Book Title Game

[Pendragon]

Off the Mangrove Coast~~Louis L'Amour

[mono]

The Jump-Off Creek - Molly Gloss

[Shalot]

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Annie Dillard

(I tried reading this and couldn't do it:yawnb: --- it's supposed to be really good. Maybe I'll try it again)

[Schokokeks]

The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan

[subterranean]

The Pilgrim's Regress By C.S. Lewis

[Schokokeks]

Pilgrim Heart - Sara York

[Shakira]

Pilgrim's Progress - Bunyan.

[Whifflingpin]

The Secret Pilgrim - John Le Carre

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[Shalot]

The Secret Garden
By Frances Hodgson Burnett

[subterranean]

The Secret Agent By W. Somerset Maugham

[Shalot]

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt

[subterranean]

Midnight Express By Billy Hayes and William Hoffer

[Shalot]

Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie

[subterranean]

The Murder Book By Jonathan Kellerman

[mono]

The Murders In The Rue Morgue - Edgar Allan Poe

[Pendragon]

The Freak Show Murders Walter Gibson, writing as Maxwell Grant for The Shadow Magazine

[Shalot]

The Dollhouse Murders --- Betty Ren Wright

[subterranean]

Murder Book By Richard Rayner

[Whifflingpin]

Lost in a Good Book - Jasper FForde

[Pendragon]

Paradise Lost--John Milton

[Shalot]

This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald

[Schokokeks]

Paradise Regained - John Milton

[Pendragon]

The Paradise Snare--AC Crispin. Part of The Han Solo Trilogy Star Wars Novels

[optimisticnad]

Snare of serpents -Victoria Holt

[Whifflingpin]

A Nest of Serpents Discovered, Or, A knot of Old Heretiques revived, Called the Adamites.Wherein their orginall, increase, and severall ridiculous tenets are plainly layd open - Anon

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[tainaprincess]

1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies

[Schokokeks]

America - Franz Kafka

[subterranean]

Made in America by Bill Bryson

[Shalot]

Digging to America - Anne Tyler

[Pendragon]

Walk Across America--Peter Jenkins (Actually, a fairly good read!)

[Whifflingpin]

As I walked out one midsummer morning - Laurie Lee

[TEND]

A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare

[kat466]

I am wondering if we can play the Song Title Game with book titles and authors. We will post a book title which contains a word from the previous post. If -and only if- we cannot think of a book title containing word, another work by the same author (so this will be our wild card in a way :) ).

I will get the ball rolling with the book we are reading now:

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce


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A Portrait of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde

[tainaprincess]

The Portrait by Iain Pears

[Pendragon]

The Portrait of a Lady--Henry James

Am I mistaken, or did someone restart the game? :goof:

[tainaprincess]

Counterfeit Lady by Jude Deveraux

I think the game was restarted

[Whifflingpin]

The Lady for Ransom - Alfred Duggan

true, but it had gone round in a few circles anyway.

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[tainaprincess]

Random Winds by Belva Plain

[subterranean]

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell

[Pendragon]

At the Back of the North Wind--George McDonald

[Whifflingpin]

Fair stood the wind for France - H E Bates?

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[subterranean]

Vanity Fair By William Thackerey

[Pendragon]

The Beckoning Fair One--Oliver Onions (Quite an outré ghost story!)

[subterranean]

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest By Ken Kesey.

[Shalot]

For One More Day - Mitch Albom

[Whifflingpin]

One Virgin too many - Lindsey Davis

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[Pendragon]

Too Many Suspects-- John Rhode

[tainaprincess]

The SILENT SUSPECT NANCY DREW #95 by Carolyn Keene

[Pendragon]

The Silent Seven Maxwell Grant (Walter Gibson) [A Shadow Magazine mystery]

[tainaprincess]

The Seven Songs of Merlin - TA Barron

[subterranean]

The Nightingale's Song By Robert Timberg

[Pendragon]

Swan's Song---Ruwaida Van Doorsen (Poetry for the melancholy)

[subterranean]

Swan Song By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

[Pendragon]

The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White

[subterranean]

The Trumpet Major By Thomas Hardy (:))

[Pendragon]

Major Vices (A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery) by Mary Daheim

[Whifflingpin]

The Phantom Major - Virginia Cowles

[subterranean]

The Phantom of the Opera By Gaston Leroux

[Pendragon]

Phantom of Manhattan by Frederick Forsyth

[Themis]

First We Take Manhattan - Joe Cocker

[cruciverbalist]

First Love - Ivan Turgenev

[vheissu]

Love in the time of cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[subterranean]

Love By Toni Morrrison

[Shalot]

The Four Loves - C.S. Lewis

[subgenre]

Rule of Four by Ian Cadwell

[Shalot]

:sick: The Rules: Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Scheider :sick:

(BTW: I like your avatar subgenre -- welcome to Litnet!)

[subgenre]

Test of the Twins - Margaret Weiss (Test is fine; test, tested. It's all a mtter of tense)

(BTW: Thanks shalot)

[subterranean]

The Twins at St. Clare's By Enid Blyton

[subgenre]

War of the Twins - Weiss & HIckman

[TEND]

War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells

[Schokokeks]

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

[Pendragon]

The Illearth War Volume II of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson

[cruciverbalist]

The Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis

[Shalot]

The Maritian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury

[subterranean]

The Chronicles of Narnia By C.S. Lewis

[tainaprincess]

A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket

[Pendragon]

The Unfortunate Mr. Pollard by Jonathan Blade (Wow! I shamelessly guild the lily here, but it was published on John Olson's The Shadow Magazine In Review website, where my 29th story will go up on Friday.):blush:

[subterranean]

The Unfortunate Mr. Pollard by Jonathan Blade (Wow! I shamelessly guild the lily here, but it was published on John Olson's The Shadow Magazine In Review website, where my 29th story will go up on Friday.):blush:

Awesome, Pen!


The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works By Thomas Nashe

[Tinita09]

The Giver by Lois Lowry

[subterranean]

Bread Givers: A Novel By Alice Kessler-Harris and Anzia Yezierska

[Shalot]

Bread Alone: A Novel - Judith R. Hendricks

[Pendragon]

Alone in the Dark - Elaine Coffman

[tainaprincess]

Alone At Night (St. Martin's Minotaur Mysteries) by K. J. Erickson

[Tinita09]

Night: Elie Wiesel

[Shalot]

The Arabian Nights - Husain Haddawy and Muhsin Mahdi

[Whifflingpin]

Island Nights' Entertainments - RLS

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[Birdy123]

Treasure Island-Robert Louis Stevenson

[Pendragon]

The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells

[Whifflingpin]

Islands in the Stream - Hemingway

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[zephirius]

The wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

[Whifflingpin]

A High Wind in Jamaica - Richard Hughes

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[Pendragon]

The Changing Wind - Don Coldsmith, Trail of the Spanish Bit Series

[Hyacinth Girl]

Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell

[Pendragon]

The Man With the Golden Gun Ian Fleming, a James Bond Novel

[Hyacinth Girl]

The Golden Bowl - Henry James

[Pendragon]

The Golden Bough - Sir James George Frazer

[Shalot]

Golden Dawn - by Israel Regardie

[tainaprincess]

Dawn of the Dead by George A. Romero and Susanna

[Whifflingpin]

Dawn - Henry Rider Haggard.

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[B-Mental]

The Gates of Dawn - Robert Newcomb

[Pendragon]

Hell's Gate (Multiverse, Book 1) - David Weber and Linda Evans

[Whifflingpin]

The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows - Kipling

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[toni]

The Picture of Dorian Gray ~ Oscar Wilde

[vheissu]

Of mice and men - John Steinbeck

[Pendragon]

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward - H. P. Lovecraft :)

[camel lights]

Return of the Warriors by Theun Mares

[toni]

Return Of The Native ~ Thomas Hardy

[Pendragon]

The Return - William Shatner (as you might guess, a Star Trek (TM) Novel!) ;)

[Whifflingpin]

The Happy Return - C.S. Forester


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[toni]

The Happy Prince ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

( Im not sure of the author)

[Pendragon]

The Happy Prince - Oscar Wilde (One of his fairy stories, all of which are excellent!) :D :)

[vheissu]

The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupery

[toni]

The Happy Prince - Oscar Wilde (One of his fairy stories, all of which are excellent!) :D :)

Oh yeah! Thanks, Uncle Pen! :D

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark ~ William Shakespeare

[penelopea]

My body as an Investment by Princess Pignatelli

[ghideon]

Living My Life by Emma Goldman

[Whifflingpin]

My Life as a Dog ('Mitt Liv som Hund' ) - Reidar Jönsson

[ennison]

'Lad, A Dog' by A.P. Terhune

A tear jerker for children.

[vheissu]

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon

[Aurora Ariel]

The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog - Dylan Thomas

[TEND]

Portrait of the artist as an old man - Joseph Heller

[Pendragon]

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

[toni]

Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire ~ J.K. Rowlimg

[Laindessiel]

A Series of Unfortunate Events - C.S. Lewis

[toni]

The Mask Of Red Death ~ Edgar Allan Poe

[Pendragon]

Death of a Doxy by Rex Stout [A Nero Wolfe Adventure]:D

[toni]

Spirits of the Dead ~ Edgar Allan Poe :)

[vheissu]

The house of the spirits by Isabella Allende

[Whifflingpin]

House of the Four Winds - John Buchan

[TEND]

The Fall of the House of Usher - E.A. Poe

[Schokokeks]

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

[aeroport]

Bleak House - Dickens

[Pendragon]

The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne

[toni]

Anne of Green Gables ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery

[TEND]

Green Hills of Africa - Ernest Hemingway

[toni]

The Green Mile ~ Stephen King

[AmericanEagle]

For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway

[toni]

Measure For Measure ~ William Shakespeare

[TEND]

For Us, The Living - Robert Heinlein

[toni]

The Mayor of Casterbridge ~ Thomas Hardy

[vheissu]

The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles

[ennison]

Two Women - A Moravia

[ennison]

Is It Only Me Or Are We Breaking The Rules Rather A Lot?

[toni]

THe Two Gentlemen Of Verona ~ William Shakespeare

___
Breaking rules?:)

[camel lights]

Breaking rules?

Sure ,why not..we are alive:crash:

edit: oh well.."Zen in der Kunst des Bogenschiessens"- Otto Wilhelm Barth Verlag......

[toni]

What? :nod: How am I supposed to follow that book? :confused:
Is that part of breaking the rules? aack! We might get banned on this thread! :eek2:

Oh well... I just know one German book.. :lol:

Das Parfum ~ Tom Twyker

[camel lights]

you broke the rules ,you broke the rules..lol

well translated its Zen and the art of archery most probably;)

[toni]

[QUOTE=camel lights;286129]you broke the rules ,you broke the rules..lol

QUOTE]

*screams while hands in the air*
Aaarrghhh! I don't wanna break the rules..:bawling: *whimpers*

Das Parfum in English is "The Perume" So let's take it from there..:D :) :p ;) :yawnb: :lol:

[ennison]

I cant think of any with perfume in it but of course 'The' is easy so I'll cheat (just a little)

'Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintainance' by R Pirsig.

I bought it thinking it was about motorcycles. I was young then, Even younger than I am today.

[Laindessiel]

Younger than you are today? Hahaha!!

The Art of Dreaming - Carlos Castaneda

[Schokokeks]

If I were a Work of Art by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

[Pendragon]

If Rudyard Kipling

[Whifflingpin]

"Chateau d'If" - Jack Vance

[ennison]

'The House With the Green Shutters' George D Brown

Dash it - cheating again! Seems I'll stoop to anything. But 'Chateau d'If''!! 'Gadzooks!' as another member would say -- or claims he'd say

[Whifflingpin]

The rules do allow for another book by the same author, so a different Jack Vance book would have done.

"The House of Sixty Fathers" - Meindert DeJong

[tainaprincess]

Little House on the Prairie ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

[Schokokeks]

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

[Whifflingpin]

"Ten Little Niggers" - Agathe Christie

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[Pendragon]

Little Red Riding Hood ~ Brothers Grimm

[Schokokeks]

Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens

[Whifflingpin]

Eric, or Little by Little - Farrar

[TEND]

Stuart Little - E.B. White
p.s. Has anyone heard of the new Charlotte's Web movie coming out? Boy was I surprised when I heard.

[SummerSolstice]

A Little Princess - Francis Hodgson Burnett

Yes! And Dakota Fanning looks perfect for the part. Have you seen any of the displays in bookstores, with the movie poster next to books with the original illustration? Wow! It makes me feel all warm inside when I see posters like that. It says, "We do realize there is also a book by this name. We like it very much, and that is why we are making this movie."

[TEND]

A Little Princess - Francis Hodgson Burnett

Yes! And Dakota Fanning looks perfect for the part. Have you seen any of the displays in bookstores, with the movie poster next to books with the original illustration? Wow! It makes me feel all warm inside when I see posters like that. It says, "We do realize there is also a book by this name. We like it very much, and that is why we are making this movie."

I had no idea it was live-action! I had only seen the poster and on the radio (it was a country station) it was talking about Reba McEntire being one of the voices so I just assumed it was animated. Very interesting, I'd very much like to see it I've begun forgetting some of the details of the story, glad to see Steve Buscemi voicing Templeton :D .

[SummerSolstice]

REBA?!!?

Squeeee! *wiggles fists by face, Wallace and Grommit style*

Now I GOTTA go see what she plays!

[aeroport]

The Princess Casamassima - Henry James

[Whifflingpin]

"The Heart of Princess Osra" - Anthony Hope

[Pendragon]

The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe

[Schokokeks]

The Heart of Mid-Lothian by Sir Walter Scott

[Whifflingpin]

Sick Heart River - John Buchan

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[TEND]

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

[Schokokeks]

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

[Niamh]

the lonely girl- edna o'brien :)

[subterranean]

Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier

[TEND]

The Pearl - John Steinbeck

[ennison]

Of Mice And Men - John Steinbeck

[Niamh]

The Kalahari Typing school for Men- Alexander MaCall Smith:)

[ennison]

No Country For Old Men - Cormac McCarthy

Just finished reading it. Highly recommend this author.

[Niamh]

Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker

Very good play and very enjoyable read.

[Whifflingpin]

"Pirates go to the Country" by Hiram P. Noodlewhacker - oh no, wrong forum, sorry.

"Green Dolphin Country" - Elizabeth Goudge

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[Niamh]

The green mile- stephen king

[Pendragon]

Green Globes of Death by Grant Stockbridge [A Spider Magazine Pulp]

[Niamh]

The Death of Kings (Emperor) by Conn Iggulden

[Pendragon]

Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther

[Niamh]

if there be thorns- Virginia Andrews

[TEND]

*edit* sorry made a mistake there

[Whifflingpin]

"The Thorn Birds" - Colleen McCullough

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[Pendragon]

Sherlock Holmes and The Golden Bird by Frank Thomas

[Schokokeks]

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

[tainaprincess]

The Notebook ~ Nicholas Sparks

[Whifflingpin]

"A Writer's Notebook" - Willie Maugham

[subterranean]

The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

[Whifflingpin]

"Kangaroo Notebook" - Kobo Abe

[Niamh]

Kangaroo- D.H.Lawrence

[Shalot]

The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo - Judy Blume & Irene Trivias

[aeroport]

The Middle Years - Henry James

[Whifflingpin]

Seven years in Tibet - Heinrich Harrer

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[Pendragon]

Terror Takes Seven by Kenneth Robeson [A Doc Savage Magazine Pulp]

[Niamh]

Seven Nights by Jorge Luis Borges

[THX-1138]

the curious incident of the dog in the night time by Mark Haddon

[vheissu]

Tender is the night by F.S. Fitzgerald

[aeroport]

Twelfth Night

[Schokokeks]

A Midsummer Night's Dream by Willy Shakespeare

[Niamh]

The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams

[Pendragon]

The Land of Always-Night by Kenneth Robeson [A Doc Savage Magazine Pulp]

[Whifflingpin]

Midnight is a place - Joan Aiken

[Niamh]

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

[vheissu]

Wise children by Angela Carter

[Niamh]

mother courage and her children- bertholt Brecht. love his plays

[Whifflingpin]

Children of the Mist - Henry Rider Haggard

[AmericanEagle]

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

[Whifflingpin]

"The Queen of Air and Darkness" - T H White

[Niamh]

Darkness at sethanon- raymond E.Fiest

[subterranean]

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

[Misscaroline]

The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker

[B-Mental]

Love Comes Softly - Janette Oke

[aeroport]

Killing Me Softly - Nicci French

[toni]

Killing is Murder - Michael Hawke

[B-Mental]

Killing Floor - Howling Wolf

[Pendragon]

A View to Kill by Ian Fleeming [A James Bond Story]

[AmericanEagle]

To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

[toni]

If Looks Could Kill - Kate White

[Pendragon]

Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe

[Whifflingpin]

Angel Pavement - J B Priestly

[subterranean]

Angel(s) and Demons - Dan Brown

[AmericanEagle]

The Stone Angel - Margaret Laurence

[Niamh]

Angels fire east- Terry Brooks

[Whifflingpin]

Fox fire - Joyce Carol Oates

[toni]

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling

[Pendragon]

The Spider and the Citidel of Hell by Grant Stockbridge [A Spider Magazine Pulp]

[vheissu]

...hoping that I'm not breaking any rules by changing from singular to plural...:D

The path to the nest of spiders by Italo Calvino

[Whifflingpin]

"The Path of the King" - John Buchan

[Pendragon]

The Once and Future King by T.H. White

[AmericanEagle]

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

[aeroport]

The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer

[Niamh]

Tales from the rearview mirror- Donal Ruane

[Whifflingpin]

"The King's Mirror" - Anthony Hope

[Niamh]

the kings buccaneer- raymond E Fiest

[Schokokeks]

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

[Schokokeks]

All the King's Men by Robert Warren Penn

[Niamh]

Of mice and men- john Stienbeck

[Schokokeks]

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

[Niamh]

three blind mice- i think its by James Paterson.

[toni]

The Three Musketeers - Alexander Dumas

[Pendragon]

Three Times a Corpse by Kenneth Robeson [A Doc Savage Magazine Pulp]

http://docsavage.org/pulp/4608.jpg

[Niamh]

hard times- dickens

[bouquin]

Life and Times of Michael K
by J.M. Coetzee (2003 Nobel Prize in Literature)

[Niamh]

life of pi- cant think of the author

[ennison]

jAN MARTEL

One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich
by A S
The text that destroyed my faith in any alternative to democracy and restored my faith in humanity.

[bouquin]

The Death of Ivan Ilyich
by Leo Tolstoy

[TEND]

Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller