Book ABC's

Not sure if we've had a game thread like this, but I've been thinking about it for a while. I thought it would be a good way to get to know some different books we haven't seen before.

This game goes like any other ABC game. Post a book that begins with the next letter in the sequence (and it would be great if it was touchstoned, but not required).

I'll begin:

A Countess Below Stairs

Baudolino by Umberto Eco

Cart and Cwidder by Diana Wynne Jones

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Eldest by Christopher Paolini

Flash Burnout by L.K. Madigan

Godless by Pete Hautman

Happiness Sold Separately by Lolly Winston

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

(I'm rereading Inkheart!)

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

King Lear by William Shakespeare

Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Othello by Will Shakespeare

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and ... I always forget who else.

Quest for the Tree Kangaroo by Sy Montgomery

The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan

The Two Towers by Tolkien (say that fast five times)

Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett

Vegan Virgin Valentine by Carolyn Mackler

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

The X-Files: Book of the Unexplained by Jane Goldman

You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers

Zel by Donna Jo Napoli

Anne of Green Gables

Boston by Upton Sinclair

Coldwater by Mardi Mcconnochie

Dark Rivers of the Heart By: Dean koontz

Earthsea trilogy by Ursula K. LeGuin

Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings by Christopher Moore

The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale

How Harvard Rules by John Trumpbour

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

John F. Kennedy, President by Hugh Sidey

The Knight of the Sacred Lake by Rosalind Miles

Lysistrata by Aristophanes

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

One For The Money by Janet Evanovich

Pharsalia* by Lucan

*aka: Bellum Civile, a title preferred by most
classicists, on the grounds that Pharsalus, Thessaly, the major battle of the "Bellum" appears only in about one tenth of the text.
But what the heck: they didnʻt change the title of Mailerʻs Why we are in Vietnam, even though
VIetnam does not appear until one mention in the last paragraph.

The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory

The Ransom of Russian Art by John McPhee

Size 12 is Not Fat by Meg Cabot

The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Annotated by Albus Dumbledore

United States: Essays, 1952 - 1992
by Gore Vidal

Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novak

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

X-treme Latin: all the Latin you Need to Know for Survival in the 21st Century
by Henry Beard

You Suck by Christopher Moore

Zenobia, Konignin van Palmyra*
by Alexander Baron

*Couldnʻt find any English version of this in
"Search", but their other entries by Baron were
al in English.

At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon

Bess W. Truman by Margaret Truman

Casas Muertas by Miguel Otero Silva

Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke

Edward II by Christopher Marlowe

Fix it and Forget it cookbook

I'll be mean and take this one too

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Houes of Thunder by Dean Koontz

The Iliad by Homer

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey

(I'm running out of 'K' titles from my library. Someone else please take the next one. ;)

Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy

Masquerade by Terry Pratchett

Night of the Ninjas by Mary Pope Osborne

Ophelia by Lisa Klein

Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner

Rethinking America by Hedrick Smith

Skin Trade By Laurell K Hamilton

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (Has anyone else heard of this book? ;) )

Un Lun Dun by China Mieville

Victory by Joseph Conrad

Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier

X-Changes Stories for a New Century by Anna Fienberg

Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Best of Beaumont by Charles Beaumont*

*A Wish List item

the Cat who could read backwards by Lillian Jackson Braun

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

Elantris by Brandon Sanderson

Fire by Kristin Cashore

Indigo Slam by Robert Crais

Jennie Gerhardt by Theodore dreiser

Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt

La Luciernaga by Mariano Azuela

Minion By L.A. Banks

Nosotros los Espanoles Protestantes
b y Daniel Vidal

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Peter Pan by James M. Barrie

Queen of Camelot by Nancy McKenzie

Rolandslied (traditional)*

*German version of the medieval epic Chanson de Roland

Skeleton Crew By Stephen King

Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

(the) Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook

Heroes and Monsters: the Unofficial Guide to

? What letter are we on? V i guess... The double post confused me lol

Voyage to Venus by C.S.Lewis

Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett

X Stands for Unknown by Isaac Asimov

The Yellow House Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Zodiac killer

Bartimeus series by Jonathan Stroud

Chance by Joseph Conrad

Damaged Goods by Russell T. Davies

Damaged Souls by Gamaliel Bradford

*My grandfather owned this book, and I read a llittle of it as a child. Bradfordʻs point was that
certain people who icked up a lot of enemies were
merely "damaged" not "damned" souls; they were
as different from each other as Thomas Paine
and Benedict Arnold.

Ummm...moving on to "E"....

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

On 113>114

Sorry, I played by the rules of another game in
114. Should hae started with E.

:o)
No problem! We're at "F" now...

fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl

Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone

I, Nuligak by Maurice Metayer

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

Key in the Satin Pocket by Carolyn Keene

The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

The Nine Lives of Aristotle by Dick King-Smith

Oil by Upton Sinclair

PRofessional Baseball Franchises: from the Abbeville Athletics to the Zanesville Indians by Peter Filichia

Queer Little Folks by Harriet Beecher Stowe

edited because I can't type on my phone :(

Russian Journal by John Steinbeck

Sunshine by Robin McKinley

Thucydides Book VII
by Thucydides ed. by
E. C. Marchant

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis

Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen

Xombies by Walter Greatshell

The Yezidis: a Study in Survival
by John S. Guest

Zero History by William Gibson

A is For Alibi by Sue Grafton

the Book Thief Markus Zusak (for some reason the touchstone isn't working)

City of Glass by Cassandra Clare

(the) Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson

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Frindle by Andrew Clements

A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines

Hester:The Missing Years of The Scarlet Letter: A Novel by Paula Reed

Iron Council by China Miéville

Island by Aldous Huxley

John Adams by David McCullough

Kira Kira by Cynthia Kadohata

Love's Labors Lost by William Shakespeare

María by Jorge Isaacs

Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power
by Robert Dallek

Malgudi Days by R. K. Narayan

(think we got a bit out of order here; going back to message 154 "N"), next . . . "O"

Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood

The Party Battles of the Jackson Period
by Claude G. Bowers

Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter
by A.E. Moorat

Red Roses for me by Sean OʻCasey

Summer Sisters by Judy Blume

Thunder on the Left by Christopher Morley

The Unusual Suspects by Michael Buckley

Vansittart: Study of a Diplomat
by Norman Ross

the Wind in the Willows

Xenophonʻs Socratic Discourse: an Interpretation of the Oeconomicus by Leo Strauss

Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts.

(It's just no fun without the Touchstones working.)

Zambia in Pictures
by Bella Waters

A orillas del río Piedra me senté y lloré by Paulo Coelho
(By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept)

Bellum* Civile / The Civil War
by Caius Julius Caesar

*Following the A... of the Spanish title in 168

Conspiracy Game by Christine Feehan

The Death of the Detective by Mark Smith*

*Knew Author.

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

How to Become Extinct by Will Cuppy

Imago by Angela Libal

Amazon Description: Jacine is having a rotten day. She's been fired by the temp agency, her best friend is an obnoxious prig, her cats hate her, her terrible writing is causing a transdimensional warp in reality...and she has a mean hangover. But when Culturally Appropriate Emissaries from the Seelie Court of the Sidhe's Office of Multicultural Affairs show up to put an end to her writing career, she realizes that her troubles are just beginning.

Jane Goes Batty by Michael Thomas Ford

Krik? Krak! by Edwige Danticat

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

Mortal Coil by Derek Landy

No Other Tiger by A. E. W. Mason

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Pericles, Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare

Queen of Sorcery by David Eddings

The Race Beat: the Press, the Civil Rights Struggle and the Awakening of a Nation
by Gene Roberts

Sorcery by Terry Pratchett

Time of the Ghost by Diana Wynne Jones

Undine by Penni Russon

Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

Words Words Words by David Crystal

Xone of Contention by Piers Anthony

"You the Mayor?" The Education
of a City Politician by Barbara Ackermann

Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien

the Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

eta for touchstones

Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey

Caesar or NOthing by Pio Baroja

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

Eric by Terry Pratchett

Fablehaven by Brandon Mull

The Gods of Manhattan by Scott Mebus

The Hite Report by Shere Hite

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

John Barleycorn by Jack London

Killshot by Elmore Leonard

Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde

Las Memorias de Mamá Blanca by Teresa de la Parra

ETA: the "Las" part is the article "The" in Spanish so it doesn't count as a letter :P

Napoleon's Pyramids by William Dietrich

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie

The Queen and I by Sue Townsend

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
by J. D. Salinger

The Secret Garden by Frances Hadgson Burnett

The Templar Legacy by Steve Barry

Ukridge by P.G. Wodehouse

Visions in Death by J.D. Robb

Wales and the Wars of the Roses by H. T. Evans

Xerxes and His Army by Charles Morris

Youth by Joseph Conrad

Zod Wallop by: William Browning Spencer

Angel Pavement by J. B. Priestley

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouck

Doña Barbara by Rómulo Gallegos

England Made me by Graham Greene

Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Glory of the Solomons
by Edwin Palmer Hoyt

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof

Isocrates: On the Peace. Areopagitcus. against the Sophists . . . (etc.)
by Isocrates (in the Loeb Classical Library)

(the) Joy Luck club by Amy Tan

Kamehameha III: Kauikeaouli
by Jean Iwata Cachola

London Boulevard by Ken Bruen

Marry me by John Updike

Nancy Drew: Secret of the Old Clock Carolyn Keene

this is a siiick book

this is a siiick book

this book is dope

hey christopher,
what's up?
i like your last name :) paolini
i'm jeanine
i loooove to read
do you?
:P

#238 -- This is a game thread, where we list books by title, going through the alphabet. If you want to talk about a book you've read recently, look for the "What are you reading" thread, or start a new one.

Continuing the game:

Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Quid est Veritas? Veritas Honderd (sic)*
by Schaf, (sic)

LT says this book is listed by one (unnamed) member; I donʻt even know what language it is in?
The first 3 words = "What is truth?" The 4th and 5th words = "Truth Hundred" (Latin, switching to Dutch). But it does provide the Q as 1st letter. Yes, the author statement gives no forename and does follow the surname(?) with a comma.

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Small House at Allington
by Anthony Trollope

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

(are we allowing the T- of "The" (244) to be
the 1st letter?)

Hmmm...not generally since so many books begin with The. Maybe 93_Diagon_Alley didn't know that but lets pass it this time and move on to U.

On 2 45-246

Okay, thanks:

Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas

Valley of the Dolls by Jaqueline Susann

Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett

Xenophonʻs Socrates by Leo Strauss

Yoko's World of Kindness: Golden Rules For a Happy Classroom by Rosemary Wells

Zorro by Isabel Allende

Angelaʻs Ashes
by Frank McCourt

Bittersweet by Nevada Barr

A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr*

*a gift from Kele Perkins; the main scene of the action is in my native town, Woburn, MA

The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

The Essential Wordsworth
by William Wordsworth
ed. by Seamus Heaney

Fablehaven by Brandon Mull

Glover by Francis Pollini

The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

The Irish R. M.* by Edith Somerville

*Used to own this, but it didnʻt survive all the movings of past decades.

Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

Karneval och andra Beraettelser (tr. into
Swedish from the Danish)
by Karen Bllxen (aka Isak dinesen

The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
by Thomas Keneally

Playing off of #264:

Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers

No country for old men by Cormac McCarthy

Owl's Well That Ends Well by Donna Andrews

Pedro Paramo* by Juan Rulfo

* Accute accent overthe 1st -a- of "Paramo. This has been translated from the Spanish, but the title stays the same.

Quest for the Tree Kangaroo by Sy Montgomery

Note: when we get to the end of the alphabet, we should probably start a new thread.

Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos by Donna Andrews

Ships, Furs, and Sandalwood: a Yankee
Trader in Hawaiʻi by Charles Hammatt

Time Cat by Lloyd Alexander

Unnatural Exposure by Patricia Cornwell

The Venus Throw by Steven Saylor

Whose Body? by Dorothy Sayers

Xenophobia in Seventeenth Century India

Y2k by Rogelio J. Pineiro

"Zotz!" by Walter Karig

All-American Girl by Meg Cabot

Billy Liar on the Moon by Keith Waterhouse

Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman

Wait, wait! This thread is way too long! I have started a new thread here.