Alphabet of Books You've Read, Part 4

I finished the last thread with a "Z". The next poster should start with an "A".

APEC: Kekuni Blaisdell and Umi Perkins on . . .
by Kekuni Blaisdell and Umi Perkins dvd

Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerney (read in the '90s)

Come Here Till I Tell You by Patrick Campbell (read late '60s)

Does Psychotherapy Work? Weʻd be more Certain, if we Slapped a little science on it. by Eric Kandel

Execution By Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust by Miron Dolot

Figgie Hobbin by Charles Causley

4190. Guests of the Ayatollah The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam, by Mark Bowden (read 19 July 2006)

The Home-maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

I Claud by Claud Cockburn

India Calling - Anand Girindharadas (on my TBR list)

Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, . . . Othello
(and 3 Other Plays by William Shakespeare;
ed. by David Bevington

Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky

M.C. Escher, the graphic work by M. C. Escher

The Nature of the Gods / De Natura Deorum by Cicero

On the Beach - Nevil Shute

I asume #13 is a title of a book, though no author of it isgiven.

1770. The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914, by David McCullough (read 21 Mar 1983) (Book of the Year) (National Book Award history prize for 1978) (Parkman Prize for 1978)

The Quiet Room: A Journey Out Of The Torment Of Madness - Lori Schiller (on my TBR list)

#18 Good point, though there are a few biogs of that name by Pietro Citati and Nicholas Murray to name but a couple. Let's assume it's one of those.

And for 'R' - Rebecca's Tale - Sally Beauman

Say it Ain't so Joe by Donald Gropman

(#18 & #20, I don't know what happened in #13, the link goes to the diaries rather than the biog. Must have been distracted before finishing it. It should have been the Pietro Citati.)

The Triple Echo by H. E. Bates

Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry

The Virgin and the Gypsy by D. H. Lawrence

718. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson (read 5 Jan 1963)

XXX Porn for Women: Hotter, Hunkier, and More Helpful Around the House! by Cambridge Women's Pornography Cooperative

Yankee Stranger by Elswyth Thane

(I/ve used this before, but i hope not too rec ently)

The Zimmermann Telegram by Barbara Tuchman

Yippee! I get to start one!
Aeolian Lesbos - Liza Evert

Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City & Its Culture by John Lukacs

445. Chip off my Shoulder, by Thomas L. Stokes (read 2 Oct 1952)

Raid!: The Untold Story of Patton's Secret Mission by Richard Baron

from #31

The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith

Ex Libris: Confessions Of A Common Reader - Anne Fadiman

#31 Just interested, Schmerguls. What are the numbers all about?

Foxtrot by Bill Amend

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

The Harvard Classics Essays: English and American
by John Henry Newman, John Ruskin William M. Thackeray (and others); Charles W. Eliot (Series editor)

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

The Judge's story by Charles Morgan

The Kiss and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov

The Liminal People by Ayize Jama-Everett
(finished this weekend)

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Night Watchman by Mark Mynheir
Read earlier this year.

On the Edge of the Primeval Forest & More From the Primeval Forest by Albert Schweitzer

#35--Booksloth, the number is from my list of books read, which begins with the books read from the beginning of my life. No 445 would be the 445th book read in my life. I am the only person I know who claims to have a list of every book he or she read completely in his or her lifetime. If you know anyone else who has such a list, I'd like to know of it. I am reading No. 4885 now.

212. Presidential Nominations and Elections A History of American Conventions National Campaigns, Inaugurations and Campaign Caricature, by Joseph Bucklin Bishop (read 1 Oct 1945)

QI: Advanced Banter by John Lloyd

Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel

Stanford Wong Flunks Big Time by Lisa Yee

Threepenny Novel by Bertolt Brecht

#46 Thanks for the explanation!

109. Up From the City Streets: Alfred E. Smith by Norman Hapgood and Henry Moskowitz (read fall of 1942)

V. By Thomas Pynchon

The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

1386. Xingu and Other Stories, by Edith Wharton (read 18 Apr 1976)

Haven't used this in this game since June 27, and it is one of the only two book titles starting with X I have...

The Yellow Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee

Zero History by William Gibson

Aaron's Hair by Robert Munsch

Buddhism in Japan, with an outline of its Origins in India
by E. Dale Saunders

The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat

Danger by Christine Harris

De Rerum Natura / On the Nature of Things
by Titus Lucretius Carus

End of a Mission by Heinrich Böll

Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers - Nina Auerbach

1150. Gotz von Berlichingen: A Play, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (read 13 Jan 1972)

The History of Mr Polly by H. G. Wells

Inez by Carlos Fuentes

Jennings and Darbishire by Anthony Buckeridge

Keesha's House by Helen Frost

The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin by Vladimir Voinovich

Make Way for Duckling by Robert McCloskey

The Nylon Pirates by Nicholas Monsarrat

On Hawaiian Folk Music
by Sammy Amalu

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

Q and A - Vikas Swarup

3016. A Road We Do Not Know: A Novel of Custer at the Little Bighorn, by Frederick J. Chiaventone (read 28 Sep 1997)

Sicilian Carousel - Lawrence Durrell (read in the '90s)

Take Your Glory, lord by Mary Garnet

Unwritten Vol 4: Leviathan by Mike Carey

The Vegetarian Epicure - Anna Thomas (perusing on a regular basis since the '90s)

The White Terror and the Political Reaction After Waterloo by Daniel Philip Resnick

2041. Xerxes at Salamis, by Peter Green (read 27 Dec 1986)

i just checked and this is the fifth time I have used this title in this game! Hereafter I will skip X if it is the letter to be played, OK?

The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

2246. Zechariah Chafee, Jr. Defender of Liberty and Law, by Donald L. Smith (read 11 Nov 1989)

I suppose I've used this before, but not for awhile, I think. Anyway, it gets us to A

According to Jennings by Anthony Buckeridge (read mid '50s)

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Candide by Voltaire

The Diamond of Darkhold by Jeanne DuPrau

Envy by Yuri Olesha

From Kung Fu to Hip-hop
by M. T. Kato*

*Know author.

Letters To A Young Contrarian - Christopher Hitchens

Man, Myth, & Magic : an Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural vols. 3 and 15

Norse Code by Greg Van Eekhout

Read in July 2009 (nope, my memory did not suddenly start working better than usually - just one of the books I had reviewed)

Old Filth by Jane Gardam

This is a wonderful read, however you must follow it up with the companion novel The Man With In The Wooden Hat

Payback by Roy Glenn

QB V11 by Leon Uris

#92-93 What happened to g,h,i,j and k?

Starting from G......

The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

good catch Booksloth !

2928. The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism, by Tina Rosenberg (read 16 Nov 1996) (Pulitzer Nonfiction prize in 1996) (National Book Award nonfiction prize for 1995)

The Immigrant - Manju Kapur

Jackaroo by Cynthia Voight

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick

Masterpieces of Italian Painting by James W. Thompson

The November Man by Bill Granger

Over My Dead Body by Kate Klise

Persi Saturarum Liber by Aulus Persius
ed. by Wendell V. Clausen

2498. Quench the Lamp, by Alice Taylor (read 11 Mar 1993)

Rains All The Time: A Connoisseur's History Of Weather In The Pacific Northwest - David Laskin (reading now)

So B. It by Sarah Weeks

Tales of the Tikongs
by Epeli Hau'ofa*

*Knew author.

Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy

1296. Victorian Scandal A Biogaphy of The Right Honorable Gentleman Sir Charles Dilke, by Roy Jenkins (read 19 Oct 1974)

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

skipping X

1782. Years of Upheaval, by Henry Kissinger (read 31 May 1983)

Zorba The Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (read in the '80s)

Bride of Dark and Stormy edited by Scott Rice

The Colorado Kid by Stephen King

Donkey Boy by Henry Williamson

Elephant Winter by Kim Elchin

A wonderful read.

973. Father Coughlin and the New Deal, by Charles J. Tull (read 3 Nov 1968)

Genevieve by Eric Jerome Dickey

Happy Isles Of Oceania - Paul Theroux (read 2003)

Insanity: the Idea and its Consequences
by Thomas Szasz

Just William by Richmal Crompton

865. King Edward the Seventh, by Philip Magnus (read 27 Aug 1966)

The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (read late '60s or early '70s)

Missing May by Cynthia Rylant

Netochka Nezvanova by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Out to Canaan by Jan Karon

Pemba's Song by Marilyn Nelson

Quaestiones Romanae* by Plutarch

*Iʻve not only read it, but written an (unfortunatley unpublished) tr anslation of it. The title of this edition is Latin. Plutarch was of Roman nationality and Greek (Boeotian) ethnicity and language.

A Room With a View by E. M. Forster

Soulless by Gail Carriger

4833. The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith, (read 16 Jun 2011)

well the only "u" book found in my library:

Up & Out by Ariella Papa

Very Far Away From Anywhere Else by Ursula K. Le Guin

The withdrawing room by Charlotte MacLeod

Xenogenesis byOctavia Butler

Year of Wonders : A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones; a collection of Zen and pre-Zen Writings by Eugen Herrigel

Anne of Green Gables L.M. Montgomery

Black Bartlemyʻs Treasure by Jeffrey Farnol

Christmas at Fairacre by Miss Read

Might as well be seasonal!

The Devil's Advocate by Andrew Neiderman

Evidence for the Minoan Language

by Cyrus H. Gordon

1647. From Castlereagh to Gladstone 1815-1885, by Derek Beales (read 23 July 1981)

The Golovlovs by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

Heaven to Betsy by Maud Hart Lovelace

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

Journey to an 800 number by E. L. Konigsburg

Killing Dragons: The Conquest of the Alps by Fergus Fleming

The lark shall sing by Elizabeth Cadell

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

No Comment* by Erwin Kroll

*My copy of this has a 15-word subtitle --on the cover, not on the t.p; Iʻm leavng it out, because it ends in -t, the same as the title.

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

A Paper Life by Tatum O'Neal

Quicksand by John Brunner

Regency Buck by Georgette Heyer

The Stand by Stephen King

Teenage Love Affair by Ni-Ni Simone

The Umbrella Man Roald Dahl

Vera by Elizabeth von Arnim

Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame

X-Treme Parenting: A Baby Blues Treasury by Jerry Scott

The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Zooman Sam by Lois Lowry

Art of the Maya: from the Olmecs to the Toltec-MaYa
by Henri Stierlin

The Avengers by Rich Cohen

Blue Latitudes - Tony Horwitz

The Captains and the Kings by Jennifer Johnston.

delivering happiness by Tony Tsieh

799. Esther Waters An English Story by George Moore (read 11 Mar 1965)

The fledgling by Elizabeth Cadell

The Great Hedge Of India - Roy Moxham (read 2011)

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

It by Stephen King

Judgments on History and Historians
by Jacob Burckhardt

King Kong by Peter Jackson

The Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody

The Other by Thomas Tryon

1106. Pickett's Charge: A Microhistory of the Final Attack at Gettysburg July 3, 1863, by George R. Stewart (read 11 Mar 1971)

Quiet: The Power Of Introverts In A World That Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain (on my TBR list)

Resurrection by Lev Tolstoy

The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare

The Time Traveler by Joyce Carol Oates

Ultimate Japanese by Hiroko Storm

Vital Signs by Robin Cook

Walking the Amazon by Ed Safford

The X Factor by Andre Norton

Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy

The Zoo Keeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman

The Art Of Travel - Alain de Botton (read 2007)

Bless Me Father by Neil Boyd

The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien

One of my favorite Irish authors.

1116. Death on the Prairie Volume One of the Indian Wars of the West, by Paul I. Wellman (read 16 May 1971)

Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (read in 2011)

Green Mill Murder by Kerry Greenwood

Harmony Simplified by Frank Hartson Shepard

I Never Promised You A Rose Garden - Hannah Green (read decades ago)

Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter

The Ku Klux Klan in American Politics by Arnold S. Rice

Legends Of The American Desert: Sojourns In The Greater Southwest - Alex Shoumatoff

The Masterharper of Pern by Anne McCaffrey

North To Alaska by Kenneth Coates

Open by Andre Agassi

The Pride by Wallace Ford

QB V11 by Leon Uris

4891. Reconstruction The Ending of the Civil War, by Avery Craven (read 27 Dec 2011)

Slumgullion Stew - Edward Abbey (read in the '90s)

Thursday Next: First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde

Under The Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy

Voice over IP fundamentals by Jonathan Davidson

We the Tikopia by Raymond Firth

X Marks The Spot by Les Martin

4813. Year in Nam A Native American Soldier's Story, by Leroy TeCube (read 31 Mar 2011)

Zombies vs Robots Aventure by Chris Ryall

A is for Ox by Lyn Davies

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M. Auel

Doonesbury: And thatʻs my Final Offer!
by G. B. Trudeau

Echoes in the Darkness by Joseph Wambaugh

Field Work: Poems by Adele ne Jame*

*Know author.

Garden of Evil by Emma Harrison

The Harvard Classics Essays: English and American
by (ed. of Se ries): Charles W. Eliot

Iggie's House by Judy Blume

"Juvenalʻs Bookcase" by Gilbert Highet

Kendra By Coe Booth

Lakota Sioux Secede from U. S. Individual Freedom
w/ Community Control
by Bill Harlan

Mercury Rising by harold Becker

The New Comparative Mythology: an Anthropological Assessment of the Theories of Georges Dumezil
by C. Scott Littleton

The Olive Farm by by Carol Drinkwater

A Perfect Spy by John le Carré

Quartet by Jean Rhys

The Real Thing by Henry James

1973. The Seed and the Glory: The Career of Samuel Charles Mazzuchelli, O.P., on the Mid-American Frontier, by Mary Ellen Evans (read 20 Jan 1986)

A Time Of Gifts - Patrick Leigh Fermor (read 2011)

The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman

Vurt by Jeff Noon

The Waiting Game by Elizabeth Cadell

Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy

Zoo Babies by Donna K. Grosvenor

All Sir Garnet : a life of Field-Marshal Lord Wolseley by Joseph H. Lehmann

Balthazar - Lawrence Durrell (read in the 80s)

Changeless by Gail Carriger

Declarations of War by Len Deighton

1250. El Escorial, by Mary Cable and the Editors of the Newsweek Book Division (read 3 Nov 1973)

oops, to quote a Texan, used that a month or so ago. Try this:

1162. Europe of the Ancien Regime 1715-1783, by David Ogg (read 13 May 1972)

Funeral in Berlin by Len Deighton (like other Len D. books, read in the late '60s)

Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers

Hellboy: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola

The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks

Jesus and the Zealots by S. G. F. Brandon

The Keys of the Kingdom by A.J. Cronin

Liminal People by Ayize Jama-Everett
Read in a couple of months ago.

2283. The Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes (read 13 May 1990) (Book of the Year) (Pulitzer Nonfiction prize in 1988) (National Book Award nonfiction prize in 1987) (National Book Critics Circle nonfiction award for 1987)

Der nützliche Freund by Ulrich Wickert

Oliver Twist Just read over Christmas break! (Not near as good as Dickens' Bleak House or A Tale of Two Cities

Pfyffe, ruesse, schränze by Peter Habicht

read last summer

The Queen's Mirror: Fairy Tales by German Women, 1780-1900 by Shawn C. Jarvis

Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell

Senior Catechism: Lutherʻs small Catechism in Queston and Answer Form by Martin Luther

Three Came Home by Agnes Newton Keith

Unternehmensarchive - ein Kulturgut? Beiträge zur Arbeitstagung Unternehmensarchive und Unternehmensgeschichte by Schweizerisches Wirtschaftsarchiv (Basel)

published by my employer

2355. Vicky Princess Royal of England and German Empress by Daphne Bennett (read 30 Jan 1991)

Why Orwell Matters - Christopher Hitchens (read last week)

The young Clementina D. E. Stevenson

X2 - Nopileos by Helge T. Kautz

wrong touchstone

Zipporah by Lois N. Erikson

All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

Bound by Moonlight by Angela Weaver

Captain Correlli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres

Dog Day Afternoon by Patrick Mann

Elephant Winter by Kim Elchin.

A very special read.

Um, guys, maybe we should all move over to the new thread. See This topic was continued by at the end of this thread above the message box.