Novels about human experimentation

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature from different body parts in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18 and staying in Bath, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821.

1886 novella by Robert Louis Stevenson

1897 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells

1925 novel by Mikhail Bulgakov

short story by Daniel Keyes, later expanded into a novel

novel by the Russian author Alexander Belyayev

1928 novel by Alexander Belyayev

1992 novel by Alasdair Gray

series of fantasy young adult novels by James Patterson

1957 novel by Shusaku Endo

2004 novel by Eoin Colfer

1942 novel by Curt Siodmak

short story by Maurice Renard

Borderliners is the English translation of De måske egnede, a novel written by Danish author Peter Høeg in 1993. It is about three children – Peter, Katarina, and August – who attend a private school in Copenhagen in the mid-1970s. It is not long before the children realise they are part of an experiment initiated by the school. The objective is to show how damaged children can be saved and made into citizens. The children choose to fight the experiment.