Babel Tower by A. S. Byatt: “'The story also has all sorts of echoes (unintentional, I imagine) of The Wizard of Oz.'”
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion: “It turns out she is tied up with rehearsals for her junior-high-school play, The Wizard of Oz.”
The Princess Bride by William Goldman: “Morgenstern's Florinese version came before Baum wrote The Wizard of Oz, so in spite of the fact that he was the originator, he comes out just the other way around.”
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara: “a third-grade book report, written in Willem's careful cursive, on The Wizard of Oz”
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari: “This is what the Tin Man does in The Wizard of Oz. He walks along the yellow brick road with Dorothy and her friends, hoping that when they get to Oz, the great wizard will give him a heart”