Some backstory on the inspiration for today’s Fiction Friday–I was talking with a friend last week about e-readers, and she was explaining a problem with hers. I don’t pretend to understand exactly how it all works, but apparently she had downloaded books from one source, and now it was refusing to let her download another source’s books. This led me to comment that my paper books had never objected to sitting next to each other…which led us into a conversation about books elbowing each other off of the shelves…which led quite natrually to this comic I couldn’t resist drawing…
In the interest of full disclosure, perhaps I should confess that I did actually enjoy Twilight (in a WHY AM I ENJOYING THIS? kind of way) and Dracula has been sitting on my To Be Read pile for way too long…but quite apart from my own preferences, I can easily imagine the books engaging in hostilities! Do you have any books that would hate each other?
Tales of the Marvelous 
I have an awful lot of books on my shelves, and I think there are quite a few of them which might beat each other up a bit. Pride and Prejudice might destroy Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, for example, because it is not even a good derivative work.
Yes, I definitely think originals might attack bad derivatives… I can also imagine my many versions of Phantom of the Opera ganging up on the really atrocious Phantom of Manhattan (I convinced myself I was buying it because it’s a really funny read…it’s just not supposed to be!)
I can’t think of specific titles, but I would say books that would hate each other would be ones from opposite ends of the political spectrum (i.e. something written by Ann Coulter next to something written by Jon Stewart). I could see those “duking it out” between themselves as they jockey for position on a bookshelf.
Hmm, have to watch out for those political debates!