Some of the best stories are born when two minds collide. When writers come together to build worlds, characters and dialogue, something electric happens. Collaboration in fiction has always been a fascinating experiment—how two distinct voices can merge to create something larger than either could alone.
With the recent release of Remain by Nicholas Sparks and M. Night Shyamalan, we’re revisiting some of the most memorable works of co-authorship. These are books that prove that when storytelling becomes a shared act, the result can be thrilling, unpredictable and often unforgettable.
Remain by Nicholas Sparks and M Night Shyamalan
Tate is an architect in New York who spent time in a psychiatric ward. He heads to Cape Cod to try to start over after the death of his sister. Before his sister died, she claimed to be able to see spirits that cling to the living, but Tate didn't believe in such nonsense. While Tate is staying at an old bed and breakfast, he meets Wren, who makes him re-evaluate his beliefs. Describing itself as a ‘supernatural love story’, this is a one of a kind novel about grief, romance, and the paranormal.
The Talisman by Stephen King & Peter Straub
The Talisman is a brilliantly plotted novel, one that balances both horror and fantasy taking place in both our world and in an alternate-universe. In this world our hero, Jack, is on an epic journey to find the talisman, and save the worlds. King & Straub traverse multiple places in these two worlds with all paths leading to the ‘Black Hotel’. A place where there is an epic battle between goodness and darkness: moon and sun. After it starts to roll, it is a coaster ride of fantasy, horror, supernatural, post-apocalyptic mayhem.
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan
Although popular within YA circles, Will Grayson, Will Grayson also made its mark among adults. Narrated in alternating chapters by each Will Grayson, the story is funny, heartbreaking, hopeful and ultimately, amazingly memorable. It looks at relationships: romantic, platonic, familial, struggling to be happy, struggling with unhappiness, fear of rejection and breaking out of your shell, without ever being preachy.
The Relic by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Turning towards the mystery genre, we’ve got The Relic. Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human, but the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders. Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who-or what-is doing the killing.
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
Blue and Red, our protagonists, are two time traveling spies from rival factions in a time-war-ravaged world, who make contact and find love—and something that frightens them, too—across a void too profound to bridge with anything other than words. This Is How You Lose the Time War is a book of sustained beauty and lyricism that also works as a fractured mosaic of a novel, told in swift, brutal strokes.
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
A cult classic that gleefully redefines the apocalypse, Good Omens follows Aziraphale, an angel, and Crowley, a demon, who have grown rather fond of Earth, and each other. When they discover that the Antichrist has been misplaced, they reluctantly team up to prevent the end of the world. Brimming with wit, absurdity, and sharp social satire, Gaiman and Pratchett’s combined genius turns prophecy, faith, and fate into a riotous, deeply human comedy about good, evil, and everything in between.
Date 11-11-2025