Here’s the current Big Fat List of Voynich-related novels: I’ve appended links to the most significant review / blog mentions I’ve made about them. If there’s anything missing, please drop me a line & I’ll try to update the list as appropriate. I’m gradually working my way through them all, but it’ll take a fair while to read the lot…
Voynich novels in print (in English):
(1969) Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Colin Wilson [mentioned here]
(1969) The Philosopher’s Stone Colin Wilson [my review]
(1969) The Face in the Frost John Anthony Bellairs [mentioned here]
(1994) Indiana Jones and the Philosopher’s Stone Max McCoy [my review]
(1999) The Grinning Ghost Brad Strickland [mentioned here]
(2000) Deliver Us From Evil Tom Holland [mentioned here]
(2001) Enoch’s Portal A.W.Hill [my review]
(2004) Popco Scarlett Thomas [my review]
(2004) The Magician’s Death Paul C. Doherty [mentioned here]
(2005) Codex Lev Grossman [my review]
(2005) Olympos Dan Simmons [mentioned here]
(2007) Vellum Matt Rubinstein [my review]
(2008) The Source Michael Cordy [my review]
(2008) The Charlemagne Pursuit Steve Berry [my review]
(2008) The Voynich Project: Nephilim Rising James K. Rollins [my review]
(2008) In Tongues of the Dead Brad Kelln [my review]
(2008) The Voynich Enigma Baz Cunningham [my review]
(2009) The Book of God and Physics: A Novel of the Voynich Mystery Enrique Joven [my review]
(2009) Mappamundi Christopher Harris [my review]
(2010) The Radix Brett King [my review]
(2010) “That’s Life, Samara Brooks” Daniel Ehrenhaft
(2011) “The Cadence of Gypsies” Barbara Casey [mentioned here]
(2011) “In a Celandine World” – Catherine Thorpe
(2012) “The Book of Blood & Shadow” – Robin Wasserman
(2012) “Vaults of Power” – Diane Echer
(2012) “The Voynich Cypher” – Russell Blake
Voynich novels in development (working titles where known):
Bill Walsh [mentioned here]
William Michael Campbell (”The Voynich Solution”) [mentioned here and here]
Andrea Peters (”I’m Sorry… Love Anne”) [mentioned here]
Voynich experimental fiction:
(2006) Voynich, a cyber-noir screenplay (parts 1, 2 , and 3) Matthew Thomas Farrell [briefly reviewed here]
(200x) The Voynich Enslavement Hank Snow [reviewed here]
Voynich short stories:
(2009) The Voynich Fugue Nick Pelling
(2009) Generic Historical Cipher Mystery (short version) Nick Pelling
(2009) The Voynich Christ Nick Pelling
(2009) u r so qokedy daiin, m8, lol Nick Pelling
(2009) The Fake Factory Nick Pelling
(2009-2011) The Voynich Translation (Chapter 1) (Chapter 2) (Chapter 3) (Chapter 4) (Chapter 5) Nick Pelling
(2010) The Final Blow Nick Pelling
(2010) “The Voynich Code” movie Nick Pelling
(2010) Square #1 & Wife #8 Nick Pelling
(2010) Go Oilers Nick Pelling
(2010) A Beautiful Infinity Nick Pelling
(2010) So Goddamn Voynich Nick Pelling
(2010) The Voynich Tattoo Nick Pelling
(2011) The Voynich Variations Edoardo Albert
(2011) FS: cursed cipher manuscript, slightly singed… Nick Pelling
Non-English-language Voynich novels:
(2001) Datura tai harha jonka jokainen näkee Leena Krohn (published in German as “Stechapfel”) [mentioned here]
(200x) L’intrigue de Il Romanzo Di Nostradamus Valerio Evangelisti [mentioned here]
(2005) Das Voynich-Rätsel : Thriller Florian F. Marzin
(2007) LA PIEDRA FILOSOFAL Iñaki Uriarte [mentioned here]
(2007) Manuscrit MS 408 Thierry Maugenest
(2007) El Quinto Mandamiento Eric Frattini [mentioned here]
(2007) L’UOMO NELLA LUCE Walter Martinelli [mentioned here]
(2008) El castillo de las estrellas Enrique Joven [mentioned here]
(2008) El libro maldito de los templarios Francisco Díaz Valladares [mentioned here]
(2008) Das Voynich Manuskript. Mystikthriller [Ungekürzte Ausgabe] (Broschiert) Panagiotis Konidaris ; übers. von Maria Sabbas-Scouras
(2012) I Custodi Della Pergamena Proibita (The Keeper of the Forbidden Parchment) – Aldo Gritti
(2012) Voynich: Il Segreto Del Barabba (il più grande segreto su Gesù) – Barbara Cesa
Thank you, Nick. cheers, e
Ernesto: the Indiana Jones novel is the one to go for!
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thank you for this list. Having gone through all of your reviews, I’m unsure whether there is a VM novel you would recommend, not only in terms of faith to the history of the manuscript, but in terms of literary quality. If I were to read one book on the list, which would you recommend?
thanks, e