Vanna Goes Out of Business Part 7

Previous: 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami - avoid: Q

New Posting: 1984 by George Orwell OR

Avoid: Nineteen Eighty Four - avoid E

Re Previous: Q is not a vowel.

The rules have not been copied across, and the title not updated.

Rule 5 states that all entries must contain a vowel.

#1 is therefore not valid

We still need to play on

#392 by rolandperkins in previous thread:

Bellum Civile by Lucan

E

(Can anyone get the rules listed at the top, and the new title corrected, or does a new thread have to be created to to this?)

Nana by Émile Zola

Avoid A

2592. The Client, by John Grisham (read 4 Apr 1994)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: E

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

A

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
E

Playback by Raymond Chandler

A

790. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (read 8 Dec 1964)

I suppose this has been used--I will now look and if so I will remove it.

Avoid E

Aaron's Rod by D. H. Lawrence

Avoid A

The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman

I

Kangaroo by D. H. Lawrence
A

The Plumed Serpent by D. H. Lawrence

avoid E

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
by Alan Sillitoe
A

Life's Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy

I

Key to the Door
by Alan Sillitoe
E

Goldfish by Raymond Chandler

O

Fasti* by Ovid
A

*Has been translated by Roland F. Perkins
but the RFP translation isnʻt published yet

Julie of the Wolves by jean Craighead George

E

Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccan by Vincent Crapanzano

A

Figgie Hobbin by Charles Causley

I

In #17 the vowel to avoid was O, not E, Rolamd. In #19
you avoided O, so that solves that.

299. The Moonstone A Novel, by Wilke Collins (read 9 Dec 1946)

This was used in July, so I will substitute:

1531. Burr A Novel by Gore Vidal (read 7 Aug 1979)

Now the vowel to avoid is: U

On 16>17
In todayʻs numbering the vowel to
avoid in 17 is I (16 (Lifeʻs Little Ironies)
has I (4x), E (3x) and one O.

Playing on 23:
Forbidden: U

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fight in Heaven
by Sherman Alexie

>23: Should be Wilkie Collins, not Wilke Collins as posted
Also, #23 seems to imply that #18 might be by-passed.

Therefore from #25 (stealing it):

Goldfish by Raymond Chandler

O

I should have said E was to be the
forbidden letter for 26
(from the 5 E s of 25).
So, Goldfish is ok.

forbidden letter O

Playback
by Raymond Chandler

War and Peace -

Leo Tolstoy

Avoid: "A"

Thanks, jbbarret, for catching my misspelling of Collins' first name. I have corrected my list and it won't happen again.

1262. Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens (read 27 Jan 1974)

Vowel to avoid: I

After #17 the vowel to avoid was O, not E as indicated in #17. #18 did not avoid O

Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne collins

E

Boon Island by Kenneth Roberts
O

Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes

I

Ward 7 by Valeriy Tarsis

A

2358. If Morning Ever Comes by Anne Tyler (read 13 Feb 1991)

Vowel to avoid: E

Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan

I

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

Avoiding A

3194. The Field of Vision, by Wright Morris (read 10 May 1999) (National Book Award fiction prize 1957)

Vowel to avoid: I

Jewel by Beverly Jenkins

E

Skipping Christmas by John Grisham

I

At Jerusalem's Gate by Nikki Grimes

A

The Monk by Matthew "Monk" Lewis
E

Mississippi Morning by ruth Vander Zee

I

The Abbot by Walter Scott
E

Bad Girlz by Shannon Holmes

A

The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson

Avoiding E

4380. Pastoral, by Nevil Shute (read 10 Nov 2007)

Vowel to avoid: A

Finished Off by Rebecca Kent

I

Pendennis by William M. Thackeray
E

Irish Crystal by Andrew Greely

I

Barry Lyndon by William M. Thackeray
A

Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman

O

Vivid by Beverly Jenkins

I

Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck
E

Marly's Ghost by David Levithan

A

Why does no one Collect ME? by Robert Benchley
O

# 49 does not avoid I, but #51 does.

Avoiding O as requried by #56, but wondering if #56 is fiction:

3197. The Magic Barrel, by Bernard Malamud (read 17 May 1999) (National Book Award fiction prize for 1959)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: E

Astoria by Washington Irving
A

Sorry: yes, "Why does no one Collect ME?" (56>57) is
a classic (?) essay,
and is non-fiction -- about his experiences finding books by himself
on the old 10-cent or 25-cent tables that book stores used ot have.

3158. Women in Love, by D. H. Lawrence (read 13 Feb 1999)

Vowel to be avoided in a fictional title: O

I'm Telling by Karen E. Quinones Miller

I

Durable Goods by Elizabeth Berg

O

Frederick by Leo Lionni

E

Titus Andronicus* by William Shakespeare
(and others?)
I

*Possibly the worst of the plays attributed to Shakespeare; itis mainly fiction, with some historical input.

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

E

John Brownʻs Body by Stephen Vincent Benet
O

478. The Dead, by James Joyce (read 16 Apr 1956)

Vowel to be omitted: E

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

Omit: I

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror by Robert Louis Stevenson

Vowel to Omit in next fictional book: E

Zadig by Voltaire

A

Zotz! by Walter Karig
O

Nightbringer by James Byron Huggins

Omit: I

325. Gentleman's Agreement A Novel, by Laura Z. Hobson (read 26 Apr 1947)

Vowel to be omitted in next fictional title: E

Oh, Johnny! by Jim Lehrer

O

Shanghai Surprise by Tony Kenrick

A

*I know. It wasn't much of a movie. It isn't much of a book, either. I've tried a few times to read it, and had to give up.

Flower Girl Butterflies by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard

forbidden letter: E

Ajax / Aias by Sophocles
A (the forbidden letter whether based on
the Greek or the Latin> English title)

69. The Rover Boys in New York, by Arthur Winfield (read in fall of 1940)

Vowel to be avoided: E

I Am a Cat by Soseki Natsume

A

"Murder on the Lotus Pond" by Robert Van Gulik
O

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

E

Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes
A

Prisoner of Time by Caroline B. Cooney

I

My People by Caradoc Evans

E

Satin Doll by karen E. Quinones Miller

A

Love Story by Erich Segal
O

Tied Up in Tinsel by Ngaio Marsh

I

652. The Blackboard Jungle a novel by Evan Hunter (read 13 May 1961)

Omit: E

A Child is Born by Margaret Wise Brown

A

Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes

Seven Men Riding by Wallace Ford

E

Doctor Sax: Faust Part 3 by Jack Kerouac

#92 only is right if you ignore "3" which has two e's, but I will play on #92, ignorring A

3250. Postmortem, by Patricia Daniels Cornwell (read 5 Oct 1999)

Vowel to be ignored: O

The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen

E

" ʻ3ʻ has two eʻs . . .) (92>93)

Right, I cancelled the little-used subtitle. O remains the next forbidden letter. (I couldnʻt in fact find this in "Searchʻ, but it is
in "My Library" with the digit 3.)

89. Killykinick by Mary T. Waggaman (read 1941)

vowel to be avoided: I

Shadow of the Moon by M.M. Kaye

O

Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
I

The Dark Country by Dennis Etchison

E

Roughing it by Mark Twain
I

Eat Up, Gemma bySarah Hayes

E

63. Just David, by Eleanor H. Porter (read in 1940)

Vowel to avoid: U

This Side of Eternity by Rosalyn McMillan

I

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

O

2372. The Tin Can Tree, by Anne Tyler (read 24 Mar 1991)

Vowel to avoid: E

Full Tilt by Neal Shusterman

U

Da Kine Dictionary
by Lee Tonouchi
I

Leah by Symour Epstein

E

Roland, is #107 fiction??

542. Laughing Boy by Oliver LaFarge (read 27 May 1958) (Pulitzer fiction prize for 1930)

Vowel to omitted in a fictional title: A

Dying For Revenge by Eric Jerome Dickey

E

"Is 107 fiction?" (109)

I answered yesterday "No,, not intenionally, anyway", but I guess it didnʻt make it onto the screen. Sprry, I just again forgot the "Ficiton Only" rule.

Playing on 106: (Forbidden letter: U):

A World I never Made by James t. Farrell
E

546. Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller (read 24 June 1958) (Pulitzer fiction prize for 1934)

Vowel to be omitted in next posting: I

Blameless by Gail Carriger

e

South Riding by Winifred Holtby

I

The Cay by Theodore Taylor

E

I, Tom Horn
by Will Henry
O

On 117:
I thought I had made my perennial mistake, forgetting the "Fiction Only" rule.
But I see from the Llibrary catalog that
I, Tom Horn IS fiction, so I'm leaving the entry as it is.

I'm just as bad on the
"Articles DO count" rule.
At a glance at The Cay, my first thought was "How can THe Cay make E the forbidden letter?" It obviously has only one vowel: A.

2883. The Runaway Jury, by John Grisham (read 1 Jul 1996)

Vowel to be avoided: U

Roland, Tom Horn did not arouse my suspicion--though I never heard of the book or the author it looked like fiction to me

Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline winspear

I

"Tom Horn did not arouse my suspicion (as non-fiction)"
(119)

But it did arouse mine. Iʻve heard of it and not read it, and I
always assumed (for no reason) that it was biography. I have only our public llbrary catalogingʻs word for it that itʻs fiction. What is seemingly an AUTObiography appears on my screen now as a Touchstones item, so maybe I was right to suspect it.

2876. The Love Hunter A Novel by Jon Hassler (read 12 Jun 1996)

Vowel to avoid: E

A Child is Born by Margaret Wise Brown

I

The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton
by Thomas Merton
O

Twilight Sleep -

Edith Wharton

Avoid: i

Roland, I am wondering how you can say #124 is fiction, but I haven't read it so I can't be certain it isn't but I doubt it is.

2681. Burmese Days A novel by George Orwell (read 27 Nov 1994)

Vowel to avoid: E

Fairy by Janet Samuels

A

"how you can say Merton's Secular Journal (124) is fiction. . ."

You're right, I can't (even though I did)! I got hung up on the Fiction vs. Non-Fiction status of I, Tom Horn and forgot to limit my next entry to fiction.

3678. Schindler's List, by Thomas Keneally (read 12 Jan 2003) (Booker prize in 1982)

Vowel to be avoided in a fictional title: I

The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally

E

Holiday Fantasy by Adrianne Byrd
A

The Folk of the Fringe by Orson Scott Card

E

505. Aaron's Rod, by D. H. Lawrence (read 19 Dec 1956)

Vowel to avoid :A

If I've used this before I will edit to insert a different work of fiction

Crooked House by Agatha Christie

O

Junie B. ,First Grader: Shipwrecked by Barbara Parks

E

Good as Gold* by Joseph Heller
O

*A novel. One passage, written partly in Yiddish, ridicules Henry Kissinger who was a "bete noire" of the late Christopher Hitchens (R I P).

Magic City by Jewell Parker Rhodes

I

The Odd Women by George Gissing
E

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

O

Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey

A

The Lost Men by Benedict Thielen
E

My Antonia by Willa Cather

A

Cyclops by Euripides
O

4646. Murder at the Vicarage A Miss Marple Mystery, by Agatha Christie (read 29 Nov 2009)

I have read nine books by Agatha--this is the only title without an O.

Vowel to avoid: E

Natural Child by Calder Willingham
A

The Quincunx by Charles Palliser

U

Mostellaria* by Plautus
A

*rperkins played the role of Misargyrides the loan sharkʻs a gent
in this, paresented in Latin, in 1 951.

Superfudge by Judy Blume

U

Phormio by Terence
O

What I Meant... by Marie Lamda

A

532. The Primitive by Feike Feikema (read 29 Mar 1958)

Vowel to avoid: I

Havelok the Dane anonymous, medieval poem
E

350. A Handful of Dust, by Evelyn Waugh (read 30 Oct 1948)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: A

Inkspell by Cornelia Funke

I

(Merry Christmas!)

The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
E

Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

I

2068. Volcano A Novel by Shusaku Endo (read 25 May 1987)

Vowel to avoid: O

Cinderella by Walt Disney

E

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

A

Dope Sick by Walter Dean Myers

O

The Writing Class by Jincey Willett

I

Omoo by Herman Melville
O

4846. Quartet in Autumn, by Barbara Pym (read 6 Aug 2011)

I not only read it but I also heard it--I don't record the few books I hear

Vowel to be avoided in a fictional title: U

The Arabian Nights by Muhsin Mahdi

A

The Seven Chinese Brothers by Margaret Mmahy

E

Bangkok Haunts by John Burdett

A

Miss Suzy by Miriam Young

I

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

Avoid : "E"

Good Faith by Jane Smiley

avoiding O

656. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, by Sloan Wilson (read 3 June 1961)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: E

December Stillness by Mary Downing Hahn

E

173 is using, but forbidding, the letter forbidden in 172 ... E.

Silk and Shadows by Mary Jo Putney

A

(Assuming A is the forbidden letter at this point):

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
by ZZ Packer
E

sorry about #173.....

Lost and Found by Anne Schraff

O

4726. Wild Fire, by Nelson DeMille (read 12 Jul 2010)

Vowel to be avoided in a fictional title: I

176 - Don't worry about it. I make mistakes all the time.

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

A

Beloved by Toni Morrison

E

King John* by William Shakespeare
I

*8asically a dramatic fiction, though partly based on obscure historical sources. Its lack of historicity has been particularly noticed because of the fact that Shakespeare makes no mention of the most important event of Johnʻs reign: the Magna Charta that the nobles forced him to sign.

Fortunate Son by Walter Mosley

O

The Master Builder* by Henrik Ibsen

*drama, with completely fictional characters

Topaz by Beverly Jenkins

o

A Catskill Eagle by Robert B. Parker
A

Tuff by Paul Beatty

U

Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
O

True Grit by Charles Portis

U

838. The Assistant A novel, by Bernard Malamud (read 6 Feb 1966)

Vowel to be avoided: A

Schooling by Heather McGowan

O

496. The Quiet American, by Graham Greene (read 11 May 1956)

Vowel to avoid: E

Company Man by Joseph finder

Avoid: A

Photo Finish by Ngaio Marsh

O

The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht

E

Zorro by Isabel Allende

O

Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
A

Indigo by Beverly Jenkins

I

2671. The Needle's Eye A Novel by Margaret Drabble (read 29 Oct 1994)

Vowel to avoid: E

Mississippi Morning by Ruth Vander Zee

I

Massachusetts Beautiful
by Wallace Nutting
A

The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens

E

#199, Roland, does not avoid I so I am plying on #198, the last correct post:

1030. The Tower of Babel A Novel, by Morris L. West (read 19 Oct 1969)

Vowel to be avoided: E

Spy Story by Len Deighton

O

Miss Buncle by D.E. Stevenson

I

Darkness Before Dawn by Sharon M. Draper

E

Arrowmith by Sinclair Lewis
A

Blood Lure by Nevada Barr

O

A Walk on the Wild Side by Nelson Algren
A

#207 has the forbidden O

From 206

True at First Light by Ernest Hemingway

I

2992. The Source a novel by James A. Michener (read 2 Jul 1997)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title:

E

Bound By Moonlight by Angela Weaver

O

Wieland by Brockden Brown

I

Dragon Slayer by Joy Cowley

A

Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis
O

558. The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (read 18 Oct 1958) (Pulitzer fiction prize for 1950)

Vowel to avoid: E

Baptism in Blood by Jane Haddam

I

Lockdown by Walter Dean myers

O

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
E

Babbitt by Sinclaire Lewis

A

Eternal Fire by Calder Willingham
E

142. 54-40 or Fight, by Emerson Hough (read 23 Feb 1944)

Amazingly, even if you spelled out the numbers, E would not be there

Vowel to avoid: O

Wanted! by Caroline B. Cooney

A

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

O

Flyy Girl by Omar Tyree

I

Flush b y Virginia Woolf
U

Winner of the National Book Award: A Novel of Fame, Honor, and Really Bad Weather by Jincey Willett

A

Old Mother West Wind by Thomas W. Burgess

O

#219 failed to avoid A, but back on track at #222

Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope

A

Hey, jbbarret, #220 avoided A (albeit inadvertantly, I admit)

265. Sons, by Pearl S. Buck (read 25 June 1946)

Vowel to be avoided: O

// #228: Yes, quite right. Sorry I missed that (was only looking at intentional avoidance).

The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray

I

Sarum by Edward Rutherford

A

The House of Doctor Dee by Peter Ackroyd

E

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
O

Billiards at Half-Past Nine by Heinrich Boll

A

Donkey- Donkey by Roger Duvoisin

O

127. Assignment in Brittany, by Helen MacInnes (read __ ___ 1943)

Vowel to avoid: I

Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville

E

233. Quo Vadis? by H. Sienkiewicz (read 30 Jan 1946)

Vowel to avoid: U

Slob by Ellen Potter

O

Ben Hur; a tale of the Christ
by Lew Wallace*

*brother (?) of a rolandperkins ancestor

#239 includes the forbidden O in "of"

from #238

Shamela by Henry Fielding

A

Christy by Catherine Marshall

I

The Saddest Summer of Samuel S by J. P. Donleavy

E

Swimming With Swans byCarla Diane Ellis

I

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

A

Life Is Short but Wide by J. California Cooper

I

528. I Pomessi Sposi (The Betrothed) by Alessandro Manzoni (5 Dec 1957) (Book of the Year)

counting both titles, the vowel to avoid is E--I think that both titles were on the title page of the book I read, so I think one should count both

246 Schmerguls: Only the English title can be counted, since the letter to avoid was "I". However, I don't know if it was ever published in English, or if it needs to be to count.

> schmerguls...... the letter to be omitted is I

oops--you are right. Sorry.

Try this:

510. The Way of All Flesh, by Samuel Butler (read 19 May 1957)

Vowel to avoid: E

Mockingjay by suzanne Collins

O

Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
I

Dogsong by Gary Paulsen

Vanity Fair by William M. Thackeray
A

665. Other Voices, Other Rooms, by Truman Capote (read 26 July 1961)

Vowel to avoid: O

Maurice by E,. M. Forster
A

Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen

I

Paz en la Guerra
by Miguel de Unamuno
A

On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer

O

The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
E

Oh My Goth! by Voltaire

O

Melvil Dewey by Fremont Rider
E

Not A Good Look by Nikki Carter

O

Candide by Voltaire
A

Ice in the Bedroom by P. G. Wodehouse

E

Fright by William Irish (aka Cornell Woolrich)
I

Gold Bat by P. G. Wodehouse

O

The Wasps / Sphekes / Vespae
by Aristophanes
E --the forbidden letter, no matter which language ʻs title you choose.

4788. Tap Roots. by James Street (read 2 Jan 2011)

Vowel to void: O

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

I

Horse Under Water by Len Deighton

E

Himalayan Dhaba by Craig Joseph Danner

A

The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar

E

Billy Liar
by Keith Waterhouse
I

Sounder by William H. Armstrong

O

1081. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, by Willa Cather (read 21 Sep 1970)

NEXT: A

The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins
E

862. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? A Play, by Edward Albee (read 26 Jul 1966)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: A

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

O

Humphrey Clinker by Tobias Smollett
E

Ruby's Wish by Shirin Yim

U

The Arrogant History of White Ben
by Clemence Dane
E

Third Girl by Agahta Christie

I

825. The Fall A Novel, by Albert Camus translated by Justin O'Brien (read 19 Oct 1965)

Vowel to avoid: E

Going Buck Wild by Nina Foxx

I

The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd

O

LʻEtranger / The Stranger*
by Albert Camus

E (the next forbidden letter, whether going by the French or the English title)

*also translated as The Outsider

Sula by Toni Morrison

U

Black Athena: The Afro-Asiatic Roots of Classical Civilization
by Martin Bernal
A

Beowulf by Anonymous

E

Roland, #289 sure doesn't sound like fiction so I am avoiding both U and E:

137. Lost Horizon, by James Hilton (read 13 Jan 1944)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: O

I Am a Cat by Soseki Natsume

A

On 289, 291:

Right, I have to apologize again for forgetting the rule. (Though I suppose some of Bernalʻs opponents among my classical colleagues (Iʻm a supporter) would say Black Athena is a pretty good example of fiction.

forbidden letter A (292)

Pseudolus* by Plautus

*Roman comedy; fiction

Avoiding "U"

Almost Like Being in Love by Steve Kluger

I

Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold

A

3289. Word of Honor, by Nelson DeMille (read 29 Jan 2000)

One of his best, IMHO.

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: O

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

A

Ceremony in Lone Tree by Wright Morris
E

Bronxwood by Coe Booth

O

Ilias / The Iliad by Homer
I

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

E

Youth by Joseph Conrad
O

Bluish by Virginia Hamilton

U

Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith

I

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
O

#305 does not avoid U, but if it did the vowel to avoid would be O, not I. However, #306 avoids U, so I will play on #306, avoiding O:

3410. Deep and Crisp and Even, by Peter Turnbull (read 23 Feb 2001)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: E

Oops! Sorry!

Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene

A

Deenie by Judy Blume

E

174. Laura, by Vera Caspary (read 5 Feb 1945)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: A

Use Me Or Lose Me by Maryann Reid

E

92. Tom's Luck Pot by Mary T. Waggaman (read in 1941 or 1942)

Vowel to avoid: O

Liquid Dreams by Tiffany A. WOmble

I

2306. The Clowns of God A novel by Morris West (read 15 Jul 1990)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: O

Dying For Revenge by Eric Jerome Dickey

E

Flush: A Biography by Virginia Woolf

A

Clifford the Big Red Dog by Norman bridwell

I

Bon Bon Voyage by Nancy Fairbanks

O

Paradise by Toni Morrison

A

Huis Clos / No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
Forbidden letter: U
(From the French title, which has: u, i, o)

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

O

Forbidden letter from 321: O

Cancer Ward by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
A

Little Women by Loiusa May Alcott

E

Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol
A

Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy

E

Hadji Murad by Leo Tolstoy
A

It Chicks by Tia Williams

I

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
A

The Twits by Roald Dahl

E

Sanditon by Jane Austen
A

Expired by Evie Rhodes

E

On Hawaiian Folk Music
by Sammy Amalu
A

Genevieve by Eric Jerome Dickey

E

Lady Susan by Jane Austen

A

Jacqueline, #315 does not avoid O. However #319 does.

Roland, is #332 fiction? It does not sound like it, but I could not find a description for it, so I presume it is, though one seeking fiction might not think it was.

1942. The Tin Drum, by Gunter Grass translated from the German by Ralph Manheim (read 25 Jan 1970)

Vowel to be avoided in fictional title: E

On 332, 335

"Is 332 fiction?"

(apologetically. No.

(pedantically) It hasn/t even been "accused" of that. But its authorship (which I also got from LT!) has been relegated to "Anonymous" in other L T citations (!?)

Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio

I

Showcase Presents Doc Savage by Doug Moench
E

Blow Fly by Patricia Cornwell

O

The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
E

A Woman of Salt by Mary Potter Engel

A

309. Then There Were Three, by Geoffrey Homes (read 19 Feb 1947)

As is overwhelmingly apparent, the vowel to avoid is E

Push by Sapphire

U

Gil Blas de Santillana
by Rene Lesage
A

Bring on the Blessings by Beverly Jenkins

I

2499. Cathedral A Novel, by Nelson DeMille (read 13 Mar 1993)

Vowel to avoid: A

The Story of the Kind Wolf by P. Nickl

E

A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes

A

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

E

Mantrap by Sinclair Lewis
A

The River Between Us by Richard Peck

E

Catch that Pass! by Matt Christopher
A

Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve

E

A Room with Dark Mirrors by Velda Johnston
O

Liar by Justine Larbalestier

I

A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon

O

1434. Give Us This Day, by R. F. Delderfield (read 24 Feb 1977)

Vowel to avoid: I

The Eunuch / Eunuchus
by Terence
E

12 Brown Boys by Omar Tyree

E as in 12

"E as in 12" (362)
I guess you can say that "12" has no E. Nor does any other number, in that notation.
(Neither do 1, 3, 5, 8, 10, or 11), provided you donʻt
write them out in letters.)
So I deduce that the current forbidden letter is O.

Mardi by Herman Melville
A

85. The Short-Stop by Zane Grey (read in 1940 or 1941)

I think, Jacqueline, I agree with Roland in #363, although in other games we do look to the letters in numbers even when in the title the number is not spelled out...

Vowel to avoid: O

I will abide by the majority! :)

Eagle Strike by Anthony Horowitz

E

3023. Compulsion, by Meyer Levin (read 17 Oct 1997)

Undoubtedly a novel, even though reads like non-fiction.

Vowel to avoid: O

Thieves' Paradise by Eric Jerome Dickey

Avoiding "E"

Consumption by Kevin Patterson

O

Jubilee by Margaret Walker

E

Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

A

Regulus by Antoine de Saint Exupery
tr. from the French by Auguste Haury
U

Attack of Apollyon by Jerry B. Jenkins

A

Oliver Wiswell by Kenneth Roberts
I

No Cream Puffs by Karen Day

O

Paradise Regained by John Milton
A

Boy Shopping by Nia Stephens

O

566. A Death in the Family, by James Agee (read 4 Jan 1959) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1958)

Vowel to avoid: A

Othello by William Shakespeare
O

Light a Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy

A

The Informer by Liam OʻFlaherty
E

Walkabout by James Vance Marshall

A

539. One of Ours by Willa Cather (read 11 May 1958) (Pulitzer fiction prize for 1923)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: O

Red Wheels Turning by Hugh Ashton

Vowel to avoid : E

Sula by Toni Morrison

U

Ship of Fools by Katherine Ann Porter

Avoiding O:

4846. Quartet in Autumn, by Barbara Pym (read 6 Aug 2011)

Vowel to avoid: U

Plain Tales from the Raj by Charles Allen

A

In the Midst of Life by Ambrose Bierce
I

The Narrows by Ann Petry

E

350. A Handful of Dust, by Evelyn Waugh (read 30 Oct 1948)

Vowel to avoid: A

This Gun for Hire by Graham Greene

Avoiding I

3353. Mayday A Novel, by Nelson DeMille and Thomas Block (read 24 Sep 2000)

Vowel to avoid: A

Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner

O

England Made me

by Graham Greene
A

On The Line by Donna Hill

E

Shows about Nothing by Thomas S. Hibbs
O

Bunnicula by James Howe

U

Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

A

The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon bell Mathis

E

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

O

The Misfits by James Howe

I

By the North Gate by Gwyn Griffin
E

A Child is Born by Margaret Wise Brown

Avoiding I

Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf

O

sorry about that......:)

Pigsty by Mark Teague

I

Howardʻs End by E. M. Forster
O

The Between by Tananrive Due

E

I was Dancing by Edwin OʻConnor
I

On My Honor by Marion Dana Bauer

O

Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz

A

177. The Robe, by Lloyd C. Douglas (read 19 Feb 1945)

Vowel to avoid: E

Barrack room Ballads* by Rudyard Kipling

*Mainly story -poems, mainly fictional

Avoiding A

By the Pricking of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie

I

What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton

omit.....A

Down on My Knees by Victor McGothlin

O

Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton

U

Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas

E

My Antonia by Willa Cather
A

Blood Is Thicker by Paul Langan

O

Ann Vickers by Sinclair Lewis
A

The Choir Director by Carl Weber

E

Knock by Jules Romains
O

#417--not technically fiction but I presume there is a lot of fiction in it? (I've not read it)

541. Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (read May 1958) (Pulitzer fiction prize for 1929)

Vowel to avoid: A

Brother Sun, Sister Moon by Katherine Paterson

O

Sun Chief by Don C. Talayesva
U

Anthem by Ayn Rand

A

The God-Seeker
by Sinclair Lewis
E

And This Too Shall Pass by E. Lynn Harris

A

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
I

Any Way the Wind Blows by E. Lynn Harris

A

Wyoming by Zane Grey
O

The Franklin Affair by Jim Lehrer

Forbidden letter of 432: A

Footsteps by Hamilton Maule
O

Pressing Hard by Stephanie Perry Moore

E

#430 does not avoid I, Jacqueline, but #433 does so I am plying on #434:

1642. Humboldt's Gift, by Saul Bellow (read 8 July 1981) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1976)

Vowel to avoid: U

The Victim by Saul Bellow
I

Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter

A

Ellen Rogers by James T. Farrell
E

Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins

O

The Irish R. M.
by E. O. Somerville

Gold Rush! by Eric Kraft

omitted.....E now it is O

I should have added the forbidden letter to 440

It was really I that should be omitted playing on 440:
2 I s; only one E; that the E comes first is only
significant in case of a tie. But itʻs OK, -- no I in the title you gave in 441:

Forbidden letter O:

Jalna by Mazo de la Roche
A

548. Honey in the Horn by H. L. Davis (read 19 July 1958) (Pulitzer fiction prize for 1936)

Vowel to avoid: O

Bethel Merriday by Sinclair Lewis
E

557. Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (read 12 Oct 1958) (Pulitzer fiction prize for 1949)

Vowel to avboid: O

Castaway by James Gould Cozzens
A

Moonlight Downs by Adrian Hyland

O

Electra b y Sophocles (also one by Euripides
E

2896. World's Fair, by E. L. Doctorow (read 13 Aug 1996) (National Book Award fiction prize in 1986)

Avoid: O

Hiketides / Supplices / The Suppliants
by Aeschylus
I (forbidden letter taken from the Greek title Hiketides
only, but all titles avoid O.)

The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton

E

Carbon Copy by Azarel

A

The Six Iron Spiders by Phoebe Atwood Taylor

I

To Eat a Peach by Calder Willingham
A

The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

O

*Excellent book!

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

A

4777. The Confession, by John Grisham (read 19 Nov 2010)

Vowel to avoid: E

Night and Day by Virginia Woolf

A

"Life without Principle" by Henry David Thoreau
I

The Black Rose by Tananarive Due

E

Because I doubt, Roland, that # 459 is fiction, I am avoiding both A and E--which is a real challenge (I know I've used this before, but I hope not too recently):

280. So Big, by Edna Ferber (read 2 Sept 1946) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1925)

Vowel to be avoided in a fictional title: O

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

A

The Judgeʻs Story by Charles Morgan
E

546. Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller (read 24 June 1958) (Pulitzer fiction prize for 1934)

Vowel to be avoided: I

Shadow of the Moon by M. M. Kaye

O

Surfacing by Margaret Atwood

U

Possession by A.S. Byatt

O

Cass Timberlane by Sinclair Lewis
A

609. In My End Is My Beginning, by Maurice Baring (read 21 Feb 1960)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: I

Oh, Johnny! by Jim Lehrer

O

Shibumi by Trevanian

I

652. The Blackboard Jungle a novel by Evan Hunter (read 13 May 1961)

Vowel to avoid: E

Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

A

Solo by Rana Dasgupta

O

Please, do yourself a favor and read this book. It's great.

Maia by Richard Adams

A

Five Chiefs
by John Paul Stevens
I

Ayesha: Return of She by H. Rider Haggard

E

Topaz by Leon Uris

O

Ilias / Iliad by Homer

I

Badlands: A Novel of Suspense by Richard Montanari

A

#476 is NOT fiction, Roland, so the entries since then are invalid but this complies with #475 and with #480:

724. Summer 1914, by Roger Martin du Gard translated by Stuart Gilbert (read 16 Feb 1963)

If spelling "1914" out E is the forbidden letter now:
E: 3x, U: 2x; O once. If left in digits, U and E once each,making U the forbidden letter.
Iʻm assuming 1914 is spelled out.

I was Dancing* by Edwin OʻConnor
I

*A valid fiction , despite the first person in the title! I finally got used to the "Articles DO count" Rule but, sorry to say, not yet to the "Fiction Only" rule. Iʻll get there.

The Queen of the South by Arturo Perez-Reverte

E

Antoni Gaudi by Aurora Cuito
A

The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

O

916. Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson (read 7 Sep 1967)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: E

Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson

forbidden letter: O

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
I

1548. War and Remembrance A novel by Herman Wouk (read 8 Jan 1980)

Vowel to avoid: A

Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson

avoiding E:

Sula by Toni Morrison

U

299. The Moonstone A Novel, by Wilkie Collins (read 9 Dec 1946)

Vowel to be avoided: O

Lady Susan by Jane Austen

A

Night Tree by Eve Bunting

E

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

I

After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson

A

#496: Is that fiction?

Yes.....it's a Newbery Honor Book.
Picked it up for $2.97 well actually 1/2 of that.... it was buy one get one free! :)

#498: Very cool! It sure sounded like NF. I guess it must be on the most recent Newberry list. I hadn't heard of it.

Don't you love buy one get one free?

Holes by Louise Sachar

O

Ringan Gilhaize by John Galt
I

Bad Boy by Maya Reynolds

A

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

U

Girl Wonder by Deborah Hopkinson

I

Old School by Tobias Wolff

O

Etruscan Myths by Larissa Bonfante*
E

*Met author. Wish list item

Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan

I

Yet Other Waters by James T. Farrell
E

Bad Girl by Maya Reynolds

A

Somebody in Boots by Nelson Algren
O

118. The Kidnap Murder Case, by S. S. Van Dine (read 1943)

Vowel to be avoided: E

Zorro by Isabel Allende

O

Black Bartlemyʻs Treasure by Jeffrey Farnol
A

Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles

E

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

O

4904. Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane (read 19 Feb 2012)

I know at least that I have not used this before

Vowel to avoid: U

Still Life With a Woodpecker by Tom Robbins

I

Love Story by Erich Segal
O

The Turkish Gambit by Boris Akunin

I

The Gamblers by Nikolai Gogol

omitting E .....

Turnaround by Jimmy Hurd

U

Asinaria / The Comedy of Asses
by Plautus (Roman ficitonal comedy)

avoiding A

3308. White Noise, by Don DeLillo (read 30 Apr 2000) (National Book Award fiction prize in 1985)

Vowet to be avoided: I

The Wrecker by Robert Louis stevenson
E

651. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee (read 8 May 1961) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1961)

I suppose this has been used before, but I hope not too recently

Vowel to be avoided: I

Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen

A

Esotericism of the Popol Vuh by Raphael Girard

Well, Roland, #526 sure doesn't look like fiction to me so I am avoiding both A, are required by #525 and O, as required by the I think invalid #526:

985. The Fixer, by Bernard Malamud (read 5 Dec 1968) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1967) (National Book Award fiction prize for 1967)

avoiding "E"

Moloka'i by Alan Brennert

O

Hawaiʻi by James Michener
A

Songs for the Missing by Stuart O'Nan

O

In the Wet by Nevil Shute
E

Our Town by Thornton Wilder

O

Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
A

Misery by Stephen King

I

The Octopus* by Frank Norris

*Fiction, although, unfortunately, there was a lot of fact in it.

Avoiding O

3325. Kate Vaiden, by Reynolds Price (read 4 Jul 2000) (National Book Critics Circle fiction award for 1986)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: A

Blix by Frank Norris
I

The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama

O

McTeague by Frank Norris
E

Walkabout by James Vance Marshall

A

Pericles, Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare
E

Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare

I

Othello by William Shakespeare
O

3568. Empire Falls, by Richard Russo (read 12 Apr 2002) (Pulitzer fiction prize for 2002)

Vowel to avoid: E

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

I

Elephant Walk by Jean Craighead George
E

Hollywood Station by Joseph Wambaugh

O

2912. Independence Day, by Richard Ford (read 1 Oct 1996) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1996)

Vowel to avoid: E

Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
O

Samarkand by Amin Maalouf

A

Nineteen-Eighty-Four (aka 1984)
by George Orwell
E

67. Goliath, by Frederick Wm. Weber (read in 1940)

Vowel to be avoided: O

Wild Animus by Rich Sapero

I

Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen
A

96. The Door by Mary Roberts Rinehart (read 1942)

Vowel to avoid: O

Casey at the Bat by Ernest L. Thayer
A

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

O

Silas Marner by George Eliot

A

Voss by Patrick White
O

848. Dubliners, by James Joyce (read 17 Apr 1966)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: U

Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz

A

Ibis by Ovid
I

What Mary Jo Shared by Janice May Udry

A

Epodon Liber / Book of Epodes
by Horace
O

Cat in the Hat by Dr. Suess

A

Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter

O

The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble
A

1407. The Princess of Cleves, by Madame de Lafayette translated by Nancy Mitford (read 5 Sep 1976)

Vowel to avoid: E

Tai-Pan by James Clavell

A

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

E

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

I

The Ancestors by Brandon Massey

E

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

O

White Butterfly by Walter Mosley

E

Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers

O

by Christopher Isherwood
I

2068. Volcano: A Novel, by Shusaku Endo translated from the Japanese by Richard A. Schuchert (read 25 Mar 1987)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: O

576 > 577 I changed the inadvertent non-fiction of 576 to Prater Violet, a fiction, in which E is the forbidden letter, so: 576>577:
Prater Violet > Volcano* is o k.

*skipping the subtitle " a Novel" as Touchstones does.

// o forbidden //

Murphy by Samuel Beckett
U

524. The Late George Apley: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir, by John P. Marquand (read 29 Oct 1957) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1938)

Vowel to be avoided: E

Watt* by Samuel Beckett
A

*Watt and (579) were Beckettʻs only novels in which English, not French, was the original language

124. Mutiny on the Bounty, by Charles Nordhoff and James N. Hall (read 1943)

Vowel to be avoided in a fictional title: U

Shadow of the Moon by M.M. Kaye

O

388. Light in August, by William Faulkner (read 3 Aug 1951)

Vowel to be avoided: I

Absalom! Absalom! by William Faulkner

A

Pylon by William Faulkner
O

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

A

Mosquitoes by William Faulkner
O

498. A Fable, by William Faulkner (read 3 June 1956) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1955) (National Book Award fiction prize for 1955)

Vowel to be avoided: A

Go Down Moses by (you guessed it) William Faulkner

O

The Wild Palms by William Faulkner
A

Toning the Sweep by Angela Johnson

E

Sanctuary by William Faulkner
A

Iggie's House by Judy Blume

I

Old New York by Edith Wharton
O

The Illiad by Homer

I

Burr by Gore Vidal
U

Barbie & the Diamond Castle by Shannon Penney

A

Messiah has an A.

On 599-600: Sorry; Iʻm deleting 599.

Forbidden letter A:

Rudin by Ivan Turgenev
U

No Problem! :)

Leslie by Omar Tyree

E

Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev
I

Code Orange by Caroline B. Cooney

O

Bellum Gallicum by Julius Caesar
U

Big Girls Don't Cry by Connie Briscoe

I

Anna Mae Wong
by George Russell Gao Hodges