. Board Game: Dante's Inferno [Average Rating:4.81 Overall Rank:7607]
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Love women in action movies and shows. It all started with Diana Rigg, in the Avengers.
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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.
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4. Board Game: The Shining [Average Rating:6.90 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!
 
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5. Board Game: Thud [Average Rating:6.24 Overall Rank:2683]
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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.
 
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6. Board Game: Dragonriders of Pern: The Book Game [Average Rating:5.30 Overall Rank:6351]
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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...
 
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7. Board Game: Sanctuary [Average Rating:5.48 Overall Rank:6058]
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"There is one really important thing I must write which I have forgotten." (The final sentence in Henry Darger's Autobiograpy.)
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There was also the Thieve's World RPG based on the books as well...
 
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8. Board Game: Tales of the Arabian Nights [Average Rating:7.21 Overall Rank:603]
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"There is one really important thing I must write which I have forgotten." (The final sentence in Henry Darger's Autobiograpy.)
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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.
 
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9. Board Game: The Game of Tom Sawyer [Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]
Steffan O'Sullivan
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"There is one really important thing I must write which I have forgotten." (The final sentence in Henry Darger's Autobiograpy.)
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10. Board Game: Musketeers [Average Rating:5.36 Unranked]
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"There is one really important thing I must write which I have forgotten." (The final sentence in Henry Darger's Autobiograpy.)
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There have been numerous games based on The Three Musketeers. None of them match the book, though ...
 
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11. Board Game: Romance of the Three Kingdoms Card Game [Average Rating:4.65 Overall Rank:7017]
Steffan O'Sullivan
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Plymouth
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"There is one really important thing I must write which I have forgotten." (The final sentence in Henry Darger's Autobiograpy.)
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Based on a Chinese classic novel.
 
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The non-CCG version of this is quite nice
 
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12. Board Game: Gulliver’s Travel [Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]
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"There is one really important thing I must write which I have forgotten." (The final sentence in Henry Darger's Autobiograpy.)
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13. Board Game: Sophie's World [Average Rating:4.74 Overall Rank:7067]
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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.
 
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14. Board Game: Dune [Average Rating:7.63 Overall Rank:88]
Bob Carstensen
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Columbus
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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
 
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15. Board Game: Bible Mad Gab [Average Rating:5.50 Unranked]
Steffan O'Sullivan
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Plymouth
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I'll bet there are dozens of games based on the Bible.
 
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16. Board Game: Odyssey [Average Rating:5.42 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!
 
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17. Board Game: Starship Troopers [Average Rating:6.40 Overall Rank:1369]
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Before the movie version
 
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Fraser
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Yep that was 12 Power Grid maps back to back over two days. Worth doing, but possibly not in such a concentrated burst.
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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.
 
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18. Board Game: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone The Game [Average Rating:3.93 Unranked]
Hector Irizarry
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One of the Harry Potter Books, and a movie too.
 
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19. Board Game: Mystery Rummy: Murders in the Rue Morgue [Average Rating:6.79 Overall Rank:973]
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Edgar Allen Poe's story
 
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20. Board Game: Mystery Rummy: Jekyll & Hyde [Average Rating:6.67 Overall Rank:875]
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Robert Louis Stevenson's classic
 
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21. Board Game: Around the World in 80 Days [Average Rating:6.58 Overall Rank:764]
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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
 
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22. Board Game: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Game [Average Rating:5.27 Unranked]
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23. Board Game: Elric [Average Rating:5.50 Overall Rank:6333]
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Based on Michael Moorcock's Elric series.
 
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24. Board Game: The Bottle Imp [Average Rating:6.77 Overall Rank:571]
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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.
 
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25. Board Game: Hammer's Slammers [Average Rating:5.87 Overall Rank:5194]
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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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Steffan O'Sullivan
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"There is one really important thing I must write which I have forgotten." (The final sentence in Henry Darger's Autobiograpy.)
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There are the many LotR and Hobbit games - I won't list any.
 
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Dan Blum
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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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Back in the 60's when I had first read CHESSMEN OF MARS,I made myself a Barsoomian chess set. (The game rules were in the back of the book.) A lot like regular chess but different pieces with different movements. I lost all the pieces I made long ago, but with the new JOHN CARTER movie coming out, I was interested in digging out that old paperback and re-examining the rules. It brought back a lot of memories of the eleven John Carter books. Maybe if the movie does good and there are a few sequels, there'll be a CHESSMEN OF MARS movie and a commercial production of a Barsoomian chess set.

For the younger generation, the JOHN CARTER series was written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the same guy who wrote all the TARZAN books. 26 novels, I think, the first one being written back in 1912. His writing style is very contemporary. Easy to follow for today's reader. I'm sure there'll be a reprint to coincide with the movie.
 
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