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There's this great panel in one of the Sandman comic books by Neil Gaiman where the characters see a library of books that were never finished by their authors, except in their dreams. It's a fun picture because you can read the titles of books that never were. I've got a partial listing here:

Psmith and Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
Love Can Be Murder by Raymond Chandler
The Dark God's Darlings by Lord Dunsany
The Return of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
The Conscience of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur in Avalon by TH White
Chanticleer's Dance by Hope Mirrlees
The Emperor Over the Sea by C.S. Lewis
The Fall of Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake

So let's add to this library! I'll start with:

Those Who Trespass Against Us
by Flannery O'Connor
Novella where a dying elderly woman is betrayed or humiliated by her adult children, her husband, and everyone else in her life in various ways.

Where the Wild Things Were by Maurice Sendak
An adult Max wanders a polluted wasteland

This thread is similar to Books that were never written, except I think that this should be more author oriented. With what you know about an author's oeuvre, what would be a plausible book they thought about but never wrote down?
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