WATCH READ LISTEN is an annual community-wide initiative to encourage Waltham to experience a story together. Our goal is for the whole city to engage in conversation and programming designed to delve deeper into a story, start a dialogue, uncover new perspectives, and mostly, bring people together in an entertaining and enriching way. This year our story is Frankenstein.

Participate by Reading!

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  With introduction and notes by Karen Karbiener
  Reprint of Original and Uncensored 1818 Edition
  Mary Shelley’s Final Revision
  Annotated edition with annotations by Susan J. Wolfson and Ronald Levao
  Penguin edition with introduction by Elizabeth Kostova
  Bantam edition with introduction by Diane Johnson
  E-book loan from Library’s Subscription to Overdrive
  E-book download from Project Gutenberg
• Frankenstein in Other Languages
  Spanish/Español
  French/Français
• Frankenstein Graphic Novel
  Classics Illustrated Edition
  Gris Grimley’s Frankenstein
  Graphic Planet E-book from Overdrive
  Classics Illustrated Version from Overdrive
  Stone Arch Graphic Novel from Overdrive
• Adaptations
  Abridged by Deanna McFadden
  Adapted by Lloyd S. Wagner
  Board Book
  English Language Learners’ Edition
• Literary Criticism and Biography
  Frankenstein in Love: The Marriage of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley by Paul Brody
  Romantic Outlaws : The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
  The Lady and Her Monsters : A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley’s Masterpiece by Roseanne Montillo
  Frankenstein: A Cultural History by Susan Tyler Hitchcock
  The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley by Florence Marshall
  Remaking the Frankenstein Myth on Film by Caroline Joan S. Picart
  Mary Shelley, Frankenstein’s Creator: First Science Fiction Writer by Kane Nichols
• Spinoff Titles and Parodies
  Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist Series by Jim Benton
  Frank Einstein Series by Jon Sciezka
  Unlike Other Monsters by Audrey Vernick
  Frankencrayon by Michael Hall
  Have You Seen My Monster by Steve Light
  Mary Holds a Monster by Lisa Mullarkey
  Man Made Boy by Jon Skovron
  Frankenstein’s Dog by R.L. Stine
  Dr. Frankenstein’s Daughters by Suzanne Weyn
  Frankenstein Takes the Cake by Adam Rex
  Frankenstein: A Monstrous Parody by Nathan Hale
  Robot Zombie Frankenstein by Annette Simon
  Detective Frankenstein by Alaya Johnsohn
  Frank Was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance by Keith Graves
  Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein
  Outcasts: A Novel of Mary Shelley by Sarah Stegall
  Teen Frankenstein by Chandler Baker
  This Monstrous Thing by Mackenzi Lee
  Such Wicked Intent by Kenneth Oppel
  This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein by Kenneth Oppel
  The Last Man by Mary Shelley

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