History BetterThanItSounds / LiteratureKToZ

* ''[[spoiler:[[Lietrature/{{Prostokvashino}} Uncle Fedya, His Dog, and His Cat]]]]'': A young boy runs away from home and lives with a bunch of animals. His parents stop worrying about him after he sends them a letter talking about how he molts and catches mice for fun.

* ''[[spoiler:Uncle Fedya, His Dog, and His Cat]]'': A young boy runs away from home and lives with a bunch of animals. His parents stop worrying about him after he sends them a letter talking about how he molts and catches mice for fun.

*** ''[[spoiler: Vector Prime]]'': A family vacation is interrupted by the outbreak of intergalactic war. A young man in a kilt rescues a DamselInDistress. The bad guys are defeated by elementary physics.
*** [[spoiler: Edge of Victory duology]]: The intergalactic war is put on hold while the invaders hunt down a bunch of children and failed monks. Two fourteen-year-olds get tortured, kill a bunch of people, exasperate their caretakers, and fall in love (not necessarily in that order).
*** ''[[spoiler: Star By Star]]'': The intergalactic war is back on. The warrior monks are supporting terrorists, causing many innocent deaths. A trusted ally gives up a number of children to be tortured and killed by the aliens. Meanwhile, [[AMillionIsAStatistic billions of people are summarily killed]].
*** ''[[spoiler: Traitor]]'': One of the children from the previous novel is still captured and is tortured some more. (They have [[OnceAnEpisode a thing for torture]].) [[ContemplateOurNavels Philosophical discussions of good and evil]] ensue.
*** [[spoiler: Enemy Lines duology]]: A military leader threatens his nation's civilian leaders to ensure more troops are put under his command, then launches into a conspiracy with his best friends and in-laws to operate under his government's nose. Meanwhile, the alien warmaster convinces his retired father to carry out some busywork.
*** ''[[spoiler: Destiny's Way]]'': The government is restructured. Much time is spent discussing political appointments and principles of responsible governance. Meanwhile, TheGreatOffscreenWar is raging. At the end of the novel, the heroes lie in order to ruthlessly exterminate tens of thousands of aliens.
*** [[spoiler: Force Heretic trilogy]]: Several senior members of the new government take extended vacations, [[BusmansHoliday only to find out the rest of the galaxy is in just as much trouble]].

* [[spoiler:''Literature/{{Twilight}}'']]: Ordinary girl moves to new town and ends up in a love triangle between a vampire and a werewolf.
** Alternatively, young girl simultaneously discovers her passion for necrophilia and bestiality.

** [[spoiler: ''Brightly Burning'']]: A pyro engages in InterspeciesRomance while stopping an enemy invasion. Later [[DoomedByCanon commits]] [[ItWasHisSled suicide]].
** [[spoiler: ''By The Sword'']]: Tough little girl does what she feels is right with the help of a picky [[EmpathicWeapon sword]] and is chased about by a song for the rest of her days. After leading a ragtag company of soldiers-for-hire, she does the right thing again - and ''then'' she gets kidnapped by a white horse. Meanwhile, it takes her and her true love ten years to get their act together.
** [[spoiler: ''Vows and Honor'']]: Girl is gangraped as her family is murdered, swears off men, and [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge insists on tracking down the perps]]. Said suicide mission gets less suicidal when another girl with a [[EmpathicWeapon sword]] butts in. They end up [[HeterosexualLifePartners buds]] [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl for]] [[LovelyAngels life]].
* ''[[spoiler: Literature/{{VALIS}}]]'': An obese man who loves horses is contacted by a Soviet alien who is actually God who is actually a mentally challenged being who is actually God.
** ''[[spoiler: The Divine Invasion]]'': A lonely man brings half of God back to Earth and falls in love with a singer.
** ''[[spoiler: The Transmigration of Timothy Archer]]'': A depressed girl spends her time at a self-help seminar ruminating over the loss of everyone she ever cared about. She cons the self-help guru out of a record and everything is alright.

*** ''[[spoiler:The Lost Hero]]'': A teenage AmnesiacHero rescues his step-mother from a crazy son of a bitch with two teens of color and a mechanical dragon, and reunites with his sister in the progress.
*** ''[[spoiler:The Son of Neptune]]'': [[AmnesiacHero Amnesiac]] young man from the previous series travels along the North American west coast and beats another son of a bitch with a statue. Meanwhile, two more teens of color beat another son of a bitch using international boundaries.

*** ''[[spoiler:The House of Hades]]'': Teen couple goes through hell in the most literal sense. Meanwhile, an ex-amnesiac learns to make choices, three teens of color get a power-up, the guy who's AloneAmongTheCouples falls in love with a woman thousands of years older than him, and a traumatized teen gets [[TraumaCongaLine traumatized even more]].
*** ''[[spoiler:The Blood of Olympus]]'': Seven teenagers try to stop their great-(great-)grandmother from waking up while two other teens and a goat man try to stop a civil war with the aforementioned statue.

*** ''[[spoiler:The Burning Maze]]'': Teen god tries to save everyone by [[HeroicSuicide killing himself]] and fails. Meanwhile, 12-year-old girl revisits her [[StealthPun roots]]. Alternately, a wannabe sun god kills our favorite white boy. [[WebVideo/DreamSMP It was pogchamp. And then I cried.]]

*** ''[[spoiler:The Tower of Nero]]'': Teen god and 12-year-old girl learn to stand up to their [[AbusiveParents abusive father figures]] and fight a snake while being accompanied by a traumatized ChildSoldier, a nerdy [[LightEmUp human nightlight]] and an art hoe.

* ''[[spoiler: Literature/PeterPan]]'': An emancipated minor gives anti-gravity powder to three children and takes them to a tropical island where the eldest becomes his babysitter.

* ''[[spoiler: Phantastes]]'': [[StalkerWithACrush A man stalks a woman all over Fairy Land,]] and encounters many strange and wonderful things that somehow end up teaching him [[ThePowerOfLove about true love.]] [[HopelessSuitor She falls in love with another man,]] though, [[TheHeroDies and he is killed by an evil cult.]] This is considered a happy ending.

* ''[[spoiler:Literature/TheKingkillerChronicles]]'': A red headed gypsy wizard becomes a famous hero/villain, and then tells his story to a biographer.

** Aliternatively #2: A family of hippos, their adopted coward son, a red haired dwarf woman, her homeless brother who the hippos’ son is in love with, and various other characters who look like humans but aren’t, experience natural disasters.

* [[spoiler: ''Literature/{{Misery}}'': A popular author is held at the mercy of a LoonyFan who disagrees with his plan to move on from his current franchise, literally getting him hooked on drugs to convince him to return.

* [[spoiler:''Literature/SherlockHolmes'']]: A misogynist addicted to smoking and cocaine lives together with an ex-army doctor with a mysteriously migrating injury. Together, they fight crime The BigBad is a math teacher.

* [[spoiler: ''Literature/{{Momo}}'']]: A worldwide organisation of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s with the potential ability to end civilisation in a matter of days are defeated in less than an hour by a homeless little girl and a supercentenarian who likes to talk to a tortoise.