Use the last letter of previous posting to start your title - Part 21

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How to play: Enter a book title which begins with the last letter of the previous entry. Ignore articles such as "A", "An" & "The". Please check your entry when you post it and try and use an original title (you can check conversations to see if a book has been used before). Use Touchstones where possible.

Last play by Inkvisitor:

All That Fall by Samuel Beckett

New play:

The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan

A Fox Under My Cloak by Henry Williamson

King Lear by William Shakespeare

313. Rasputin The Holy Devil, by Rene Fulop-Miller (read 5 Mar 1947)

Laelia by Ruth Miriam Garnett

A is for Ox by Lyn Davies

The X'ed Out X-ray by Ron Roy

A Year in Cricklewood by Alan Coren

The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby

Youth, a Narrative, and Two Other Stories by Joseph Conrad

Sunday Morning Wife by Pamela D. Rice

English Music by Peter Ackroyd

The Center of Life: A Natural History of the Cell by L. L. Larison Cudmore

Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood

The Early Years: The Lyrics of Tom Waits 1971-1983 by Tom Waits

last letter E

Ezra Pound and his World by Peter Ackroyd

//Good catch, last thread, lnkvisitor. By that time, my eyes were crossing! lol//

The Dancing Dodo
by John E. Gardner

The Onion Eaters by J. P. Donleavy

Thanks Wolfy for the new thread.

The Silver Chalice by Thomas B. Costin

Ernest Hemingway: Rediscovered by Norberto Fuentes

Down by The River by Edna O'Brien

918. Rendezvous at Midway: U.S.S. Yorktown and the Japanese Carrier Fleet, by Pat Frank and Joseph D. Harrington (read 16 Sep 1967)

Thoughts in Solitude by Thomas Merton

Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

A for Anything by Damon Knight

Ghost Road by Pat Barker

The Dalkey Archive by Flann O'Brien

The End of the Hunt
by Thomas Flanagan

Tek Lords by William Shatner

Shiny Water
by Anna Salter

The Renegades of Pern by Anne McCaffrey

(a B as the final letter is kind of rare, but here's one}:

Nasser the Last Arab by Said K. Aburish

( #32 unusual, yes, but here's another )

The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B by J. P. Donleavy

Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger

The Shape of Things to Come by H. G. Wells

1646. Eleanor of Aquitaine, by Regine Pernoud translated by Peter Wiles (read 20 July 1981)

Espresso Tales by Alexander McCall Smith

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

So You're a Teenage Girl by Jill Renich

Love and Mr. Lewisham by H. G. Wells

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson

I read this several months ago and found it very engaging, and veddy, veddy British.

Donkey Boy by Henry Williamson

You Belong To Me by Mary Higgins Clark

Eastern Europe: The Soviet Satellites & Other European Communits States by Scholastic Book Editors

No that's not a typo on my part that really is the title

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning -
Alan Sillitoe

The Ginger Man by J. P. Donleavy

Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck

2333. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro (read 14 Oct 1990) (National Book Critics Circle biography award for 1990)

Teacher Man by Frank McCourt

Thomas Aquinas: Spiritual Master by Robert Barron

Sorry I previous posted Teacher Man but it was used in Aug. - reposted w/Thomas Aquinas

Ruined by Lynn Nottage

Declarations of War by Len Deighton

Red Beans and Vice by Lou Jane Temple

read this about 2 years ago

Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard

Nureyev by Howard Brown

Victory in Europe: D-Day to V-E Day by Max Hastings

1773. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power, by Robert A. Caro (read 8 Apr 1983) (National Book Critics Circle Nonfiction award for 1982)

I am abouut out of unused Y titles, since I only use what I have read.

The Refusal by Franz Kafka

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury

The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells

The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining by Anna Mazer

The Gun by C. S. Forester

The Nonesuch by Georgette Heyer

Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman

The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood
by Helene Cooper

Discovering Kwan Yin, Buddhist Goddess of Compassion
by Sandy Boucher

The Naval War of 1812 by Theodore Roosevelt

next starts with E

Eon: Dragoneye Reborn by Alison Goodman

The Neophiliacs: Revolution in English Life in the Fifties and Sixties by Christopher Booker

==========================================================1012. The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding in His Times, by Francis Russell (read 4 Jul 1969)

Used this as recently as July. Sorry. Replace it with:

2019. A Son of Thunder: Patrick Henry and the American Republic, by Henry Mayer (read 17 Sep 1986)

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Elementary Geometry from an Advanced Standpoint
by Edwin E. Moise

The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell

Never Pick Up Hitch-Hikers by Ellis Peters

Shipwreck on the Pirate Islands by Geronimo Stilton

The Statement
by Brian Moore

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Devil Rides Out by Dennis Wheatley

880. The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin, by William Golding (read 26 Nov 1966)

The Nature and Destiny of Man, Vol I: Human Nature by Reinhold Niebuhr

Exeter Riddle Book

King Arthur's Bones by The Medieval Murderers

Shatter by Michel Robotham

Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett

Hi! I'm new.

//Welcome, anatwork.k
I'm old. ;-}//

Nadia's Song
by Soheir Khashoggi

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956, Parts I-II by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

//last letter O//

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Hell and Highwater by Thomas Thompson

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Yellowknife by Ray Price

4579. An Easy Burden The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America, by Andrew Young (read 3 Jun 2009)

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque

Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini

Daughter of Fortune
by Isabel Allende

The Elephant Man by David Lynch

Nothing Said by Lucy M. Boston

Digital Fortress by Dan Brown

Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell

Nuts in May by Richard Gordon

The Yellow House by Patricia Falvey

The End of Everything: A Novel
by Megan E. Abbott

The Lantern by Deborah Lawrenson

The New Girl by R. L. Stine

272. A Lion is In the Streets, by Adria Locke Langley (read 4 Aug 1946)

Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling

Orion Paperback by Micael Berman

Kings of the Earth by Jon Clinch

Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent

The Russia House by John le Carré

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Hide by Lisa Gardner

The Essence of Taoism by Pamela Ball

Playing from #114
The Exorcist
by William Peter Blatty

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome. K. Jerome

Travels With Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck

Any Way the Wind Blows by E. Lynn Harris

Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino

Marxist Leadership in the U. S.: Continuity . . .

by Farrell Dobbs

The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Gedichte: 1800 -- 1804
by Friedrich Holderlin

Last letter: R

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Rapunzel by Brothers Grimm

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams

115. Lassie Come-Home, by Eric Knight (read early 1943)

Edward Garnett by H. E. Bates

The Tricking of Freya
by Christina Sunley

Angelica by Arthur Phillips

Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne

The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

Sorry Wrong Number by Allan Ullman

The Riders by Tim Winton

Sarah Bishop by Scott O'Dell

The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost

Thirty Strange Stories by H. G. Wells

Silver Bells by Luanne Rice

The Secret Pilgrim by John le Carré

Monkey and the White Bone Demon by

Jill Morris

The Night Manager by John le Carré

Red Riding Hood by James Marshall

1828. The Diary of a Country Priest, by Georges Bernanos translated from the French by Pamela Morris (read 22 Feb 1984)

The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

The Secret School by Avi

The Lonely Sea and the Sky by Francis Chichester

You Gotta Sin to Get Saved by J. D. Mason

Daisy Miller and Washington Square by Henry James

The Edge of Midnight by Beverly Jenkins

Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare

Son of a Snitch by Michael Evans

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Tom O'Bedlam
by Robert Silverberg

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks

The Nabokov Translation of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Dear Enemy by Jean Webster

>157 ellenflorman: Musicophilia is one of my favourite books. After reading it I had a whole new perspective on how I listen to music, and how I hear things in general.

159 - I really enjoyed it as well. Oliver Sacks had written several fasincatingbooks.

Yesterday's Spy by Len Deighton

Year Zero
by Jeff Long

One Child by Torey L. Hayden

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

The Envelope by Maurice Wills

English Music by Peter Ackroyd

Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks

Grendel by John Gardner

Laugh Till You Cry by Joan Lowery Nixon

Young Mrs. Savage by D. E. Stevenson

//#164 > Daughter of Fortune was used in #99.//

An Empty Spoon
by Sunny Decker

Netochka Nezvanova by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Adolescent by Fiódor Dostoiévski

The Texts of Taoism
attributed to Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, et al.
Tr. by James Legge

Madensky Square by Eva Ibbotson

4867. Everything We Had An Oral history of the Vietnam War by Thirty-three American Soldiers Who Fought It, by Al Santoli (read 3 oct 2011)

Till Morning Comes by Han Suyin

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

The Gambler by Fiódor Dostoiévski

Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy

A New Year's Tale by Vladimir Dudintsev

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

Now Face to Face
by Karleen Koen

England, Their England by A. G. Macdonell

Down to the Sea in Ships by Philemon Sturges

Second Chorus by Humphrey Lyttelton

The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks

2310. The Ambassador by Morris L. West (read 19 July 1990)

Roman Fever and Other Stories by Edith Wharton

The Silver Nutmeg by Palmer Brown

Gadfly in Russia by Alan Sillitoe

American Originals: Homemade Varieties of Christianity by Paul K. Conklin

yellow and Yummy by Disney

The Young Unicorns by Madeleine L'Engle

The Stepford Wives
by Ira Levin

The System of the World by Neal Stephenson

The Devil's Own
by Kevin Jarre

Neruda: An Intimate Biography by Volodia Teitelboim

Yet Other Waters by James T. Farrell

Stallion Gate
by Martin Cruz Smith

Euripides and the Full Circle of Myth
by Cedric H. Whitman*

*Knew author.

Hegel by Charles Taylor

904. The Last Days of Pompeii, by Sir Edward G. E. Bulwer-Lytton (read 4 Jul 1967)

Information Bomb by Paul Virilio

Blue Latitudes: Boldy Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz

*I read this about 4 years ago or so, and found interesting and fun.

Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock by David Margolick

Currently reading

Kangaroo by D.H. Lawrence

The Once and Future King by T. H. White

Germinal by Emile Zola

Let the Church Say Amen by Reshonda Tate Billingsley

Never say Never by Lisa Wingate

The Redemption of George Baxter Henry
by Conor Bowman

Youth by Joseph Conrad

Havanna Bay
by Martin Cruz Smith

Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris

Run with the Horsemen
by Ferrol Sams

North by Seamus Heaney

Hector and the Search for Happiness by Francois Lelord

The Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Monsoons by Mo Willems

Sociallst Revolutionaries of Rural Andalusia
by George Collier

Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout

SylviaC: Isn't that a cool book? And I thought Willems only illustrated kids books!

>223 bookwoman247: When you combine that title with Mo Willems' observations, it has to be a winner.

11/22/63
by Stephen King

Everlost by Neal Shusterman

The Torrents of Spring by Ivan Turgenev

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Yellow House on the Corner by Rita Dove

The Ramen King and I by Andy Raskin

Inexcusable by Chris Lynch

Envious Casca by Georgette Heyer

The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
by Jane Smiley

Nowhere Man by Jerry Oster

The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation by Sid Jacobson

A Necessary End by Peter Robinson

Durable Goods by Elizabeth Berg

Stilicho, the Vandal who Saved Rome
by Ian Hughes

The Essential James Joyce by James Joyce

Everwild by Neal Shusterman

1955. Daniel Martin, by John Fowles (read 10 Nov 1985)

The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G. K. Chesterton

The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel

The Troubled Air by Irwin Shaw

The Rebus Book by Martin Greif

The Killing Anniversary
by Ian St. James

Y: The Last Man Vol. 3: One Small Step by Brian K. Vaughan

Persona Non Grata: A Novel of the Roman Empire
by Ruth Downie

Education for All by The Ontario Ministry of Education

Language Death: Life Cycle of a Scottish Gaelic Dialect
by Nancy C. Dorian#

* Read ca. 1990; a major source of my "Disappearing Languages: some Insights from Hawaiian, Yiddish, and Scottish Gaelic".
# Haven't met but have corresponded with author.

2326. A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep by Rumer Godden (read 20 Sept 1990)

Prologue to Analog ed. by John Wood Campbell

The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck

How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn

The Yellow Rain by Julio Llamazares

New Worlds for Old by H. G. Wells

4464. The Dyess Story The Eye-Witness Account of the Death March From Bataan and the Narrative of Experiences in Japanese Prison Camps and of Eventual Escape, by Lt. Col. Wm. E. Dyess Edited, with a biographical introduction, by Charles Leavelle (read 27 Jul 2008)

Young Phillip Maddison by Henry Williamson

Nowhere Man by Jerry Oster

New Law Upholds (Ethnic) Hawaiian Identity
by B. J. Reyes

Y: The Last Man Vol. 5: Ring of Truth by Brian K. Vaughan

Hidden from History" Rediscovering Women in
History from the 17th Century to the Present
by Sheila Rowbotham

The Triple Echo by H. E. Bates

The Olive Grove by Patrice Newell

Expiation by Elizabeth von Arnim

New Studies in the Philosophy of Descartes by Norman Kemp Smith

Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet by Xinran

The Texts of Taoism by James Legge

Vol I: The Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu
Vol II: The T'ai Shang Tractate

I presume the first title is what one is to play on?

1214. The Moneyman, by Thomas B. Costain (read 22 Apr 1973)

The Novice's Tale by Margaret Frazer

Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim

Naevius Poeta by Quintus Naevius
ed. by Enzo Marmorale

Akenfield by Ronald Blythe

The Disorganized Personality
by George W. Kisker

Y: The Last Man, Volume 6: Girl on Girl by Brian K. Vaughan

La's Orchestra Saves the World by Alexander McCall Smith

Dark Nantucket Noon by Jane Langton

High Noon by Nora Roberts

1893. The New Men, by C. P. Snow (read 20 Dec 1984)

# 278's response should have begun with the letter "N", but #279 puts on back on track, so I'll play from that.

Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman

The Solitary Summer by Elizabeth von Arnim

The Road by Vasily Grossman

Read this book this year and loved it

A Daughter's Love: Thomas More and His Dearest Meg by John Guy

Graceling
by Kristin Cashore

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Yurara Vol. 1 by Chika Shiomi

England, My England by D. H. Lawrence

Drama High: Lady J L. Divine

Jazz: A History of America's Music by Geoffrey C. Ward

3359. The Coming of Rain, by Richard Marius (read 14 Oct 2000)

The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff

Exodus
by Leon Uris

The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Round the Bend by Nevil Shute

Darnell Rock Reporting by Walter Dean Myers

709. The Good Years: From 1900 to the First World War, by Walter Lord (read 16 Sep 1962)

Roughing It - Mark Twain.

Tall Blondes: A Book About Giraffes by Lynn Sherr

The Story of Charlotte's Web: E.B White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic by Michael Sims

An interesting read!

The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal

Alphabetica: An A-Z Creativity Guide for Collage and Book Artists by Lynne Perrella

The Silver Chalice by Thomas B. Costain

The End of Everything
by Megan E. Abbott

Oops! I think I already used this one in this thread.

The Encyclopaedia of Celtic Wisdom
by Caitlin Matthews

//The Silver Chalice was already used in this thread.//

The Man in the Basement by Walter Mosley

Thats DOCTOR Sinatra, you Little Bimbo! by G. B. Trudeau

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Redemption
by Leon Uris

Nobody's Perfect by Anthony Lane

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

Enquiry by Dick Francis

The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs

The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra by Anita Ganeri

Amazon by Brian Kelly

Nine Lives by Alan C. Deere

Suspect by Michael Robotham

Tex by S. E. Hinton

The Xenophobe's Guide to the Irish by Frank McNally

The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Potzsch

Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Sanction
by Eric Van Lustbader

1984 by George Orwell

last letter R

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
by Bertolt Brecht

The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier

Nerve by Dick Francis

The Exiled and the Redeemed by Itzak Ben Zvi

Declarations of War by Len Deighton

The River Kings' Road: A Novel of Ithelas
by Liane Merciel

Rudin by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

playing on #326

The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico

Everfound by Neal Shusterman

A Density of Souls by Christopher Rice

Sula by Toni Morrison

Ajeemah and His Son by James Berry

Needful Things by Stephen King

Single & Single by John le Carre

2465. Europe in the Eighteenth Century Aristocracy and the Bourgeois Challenge, by George Rude (read 6 Oct 1992)

Endgame and Act without Words by Samuel Beckett

Survival or Prophecy?: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Jean LeClercq by Father Thomas Merton
Last letter "Q"

The Quest for Karla by John le Carré

Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals by Temple Grandin

Superheroes by John Varley

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Elephant Song
by Wilbur Smith

The Georgia Avenue Bus by Henri Edmonds

The Strange Career of Jim Crow
by C. Vann Woodward

Wrath of a Mad God
by Raymond E. Feist

Son of Mad by Mad Magazine

Dymond in the Rough by Precious

#346 doesn't follow #345.

from #345:

Demos by George Gissing

Although 346 didn't follow 345, 347 was correct since a "d" was played. I'll play from 347 which ended in 'H" -
hope this gets us back on track -

An Honourable Defeat: A History of German Resistance To Hitler, 1933-1945

Next: "E"

(quite right - I missed that point)

The Edge of Tomorrow by Isaac Asimov

13. Wee Mac Gregor by J. J. Bell (read in 1936 or 1937)

Re Joyce by Anthony Burgess

Evil Star by Tony Horowitz

The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine

Never so Few by Tom Chamales

The Wind Off the Small Isles by Mary Stewart

Seabiscuit by Gary Ross

Tracking the Tempest by Nicole Peeler

Twilight Sleep - Edith Wharton

Parable of Talents by Octavia E. Butler