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1Morphidae
Edited: May 7, 2007, 9:01 am

What books in your library have the same title but different authors?

The most I have is three of the same title (Eternity) and I noticed that a lot of the titles are one word title romances. Lastly, a warning. Touchstones REALLY don't like this game as they'll only come up for ONE of the titles.

Beloved by Bertrice Small
Beloved by Toni Morrison

Betrayed by Bertrice Small
Betrayed by Arnette Lamb

Enchanted by Elizabeth Lowell
Enchanted by Titania Hardie

Eternity by Maggie Shayne
Eternity by Jude Deveraux
Eternity by Greg Bear

Homecoming by John Bradshaw
Homecoming by Christie Golden

Legacy by Greg Bear
Legacy by Michael Jan Friedman

Nemesis by Isaac Asimov
Nemesis by Louise Cooper

Sanctuary by Mercedes Lackey
Sanctuary by John Vornholt

The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Awakening by Jude Deveraux

Twist of Fate by Mary Jo Putney
Twist of Fate by Jayne Anne Krentz

Urban Shaman by C. E. Murphy
Urban Shaman by Serge Kahili King

Witches by Isaac Asimov
Witches by Erica Jong

2readafew
Edited: May 7, 2007, 1:35 pm

this is about as close as I can get though the touchstones found several exact matches for both.
Forbidden by Richard Lee Byers
Forbidden Magic by Angus Wells

A cool trick I learned when dealing 100-200 entries for touchstones, use the 'Find' and the authors name MUCH Faster.

fixed very silly error...

4KromesTomes
May 7, 2007, 2:32 pm

Oddly, the two sets that come to mind for me both include books by Jose Saramago:

The Cave by Saramago
The Cave by Tim Krabbe

The Double by Saramago
The double and the gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky ... (This is two short novels bound together, so I figure it counts.)

5lilithcat
May 7, 2007, 2:38 pm

Dropping subtitles:

Aphrodite, by Pierre Louys
Aphrodite, by Isabel Allende

Artists Books, by Deirdre E. Lawrence
Artists Books, by Stefan Klima

Aubrey Beardsley, by Stephen Calloway
Aubrey Beardsley, by Robert Ross

Bloomsbury, by Quentin Bell
Bloomsbury, by Leon Edel

Get this: two of the same name by the same author:
Bubbles, by Beverly Sills
Bubbles, by Beverly Sills

Anyone else have four with the same title?
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, by Joceylyn Grigg
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, by Fiona Hackney
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, by Edmund Swinglehurst
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, by Wendy Kaplan
(not to mention: Charles R. Mackintosh, by Nikolaus Pevsner

The Edwardians, by vita Sackville-West
The Edwardians, by Peter Ludwig Brent

Faust, by Johann von Goethe
Faust, by Charles Gounod

Frank Lloyd Wright, by Naomi Stungo
Frank Lloyd Wright, by Iain Thomson

Another foursome:
Garbo, by Antonio Gronowicz
Garbo, by Alexander Walker
Garbo, by Scott Reisfield
Garbo, by John Bainbridge

Geisha, by Liza Dalby
Geisha, by Jodi Cobb

Genesis, by Robert Alter
Genesis, by William Moyers

Illuminations, by Stephen Jay Gould
Illuminations, by Susan Weil

James McNeill Whistler, by Lisa N. Peters
James McNeill Whistler, by Patrick Chaleyssin

Japanese Prints, by Nathaniel Harris
Japanese Prints, by Gabriele Fahr-Becker

Joan of Arc, by Jules Michelet
Joan of Arc, by Marina Warner

John Singer Sargent, by Patricia Hills
John Singer Sargent, by Norman L. Kleeblatt

Maria, by Mary Wollstonecraft
Maria, by Nadia Stancioff

6lilithcat
May 7, 2007, 3:05 pm

Part II:

Memoirs, by Lorenzo da Ponte
Memoirs, by Tennessee Williams

Mimes des Courtesans, by Lucian
Mimes des Courtesans, by Pierre Louys

A foursome:
New Orleans, by Stuart M. Lynn
New Orleans (no author- exhibition catalogue)
New Orleans, by Randolph Delehanty
New Orleans, by Grace Elizabeth King

Odilon Redon, by Odilon Redon
Odilon Redon, by Douglas W. Druick

Opera, by Maurizio Creti
Opera, by Catherine Clement

The Pre-Raphaelites, by Leslie Parris
The Pre-Raphaelites, by John Nicoll

Seta, by Alessandro Baricco
La Seta, by Jean-Baptiste du Halde

Another foursome:
Shoes, by Elizabeth Cotton
Shoes, by Charlotte Yue
Shoes, by Linda O'Keeffe
Shoes, by Colin McDowell

Symposium, by Plato
Symposium, by Nikos Kazantzakis
Symposium, by Muriel Spark

Tale of the Shining Princess, by Sally Fisher
Tale of the Shining Princess, by Hisako Matsubara

Thais, by Anatole France
Thais, by Jules Massenet

Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair (anthology - multiple authors)

Venice, (guidebook - no author named)
Venice, by Antonio Salvadori
Venice, by Garry Wills

William Morris, by N.M. Wells
William Morris, by Philip Henderson

7thorold
May 7, 2007, 6:50 pm

Memoirs, by Lorenzo da Ponte
Memoirs, by Tennessee Williams


...if you're going to start that, I've got fourteen books by different authors called Selected Poems and seven Collected Poems. But I don't think that counts, really.

Other than that, and biographies named for the subject, the only books I've found in my library so far with identical titles are:

Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh
Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett

Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters (near enough)

and, boringly:
Constitutional and Administrative Law by Hilaire A. Barnett
Constitutional and Administrative Law by Stanley De Smith and Rodney Brazier

Listing titles in alphabetical order does give you a different view of the collection, and throws up some unexpected pairings, e.g.

Leaves of grass and
Leave it to Psmith

or Dogmatics in outline and
The dog-collar murders

But that's probably another thread altogether!