RPS Asks: What Book Should Be A Game?

I'm reading KW Jeter's Infernal Devices at the moment, and it's got me longing for a new alt-history RPG overflowing with Steampunk detail, monstrous conspiracy, disturbing automata, weird lechery, and nightmare clockwork contraptions. It won't happen, of course, because life is unfair, but sometimes we have to look at 19th-century-styled etching and say: This, people, should be brought to life.

So come on folks. Book-to-Game suggestions, and go wild and unrealistic. We probably do need a Fear & Loathing simulator...